Phil Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead whose electric bass playing came to define the psychedelic San Francisco ...

Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass ...

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.

There’s a vintage doorbell that chimes the “Longview” bass line, and “Pulling Teeth” plays out of a Tooth Tunes-style toothbrush (both $49). “Chump” plays out of the voice box inside ...

Lesh credited Garcia with teaching him to play the bass in the unorthodox lead-guitar style that he would become famous for, mixing thundering arpeggios with snippets of spontaneously composed ...