Phil Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead whose expressive bass lines helped shape the band’s trippy “space” jams and ...

Lesh held down day jobs at the post office while pursuing his interest in music, but that faded away quickly when Garcia ...

Armed with a cheap four-string instrument his girlfriend bought him, Lesh sat down for a seven-hour lesson with Garcia, ...

Phil Lesh, who helped form The Grateful Dead in 1965, died at 84 years old Friday, according to a post on his Instagram ...

Playing in the Grateful Dead 'turned out to be life,' said Phil Lesh, founding bassist for the band who died Oct. 25 at the age of 84.

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 ...

Phil Lesh, co-founder and bassist of The Grateful Dead, has died. Lesh, 84, who hailed from Berkeley, California, started the ...

Like hit songs, bass anthems come in all varieties. There are the solo album features, such as Stanley Clarke’s School Days; ...

When David Leigh sang “The Impossible Dream” at his father’s funeral, the moment was both a testament to his past and a ...

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

Band borne from booming Brattleboro music scene follows 2022 debut album, 'Memorial,' with record that cuts a wider sonic swath than its predecessor ...

The classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter found his true calling by reinventing the role of rock bass guitar.