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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And just like the rest of us, Cocchi’s approach to guitar has dramatically evolved over the years – to the point where his original guitar hero sounds nothing like the band he’s famous for playing in.

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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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“What better way to wrap up our history than to have [the rock legend] help us do what we’ve always done best ... guitars. It went on to inspire other singularly-focused magazines like Bass ...

Jon Mertz has performed on a lot of music stages as bass guitarist for the Little Chicago Band, but the Windy City is not one ...

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 ...