{"id":118433,"date":"2024-10-26T03:22:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T20:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118433"},"modified":"2024-10-26T03:22:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T20:22:49","slug":"phil-lesh-grateful-dead-bassist-and-co-founder-dead-at-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118433","title":{"rendered":"Phil Lesh, Grateful Dead Bassist and Co-Founder, Dead at 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/phil-lesh\/\" id=\"auto-tag_phil-lesh\" data-tag=\"phil-lesh\">Phil Lesh<\/a>, the classically trained musician who co-founded\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/grateful-dead\/\" id=\"auto-tag_grateful-dead\" data-tag=\"grateful-dead\">Grateful Dead<\/a> and whose unconventional bass playing steered the band into some of its most experimental directions, died Friday at the age of 84.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tLesh\u2019s death was announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DBjvWcHPbQB\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on social media<\/a>, with a short statement reading: \u201cPhil Lesh, bassist and founding member of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-grateful-dead\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-grateful-dead\" data-tag=\"the-grateful-dead\">the Grateful Dead<\/a>, passed peacefully this morning. He was surrounded by his family and full of love. Phil brought immense joy to everyone around him and leaves behind a legacy of music and love. We request that you respect the Lesh family\u2019s privacy at this time.\u201d No cause of death was given.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tFrom the time of the Dead\u2019s earliest incarnation as the Warlocks, Lesh enjoyed an intimate three-decade-long partnership with lead guitarist Jerry Garcia. He also claimed responsibility for their long-form improvisation inclinations, electronic experiments, and nightly free-form \u201cspace\u201d interludes. After the group dissolved in 1995 due to Garcia\u2019s death, Lesh went on to become an active keeper of its live flame in both various configurations with former band members and in several iterations of Phil Lesh and Friends, which included numerous guests from the extended multigenerational improvised-rock community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tPhilip Chapman Lesh, the Dead\u2019s elder member, was born March 15, 1940, in<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Berkeley,_California\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Berkeley, California<\/a>. His father fixed office machines and his parents co-owned a repair business. Lesh played viola and trumpet in school but gradually became more interested in composing than in performing. He attended UC-Berkeley, where he befriended the even more musically adventurous Tom Constanten (who would play keyboards with the Dead for a time), but dropped out during his first semester. With Constanten, he attended a course taught by the great Italian avant-garde composer Luciano Berio at Mills College, where he met future minimalist figurehead Steve Reich, with whom he collaborated on a musical \u201chappening\u201d called Event III\/Coffee Break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn 1959, Lesh met Garcia at a Bay Area house party to which he had been directed, according to his 2005 memoir, \u201cas if by an unseen hand.\u201d Upon meeting Lesh again after a 1964 Warlocks gig, Garcia invited him to join the band on bass guitar, an instrument Lesh had never played. Lesh played his first show with the Warlocks at the Bikini A-Go-Go in Hayward, California, the following year. The rechristened Grateful Dead became the house band for Ken Kesey\u2019s infamous Acid Tests. Lesh, a staunch advocate of psychedelics as proof of \u201ca spiritual realm,\u201d was profoundly affected by these evenings that erased the line between band and audience.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules a-span1 lrv-u-padding-b-1 u-padding-b-175@desktop-xl lrv-u-padding-t-025 u-overflow-hidden u-border-color-brand-primary u-border-tb-5 lrv-u-padding-b-075@mobile-max\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  recirculation-modules-heading lrv-u-flex u-font-family-theme-primary lrv-u-font-size-20 lrv-u-color-brand-primary lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-position-relative lrv-u-padding-b-025 lrv-u-padding-b-1@desktop-xl lrv-u-padding-b-075@mobile-max\">\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s picks<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe Grateful Dead played \u201celectric chamber music,\u201d according to Lesh, whose primary influence as a bassist was Johann Sebastian Bach\u2019s style of counterpoint (the relationship of two independent yet interdependent musical voices). When not dropping his infamous \u201cbass bombs,\u201d he played his instrument as though it were a low guitar, usually with a pick, and often like a lead instrument. The Sixties became an era of intense musical experimentation for the group, most prominently on the band\u2019s second album,<em> Anthem of the Sun<\/em>, where Lesh suggested overdubbing several different live versions of \u201cThe Other One\u201d on top of one another and letting them drift apart. \u201cI have nostalgic feelings for that psychedelic-ranger era, when we would play <em>Anthem<\/em> live in its entirety,\u201d he told Rolling Stone in 2014. \u201cIt was apocalyptic \u2013 every time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cBox of Rain\u201d and \u201cUnbroken Chain\u201d were warm psychedelic masterpieces among the handful of songs Lesh co-wrote for the Dead. He contributed the high parts to the four-part harmonies the band mastered on <em>Workingman\u2019s Dead<\/em> and <em>American Beauty<\/em>, but eventually left the singing to others despite occasional audience chants to \u201clet Phil sing.\u201d In 1975, he played electronically processed bass on electronic musician Ned Lagin\u2019s abstract <em>Seastones<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAlthough touring had lost its allure, Lesh soldiered on with the Dead throughout the increasingly difficult Eighties, when drug problems rocked the band, then into the Nineties, concluding with Garcia\u2019s death. \u201cJerry was the hub,\u201d he told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cWe were the spokes. And the music was the tread on the wheel.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules a-span1 lrv-u-padding-b-1 u-padding-b-175@desktop-xl lrv-u-padding-t-025 u-overflow-hidden u-border-color-brand-primary u-border-tb-5 lrv-u-padding-b-075@mobile-max\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  recirculation-modules-heading lrv-u-flex u-font-family-theme-primary lrv-u-font-size-20 lrv-u-color-brand-primary lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-position-relative lrv-u-padding-b-025 lrv-u-padding-b-1@desktop-xl lrv-u-padding-b-075@mobile-max\">\n<p>\t\tRelated<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn 1998, Lesh received a liver transplant for the hepatitis C he had contracted decades earlier. The procedure led him to become an impassioned organ-donor advocate. He survived prostate cancer in 2006.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tA one-off 1994 acoustic show featuring some Grateful Dead members was billed as Phil Lesh and Friends, a moniker he would use for performances with an ever-shifting musical cast for the remainder of his career. The group\u2019s 1999 post-Dead debut, featured Trey Anastasio and Page McConnell of Phish. Lesh also released three albums of jammy rock under the name. During the Aughts, Lesh sometimes rejoined his former bandmates in such Grateful Dead repertory formations as The Other Ones, The Dead, and Furthur, which also featured Bob Weir. In 2005, Lesh published his memoir<em> Searching for the Sound: My Life With the Grateful Dead<\/em>.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ trending-in-article a-span1 lrv-u-padding-b-1 u-padding-b-175@desktop-xl lrv-u-padding-t-025 u-overflow-hidden u-border-color-brand-primary u-border-tb-5 lrv-u-padding-b-1@mobile-max\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  trending-in-article-heading lrv-u-flex u-font-family-theme-primary lrv-u-font-size-20 lrv-u-color-brand-primary lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-position-relative lrv-u-padding-b-1 lrv-u-padding-b-075@mobile-max\">\n<p>\t\tTrending<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tLesh\u2019s wife, Jill, whom he married in 1984, became a close partner in all aspects of his life. In 2012, the Leshes opened Terrapin Crossroads, restaurant and venue, in San Rafael, California. Their sons, Grahame and Brian, serve as house band, and the bassist himself was known to sometimes accompany evenings of live Dead karaoke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tLesh and the rest of the Dead celebrated their 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary in 2015 with a series of \u201cFare Thee Well\u201d shows in Chicago, joined by Anastasio. That year Lesh revealed he had contracted bladder cancer. \u201cI\u2019m one of these guys who\u2019s always open,\u201d he said in 2013. \u201cSee, music is infinite. There\u2019s an infinite number of ways to do it, an infinite number of melodies that can go with a one-four-five progression, it\u2019s absolutely infinite, no floors, no ceiling.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/phil-lesh-grateful-dead-dead-1234809976\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Lesh, the classically trained musician who co-founded\u00a0the Grateful Dead and whose unconventional bass playing steered the band into some of its most experimental directions, died Friday at the age &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=118433\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}