By Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork | Phil Lesh, bassist for the Grateful Dead, died this morning (October 25), according to a statement on his official social media accounts. A cause of death was not shared, just that he “passed peacefully” and that he “was surrounded by his family and full of love.” Lesh was 84 years old.
Philip Chapman Lesh was born and raised in Berkeley, California. He enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1961, where he studied music and composition under the Italian composer Luciano Berio. He was also a classmate of Steve Reich at the university.
In 1965, Lesh, a bassist-in-training, joined Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, and Bill Kreutzmann in a band called the Warlocks. On Saturday, December 4, 1965, they adopted a new name for one of Ken Kesey’s Acid Test parties, in San Jose: They were the Grateful Dead.
Grateful Dead released their first album, also called Grateful Dead, in March 1967, but they were just as well-known across the Bay Area for their long, free-form concerts. . . . Lesh was a fixture with the Grateful Dead until the band’s dissolution, in 1995, following the death of Jerry Garcia. He soon began performing with a rotating lineup of members as Phil Lesh and Friends. He did not, however, join his former bandmates in the revival act Dead & Company.
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October 2024
30: Richard Andrew, 58, Australian drummer (Underground Lovers, Crow, Black Cab), lung cancer.
29: Nadia Cattouse, 99, British actress (Angels, Johnny Jarvis, Within These Walls), singer and songwriter.
28: Manuel “Guajiro” Mirabal, 91, Cuban trumpeter (Buena Vista Social Club)’ Elżbieta Zającówna, 66, Polish actress (Vabank), singer and television presenter.
26: Steve Morse, 76, American music journalist (The Boston Globe), lung cancer; Şahlar Quliyev [az], 78, Azerbaijani opera singer.
25: Phil Lesh, 84, American Hall of Fame musician (Grateful Dead) and songwriter (“Box of Rain”, “Truckin'”).
24: DJ Clark Kent, 58, Panamanian-American DJ, hip hop record producer and music executive, colon cancer; Marco Paulo, 79, Portuguese singer and television presenter, cancer; Hans Rotmo, 76, Norwegian singer-songwriter, cancer.
23: Antonio Cicero, 79, Brazilian poet, philosopher and lyricist, Prêmio Jabuti laureate (2013), assisted suicide; Jack Jones, 86, American singer (“Wives and Lovers”, “Love Boat”) and actor (Over the Garden Wall), leukemia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2024
Photo: Phil Lesh | from his Facebook page | https://www.facebook.com/phil.lesh