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Phil Lesh
Homepage
https://www.phillesh.net/
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1940-03-15,Berkeley, California, USA
Gender
Male
Biography
Philip Chapman Lesh (born March 15, 1940) is an American musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career. After the band's disbanding in 1995, Lesh continued the tradition of Grateful Dead family music with side project Phil Lesh and Friends, which paid homage to the Dead's music by playing their originals, common covers, and the songs of the members of his band. Lesh operated a music venue called Terrapin Crossroads. He scaled back his touring regimen in 2014 but continues to perform with Phil Lesh & Friends at select venues. From 2009 to 2014, he performed in Furthur alongside former Grateful Dead bandmate Bob Weir. Lesh was born in Berkeley, California, United States, and started out as a violin player. While enrolled at Berkeley High School he switched to trumpet and participated in all of the school's music-related extracurricular activities. Studying the instrument under Bob Hansen, conductor of the symphonic Golden Gate Park Band, he developed a keen interest in avant-garde classical music and free jazz. After attending San Francisco State University for a semester, Lesh was unable to secure a favorable position in the school's band or orchestra and determined that he was not ready to pursue a higher education. Upon dropping out, he successfully auditioned for the renowned Sixth Army Band (then stationed at the Presidio of San Francisco) with the assistance of Hansen, but was ultimately determined to be unfit for military service. Shortly thereafter, he enrolled at the College of San Mateo, where he wrote charts for the community college's well-regarded big band and ascended to the first trumpet chair. (A snippet of tape of Lesh on trumpet at CSM can be heard on "Born Cross-Eyed" from the Grateful Dead's 1968 release Anthem of the Sun.) After transferring with sophomore standing to the University of California, Berkeley in 1961, he befriended future Grateful Dead keyboardist Tom Constanten before dropping out again after less than a semester. At the behest of Constanten, he studied under the Italian modernist Luciano Berio in a graduate-level course at Mills College in the spring of 1962; their classmates included Steve Reich and Stanford University cross-registrant John Chowning. While volunteering for KPFA as a recording engineer during this period, he met bluegrass banjo player Jerry Garcia. Despite seemingly opposite musical interests, they soon formed a friendship. Following a brief period as a Post Office Department employee and keno marker in Las Vegas (initially rooming with Constanten, who soon departed to study under Berio and other members of the Darmstadt School in Europe); a second stint with the Post Office in San Francisco; and a collaboration with the likes of Reich, Jon Gibson and Constanten upon the latter's return from Europe under the auspices of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, Lesh was talked into becoming the bassist for Garcia's new rock band (then known as The Warlocks) in the fall of 1964. This was a peculiar turn of events, as Lesh had never before played bass. According to Lesh, the first song he rehearsed with the band was "I Know You Rider". He joined them for their third or fourth gig (memories vary) and stayed until the end. ... Source: Article "Phil Lesh" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography

7.4

Gimme Shelter
1970-12-13

The End of the Road

4

The End of the Road
2001-04-27

The Grateful Dead

7.5

The Grateful Dead
1977-06-02

Grateful Dead: View from the Vault

5.2

Grateful Dead: View from the Vault
2000-10-10

Grateful Dead: View from the Vault II

0

Grateful Dead: View from the Vault II
2001-10-09

Grateful Dead: Ticket to New Year's Eve Concert

6

Grateful Dead: Ticket to New Year's Eve Concert
1987-12-31

Grateful Dead: So Far

0

Grateful Dead: So Far
1987-01-01

6.9

Magic Trip
2011-08-05

Grateful Dead: View from the Vault III

0

Grateful Dead: View from the Vault III
2002-10-08

Grateful Dead: Bits And Pieces About...

0

Grateful Dead: Bits And Pieces About...

Grateful Dead: The Closing of Winterland

0

Grateful Dead: The Closing of Winterland
1978-12-31

Grateful Dead: Truckin Up to Buffalo

4.5

Grateful Dead: Truckin Up to Buffalo
1989-07-04

San Francisco Rock: A Night at the Family Dog

0

San Francisco Rock: A Night at the Family Dog
1970-02-13

Move Me Brightly - Celebrating Jerry Garcia's 70th Birthday

8

Move Me Brightly - Celebrating Jerry Garcia's 70th Birthday
2013-10-29

Grateful Dead: View from the Vault IV

0

Grateful Dead: View from the Vault IV
2003-04-08

Grateful Dead Meet-Up 2022

0

Grateful Dead Meet-Up 2022
2022-11-01

Grateful Dead: 2015.06.27 - Santa Clara, CA

0

Grateful Dead: 2015.06.27 - Santa Clara, CA
2015-06-28

Grateful Dead: 2015.06.28 - Santa Clara, CA

0

Grateful Dead: 2015.06.28 - Santa Clara, CA
2015-06-28

Grateful Dead: 2015.07.05 - Chicago, IL

7.5

Grateful Dead: 2015.07.05 - Chicago, IL
2015-07-05

Grateful Dead: 2015.07.04 - Chicago, IL

0

Grateful Dead: 2015.07.04 - Chicago, IL
2015-07-04

Grateful Dead: 2015.07.03 - Chicago, IL

0

Grateful Dead: 2015.07.03 - Chicago, IL
2015-07-03

Inside Scofield

0

Inside Scofield
2022-12-02

Grateful Dead: Fare Thee Well - Rainbows Are Real, Chicago, IL

0

Grateful Dead: Fare Thee Well - Rainbows Are Real, Chicago, IL
2015-07-05

Grateful Dead: View from the Vault

0

Grateful Dead: View from the Vault
2000-10-10

Dear Jerry - Celebrating The Music of Jerry Garcia

10

Dear Jerry - Celebrating The Music of Jerry Garcia
2016-10-14

Long Strange Trip

8.2

Long Strange Trip
2017-05-25

6.5

Rising Low
2002-10-08

Grateful Dead: Downhill from Here

6

Grateful Dead: Downhill from Here
1989-01-01

Grateful Dead: Sunshine Daydream

4

Grateful Dead: Sunshine Daydream
2013-08-01

Grateful Dead: Fare Thee Well - 50 Years of Grateful Dead (Chicago)

9.8

Grateful Dead: Fare Thee Well - 50 Years of Grateful Dead (Chicago)
2015-11-20

Grateful Dead: Fare Thee Well - 50 Years of Grateful Dead (Santa Clara)

0

Grateful Dead: Fare Thee Well - 50 Years of Grateful Dead (Santa Clara)
2015-11-27

Grateful Dead: Live on Rockpalast

0

Grateful Dead: Live on Rockpalast
1981-03-27

Grateful Dead: New Jersey Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo - Live at The Capitol Theater

0

Grateful Dead: New Jersey Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo - Live at The Capitol Theater
1977-04-26

Tom Snyder's Electric Kool-Aid Talk Show

10

Tom Snyder's Electric Kool-Aid Talk Show
2006-09-26

Grateful Dead: Anthem to Beauty

8.2

Grateful Dead: Anthem to Beauty
1997-02-22

Grateful Dead: Rocking The Cradle

0

Grateful Dead: Rocking The Cradle
2008-01-01

Festival Express

7.1

Festival Express
2003-09-19

9

The Acid Test
1966-10-05

Grateful Dead: Dead Ahead

0

Grateful Dead: Dead Ahead
1981-01-01

Grateful Dead - Giants Stadium 1991

0

Grateful Dead - Giants Stadium 1991
2019-08-01

Grateful Dead: Crimson, White & Indigo

0

Grateful Dead: Crimson, White & Indigo
2011-02-02

Truckin' With The Dead

0

Truckin' With The Dead
1993-01-01

Grateful Dead: Live at Foxboro

0

Grateful Dead: Live at Foxboro
1989-12-01

Bob Dylan & Phil Lesh & Friends – Baltimore Arena 1999

0

Bob Dylan & Phil Lesh & Friends – Baltimore Arena 1999
2020-09-22

Phil Lesh and Friends: Live at the Warfield

0

Phil Lesh and Friends: Live at the Warfield
2006-10-31

Grateful Dead: The Making of

0

Grateful Dead: The Making of "Built to Last"
1989-03-01

Grateful Dead: Bird Song

0

Grateful Dead: Bird Song
2005-01-01

Grateful Dead: All The Years Combine - The DVD Collection

0

Grateful Dead: All The Years Combine - The DVD Collection
2012-03-30

Basketball: A Love Story

6

Basketball: A Love Story
2018-09-18

Long Strange Trip

5.8

Long Strange Trip
2017-06-02

8.5

Apostrophes
1975-01-10

7.7

Classic Albums
1997-04-14