"Jerry would have loved it." You hear it a lot if you’re even remotely Grateful Dead-adjacent online. It’s the classic Deadhead refrain, uttered with a ...

For his part, Garcia, after a stunning jam with Sting’s group during sound check at Soldier Field two days later, asks a bystander the title of one of the songs ... the Jerry Garcia Band is ...

Bassist Phil Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead, passed away recently at the age of 84. Phil was one of the ...

One of the first rock bassists whose instrument regularly took a lead role, he also had a hand in writing some of the band’s best-known ... of the lead guitarist Jerry Garcia, the curt riffs ...

Lesh composed the latter on guitar as a gift for his dying father, and he recalled that Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, ...

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 co-wrote songs and was an ... year career with the rock band. But his skill at soaring improvisation and his chemistry with the band’s lead guitarist, Jerry Garcia, ensured that Lesh ...

The Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards hates a lot of fellow musicians. He's even outlined his disdain for an array of ...

Bassist Phil Lesh, whose dense, inventive playing powered the Grateful Dead and, following the 1995 death of guitarist Jerry Garcia ... s Dead,” after which Garcia would pen the majority of the band’s ...

In 1965, Lesh, a bassist-in-training, joined Jerry Garcia ... as the band’s acclaim and notoriety grew. Lesh did not take the lead, as a writer or a singer, on many songs, but he did co-write ...

Lesh was the oldest and one of the longest surviving members of the band that came to define the ... brilliant counterpoint to lead guitarist Jerry Garcia’s soaring solos and anchored the ...