Photo: Dino Perrucci Joe Russo’s Almost Dead have been traveling the East Coast in pursuit of unveiling sharp interpretations ...

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

And we’re not talking about The Beatles’ inevitable retirement from live music, several years before ... that it was the iconic jam band The Grateful Dead that inspired him to tour again.

The Grateful Dead bassist found new melodic byways through every song. Phil Lesh ... intro to “Touch of Grey,” the Dead’s only Top 10 (and only Top 40) single. But when the verse arrived ...

Bassist Phil Lesh, whose dense, inventive playing powered the Grateful Dead and, following the 1995 death of guitarist Jerry Garcia, many of the San Francisco band’s touring reincarnations, died ...

On the Grateful Dead’s studio albums, his lines held so much melody that one could listen to a song for his playing alone. At the same time, he shared his bandmates’ love for unusual chord ...

In celebration of the legendary band’s 60th anniversary, The Grateful Dead will be honored as the 2025 MusiCares Persons of the Year at the organization’s benefit gala during Grammy Week.

Phil Lesh, the bassist for the Grateful Dead who propelled many of its wildest musical explorations yet also composed and sang one of its loveliest songs, “Box of Rain,” has died. He was 84.

As one of the co-founders and longest-tenured members of the Grateful Dead ... hit with the catchy top 10 smash “Touch of Grey” — which along with its popular music video, featuring the ...

Phil Lesh, bassist and founding member of iconic rock band Grateful Dead ... the melody of the songs they created, thereby establishing one of the many specialties the Dead would become known ...