{"id":30714,"date":"2024-10-26T18:02:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T18:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/grateful-dead-members-pay-tribute-to-phil-lesh\/"},"modified":"2024-10-26T18:02:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T18:02:26","slug":"grateful-dead-members-pay-tribute-to-phil-lesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/grateful-dead-members-pay-tribute-to-phil-lesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Grateful Dead members pay tribute to Phil Lesh"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The surviving members of the Grateful Dead<\/strong> – Bobby Weir<\/strong>, Mickey Hart<\/strong> and Bill Kreutzmann<\/strong> – have paid tribute to their bassist and founding member Phil Lesh<\/strong>, who died Friday at the age of 84.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cToday we lost a brother,\u201d the trio wrote on <\/span>social media<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. \u201cPhil Lesh was irreplaceable. In one note from the Phil Zone, you could hear and feel the world being born. His bass flowed like a river would flow. It went where the muse took it. He was an explorer of inner and outer space who just happened to play bass. He was a circumnavigator of formerly unknown musical worlds. And more.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe can count on the fingers of one hand the people we can say had as profound an influence on our development – in every sense,” they continued. “And there have been even less people who did so continuously over the decades and will continue to for as long as we live. What a gift for us. We won\u2019t say he will be missed, as in any given moment, nothing we do will be without the lessons he taught us – and the lessons that are yet to come, as the conversations will go on.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

The post described\u00a0Phil as \u201cmuch more than a virtuoso bass player,\u201d noting he was \u201ca composer, a family man, a cultural icon\u2026”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be a lot of tributes, and they will all say important things. But for us, we\u2019ve spent a lifetime making music with Phil Lesh and the music has a way of saying it all,\u201d they shared. “So listen to the Grateful Dead and, in that way, we\u2019ll all take a little bit of Phil with us, forever.”<\/span><\/p>\n

They ended the post with, \u201cFor this is all a dream we dreamed one afternoon, long ago\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to the group tribute, Kruetzmann<\/strong><\/a>, Hart<\/strong><\/a> and Weir<\/strong><\/a> also shared\u00a0their own personal tributes on their social media pages.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Astrida Valigorsky\/Getty Images The surviving members of the Grateful Dead – Bobby Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann – have paid tribute to their bassist and founding member Phil Lesh, who died Friday at the age of 84. \u201cToday we lost a brother,\u201d the trio wrote on social media. \u201cPhilRead More →<\/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],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}