LOS ANGELES — 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 of the Grateful Dead, died Friday...
Posted October 25, 2024 3:55 pmPhil Lesh, of The Grateful Dead, performs during a reunion concert in 2002. Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead, died Friday, Oct. 25, 2024, at age 84.LOS ANGELES — Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass guitar as aLesh's death was announced on his Instagram account.
Fellow bass player Rob Wasserman once said Lesh’s style set him apart from every other bassist he knew of. While most others were content to keep time and take the occasional solo, Wasserman said Lesh was both good enough and confident enough to lead his fellow musicians through a song’s melody. When Lesh told Garcia he didn’t play the bass, the musician asked, “Didn’t you used to play violin?” When he said yes Garcia told him, “There you go, man.”
Phillip Chapman Lesh was born on March 15, 1940, in Berkeley, California, the only child of Frank Lesh, an office equipment repairman, and his wife, Barbara. But he set the trumpet aside after college, concluding he didn’t have the lung power to become an elite player.
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