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Phil Lesh, Bassist Who Anchored the Grateful Dead, Dies at 84
- PonyoSunshine 2y agohttps://archive.is/EOkTU https://archive.is/EOkTU
- threecheese 2y agoI have chills, I believe mostly from reliving 1995 a bit. I was young, and had lots of plans. This is very sad, his music was just starting to reach a fourth (fifth? third?) generation of heads. Maybe now he’s with Jerry, Hunter, and Barlow, Kieth, Brent, and Pigpen, and all the others.
- threecheese 2y agoI’ve had the opening bass slide down that kicks off Scarlet Begonias/Cornell 1977 (I was a child lol) stuck in my head for days, my god what that must have felt like to see live. Rattled the bones, like a crack of thunder. I am sad.
- tkgally 2y agoThe Lesh bass line that sticks in my head is in "Me and Bobby McGee" from a show in Fresno in the summer of 1974 [1]. It's a simple three-chord country song, and the usual bass backing would be a straight oom-pah on the beat. But Phil was all over the place with syncopated counterpoint. I've listened to that recording dozens of times. [1] https://archive.org/details/gd74-07-19.sbd.symons.12381.sbeok.shnf https://archive.org/details/gd74-07-19.sbd.symons.12381.sbeo...
- threecheese 2y agoLove it, listening now. Here’s a great comment for that show (archive.org taper comments for one of the sources): > Phil's bass tone is just how I like it, nice and thick. :)
- ompogUe 2y agoMy #1 favorite Jerry solo is during Brown Eyed Women at that same concert (Barton Hall). What a show! Requiescat in Pace, Mr. Lesh
- iancmceachern 2y agoListening to the dead channel on sirius xm now, he will be missed, what a guy.