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Grateful Dead’s Surviving Members Pay Tribute to Phil Lesh: ‘Today We Lost a Brother’


The surviving members of the Grateful Dead paid tribute to founding bassist Phil Lesh in a statement following his death, "Today we lost a brother."

The surviving members of the Grateful Dead paid tribute to founding bassist Phil Lesh in a statement following his death Friday, “Today we lost a brother.” And more,” Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann wrote on the Dead’s social media accounts. The thing is… Phil was so much more than a virtuoso bass player, a composer, a family man, a cultural icon…,” the surviving three original members added Friday.

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