Phil Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead whose electric bass playing came to define the psychedelic San Francisco sound, died Oct. 25.

Lesh’s death comes two days after MusicCares named the Grateful Dead its Persons of the Year. MusicCares, which helps music professionals ... next day with a lyric sheet. On that sheet, he ...

“Phil Lesh, bassist and founding member of The Grateful Dead, passed peacefully this morning. He was surrounded by his family ...

Lesh’s death comes two days after MusiCares named the Grateful Dead its Persons of the Year. MusiCares, which helps music professionals ... next day with a lyric sheet. On that sheet, he said ...

He would say in later years that his love of music ... that Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, upon hearing the instrumental recording, approached him the next day with a lyric sheet.

After the band disbanded in 1995, Lesh founded side project Phil Lesh and Friends - which played songs from Grateful Dead and original songs from his group. He also ran his own music venue called ...

He enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1961, where he studied music ... Grateful Dead, in March 1967, but they were just as well-known across the Bay Area for their long, free ...

Phil Lesh performing at a Grateful Dead reunion concert at the Alpine Valley Music Centre in East Troy ... approached him the next day with a lyric sheet. On that sheet, he said, were “some ...

Lesh also developed an early interest in avant-garde music and free jazz, both of which later influenced his unique bass playing in the Grateful Dead. While in college at the University of ...