Phil Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead whose innovative bass playing helped shape the band’s distinctive sound, ...

Playing in the Grateful Dead 'turned out to be life,' said Phil Lesh, founding bassist for the band who died Oct. 25 at the ...

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. Lesh ...

The death of Grateful Dead's Phil Lesh on Friday (Oct. 25), just two days after the band was announced as the 2025 MusiCares Persons of the Year, was shocking news. The band will still be saluted at ...

R.I.P. Phil Lesh Phil Lesh, one of the founders of the iconic Grateful Dead and legendary bassist, died at the age of 84. The ...

Phil Lesh, a founding member of the legendary Bay Area rock band The Grateful Dead, has died at 84, according to a social ...

Phil Lesh, the bass player who co-founded the legendary rock band Grateful Dead, died on Friday. He was 84. Lesh’s death was ...

Bassist Phil Lesh, whose dense, inventive playing powered the Grateful Dead and, following the 1995 death of guitarist Jerry ...