Posted on 10/25/2024 3:07:15 PM PDT by CtBigPat
Phil Lesh, bassist and founding member of iconic rock band Grateful Dead, has died. He was 84.
The news was announced on Lesh’s verified Instagram on Friday, which said he died “peacefully” on Friday morning.
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Full Playlist for the Dead @ Roosevelt Stadium
Stanley’s LSD and the Grateful Dead and the Merry Pranksters were at the center of the “Acid Tests” that are immortalized in Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
How many Dead Heads does it take to change a light bulb?
None, they let it burn out and follow it around for 30 years.
Might want to add Ken Kesey, and perhaps Neal Cassidy, to that troupe.
Great book. Best improv rock band of all time. They were the most under-rated over-rated band of all time.
RIP Phil Lesh!
If there’s a rock & roll heaven, you know they got a hell of a band!
“Box of Rain.
Phil wrote it about his father who had cancer.”
Did not know that, such a great, great song.
“Such a long, long time to be gone, and a short time to be there.”
Yep.
Neal Cassady surely took the stage with the Dead at a number of Acid Tests and other early dates, including a July 23, 1967 show at the Straight Theater when he rapped while the band noodled behind him.
He had been waiting for that day for so long
Loved this quote from a story I saw.
As Garcia once remarked, Lesh “plays the bass as though he invented the instrument and nobody ever played it before him, [and]…the required stuff is about one percent of what he plays”.
RIP Phil. Thanks for the music.
Sadly, neither did I - but have been a fan for many years. I have been in industrial quality control for many years - used to use the Dead as an example of great customer service, as they were one of the few bands that permitted - even encouraged - recording at their shows.
Very true!
Pot? At a Grateful Dead Show? Oh Noes!!!
So tight. I don’t know of a better version... Longer, yes, but better, nah.
Thanks. I hadn’t seen that before.
Yes I woke up to my youngest son had texted me
A 17 year old who knew first
Classic rock is dying literally
They always touted he was the most musically trained
He almost died of liver issues I think 15 years ago
I saw them about same as you
Some really lived it
I knew a girl from ole miss joined the caravan in 1982 or so and did it till Jerry died
Made a living in the parking lot economy with food and trinkets etc
She was a double for the actress Julie Christie
Very pretty
We shared houses at school
She met a Jewish guy in the dead thing and went with him to a super hippie like kibbutz in Israel
I think two years and took a Hebrew first name (Midian actualy)and kind of converted
They split but she stuck with it and still adheres to this day
Daughter of a rural Mississippi Assembly of God preacher
True story and we still talk on Facebook
I bet she’s already on this I haven’t checked yet
She’s all Trump too
Absolutely adores Israel for basically same reasons I do
The people most of them anyhow
Rock music has become like Classical Music. People just want to hear the classics and not bother with the new stuff.
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