Jazz Articles about Phil Lesh

Grateful Dead: Workingman's Dead - 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

by Doug Collette
September 5, 2020

Released on-line around the time of the fiftieth anniversary of the release of Workingman's Dead (Warner Bros., 1970), The Angel's Share of over two-and-a-half hours of unreleased studio outtakes and fly-on-the wall conversations from the recording sessions somewhat give the lie to the expeditious cost-effective time the Grateful Dead spent recording their landmark album. But it's a profound paradox that the delicious simplicity the likes of which permeates the iconic band's fourth studio effort is usually the result of meticulous ...

Phil Lesh & Friends Fall Tour 2007: Searching for the Sound

by Doug Collette
November 3, 2007

Phil Lesh & Friends Orpheum Theatre Boston Massachusetts October 9 and 10, 2007

Since returning to the road in 1999 after a liver transplant, Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh's concept of a rotating cast of musicians has generated numerous rosters, including Trey Anastasio and Page McConnell of Phish, Chris Robinson of The Black Crowes and guitar wunderkind Derek Trucks. The chemistry reached a pinnacle with the five-man lineup of guitarist Jimmy Herring, keyboardist/vocalist Rob ...

Phil Lesh And Friends: Live At The Warfield

by Doug Collette
December 26, 2006

Phil Lesh And Friends Live At The Warfield Relix Records 2006

Since surviving a liver transplant and hitting the road in 1999 with a rotating cast of Friends, Phil Lesh has been the one charter member of the Grateful Dead to maintain and nurture the good-natured albeit intense sense of adventure at the heart of that seminal improvisational rock band's best music.

Just in the last year, when there have been no ...

The Music Never Stops: Phil Lesh Remembers

by Doug Collette
May 21, 2005

Phil Lesh Searching for the Sound: My Life with The Grateful Dead Little Brown (ISBN: 0316009989) 2005

THE LONG STRANGE TRIP CONTINUES...

If it's not too precious a description, reading Searching for the Sound by Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh is like watching his life flash before your eyes. His conversational narrative moves quickly from his childhood through the carefree indulgent college days smack into his introduction to ...

Beyond Description: Grateful Dead 1973-1989

by Doug Collette
November 13, 2004

Serendipity is dead... Grateful Dead that is. A successor to the similarly massive and comparably gorgeous box set The Golden Road (1965-1972) , Beyond Description (1973-1989) depicts the latter day Grateful Dead's utter and perhaps naïve willingness to surrender to their muse for inspiration, whether it be on the stage or in the studio. It becomes quite clear before you are even half-way through these dozen extended remastered CDs that, when this band was struck with inspiration, there ...

The Other Ones: The Strange Remain

by AAJ Staff
March 1, 1999

For over 30 years, The Grateful Dead criss-crossed the country, the house band at party after party in countless cities for a roaming community best known as “Deadheads;" their common bond, to gather and celebrate. Skeptics often write off The Grateful Dead, dissing their fans, attacking the band's now mythical drug habits and citing their poor output of studio recordings, without ever really taking the time to consider the massive body of work they left behind. In this writer's opinion ...