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Grateful Lifeless founding member Phil Lesh dies

By Editorial Board Published October 25, 2024 3 Min Read
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Grateful Lifeless founding member Phil Lesh dies

Phil Lesh, a founding member of the US rock band the Grateful Lifeless, has died aged 84.

The bass participant featured within the authentic line-up of the band alongside Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Invoice Kreutzmann and Ron “Pigpen” McKernan.

His demise on Friday was confirmed in a submit on his Instagram account.

It learn: “Phil Lesh, bassist and founding member of The Grateful Dead, passed peacefully this morning. He was surrounded by his family and full of love.

“Phil introduced immense pleasure to everybody round him and leaves behind a legacy of music and love. We request that you just respect the Lesh household’s privateness right now.”

The assertion didn’t cite a particular explanation for demise however Lesh had beforehand survived bouts of prostate most cancers, bladder most cancers and a 1998 liver transplant necessitated by the debilitating results of a hepatitis C an infection.

Lesh, a classically educated violinist and jazz trumpeter, discovered his true calling as a founding member of the Grateful Lifeless.

The band got here to outline the acid rock sound emanating from San Francisco within the Nineteen Sixties.

Lesh wrote the music for the favored Grateful Lifeless monitor Unbroken Chain – which displays on the band’s reference to its viewers.

He additionally sang the wistful Field Of Rain in 1970, which he wrote whereas his father was dying.

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His demise means Weir and Kreutzmann are the one two remaining survivors from the unique line-up of the band.

The group disbanded after lead singer Jerry Garcia died in 1995 at a drug rehabilitation clinic aged 53, whereas McKernan had died of liver illness in 1973.

Later members to have died are Brent Myland, who suffered an overdose in 1990, and Keith Godchaux – who was killed in a automobile crash in 1980 after he left the group.

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