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Phil Lesh zählte zu den prägenden Persönlichkeiten der Band, die 1965 in Palo Alto von ihm gemeinsam mit Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron „Pigpen“ McKernan und Bill Kreutzmann gegründet wurde. Seine innovativen Basslinien und experimentellen Riffs trugen wesentlich zur musikalischen Entwicklung der Grateful Dead bei, die in den 1960er-Jahren aus der Musikszene San Franciscos hervorgingen. […]
Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh dies at 84 – CBS News Watch CBS News Original Grateful Dead member and longtime bassist Phil Lesh has died. He co-founded the band in the mid-1960s and played guitar with them for decades. Lesh was 84. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and […]
Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass guitar as a founding member of the Grateful Dead, died Friday at age 84. Lesh’s death was announced on his Instagram account. Lesh was the oldest member of the band that came to define the acid […]
Lesh credited Garcia with teaching him to play bass in the unorthodox lead-guitar style that he would become famous for, mixing thundering arpeggios with snippets of spontaneously composed orchestral passages. Fellow bass player Rob Wasserman once said Lesh’s style set him apart from every other bassist he knew of. While most others were content to […]
Phil Lesh, bassist for the Grateful Dead, died this morning (October 25), according to a statement on his official social media accounts. A cause of death was not shared, just that he “passed peacefully” and that he “was surrounded by his family and full of love.” Lesh was 84 years old. Philip Chapman Lesh was born and […]