If we play Cleveland, Ohio, and it’s our second time playing there, we’re still fighting to get 30, 40 people out a lot of times.” Nevertheless, he and Gorman are committed, and they’re seeking out ...

Usually there are all these expectations about the bass: a lot of repeating patterns, having an allegiance to “the one” and to the root note. Phil didn’t have any of those allegiances.

Phil Lesh grew up listening to classical and jazz music. Then he reimagined the electric bass and changed rock history. The Grateful Dead’s co-founder died on October 25 at age 84. His approach ...

Phil Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead whose electric bass playing came to define the psychedelic San Francisco sound, died Oct. 25 at age 84. The musician’s death was announced on ...

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 ...

Budget gear champion Harley Benton has released a pair of wildly affordable $42 desktop amps with the launch of its all-new JAMster series. Available in guitar and bass amp formats, the two ...

Phil Lesh, the classically trained musician who co-founded the Grateful Dead and whose unconventional bass playing steered the band into some of its most experimental directions, died Friday at ...

Phil was more than a revolutionary, groundbreaking bass player—he transformed how I thought about music as a teenager. I have countless memories of standing in awe, listening to his winding ...

"When Phil's happening, the band's happening," Grateful Dead co-founder, frontman and lead guitarist Jerry Garcia, who died in 1995, once said of Lesh's bass playing. The Grateful Dead disbanded ...

Bassist Phil Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead, passed away recently at the age of 84. Phil was one of the weirdest bass players in the history of rock. His idiosyncratic style was partly ...

Lesh played the bass for the Dead from the band’s launching in 1965 through its break-up in 1995. He continued playing and touring with his own project, Phil Lesh and Friends, and in 2009 ...