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{{Short description|American musician (1940–2024)}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name              = Phil Lesh
| image             = [[File:Phil-Lesh.gif|Phil Lesh|200px]]
| caption           = Lesh performing in 1976
| background        = solo_singer
| birth_name        = Philip Chapman Lesh
| birth_date        = {{birth date|1940|3|15}}
| birth_place       = [[Berkeley, California]], U.S.
| death_date        = {{death date and age|2024|10|25|1940|3|15}}
| origin            = 
| instrument        = {{hlist|Bass guitar|trumpet|vocals}}
| genre             = {{flatlist|
* Rock
* [[psychedelic music|psychedelia]]
* [[Jam band|jam]]
* [[jazz]]
* [[country music|country]]
* [[Classical music|classical]]}}
| occupation        = {{hlist|Musician|songwriter}}
| years_active      = 1960–2024
| label             = {{hlist|[[Warner Bros. Records|Warner Bros.]]|[[Grateful Dead Records]]|[[Arista Records|Arista]]|[[Columbia Records|Columbia]]}}
| past_member_of    = {{hlist|[[Grateful Dead]]|[[The Other Ones]]|[[The Dead (band)|The Dead]]|[[Furthur (band)|Furthur]]| [[Phil Lesh and Friends]]}}
| website           = {{URL|phillesh.net}}
}}

'''Philip Chapman Lesh''' (March 15, 1940 – October 25, 2024) was an American musician and a founding member of the [[Grateful Dead]], with whom he developed a unique style of  improvised six-string bass guitar. He was their bassist throughout their 30-year career.<ref name=thetimes>{{cite web|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/article/phil-lesh-sllzr3mhw |website=The Times |date=28 October 2024 |title=Times Register: Obituary Phil Lesh, Innovative bass player for the Grateful Dead |access-date=1 November 2024}}</ref>

After the group disbanded in 1995, Lesh continued the tradition of Grateful Dead family music with a side project, [[Phil Lesh and Friends]], which paid homage to the Dead's music by playing their repertoire, as well as songs by members of his own group. Lesh operated a music venue called [[Terrapin Crossroads]]. From 2009 to 2014, he performed in [[Furthur (band)|Furthur]] alongside former Grateful Dead bandmate [[Bob Weir]].  He scaled back touring in 2014 but continued to perform concerts.

== Background ==
Lesh was born in [[Berkeley, California]], on March 15, 1940,<ref name="LarkinGE">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-939-0|pages=1464/5}}</ref> the only child of Frank Lesh, an amateur piano player, and Barbra Chapman.<ref name=thetimes /> His father encouraged him to take up the violin at the age of eight. At El Cerrito High School in East Bay he became a member of the school's marching band.<ref name=thetimes />

While enrolled at [[Berkeley High School (California)|Berkeley High School]] he switched to trumpet and participated in the school's music-related extracurricular activities.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/phil-lesh-grateful-dead-age-death-b2635863.html|title=Phil Lesh death: Grateful Dead founding member dies at 84|newspaper=The Independent|date=October 25, 2024|access-date=October 26, 2024}}</ref> He studied the instrument under Bob Hansen, conductor of the symphonic [[Golden Gate Park]] Band, and became interested in [[20th-century classical music|avant-garde classical music]] and [[free jazz]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/arts/music/phil-lesh-dead.html|title=Phil Lesh, Bassist Who Anchored the Grateful Dead, Dies at 84|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 25, 2024|access-date=October 26, 2024}}</ref> By his mid-teens, inspired by Beethoven and Charles Ives, he had decided that he wanted to be a composer.<ref name=thetimes />

Lesh enrolled at the [[College of San Mateo]], where he wrote arrangements for the [[Community colleges in the United States|community college]]'s [[big band]] and played trumpet.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Dawn of Indian Music in the West|page=83|first=Peter|last=Lavezzoli|publisher=A&C Black|year=2006|isbn=978-0-826-41815-9}}</ref> After transferring with sophomore standing to the [[University of California, Berkeley]] in 1961, he befriended future Grateful Dead keyboardist [[Tom Constanten]].{{sfn|Sclafani|2013|p=188}} At Constanten's suggestion, he studied under the Italian modernist [[Luciano Berio]] in a graduate-level course at [[Mills College]] in the spring of 1962, where their classmates included [[Steve Reich]] and [[Stanford University]] cross-registrant [[John Chowning]].<ref name="Lesh, Phil 2005">Lesh, Phil (2005). Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead. New York: Little, Brown and Company. {{ISBN|0-316-00998-9}}.</ref>

While volunteering for radio station [[KPFA]] as a recording engineer, Lesh met [[bluegrass music|bluegrass]] [[banjo]] player [[Jerry Garcia]]. He invited Garcia to perform on the station's ''Midnight Special'' show,{{sfn|Trager|1997|p=242}} and despite their different musical interests they became friends. Lesh briefly worked in the [[Post Office Department]], where he drove a service truck. In spring 1965 he saw Garcia's new band, the Warlocks, in concert, and was impressed. A few weeks later Garcia invited him to become the group's bassist.{{sfn|Trager|1997|pp=242–243}} This was unexpected, as Lesh had never played bass guitar.{{sfn| Sclafani|2013|p=189}} According to Lesh, the first song he rehearsed with the band was "[[I Know You Rider]]".<ref name="Lesh, Phil 2005"/> He joined them for their third or fourth gig (memories vary) and stayed until the end.{{cn|date=October 2024}}

The group changed its name to the Grateful Dead and began playing at [[Ken Kesey]]'s [[Acid Tests|Acid Test]] parties ([[LSD]] then being legal in California).<ref name=thetimes /> In late 1966 Lesh moved with the group to [[San Francisco]], where they were signed to a recording deal with [[Warner Brothers]], and found himself playing at venues such as [[The Fillmore]] and the [[Avalon Ballroom]].<ref name=thetimes /> As Lesh had never before played bass he learned "on the job", which meant he had no preconceived ideas about the instrument's traditional role in the [[rhythm section]] and was free to develop his own style.<ref name=thetimes /> In his autobiography, he credited [[Jack Casady]] (the bassist in San Francisco band [[Jefferson Airplane]]) as an influence on the direction in which his instincts were taking him.<ref name="Lesh, Phil 2005"/> He said that his playing style was influenced more by [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach]]'s [[counterpoint]] than by contemporaneous rock and soul bass players.<ref name=Jackson/> He also cited [[Jack Bruce]] of [[Cream (band)|Cream]] as an influence.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Ferris|first1=Jedd|title=A quick chat with Phil Lesh: Grateful Dead bassist talks Lockn' return and missing Jerry|url=http://www.c-ville.com/quick-chat-phil-lesh-grateful-dead-bassist-talks-lockn-return-missing-jerry/|publisher=C-VILLE|date=August 23, 2017}}</ref>

== Music ==
Lesh became an innovator in the new role that the electric bass was developing during the mid-1960s.{{sfn|Trager|1997|p=243}} Contemporary bass players such as [[Jack Casady]], [[Jack Bruce]], [[James Jamerson]], and [[Paul McCartney]] had adopted a more melodic, [[contrapuntal]] approach to the instrument. Before this, bass players in rock had generally played a conventional [[Tempo|timekeeping]] role within the [[Beat (music)|beat]] of the song, within (or underpinning) the song's [[Harmony|harmonic]] or [[Chord (music)|chord]] structure.  While not abandoning these elements, Lesh went on his own [[Improvisation#Music|improvised]] excursions during a song or instrumental, and in the group's long improvised jams in their live performances Lesh's six-string bass complemented Garcia's guitar solos{{sfn|Trager|1997|p=243}} with cascades of notes and unusual time signatures.<ref name=thetimes /> This became a characteristic part of the so-called [[San Francisco Sound]] in the new rock music.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Lydon |first=Michael |date=August 23, 1969 |title=Good Old Grateful Dead |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/grateful-dead-jerry-garcia-1969-cover-story-103056/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200904080048/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/grateful-dead-jerry-garcia-1969-cover-story-103056/ |archive-date=September 4, 2020 |access-date=April 15, 2024 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}</ref> 

Early on, Lesh grasped the sonic possibilities presented by recording in the studio, and his style of playing often led to complaints by the band's record label. Joe Smith of [[Warner Bros.]] wrote a letter about cost overruns that had accumulated during studio sessions for the band's second album, ''[[Anthem of the Sun]]'' (1968). According to music critic [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]], Smith singled him out as "the catalyst for chaos within the band", writing: "It's apparent that nobody in your organization has enough influence over Phil Lesh to evoke anything resembling normal behavior."<ref name="Erlewine"/> Lesh was not a prolific composer or singer with the Grateful Dead, though he did occasionally make contributions such as the opening track on ''[[American Beauty (album)|American Beauty]]'', "[[Box of Rain]]". He co-wrote several of the band's best-known compositions, including "St Stephen", "The Eleven" and "Dark Star".<ref name=thetimes /> His high [[tenor]] voice contributed to the Grateful Dead's three-part harmony sections in their group vocals in the early days of the band, until he largely relinquished singing high parts to [[Donna Godchaux]] (and subsequently [[Brent Mydland]] and [[Vince Welnick]]) in 1974 because of vocal cord damage from improper singing technique.{{sfn|Trager|1997|p=244}} In the early 80s, he resumed singing lead vocals on songs closer to his natural vocal range.{{sfn|Trager|1997|p=244}}

Lesh introduced his bandmates to the aural explorations of the jazz saxophonist [[John Coltrane]]. All of the band's shows were recorded by [[Deadhead]] tapers, and it became possible to listen to any given performance from 1972 or 1974 and hear the Grateful Dead interpreting the musical innovations that Lesh stimulated through Coltrane's influence.<ref name="Erlewine">{{cite news |last1=Erlewine |first1=Stephen Thomas |title=Phil Lesh was a spaceman |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/2024/10/26/phil-lesh-grateful-dead-appreciation/ |access-date=October 26, 2024 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=October 26, 2024}}</ref> Throughout the Dead's career, his interest in jazz avant-garde music remained a crucial influence on the group. He later introduced the band to composer [[Charles Ives]], which created their ability to go spontaneously from a discordant jam into a blues or country song.{{sfn|Trager|1997|p=243}} In the 30 years between 1965 and 1995 Lesh played almost 2,500 concerts with the Grateful Dead, many of them lasting for up to six hours.<ref name=thetimes /> 

Lesh collaborated with [[Owsley Stanley|Owsley "Bear" Stanley]], the Dead's onetime [[sound engineer]] (and former source of [[LSD]]) in designing the [[Wall of Sound (Grateful Dead)|Wall of Sound]], an enormous [[sound reinforcement system]] they used for forty-odd shows in the 1974 tour.<ref name="Erlewine"/> After two years of problem-solving and planning, the forty-foot high Wall of Sound was first used publicly at the [[Cow Palace]] in San Francisco on March 23, 1974. With nine independent channels, the powerful system contained 604 speakers driven by 26,400 watts of power. Lesh compared playing through the system to "piloting a flying saucer. Or riding your own sound wave".<ref name="Greenfield2011">{{cite magazine |last1=Greenfield |first1=Robert |title=Owsley Stanley: The King of LSD |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/owsley-stanley-the-king-of-lsd-82181/ |access-date=October 26, 2024 |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=March 14, 2011}}</ref> According to Lesh, Owsley persuaded the Dead to record every one of their shows, emphasizing the necessity of listening to the tapes.<ref name="Browne2011">{{cite magazine |last1=Browne |first1=David |title=The Dead Recall the Colorful Life of LSD Pioneer Owsley Stanley |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-dead-recall-the-colorful-life-of-lsd-pioneer-owsley-stanley-236433/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=March 30, 2011}}</ref> 

In 1994, Lesh was inducted into [[The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] as a member of the Grateful Dead.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://rockhall.com/inductees/grateful-dead/ | title=The Grateful Dead }}</ref>
==Post-Grateful Dead==
After the [[Grateful Dead]] disbanded, Lesh continued to play the band's music in concert with its offshoots [[The Other Ones]] and [[The Dead (band)|The Dead]] and to promote San Francisco hippy philosophy,<ref name=thetimes /> as well as performing with his own band, [[Phil Lesh and Friends]].<ref name=Chronicle/> In 1999 and 2000, he co-headlined two tours with [[Bob Dylan]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Juanis|first1=J.C.|title=Watching The River Flow: On Tour With Phil Lesh And Bob Dylan (Fall 1999)|url=https://www.relix.com/articles/detail/watching-the-river-flow-on-tour-with-phil-lesh-and-bob-dylan-fall-1999|website=Relix.com|date=December 7, 2012}}</ref>

Lesh published his autobiography, ''Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead'' in 2005.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/searchingforsoun00lesh|title=Searching for the sound – My Life with the Grateful Dead|isbn=978-0-316-00998-0 |accessdate=October 26, 2024 |last1=Lesh |first1=Phil |date=2005 |publisher=Little, Brown }}</ref> In 2009, he went on tour with the remaining members of the Grateful Dead. After the 2009 summer tour, Lesh formed a new band with Bob Weir named [[Furthur (band)|Furthur]] which debuted in September 2009.<ref name=JamBase/>
[[File:TelStar featuring Phil Lesh, 2008 (1).jpg|thumb|Lesh (left) performing with [[TelStar]] in 2008]]
In 2012, Lesh founded a music venue called [[Terrapin Crossroads]], in [[San Rafael, California]].  The venue officially opened on March 8, 2012, with a first of a run of twelve concerts by Phil Lesh and Friends.<ref name=TerrCrossOpeningNews/><ref name=DeadLivesOn/> When not on tour, Lesh's sons, Grahame and Brian, served as the house band at Terrapin Crossroads.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jambands.com/features/2013/03/30/grahame-lesh-s-family-values/|title=Grahame Lesh's Family Values|date=March 30, 2013|website=Jambands.com|access-date=September 26, 2021}}</ref> In addition to songs from the Dead catalog, Lesh played material by [[Mumford & Sons]], [[Zac Brown Band]] and other contemporary acts with his sons.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://relix.com/articles/detail/phil-at-80-phil-lesh-talks-terrapin-crossroads-in-2012/|title=Phil at 80: Phil Lesh Talks Terrapin Crossroads in 2012|date=March 14, 2020|website=Relix.com|access-date=September 26, 2021}}</ref> Terrapin Crossroads closed in November 2021 when their lease on the property expired.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Grateful Dead bassist's former North Bay music venue listed for $5 million |url=https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/grateful-dead-bassists-former-marin-music-venue-listed-for-5-million |access-date=November 7, 2023 |website=Datebook {{!}} San Francisco Arts & Entertainment Guide |language=en-US}}</ref>

Lesh began performing again with Phil Lesh and Friends in 2012. Furthur disbanded in early 2014 and, at age 74, Lesh ceased touring full time. Thereafter he performed regularly at Terrapin Crossroads with various Phil Lesh and Friends lineups as well as with the Terrapin Family Band. In the early 2010s he performed select shows at venues throughout the United States, notably the [[Capitol Theatre (Port Chester, New York)|Capitol Theatre]] in [[Port Chester, New York]], as well as at festivals.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Phil Lesh & Friends {{!}} The Capitol Theatre |url=https://www.thecapitoltheatre.com/events/detail/phil-lesh-friends-g5vvz9ksxqvak |access-date=November 7, 2023 |website=www.thecapitoltheatre.com |language=en}}</ref> He took part in the 2015 [[Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of the Grateful Dead|Fare Thee Well]] concerts, and a short North American tour with [[Bob Weir]] in the spring of 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 11, 2017 |title=Grateful Dead Bob Weir & Phil Lesh announce Duo Tour Spring 2018! |url=https://www.dead.net/features/bob-weir/bob-weir-phil-lesh-announce-duo-tour-spring-2018 |access-date=November 7, 2023 |website=Grateful Dead |language=en}}</ref> In 2020, ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' ranked him as the 11th greatest bass player.<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 2, 2020 |title=Phil Lesh |url=https://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/50-greatest-bassists-of-all-time-13565/phil-lesh-13606/ |access-date=November 7, 2023 |website=Rolling Stone Australia |language=en-AU}}</ref> In March 2023, he celebrated his 83rd birthday and hundredth show at the Capitol Theatre.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kalnitz |first=Max |date=March 23, 2023 |title=Phil Lesh Celebrates 83rd Birthday & 100th Show at Capitol Theatre During Four-Night Run |url=https://atwoodmagazine.com/live-phil-lesh-the-capitol-theatre-port-chester-2023-concert-review/ |access-date=November 7, 2023 |website=Atwood Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Personal life, health and death==
{{wikinews|Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh dies, aged 84}}
Lesh married Jill Johnstone, a waitress from the cafe next door to the Grateful Dead's office in San Francisco.<ref name=thetimes /> They had two sons, Grahame and Brian, both of whom became musicians and played with their father in the Terrapin Family Band.<ref name=thetimes /> They frequently played together, both publicly and in private. They performed in an annual benefit concert group known as Philharmonia, dating from 1997, including on December 18, 2011 at a Christmas gig which included [[Bob Weir]] and [[Jackie Greene]] at the Tenderloin Middle School cafeteria attended by 250 people.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jambands.com/news/2011/11/28/philharmonia-2011-phil-lesh-bob-weir-jackie-greene-and-more/|title=Philharmonia 2011: Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Jackie Greene and More|date=November 28, 2011|website=Jambands.com|access-date=September 26, 2021}}</ref>

Lesh and his wife administered their charitable organization, the Unbroken Chain Foundation.

Lesh had a lifelong interest in the occult and was a member of the Research Into Lost Knowledge organisation.<ref name=thetimes />

In 1998, Lesh underwent a [[liver transplant]] as a result of a chronic [[hepatitis C]] infection. Cody was the name of the organ donor. Six months before Cody died, he told his mother that if anything happened to him, he wanted to donate his organs.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://relix.com/articles/detail/phil-lesh-goes-there-and-back-again-relix-revisited |first=Richard B.|last=Simon | title=Phil Lesh Goes There and Back Again|website=[[Relix]] | access-date=October 29, 2024|date=June-July 2002}}</ref> At all of his live concerts from 1999 onwards, Lesh asked his audience to become organ donors. This was known as the Rap. In 2015, for example, he told the crowd "I'm only alive today because a man named Cody decided he wanted to be an organ donor. And he did it in the simplest way possible: He turned to someone who loved him and he loved, and said, 'Hey, if anything happens to me, I'd like to be an organ donor.'"<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/arts/music/phil-lesh-liver-transplant.html|first=Marc|last=Tracy|title=The Personal Plea Phil Lesh Made Every Time He Took The Stage|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url-access=subscription|date=October 25, 2024|accessdate=October 29, 2024}}</ref> 

[[File:Phil Lesh at Yuri's NIGHT OUT 2008.jpg|thumb|180px|upright|Lesh performing in May 2008]]
On October 26, 2006, Lesh stated on his official website that he had been diagnosed with [[prostate cancer]], the disease that killed his father, and would be undergoing an operation in December 2006.<ref>Vaziri, Aidin (October 29, 2006). [http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Grateful-Dead-founder-Lesh-battling-prostate-2467503.php "Grateful Dead Founder Lesh Battling Prostate Cancer"], SFGate. Retrieved October 17, 2015.</ref> On December 7, 2006, he reported that he had undergone prostate surgery and the cancer had been removed.<ref>[http://www.jambase.com/Articles/9381/PHIL-LESH-DOING-WELL "Phil Lesh Doing Well"], JamBase, December 8, 2006. Retrieved October 17, 2015.</ref> In October 2015, Lesh announced that he had had [[bladder cancer]] surgery. He stated that his prognosis was good and that he expected to make a full recovery.<ref>Kreps, Daniel (October 17, 2015). [https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/grateful-deads-phil-lesh-reveals-bladder-cancer-battle-20151017 "Grateful Dead's Phil Lesh Reveals Bladder Cancer Battle"], ''Rolling Stone''. Retrieved October 17, 2015.</ref>

In August 2019, Lesh announced that he was to undergo back surgery and he and his band canceled engagements at the Outlaw Music Festival, [[Telluride Blues & Brews Festival]], and Dirt Farmers Festival. He was expected to make a full recovery.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/41098097836/photos/a.10157439925762837/10159430738292837/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/41098097836/10159430738292837 |archive-date=February 26, 2022 |url-access=limited|title=Phil Lesh|website=[[Facebook]]|access-date=September 29, 2024|quote=This past weekend we learned that Phil needs to have a minor back surgery. Per his Doctor's orders, he will need some time to rest and rehabilitate. Accordingly, and with deep regret, we must announce that Phil's upcoming performances Outlaw Festival September 7th and 8th, Dirt Farmers Festival and Telluride Blues and Brews Festival must be cancelled. A full and complete recovery is expected. Phil looks forward to performing and doing what he loves most for everyone very soon.}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Lesh died on October 25, 2024, at the age of 84.<ref name="DeVille 2024">{{Cite web |last=DeVille |first=Chris |date=October 25, 2024 |title=Phil Lesh Dead At 84 |url=https://www.stereogum.com/2285473/phil-lesh-dead-at-84/news/ |access-date=October 29, 2024 |website=[[Stereogum]]}}</ref><ref name="Gehr 2024">{{cite magazine |last=Gehr |first=Richard |title=Phil Lesh, Grateful Dead Co-Founder and Bassist, Dead at 84 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=October 25, 2024 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/phil-lesh-grateful-dead-dead-1234809976/ |access-date=October 29, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=October 26, 2024 |title=Phil Lesh, bassiste fondateur des Grateful Dead, mythique groupe de rock, est mort |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2024/10/26/phil-lesh-bassiste-fondateur-des-grateful-dead-mythique-groupe-de-rock-est-mort_6360082_3382.html|agency=[[Agence France-Presse]]|trans-title=Phil Lesh, bassist founder of the Grateful Dead, mythical group of rock, died|work=[[Le Monde]] |access-date=October 29, 2024 |language=fr}}</ref>

==Discography==
{{See also|Grateful Dead discography}}
[[The Other Ones]]:
* ''[[The Strange Remain]]'' (1999)
[[Phil Lesh and Friends]]:
* ''[[Love Will See You Through]]'' (1999)
* ''[[There and Back Again (Phil Lesh album)|There and Back Again]]'' (2002)
* ''[[Live at the Warfield (Phil Lesh and Friends album)|Live at the Warfield]]'' (2006)

==Notes==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name=Jackson>{{cite book |title=Garcia: An American Life |last=Jackson |first=Blair |year=1999 |page=74 |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=0-14-029199-7}}</ref>
<ref name=Chronicle>Sullivan, James. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/04/13/DD3153.DTL "Phil's New Zone"], ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'', April 13, 1999</ref>
<ref name=JamBase>[http://www.jambase.com/Articles/19288/Lesh-Weir-Russo-Lane-Chimenti--New-Group-%22Furthur%22-for-Sept. "Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Joe Russo, Jay Lane, Jeff Chimenti and John Kadlecik Form New Band 'Furthur', Set Dates For September"], JamBase, August 14, 2009</ref>
<ref name=TerrCrossOpeningNews>[http://terrapincrossroads.net/news/terrapin-crossroads-opening-news/ ]{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
<ref name=DeadLivesOn>Oksenhorn, Stewart (February 10, 2012). [https://archive.today/20130117082655/http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20120210/AE/120209817/1077 "With Phil & Friends, the Dead Live On"], ''[[Aspen Times]]''. Retrieved February 26, 2012.</ref>
}}

==References==
{{Refbegin}}
* [http://www.philzone.com/ Philzone.com—Phil Lesh and Friends fan site]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071007014318/http://www.collegecrier.com/interviews/int-0042.asp Parker, T. Virgil. "Phil Lesh: All in the Music", ''College Crier'']
* [https://archive.org/search.php?query=phil%20lesh%20AND%20friends Phil Lesh and Friends] at archive.org
* {{Cite book |title=Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead |last=Lesh |first=Phil |year=2005 |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |location=New York |isbn=0-316-00998-9 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/searchingforsoun00lesh }}
* {{Cite book|title=The American Book of the Dead|first=Oliver|last=Trager|publisher=Touchstone|year=1997|isbn=978-0-684-81402-5}}
* {{Cite book|title=The Grateful Dead FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Greatest Jam Band in History|first=Tony|last=Sclafani|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|year=2013|isbn=978-1-617-13582-8}}
{{Refend}}

==External links==
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* [http://www.phillesh.net/ Phil Lesh and Friends official website]
* [http://terrapincrossroads.net/  Terrapin Crossroads—Phil Lesh's new music and dining venue in San Rafael, CA (Marin County)]
* [http://www.dead.net/band/phil-lesh Phil Lesh on the Grateful Dead's Official Site]
* {{Discogs artist}}
* {{IMDb name|0503943|Phil Lesh}}
* {{Imdb name|3196186|name=Phil Lesh & Friends}}

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