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...

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...

Bass player brought an avant-garde riffs to the band.

Bass player brought an avant-garde riffs to the band.

The musician was a founding member of the influential band and died ‘surrounded by his family and full of love’

Legendary bassist Phil Lesh, one of the founding members of the Grateful Dead, died Friday at the age of 84.  “Phil Lesh, bassist and founding...

The classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass guitar as a founding member of the...

Phil Lesh, one of the longest-surviving members of the Grateful Dead - the band that came to define the acid rock sound of the 1960s - has died aged...

He was "surrounded by his family and full of love." Continue reading…

The bassist was a member of the rock band alongside Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzman and Ron “Pigpen” McKernan.