Phil Lesh

Grateful Dead founding member and bassist Phil Lesh died Friday morning, according to a post on his official Instagram account.

One of the first rock bassists whose instrument regularly took a lead role, he also had a hand in writing some of the band's best-known songs.

Lesh, an original member of America's preeminent jam band, died Friday morning.

Stream local breaking news and original programming, live 24/7, from ABC7 Bay Area. SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Phil ...

Phil Lesh, the bassist and founding member of the ultimate San Francisco jam band The Grateful Dead, died today. He was 84. His death was announced on his ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass guitar as a ...

The musician was a founding member of the influential band and died 'surrounded by his family and full of love'

Lesh was the oldest and one of the longest surviving members of the band that came to define the acid rock sound emanating from San Francisco in the 1960s.

While volunteering at Berkeley radio station KPFA, he met Jerry Garcia, a bluegrass banjo player at the time, and in 1964 he became the bassist for Garcia's new ...

An official statement posted to the musician's Facebook account Friday said Lesh "passed peacefully" and was "surrounded by his family and full of love."

For the past 25 years, the founding member of the Grateful Dead made a nightly speech about a topic that helped him stay performing into his 80s.

LOS ANGELES -- Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass guitar as a ...

Phil Lesh, the Grateful Dead's founding bassist who changed how the instrument was played, has died. He was 84.

Just three months before he died, Phil Lesh performed in San Rafael, California. "I'm the luckiest guy in the world," he told the crowd.

The Grateful Dead played two massive concerts in northern Vermont in the mid-1990s, drawing more than 150000 ticket holders combined.

The leading member of the US rock group passed away peacefully, his official Instagram account says.

Mr. Lesh brought an avant-garde bass style to the band and contributed to hits such as “Box of Rain.”

Lesh was the oldest and one of the longest surviving members of the band that came to define the acid rock sound emanating from San Francisco in the 1960s.

Phil Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead whose nuanced bass playing made him an architect of the band's otherworldly sound, died on Friday at age ...

Looking back at the career of the Grateful Dead bassist, starting with when the band was clean cut and called the Warlocks.

Phil Lesh's family shared that the celebrated bassist and co-founder of the Grateful Dead died on Friday, Oct. 25, at 84.

Phil Lesh, a founding member of the legendary Bay Area rock band The Grateful Dead, has died at 84, according to a social media post from his account.

Deadheads descended on the Haight-Ashbury house that the band called home in the 1960s, to say good-bye to Grateful Dead founding member, Phil Lesh.

The surviving members of the Grateful Dead paid tribute to founding bassist Phil Lesh in a statement following his death, "Today we lost a brother."

Warren Haynes Remembers Phil Lesh: 'His Open-Mindedness About Music Surpassed Anyone'. "Sometimes when a jam was on the risk of falling apart, or even when it ...