The 70-year-old jazz guitarist stunned the audience with streams of improvisation, loop pedal wizardry and his 42-string ...

The session ace-turned producer began working with Mitchell in 1981, soon after her last album with the “world’s greatest ...

From Poco to Toto, Steely Dan to Spinal Tap, Timothy B. Schmidt has logged endless road miles and studio hours – and then ...

I grew up in northern Illinois and spent much of my adult life in northern Wisconsin. As a lifelong largemouth bass angler, I know what a cruel and unreasonably ...

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

Phil Lesh, who has died aged 84, was the Grateful Dead’s bass guitarist throughout their 30-year lifespan; his intensely ...

Lesh credited Garcia with teaching him to play the bass in the unorthodox lead-guitar style that he would ... starting with lessons in third grade. He took up the trumpet at 14, eventually earning ...

Lesh was born and raised in a center of postwar counterculture, Berkeley, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he started his music journey by learning ... bass and Garcia on guitar.

Lesh credited Garcia with teaching him to play the bass in the unorthodox lead-guitar style that he would ... starting with lessons in third grade. He took up the trumpet at 14, eventually earning ...

Lesh credited Garcia with teaching him to play the bass in the unorthodox lead-guitar style that he would become famous ... odyssey as a classically trained violinist, starting with lessons in third ...

Though he had never played the bass guitar, Lesh was talked into trying out for Garcia’s new electric rock band (still called The Warlocks) in 1964. Already a proficient musician, he learned on ...