The concerts, set for Friday, Sept. 12, and Saturday, Sept. 13, are part of the ongoing celebration of the Grateful Dead's ...

Celebrating the long, strange journey of a song that became the Dead's ultimate improvisational vehicle and a lifetime ...

When Jerry Garcia died in 1995, it seemed like the story of the Grateful Dead might end there. “I didn’t go out of my house ...

Dead and Company celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead with a trio of August 2025 concerts in San Francisco.

Billy Strings also joins the band for "Wharf Rat" on the opening night of the weekend-long Grateful Dead 60th anniversary ...

Photo: Dave Vann This past weekend, Grahame Lesh pulled double duty. The son of the founding member of the Grateful Dead, ...

Dark Star Orchestra Grateful Guitars Foundation Benefit and Auction Happens Tonight at Pier 17, Featuring Oteil Burbridge-Played Replica of Phil Lesh’s Mission Control Bass Signed by Dead & Company ...

Lesh performs with the Grateful Dead in 1978. - Credit: Ed Perlstein/Redferns/Getty Images Phil Lesh, the classically trained musician who co-founded the Grateful Dead and whose unconventional bass ...

The Surviving Grateful Dead Band Members Mourn Phil Lesh’s Death With Heartfelt Letters In His Memory Flisadam Pointer Contributing Writer Facebook Instagram Twitter October 26, 2024 ...

Phil Lesh was an American musician best known as the bassist for the Grateful Dead, a band that became iconic in the rock and jam band scenes. Born on March 15, 1940, in Berkeley, California, Lesh ...

Source: MEGA Phil Lesh played a six-string electric bass in The Grateful Dead. The co-founder and longest-tenured member of the iconic rock band performed his final show at Oracle Park in 2023.

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.