This feature was first published in the August 2002 issue of Bass Player magazine. The offbeat meanderings of bassist Phil Lesh were crucial to the Grateful Dead's sound, so it came as no surprise ...

A legacy of music and love': Phil Lesh, Grateful Dead bassist and founding member, dies Lesh, who also composed jazz and ...

Lesh began his long musical odyssey as a classically trained violinist, starting with lessons in third grade. He took up the trumpet at 14, eventually earning the second chair in ...

The bass player chuckles ... and continues working on his side project, Phil Lesh and Friends. Two of his musical "friends" are his sons, Brian, a student at Princeton, and Grahame, who will ...

“Phil Lesh was irreplaceable. In one note from the Phil Zone, you could hear and feel the world being born. His bass flowed like a river would flow. It went where the muse took it. He was an ...

Weir opened up on the chances of the Grateful Dead reuniting without Lesh: “I think when Phil checked out, so did that notion, because we don’t have a bass player who’s been playing with us ...

The family of Jerry Garcia, one of the co-founders of the Grateful Dead, paid tribute to Lesh following news of his death Friday "Phil was more than a revolutionary, groundbreaking bass player ...

A street by Port Chester’s Capitol Theatre has been renamed Phil Lesh Lane, honoring a founding member of legendary rock band the Grateful Dead. The Grateful Dead performed at the Capitol ...

Phil Lesh was irreplaceable. In one note from the Phil Zone, you could hear and feel the world being born. His bass flowed like a river would flow. It went where the muse took it. He was an ...

Also, Dead & Company took time on Nights 1 and 2 to tip its collective cap to Phil Lesh — the legendary bassist for the Grateful Dead who died in October at the age of 84 — and the tribute ...