Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass ...

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Phil Lesh grew up listening to classical and jazz music. Then he reimagined the electric bass and changed rock history. The ...

Armed with a cheap four-string instrument his girlfriend bought him, Lesh sat down for a seven-hour lesson with Garcia, ...

Some rock bassists make it their job to hold down the bottom of a song: to hone parts that crisply but unobtrusively stake out a harmonic and rhythmic foundation, that are felt as much as heard. Phil ...

The Grateful Dead played two massive concerts in northern Vermont in the mid-1990s, drawing more than 150,000 ticket holders ...

Fans and fellow band members recognized Phil Lesh as a critical member of the Grateful Dead and he was known for his ...

Bassist Phil Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead, has died at the age of 84. He "passed peacefully" while ...

Lesh was the oldest member of the band that came to define the acid rock sound emanating ... his fellow musicians through a song's melody. "He happens to play bass, but he's more like a horn ...

Exclusive: Fellow musicians and famous fans praise the US band as they release ‘The Night the Zombies Came’, and celebrate the 35th anniversary of their album ‘Doolittle’ ...

In perfect Halloween spirit, alternative-rock band Pixies’s most recent release, The Night the Zombies Came, puts a gothic spin on their signature style. As the first album released since new bassist ...

The Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh pushed the band to new psychedelic frontiers – and chose intimacy when his remaining bandmates ...