Photo: Dino Perrucci This past weekend, Dark Star Jubilee returned to Legend Valley in Thornville, Ohio, for the 2025 ...

The Grateful Dead was formed as a quintet in California in 1965, according to their official website. Jerry Garcia, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Phil Lesh made up the ...

And then later, when the quintet started playing together, we had the opportunity to keep an incarnation of Phil Lesh and Friends together for a long time, which allowed that band to really ...

Grateful Dead icon Phil Lesh has died aged 84 ... Starting out as a folk-infused quintet in psychedelic-era 1960s San Francisco, the Grateful Dead steadily morphed into a cultural phenomenon.

The surviving members of the Grateful Dead, as well as other musicians and fans, are paying tribute to Phil Lesh, one of the founding members of the band, who died Friday at the age of 84.

The offbeat meanderings of bassist Phil Lesh were crucial to the Grateful Dead's sound, so it came as no surprise that after disbanding in 1995 following Jerry Garcia’s death, Lesh kept the ...

The Grateful Dead was formed as a quintet in California in 1965, according to their official website. Jerry Garcia, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Phil Lesh made up the ...

Bassist Phil Lesh, whose dense, inventive playing powered ... of Bill Evans’ trio and Charlie Haden of Ornette Coleman’s quintet. After high school, he moved from school to school, studying ...

In later years, he played in Phil Lesh and Friends and with the Terrapin ... Evans’ trio and Charlie Haden of Ornette Coleman’s quintet. After high school, he moved from school to school ...

Phil Lesh, the bassist for the Grateful Dead who propelled many of its wildest musical explorations yet also composed and sang one of its loveliest songs, “Box of Rain,” has died. He was 84.

Lesh was the oldest and one of the longest surviving members of the band that came to define the acid rock sound emanating from San Francisco in the 1960s. Recommended Videos “Phil Lesh ...