And it turned out he was a Grateful Dead freak, and he too hit me with the question: “How come you haven’t done an interview with Garcia yet? When Reich hit me with the question, I hadn’t ...

In the 1960s and 1970s, many musicians experimented with LSD and other psychedelics, including the Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, and the Beatles, often integrating the experience into their music.

Grateful Dead bassist and co-founder Phil Lesh has died at the age of 84. According to a statement from his family, the musician “passed peacefully this morning (Oct. 25). He was surrounded by ...

Grateful Dead ... Lesh met his future Dead bandmate Jerry Garcia in the Bay Area in 1959 and was a key contributor from day one amid their early experiments with LSD and associations with Ken ...

The Warlocks changed their name to The Grateful Dead the following year, and quickly assumed a place at the centre of the Bay Area’s burgeoning counter-culture scene. They played shows for LSD ...

Phil Lesh, bassist and founding member of The Grateful Dead, died Friday, a producer who worked with him, Peter Shapiro, confirmed to CBS News. Lesh was 84 years old. A post on his Instagram ...

The Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir paid tribute to his band mate Phil Lesh following the death of the bassist Friday. On social media, the guitarist credited Lesh with introducing him to much of the ...

Grateful Dead founding member and bassist Phil Lesh ... (“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”) early on for infamous, LSD-fueled “Acid Test” parties in the 1960s documented by another ...

The Grateful Dead has long since disbanded, and few bands since have garnered as substantial and dedicated of a fanbase as they did. That being said, their hefty discography is still limited ...

and he recalled that Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, upon hearing the instrumental recording, approached him the next day with a lyric sheet. On that sheet, he said, were “some of the most ...

So listen to the Grateful Dead and, in that way, we’ll all take a little bit of Phil with us, forever.” ...

Bassist Phil Lesh, whose dense, inventive playing powered the Grateful Dead and, following the 1995 death of guitarist Jerry Garcia, many of the San Francisco band’s touring reincarnations ...