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Phil Lesh
12+ albums
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Philip Chapman Lesh (March 15, 1940 – October 25, 2024) was an American musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he developed a unique style of playing improvised six-string bass guitar. He was their bassist throughout their 30-year career. After the group disbanded in 1995, Lesh continued the tradition of Grateful Dead family music with a side project, Phil Lesh and Friends, which paid homage to the Dead's music by playing their repertoire, as well as songs by members of his own group. Lesh operated a music venue called Terrapin Crossroads. From 2009 to 2014, he performed in Furthur alongside former Grateful Dead bandmate Bob Weir. He scaled back touring in 2014 but continued to perform concerts. Background Lesh was born in Berkeley, California, on March 15, 1940, the only child of Frank Lesh, an amateur piano player, and Barbra Chapman. His father encouraged him to take up the violin at the age of eight. At El Cerrito High School in East Bay he became a member of the school's marching band. While enrolled at Berkeley High School he switched to trumpet and participated in the school's music-related extracurricular activities. He studied the instrument under Bob Hansen, conductor of the symphonic Golden Gate Park Band and became interested in avant-garde classical music and free jazz. By his mid-teens, inspired by Beethoven and Charles Ives, he had decided that he wanted to be a composer. Lesh enrolled at the College of San Mateo, where he wrote arra
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There and Back Again
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Phil Lesh At Alltel Pavilion At Walnut Creek: Raleigh NC 6/28/06
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Phil Lesh At The Tweeter Center, Camden NJ 6/30/06
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Phil Lesh At The PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel NJ 7/01/06
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Love Will See You Through - Highlights Vol. 1
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Phil Lesh At Saratoga Performing Arts Center: Saratoga Springs
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1999-04-16 - Warfield Theater
Live at the Warfield Theater
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New England Dodge Music Center: Hartford Ct 7/3/06 (Live)
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1999-04-17 - Warfield Theater
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1999-04-15 - Warfield Theater
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Highway Butterfly: The Songs of Neal Casal