News

The concerts, set for Friday, Sept. 12, and Saturday, Sept. 13, are part of the ongoing celebration of the Grateful Dead's ...
Phil Lesh, bassist for the Grateful Dead, died this morning (October 25), according to a statement on his official social media accounts. A cause of death was not shared, just that he “passed ...
When Jerry Garcia died in 1995, it seemed like the story of the Grateful Dead might end there. “I didn’t go out of my house ...
Billy Strings also joins the band for "Wharf Rat" on the opening night of the weekend-long Grateful Dead 60th anniversary ...
Lesh performs with the Grateful Dead in 1978. - Credit: Ed Perlstein/Redferns/Getty Images Phil Lesh, the classically trained musician who co-founded the Grateful Dead and whose unconventional bass ...
Photo: Dave Vann This past weekend, Grahame Lesh pulled double duty. The son of the founding member of the Grateful Dead, ...
Dead and Company celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead with a trio of August 2025 concerts in San Francisco.
Source: MEGA Phil Lesh played a six-string electric bass in The Grateful Dead. The co-founder and longest-tenured member of the iconic rock band performed his final show at Oracle Park in 2023.
Grateful Dead fans are in deep mourning. Yesterday (October 25), a representative for the band took to their official Instagram page to announce that founding bassist Phil Lesh had died at the age ...
Phil Lesh was an American musician best known as the bassist for the Grateful Dead, a band that became iconic in the rock and jam band scenes. Born on March 15, 1940, in Berkeley, California, Lesh ...
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 at age 84.
Phil Lesh, bassist and founding member of The Grateful Dead, died Friday, a producer who worked with him, Peter Shapiro, confirmed to CBS News. Lesh was 84 years old.