Phil Lesh


R.I.P.  A great innovator of the Bass guitar.

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Sad day. Grateful I had the chance to see him play 200+ times. His bass playing on Eyes of the World always mesmerizes me. 

I’m not a concert going kind of Deadhead…only saw them once, at Watkins Glen…but I love their records, and Workingman’s, American Beauty, and Blues For Allah are my faves.  Side 1 on BFA is genius level musicianship, and Phil was a big reason it.  He gave the band a lot of what made it great…a bassist with a rare melodic sense and ear.

Fare thee well, Phil. Like many, saw numerous shows in the 70s-90s. One night about ten rows back in the Phil Zone at the (old) Boston Garden, I thought those bass bombs would collapse my insides and turn me to mush. As @wharfy (good GD name) put it, may the four winds blow you home again ...