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Bassist Phil Lesh, one of the founding members of the iconic band Grateful Dead, died on Friday. He was 84. The sound Lesh and the other musicians in the group created would go on to become a defining element of the burgeoning mid-1960s culture of psychedelic music and style with its incarnation in and around San Francisco. A message posted to social media by representatives of Lesh spoke of his final moments and the mark he made on culture and the arts.
Fitness icon and television personality Richard Simmons dead at 76Lesh founded the group as an original member with vocalist Jerry Garcia, guitarist and vocalist Bob Weir and keyboard player Ron McKernan. Garcia died in 1995 in California. Variety reported that Lesh trained classically as a trumpeter, also studying avant-garde styles with composer Luciano Berio. He was recruited to play bass for the first time by Garcia — his friend at the time. After the show at a Menlo Park, Calif.
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