Saturday, October 26, 2024

Grateful Dead's Phil Lesh Dies

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.

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Yeah, I heard that on the radio this afternoon.

After the announcement, they played Box Oof Rain...
en.wikipedia.org

... "Box of Rain" is a song by the Grateful Dead, from their 1970 album American Beauty. The song was composed by bassist Phil Lesh and lyricist Robert Hunter, and sung by Lesh.[1] ...

Box of Rain (1970)
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... 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, ...

So much great music created by him and the band he co-founded. Decades of great music

Thank-you, and R.I.P. Philip Chapman Lesh.


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-25 07:00 PM

Are you really this dense?

#1 | Posted by LampLighter | Flag: How to not look like a complete moron while posting on the Retort.
Or are you being just willingly ignorant?

At least my HTML posts don't butcher the available posting space the way your posts do.

I'm constantly asked if I'm the one supposedly seeking attention.

Is that what you're doing?

If you don't know how to do basic HTML, please reach out.

If you don't know basic HTML and cannot figure this out, and do not want to become informed, well, then, congratulations

Inquiring minds want to know.

#2 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-25 07:03 PM

Is that what you're doing?

#3 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-25 07:03 PM

Hans, the guy is apparently willfully ignorant. He probably knows, but you can't lead a -------- to the truth sometimes.

#4 | Posted by shoeless at 2024-10-25 07:14 PM

"Hans, the guy is apparently willfully ignorant. He probably knows, but you can't lead a -------- to the truth sometimes."

#4 | Posted by shoeless at 2024-10-25 07:14 PM | Reply | Flag: 100% Correct

#5 | Posted by Hans at 2024-10-25 08:18 PM


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Grateful Dead
@GratefulDead

Today we lost a brother. Our hearts and love go out to Jill Lesh, Brian and Grahame. Phil Lesh was irreplaceable. In one note from the Phil Zone, you could hear and feel the world being born. His bass flowed like a river would flow. It went where the muse took it. He was an explorer of inner and outer space who just happened to play bass. He was a circumnavigator of formerly unknown musical worlds. And more.

We can count on the fingers of one hand the people we can say had as profound an influence on our development - in every sense. And there have been even less people who did so continuously over the decades and will continue to for as long as we live. What a gift he was for us. We won't say he will be missed, as in any given moment, nothing we do will be without the lessons he taught us - and the lessons that are yet to come, as the conversations will go on.

Phil loved the Dead Heads and always kept them in his heart and mind. The thing is ... Phil was so much more than a virtuoso bass player, a composer, a family man, a cultural icon...

There will be a lot of tributes, and they will all say important things. But for us, we've spent a lifetime making music with Phil Lesh and the music has a way of saying it all. So listen to the Grateful Dead and, in that way, we'll all take a little bit of Phil with us, forever.

For this is all a dream we dreamed one afternoon, long ago ... . ...

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-25 11:57 PM

I hope his death was not like his songs, long and painful.

#7 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2024-10-27 12:45 AM

Not sure what the preceding ------- contest is about... but I saw Phil and Jerry perform with the Grateful Dead at the Hollywood Bowl in 1967... summer uv luv... they opened for the Airplane.

RIP

#8 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2024-10-27 05:32 AM

84 years ?!?!

I need some of those pharmaceuticals.

#9 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-10-28 09:04 AM

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