Phil Lesh

Person · Open Library

Born

15 March 1940

Died

25 October 2024

Works

2

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1940-03-15

Active to

2024-10-25

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

10,327

Total plays

70,610

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 playing improvised six-string bass guitar. He was their bassist throughout their 30-year career. 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

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,776x

2. First principles methods using CASTEP

   · 2005 · cited 12,248x

3. Overview of the<i>CCP</i>4 suite and current developments

   · 2011 · cited 11,950x

4. Gut flora metabolism of phosphatidylcholine promotes cardiovascular disease

   · 2011 · cited 5,034x

5. Base-Calling of Automated Sequencer Traces Using<i>Phred.</i> I. Accuracy Assessment

   · 1998 · cited 4,958x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Philip

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

United States

Place of death

Los Angeles

Occupation

lyricist

Educated at

College of San Mateo

Languages spoken

English language

Native language

English language

Award

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Student of

Luciano Berio

Field of work

lyrics

Genre

psychedelic rock

Instrument

voice

Record label

Warner Records Inc.

Official website

www.phillesh.net

Image

Phil lesh 12-06-2013.jpg

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