The catering options rarely differ. Almost always, there’s a salad bar with every possible variety of Newman’s Own dressing.

Hailing from the Gunnison Valley, Easy Jim, Music of the Grateful Dead plays at 9 p.m., Nov. 15 at The Belly Up.

Phil Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead whose electric bass playing came to define the psychedelic San Francisco sound, died Oct. 25.

"When we get onstage, what we really want to happen is, we want to be transformed from ordinary players into extraordinary ...

By Andrew Unterberger, Billboard Phil Lesh, founding member and longtime bassist for legendary rock outfit the Grateful Dead, died Friday ... blissed-out live shows, and their affinity for ...

Bassist Phil Lesh, whose dense, inventive playing powered the Grateful ... 10 official live albums. From the first, the Dead actively encouraged their fans to record their live shows, and tapes ...

Grateful Dead founding member ... "an active keeper of its live flame." He presided over a new improvisational band called Phil and Friends, often playing shows in the Bay Area in the years ...

Phil Lesh, the classically trained musician who co-founded the Grateful Dead ... to live life as much as possible because Phil did that and I am fortunate to have been able to do so many shows ...

Garcia died in 1995. The Grateful Dead toured extensively and were renowned for their live shows and ability to jam, garnering legions of fans around the world. In 2007, the band received the ...

Phil Lesh, the classically trained musician who co-founded the Grateful Dead and whose unconventional ... electronic experiments, and nightly free-form “space” interludes.