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OT: RIP Phil Lesh - Grateful Dead Co-Founder and Bassist
Posted by: bye bye johnny ()
Date: October 25, 2024 23:05

Phil Lesh, Grateful Dead Co-Founder and Bassist, Dead at 84

The musician pushed the band towards long-form improvisation, electronic experiments, and nightly free-form "space" interludes

By Richard Gehr
October 25, 2024


Phil Lesh performs with The Grateful Dead in 1978. Ed Perlstein/Redferns/Getty Images

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Today we lost a brother. Our hearts and love go out to Jill Lesh, Brian and Grahame. Phil Lesh was irreplaceable. In one note from the Phil Zone, you could hear and feel the world being born. His bass flowed like a river would flow. It went where the muse took it. He was an explorer of inner and outer space who just happened to play bass. He was a circumnavigator of formerly unknown musical worlds. And more.

We can count on the fingers of one hand the people we can say had as profound an influence on our development - in every sense. And there have been even less people who did so continuously over the decades and will continue to for as long as we live. What a gift he was for us. We won’t say he will be missed, as in any given moment, nothing we do will be without the lessons he taught us - and the lessons that are yet to come, as the conversations will go on.

Phil loved the Dead Heads and always kept them in his heart and mind. The thing is… Phil was so much more than a virtuoso bass player, a composer, a family man, a cultural icon...

There will be a lot of tributes, and they will all say important things. But for us, we’ve spent a lifetime making music with Phil Lesh and the music has a way of saying it all. So listen to the Grateful Dead and, in that way, we’ll all take a little bit of Phil with us, forever.

For this is all a dream we dreamed one afternoon, long ago….

- Mickey, Billy and Bobby

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Fare you well, Phil.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2024-10-27 14:00 by bv.

Re: OT: RIP Phil Lesh
Posted by: perkmo ()
Date: October 25, 2024 23:20

RIP Phil

Re: OT: RIP Phil Lesh
Posted by: mosthigh ()
Date: October 25, 2024 23:53

Huge loss.

As a bass player Phil wasn't overly influenced by rock musicians, but he did mention in the very early days the Grateful Dead were trying to get a bluesy sound like The Rolling Stones.

RIP Phil Lesh, bombadier supreme

Re: OT: RIP Phil Lesh
Posted by: Redhotcarpet ()
Date: October 26, 2024 02:35

Nothin' shakin' on shakedown street, used to be the heart of town

Re: OT: RIP Phil Lesh
Posted by: Shott ()
Date: October 26, 2024 02:45

Over the last 20 years, listen to way more Dead than Beatles.

Re: OT: RIP Phil Lesh
Posted by: MisterO ()
Date: October 26, 2024 03:16

RIP Phil Lesh

I put on my favorite Tie Dye shirt in honor of him, and also the Dead fan base who I consider like cousins to Stones fans.

Re: OT: RIP Phil Lesh
Posted by: The Sicilian ()
Date: October 26, 2024 04:17

"Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues"

RIP Phil Lesh.

Re: OT: RIP Phil Lesh
Posted by: RollingFreak ()
Date: October 26, 2024 05:57

Phish opened with a great version of Box Of Rain tonight.

Re: OT: RIP Phil Lesh
Posted by: TumblinDice76 ()
Date: October 26, 2024 06:02

Nothing like hearing that BOOM from the bass at the start of Shakedown Street.

Re: OT: RIP Phil Lesh
Posted by: doitywoik ()
Date: October 26, 2024 08:20

Sad news. Phil has not been well for a long time, so not totally surprising news, and 84 is a respectable age.
As a bass player, he had a rather exceptional approach, playing another lead in the low register, counterpointing what went on in the higher registers.
There's also some Stones connection. The Dead played a number of covers that also the Stones did, and they did some great versions of The Last Time, especially in 1990.

RIP Phil

Re: OT: RIP Phil Lesh
Posted by: ChrisL ()
Date: October 26, 2024 15:55

RIP Phil

Re: OT: RIP Phil Lesh
Posted by: spikenyc ()
Date: October 26, 2024 21:05

This hits hard.
I know there are other Deadheads like myself on this site.
Oct. 25 is also the anniversary of Bill Grahams passing.
Bill is up there in heaven planning a gig for Phil and Jerry right now. sad smiley

Re: OT: RIP Phil Lesh
Posted by: Redhotcarpet ()
Date: October 27, 2024 01:48

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spikenyc
This hits hard.
I know there are other Deadheads like myself on this site.
Oct. 25 is also the anniversary of Bill Grahams passing.
Bill is up there in heaven planning a gig for Phil and Jerry right now. sad smiley

And Brent.

Re: OT: RIP Phil Lesh
Posted by: JimmyTheSaint ()
Date: October 27, 2024 04:59

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Redhotcarpet
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spikenyc
This hits hard.
I know there are other Deadheads like myself on this site.
Oct. 25 is also the anniversary of Bill Grahams passing.
Bill is up there in heaven planning a gig for Phil and Jerry right now. sad smiley

And Brent.

Pigpen

Re: OT: RIP Phil Lesh
Posted by: doitywoik ()
Date: October 27, 2024 05:17

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JimmyTheSaint
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Redhotcarpet
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spikenyc
This hits hard.
I know there are other Deadheads like myself on this site.
Oct. 25 is also the anniversary of Bill Grahams passing.
Bill is up there in heaven planning a gig for Phil and Jerry right now. sad smiley

And Brent.

Pigpen

And Keith (Godchaux)

Re: OT: RIP Phil Lesh
Posted by: daspyknows ()
Date: October 27, 2024 07:39

Don't forget Vince.

He is the bass player I have seen the most times.

Re: OT: RIP Phil Lesh
Posted by: slewan ()
Date: October 27, 2024 10:40

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RollingFreak
Phish opened with a great version of Box Of Rain tonight.

got to wonder what Dylan will be doing tonight in Düsseldorf (= Dylan's first show after Phil Lesh died)

Re: OT: RIP Phil Lesh
Posted by: FrogSugar ()
Date: October 27, 2024 12:15

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daspyknows
Don't forget Vince.

He is the bass player I have seen the most times.

Keyboard player.

The way he went out...yikes, crazy!

Re: OT: RIP Phil Lesh - Grateful Dead Co-Founder and Bassist
Posted by: Hound Dog ()
Date: October 27, 2024 17:44

Absolute legend and him and Jerry made the Dead's sound. I never had the desire to see Dead & Co when two of the original Dead members were both alive and touring but not with Dead and Co.

Phil had such a unique style of playing. RIP Phil

Re: OT: RIP Phil Lesh - Grateful Dead Co-Founder and Bassist
Posted by: Lamorinda ()
Date: October 27, 2024 18:09

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RIP Phil. Love this clip.

Re: OT: RIP Phil Lesh - Grateful Dead Co-Founder and Bassist
Posted by: FrogSugar ()
Date: October 28, 2024 15:09

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RIP Phil. Love this clip.

Funny stuff!

Re: OT: RIP Phil Lesh - Grateful Dead Co-Founder and Bassist
Posted by: Woz ()
Date: October 29, 2024 20:28

RIP Phil. I've been trying to absorb this for the last 4 days. This one hits hard.

Re: OT: RIP Phil Lesh - Grateful Dead Co-Founder and Bassist
Posted by: J-J-Flash ()
Date: October 29, 2024 23:31

After the Stones the Dead are my other favorite band. Phil was such an innovative bass player, RIP. He is jamming with Jerry, Pigpen, Brent and others right now.

Re: OT: RIP Phil Lesh - Grateful Dead Co-Founder and Bassist
Posted by: doitywoik ()
Date: October 30, 2024 20:43

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RIP Phil. Love this clip.

Funny stuff!

What was that trial about?

Re: OT: RIP Phil Lesh - Grateful Dead Co-Founder and Bassist
Posted by: Marhsall ()
Date: October 30, 2024 23:37

Phil, I’ll always treasure the notes you sent when I was on Lesley &
The entire world was just opening.

R.I.P.

"Well my heavy throbbers itchin' just to lay a solid rhythm down"



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Re: OT: RIP Phil Lesh - Grateful Dead Co-Founder and Bassist
Posted by: mosthigh ()
Date: October 31, 2024 00:56

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RIP Phil. Love this clip.

Funny stuff!

What was that trial about?

Jerry's estate battle ex-wives Mountain Girl vs Koons. Phil was given a subpoena as a witness. He obviously did not want to be there.

Re: OT: RIP Phil Lesh - Grateful Dead Co-Founder and Bassist
Posted by: tatters ()
Date: November 3, 2024 14:51

"Box of Rain" is a beautiful song. All about impermanence, about how we're here for just the blink of an eye and then gone for eternity.

"Such a long, long time to be gone, and a short time to be there"

According to lyricist Hunter, Lesh "wanted a song to sing to his dying father and had composed a piece complete with every vocal nuance but the words. If ever a lyric 'wrote itself,' this did – as fast as the pen would pull."[2] Lesh practiced the song driving to the nursing home where his father lay with terminal cancer.

Re: OT: RIP Phil Lesh - Grateful Dead Co-Founder and Bassist
Posted by: spikenyc ()
Date: November 3, 2024 19:37

"Phil-A-Thon" happening now -

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Re: OT: RIP Phil Lesh - Grateful Dead Co-Founder and Bassist
Posted by: doitywoik ()
Date: November 4, 2024 13:13

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mosthigh
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doitywoik
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RIP Phil. Love this clip.

Funny stuff!

What was that trial about?

Jerry's estate battle ex-wives Mountain Girl vs Koons. Phil was given a subpoena as a witness. He obviously did not want to be there.

Understandable.



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