On Friday (Oct.25), Phil Lesh, the founding bassist for the Grateful Dead, passed away at age 84.
Many music icons have been sharing tributes for the beloved musician, and now the surviving Grateful Dead members posted eulogies as well.“Today we lost a brother,” the joint statement on social media reads.
It continues: In Bob Weir’s statement, he reminisced on how Lesh “introduced me (and us) to the wonders of modern classical music, with its textures and developments, which we soon tried our hands at incorporating into what we had to offer.” Mickey Hart wrote that Lesh was “bigger than life, at the very center of the band and my ears, filling my brain with waves of bass.” Bill Kreutzmann explained that Lesh “wasn’t just like a brother to me — he was like an older brother.A roommate.
A bandmate.A mentor.” Jerry Garcia’s family also shared a statement, writing that they “will miss his sharply dry humor, wry smiles and brilliant insights.” Trey Anastasio, who played with Phil Lesh & Friends and at the Fare Thee Well concerts, made a post commemorating their friendship, and on Friday he covered “Box Of Rain” — one of the Dead’s most beloved songs, written by Lesh — with Phish in Albany.
Watch that below....