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

As was the case for many musicians in the ‘60s and ‘70s, Lesh, along with his bandmate Jerry Garcia, battled addictions to various vices. Although Garcia died in 1995 while being treated for a ...

Lesh met his future Dead bandmate Jerry Garcia in the Bay Area in 1959 and ... s Dead and American Beauty albums in the early ‘70s; the years spent on the road honing what was arguably the ...

The Grateful Dead earned a reputation as a live band beyond compare. Their studio output is also revered from start to finish ...

As was the case for many musicians in the ‘60s and ‘70s, Lesh, along with his bandmate Jerry Garcia, battled addictions to ...

IJ music columnist Paul Liberatore writes that he “felt an ache in the heart of the Marin music scene” since the passing of Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh last week.

The deeper you go down the wormhole with Phil Lesh, bass player and co-founder of Haight-Ashbury’s first and foremost band, The Grateful Dead—the more you understand: His bass technique was a pure ...

When you think of psychedelic rock and the countercultural movement that came with it, Jerry Garcia is probably ... success during the ‘60s and ‘70s when the Dead were at their creative peak. In some ...

After short-lived studies at a variety of music schools, he met bluegrass banjo player Jerry ... with Garcia in 1995. While the group sold steadily throughout the ’60s and ’70s — six of ...