{"id":30711,"date":"2024-10-25T21:03:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T21:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/grateful-dead-bassist-and-founding-member-phil-lesh-dies-at-84\/"},"modified":"2024-10-25T21:03:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T21:03:08","slug":"grateful-dead-bassist-and-founding-member-phil-lesh-dies-at-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/grateful-dead-bassist-and-founding-member-phil-lesh-dies-at-84\/","title":{"rendered":"Grateful Dead bassist and founding member Phil Lesh dies at 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-10-25\/Getty_PhilLesh_102524.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Astrida Valigorsky\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Grateful Dead<\/strong> bassist <strong>Phil Lesh<\/strong>\u00a0passed away Friday at the age of 84. His death was announced\u00a0in a statement on his official <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DBjvWcHPbQB\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Instagram page<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cPhil Lesh, bassist and founding member of The Grateful Dead, passed peacefully this morning,\u201d read the post. \u201cHe was surrounded by his family and full of love.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cPhil brought immense joy to everyone around him and leaves behind a legacy of music and love,\u201d it continued. \u201cWe request that you respect the Lesh family\u2019s privacy at this time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Lesh co-founded the iconic jam band with <strong>Jerry Garcia<\/strong>, <strong>Bobby Weir<\/strong>, <strong>Ron \u201cPigpen\u201d McKernan<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Bill Kreutzmann<\/strong>\u00a0in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1965, with drummer <strong>Mickey Hart<\/strong> and lyricist <strong>Robert Hunter<\/strong> joining the group in 1967. He co-wrote several of their iconic tunes, including &#8220;Truckin'&#8221; and &#8220;Box of Rain.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The band, inducted into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, was best known for their live shows, with fans\u00a0aka \u201cDeadheads\u201d known to follow them around on tour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Following Garcia\u2019s 1995 death, Grateful Dead disbanded, but Lesh continued to play in offshoots of the\u00a0group, including <strong>The Other Ones\u00a0<\/strong>with members Weir and Hart; they eventually changed their name to <strong>The Dead<\/strong>. He also toured with Weir under the band name <strong>Further<\/strong>, which disbanded in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Lesh also released three albums under the name <strong>Phil Lesh and Friends<\/strong>\u00a0and toured extensively with that band. He celebrated his 84th birthday onstage at the Capitol Theatre in New York in March and played his last live show on\u00a0July 21 in San Rafael, California.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">No cause of death has been released for Lesh, although he has had health issues in the past. In 2006 he announced that he&#8217;d been diagnosed with prostate cancer, and in 2015 he revealed he\u2019d been diagnosed with bladder cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astrida Valigorsky\/Getty Images Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh\u00a0passed away Friday at the age of 84. His death was announced\u00a0in a statement on his official Instagram page. \u201cPhil Lesh, bassist and founding member of The Grateful Dead, passed peacefully this morning,\u201d read the post. \u201cHe was surrounded by his family and<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/grateful-dead-bassist-and-founding-member-phil-lesh-dies-at-84\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Grateful Dead bassist and founding member Phil Lesh dies at 84 - 101 Gold<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/grateful-dead-bassist-and-founding-member-phil-lesh-dies-at-84\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Grateful Dead bassist and founding member Phil Lesh dies at 84 - 101 Gold\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Astrida Valigorsky\/Getty Images Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh\u00a0passed away Friday at the age of 84. 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