Phil Lesh dead, no longer Grateful

[Donovan]

Founding member and longtime bassist for the Grateful Dead. He was pretty sick, got a new liver 20 some years ago but still played a handful of shows a year with assorted help like his kids. We got to see him year before last at the Capitol theater in NYC but couldn't get there in March of this year. Sad, but at 84 not real surprising.

 

[jack]

Yeah that was fucking sad. One of the greats. I'll be starting a tribute thread after dinner.

Thanks for the reminder

 

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Phil Lesh, Bassist Who Anchored the Grateful Dead, Dies at 84​

Key to the dynamic of the Grateful Dead was the way Mr. Lesh used the bass to provide ever-shifting counterpoints to the dancing lines of the lead guitarist Jeny Garcia, the curt riffs of the rhythm guitarist Bob Weir, the bold rhythms of the drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, and, in the band’s first eight years, the warm organ work o Ron McKeman, known as Pigpen.

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