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Phil Lesh, the Grateful Dead’s founding bassist who died Oct. 25 at age 84, rarely wrote songs or sang lead. Among his contributions to the band’s oeuvre, though, was one of the most ...

Phil Lesh, the Grateful Dead’s founding bassist who died Oct. 25 at age 84, rarely wrote songs or sang lead. Among his contributions to the band’s oeuvre, though, was one of the most celebrated tunes ...

Helping form the rock band the Grateful Dead during the 1960s ... With a career in music that spanned over 60 years, on October 25, Lesh sadly passed away at 84 years old. With countless stars ...

As the musicians who would form the Grateful Dead coalesced in the Bay Area, the focus changed from jug band music to rock music. It was at Lesh's home they decided to change the name of the band ...

The Grateful Dead bassist found new melodic byways through every song. Phil Lesh, who died on Friday, was a founding member of the Grateful Dead.Credit...Getty Images Supported by By Jon Pareles ...

So listen to the Grateful Dead and, in that way, we’ll all take a little bit of Phil with us, forever. For this is all a dream we dreamed one afternoon, long ago….