Today we're going to get down to the bottom. Down where the bass gets into a groove. Share your favorite tracks with irresistible bass lines (not your favorite bass players). We'll spin a set.
Lesh took violin lessons in third grade, then learned the trumpet, becoming second chair in the Oakland Symphony while still in his teens. But he was driving a mail truck and working as a sound ...
Palo Alto resident Rob Levitsky has been a fan of the Grateful Dead since October 1976, when he saw them with The Who at the Oakland Coliseum. The Grateful Dead pioneered louder sound systems using ...
fans and fellow band members recognized Lesh as a critical member of the Grateful Dead whose thundering lines on the six-string electric bass provided a brilliant counterpoint to lead guitarist Jerry ...
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.