Grateful Dead: bassist and supporter Phil Lesh died

Phil Lesh plays with the personal attention of the Californian rock band Grateful Dead.

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The bassist and singer of the legendary rock band Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh, has been active for 84 years. It focuses on the tod des gründungsmitglieds that appear on their official Instagram account: “Phil hat all in seinem Umfeld unermessliche Freude bereitet and hinterlässt ein Vermächtnis aus Musik und Liebe.”

Let’s see you fried on Friday morning in the Kreise seiner Family died, here is in the Mitteilung. The family has a private atmosphere and a number of special features.

Lesh hatte in der Verleidingenheit Messages will cause many problems, including prostatakrebs and blasenkrebs. In 1998 there was a life transplant, the consequences of a hepatitis C infection and strong alcohol poisoning did not really become war.

Phil Lesh became a member of the band’s personal band, which competed with Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan and Bill Kreutzmann in California’s Palo Alto in 1965. For three years, Lesh and Garcia were musically close partners, playing along with the psychedelic, maybe-good sounds of Rockgruppe.

The Grateful Dead’s innovative bass and experimental riffs became increasingly popular in the San Francisco music scene during the 1960s. There are no more hits with “Box of Rain”, but also the band’s “Space” interludes, which the Marken hear in their Live concert.

During the War of ’84 in the 1960s, there was a pioneer of the emerging E-Bass sounds, who created a melodic sound from the tradition as a tactgeber serving an instrument. Mickey Hart player is one of the intellectuals of the group, thinking and fashion have become classic composers in a rock and roll band.

A classic example of Geiger and jazz trumpeter, Lesh is not one of the Grateful Dead’s most prolific songwriters, but is also one of its best-known brands, playing “Dark Star” and “St. Stephen.” Mitunter sang Lesh auch in den Songs.

Obwohl is relatively limited in openness and nur selten Interviews, gilded Lesh as a separate part of the band. After Tod von Frontmann Jerry Garcia in 1995, Lesh continued the musical tradition and strengthened the group “Phil Lesh and Friends”, the musical legacy of the Grateful Dead.

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