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The Grateful Dead Cofounder Phil Lesh Dead at 84
Phil Lesh,the cofounder and bassist of The Grateful Dead, died on Friday, October 25
After graduating, Lesh teamed up with Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan and Bill Kreutzmann to form the Warlocks band in 1965. In 2012, Lesh opened Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael, California, which is a restaurant and venue, where his sons, Grahame and Brian, whom he shares with wife Jill, are the house band. Journalist Ron Lieber called Lesh, “A joker, a prankster, a thunder-bomb thrower, a rainmaker, a box builder, a headband wearer, a rocker of tie-dyes, a weaver of chains, broken and unbroken,” via Instagram.
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