Known for helping form the Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh spent three decades touring with the band before the members decided to part ways. Even after the band ended, Lesh continued to honor their ...

The Grateful Dead, after all, were a band who prided themselves on avoiding playing any given song quite the same way twice.

The result was that even well-known Grateful Dead songs like “Truckin’” or “Sugar Magnolia” rarely sounded the same two performances in a row, something that would inspire loyal fans to ...

Dead & Company's setlist for its first of three shows at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park celebrating 60 years of the Grateful Dead.

The end result ran the gamut from the popular (“Truckin’,” performed ... a set list with a catalog as deep as the Grateful Dead? I think you have to be sensitive to the artists who are going to sing ...

Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass guitar as a founding member of the Grateful Dead, died Friday at age 84.

Phil Lesh, who reinvented the role of rock bass guitar as a founding member of the Grateful Dead, died Friday at age 84.

Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass guitar as a founding member of the Grateful Dead, died Friday at age 84.