Phil Lesh RIP

[Altfish]

Any other Dead Heads here?

Sad news the 84-year old bass player Phil Lesh has passed away.

 

[ChristineM]

Rip

 

[It Aint Necessarily So]

Any other Dead Heads here?

Sad news the 84-year old bass player Phil Lesh has passed away.

Deadhead here. He will be missed. Only Bobby, Billy, and Mickey remain.

If you've been a fan, you know how much the crowd enjoyed chanting "Let Phil sing." He was a terrible singer, but beloved by the fans.

My wife and I formed a Grateful Dead cover band, but didn't do any Phil songs.

Still, since you're also a fan, how about some China/Rider? You can hear my wife rumbling at the bottom doing Phil's base part. Jabberwocky-style nonsense lyrics for China Cat Sunflower:

Look for a while at the china cat sunflower
Proud walking jingle in the midnight sun
Copperdome bodhi drip a silver kimono
Like a crazy quilt stargown through a dream night wind

Krazy Kat peeking through a lace bandanna
Like a one-eyed cheshire, like a diamond-eye jack
A leaf of all colors plays a golden-string fiddle
To a double-e waterfall over my back

Comic book colors on a violin river crying leonardo
Words from out a silk trombone
I rang a silent bell, beneath a shower of pearls
In the eagle-winged palace of the Queen Chinee

And here are the Dead doing it (that's Phil in the still photo) fifty years ago, beginning with Phil's back (but no double-e waterfall over it)

 

[Altfish]

Living in the UK, I only managed to catch them twice, once at a festival in 72 and then in London in (I think 76)

They are the band that I have all their studio albums and copious amounts of live ones.