Rush icon planned to buy 12 instruments for his own enjoyment – but when his collection reached 250 he decided to justify the ...

Although they played together for less than a year, James Brown became somewhat of a father figure to bassist Bootsy Collins, ...

Borden grew up one of four boys and two girls in a house on Sherman Avenue just west of the bridge over Buck Creek. The area was known as “The Bottoms” and decades earlier as “The Black Bottoms” for ...

I thought Phil was the most unique part of the Grateful Dead. It didn’t surprise me that Bob Dylan said that in his book Philosophy of Modern Song, when he was talking about [“Truckin’”]. Usually ...

Gregory B. Pyott, a musician from Cocoa, Florida, died on October 22. He played his last note with his wife of 43 years, Lyn, at his side.

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

I am the Labs Manager for CNET's Home Division based in Louisville, KY. My interest in technology began in the early '90s, and soon after I began my double major in computer science and computer ...

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

He was known for playing his six-string electric bass and his iconic jams with lead guitarist Jerry Garcia. The co-founder and longest-tenured member of the iconic rock band performed his final ...

Mary Fabrizio, a professor at W&M's Batten School & VIMS, directs the Juvenile Striped Bass Seine Survey at VIMS and notes that the economic and ecological values of striped bass lend significant ...

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 explorer of inner and outer space ...