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Phil Lesh, bassist for the Grateful Dead, dies at 84

The musician was a founding member of the influential band and died ‘surrounded by his family and full of love’

The Guardian - US

Grateful Dead founding member Phil Lesh dies aged 84

He was best known for the song Unbroken Chain, about the counterculture band’s connection with its audience.

Evening Standard

Phil Lesh, founding member of Grateful Dead and influential bassist, has died at 84

Grateful Dead founding member Phil Lesh has died at age 84

The Independent UK

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Grateful Dead bassist and co-founder Phil Lesh dies at 84

Phil Lesh, the bassist with The Grateful Dead, The Other Ones, The Dead and Phil Lesh And Friends has died

Louder

Phil Lesh death: Grateful Dead founding member dies at 84

Grateful Dead bassist ‘passed peacefully,’ according to statement

The Independent UK

The Grateful Dead named MusiCares’ 2025 Persons of the Year

MusiCares, an organization that helps music professionals who need financial, personal or medical assistance, will honor the Grateful Dead as its 2025 Persons of the Year

The Independent UK

“We’re trying to uphold a delicate state of anarchy. Anarchy in Egypt”: The incredible story of The Grateful Dead’s legendary gigs at the Pyramids Of Giza

In 1978, The Grateful Dead and their entourage landed in Egypt for three gigs at the Pyramids of Giza. This is what happened

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“The nut is carved from 10,000 year-old-Siberian mammoth-tusk ivory”: Is this the world’s most expensive bass guitar?

The Flora Aurum – created in 2007 to mark Ritter Basses’ tenth anniversary – was priced at $100,000

Guitar World

"It’s a common misconception among the unconverted that the Grateful Dead’s music was characterised by aimless noodling, rather than by deftly deployed fretboard know-how": 5 songs guitarists need to hear by the Grateful Dead

Newcomers can dig in for a long strange trip here

MusicRadar

“Christine had been killed. The studio was somewhere I could go where I’d feel something other than lost”: how David Crosby turned grief into hazy magic on his solo masterpiece If I Could Only Remember My Name

Louder

Part party, part call to action: A look at pot holiday 4/20

It’s 4/20, the high holiday for marijuana enthusiasts, and it’s falling this year as the U.S. government reviews its cannabis policy and as more states have legalized the drug

The Independent UK

Wilco guitar ace Nels Cline shines with band and on his own: 'I'm not sure I have a style,' he says

Wilco guitarist Nels Cline has long been hailed for his skill and stylistic diversity, as befits a six-string master who has collaborated with such varied artists as Rickie Lee Jones, Phil Lesh, Mike Watt, Anthony Braxton, Yoko Ono, Rufus Wainwright and Wadada Leo Smith.

Tribune News Service

Sacred Rose: Chicago’s newest music festival is a ‘choose your own’ affair

Not since the one-year Dave Matthews Band Caravan in 2011 has there been a jam band event of this scale in the area, with dedicated stages for fans of Americana, psych rock and other experimental styles.

Chicago Sun-Times

Phil Lesh & Friends, Black Pumas, Umphrey’s McGee among lineup for Sacred Rose music festival

Festival producers have released the entire lineup ahead of the ticket onsale date because “fans deserve to know what they’re signing up for.”

Chicago Sun-Times

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