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Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh has died.
CNN ^ | 10/25/2024 | Dan Heching and The Associated Press

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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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: gratefuldead; ironic; music; phillesh
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To: freebilly

The Band opened for them:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5dw9RXYXWrM


61 posted on 10/25/2024 5:10:20 PM PDT by freebilly
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To: freebilly

Full Playlist for the Dead @ Roosevelt Stadium


62 posted on 10/25/2024 5:13:46 PM PDT by freebilly
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To: freebilly

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou6la6MxuZk


63 posted on 10/25/2024 5:14:24 PM PDT by freebilly
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To: newfreep

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.


64 posted on 10/25/2024 5:16:31 PM PDT by lasereye
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To: lasereye
https://blendedprints.com/cdn/shop/files/makeamericagratefulagain.png?v=1703024072/img>
65 posted on 10/25/2024 5:24:17 PM PDT by Languager
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To: CtBigPat

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.


66 posted on 10/25/2024 5:43:11 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: lasereye
“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.”

Might want to add Ken Kesey, and perhaps Neal Cassidy, to that troupe.

67 posted on 10/25/2024 5:49:12 PM PDT by HandyDandy (Borders, language and culture. Michael Savage)
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To: CtBigPat

Great book. Best improv rock band of all time. They were the most under-rated over-rated band of all time.


68 posted on 10/25/2024 5:51:37 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: CtBigPat

RIP Phil Lesh!

If there’s a rock & roll heaven, you know they got a hell of a band!


69 posted on 10/25/2024 5:56:57 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: Col Frank Slade

“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.”


70 posted on 10/25/2024 6:06:09 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: HandyDandy
Might want to add Ken Kesey, and perhaps Neal Cassidy, to that troupe.

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.

https://gratefuldeadoftheday.com/guest/neal-cassady

71 posted on 10/25/2024 6:44:00 PM PDT by lasereye
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To: CtBigPat

He had been waiting for that day for so long


72 posted on 10/25/2024 7:30:41 PM PDT by californian by choice (Who are those who believe in science?)
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To: zzeeman

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.


73 posted on 10/25/2024 7:41:48 PM PDT by freefdny
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To: CtBigPat
Sadly, I never got to see the Grateful Dead.

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.

74 posted on 10/25/2024 9:39:43 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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To: freefdny

Very true!


75 posted on 10/26/2024 4:39:54 AM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality." )
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To: mairdie
The auditorium smelled of pot and I was horrified.

Pot? At a Grateful Dead Show? Oh Noes!!!

76 posted on 10/26/2024 5:08:33 AM PDT by Sir_Humphrey (The “only Trumpers” are just as damaging to the conservative cause as are the “never Trumpers”)
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To: Liberty Valance

So tight. I don’t know of a better version... Longer, yes, but better, nah.


77 posted on 10/26/2024 7:29:21 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: hecticskeptic

Thanks. I hadn’t seen that before.


78 posted on 10/26/2024 7:33:56 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

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


79 posted on 10/26/2024 11:07:25 AM PDT by wardaddy (We’re winning but please in swing states vote )
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To: wardaddy

Rock music has become like Classical Music. People just want to hear the classics and not bother with the new stuff.


80 posted on 10/26/2024 11:10:07 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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