This article is a weaving together of original writing by Eric Avery with some personal history he told Matt Thompson on a ...
Bassist Phil Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead, passed away recently at the age of 84. Phil was one of the ...
In 1971, beat poet Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan collaborated on a "wacky" and improvised recording session in New York.
Drummer Mickey Hart called him the group's intellectual who brought a classical composer's mind-set and skills to a five-chord rock ‘n ... him to play the bass in the unorthodox lead-guitar ...
LOS ANGELES — Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass guitar ... and skills to a five-chord rock ‘n ...