Bassist Phil Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead, passed away recently at the age of 84. Phil was one of the ...

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Phil Lesh, the bass player who co-founded the legendary rock ... Lesh had never played the bass guitar before. Garcia then asked, “Didn’t you used to play violin?” After Lesh said ...

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but usually that other instrument is the guitar. Phil came to it from classical trumpet and avant-garde composition. The band that was soon to become the Grateful Dead needed a bass player ...