Phil Lesh, the idiosyncratic founding bassist for iconic jam band the Grateful Dead, died two years ago today at age 84.
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Marin native fronts Grateful Dead tribute band

Growing up in Marin in the ‘80s, Alex Mandel didn’t quite grasp that he was living through a special chapter in the area’s music history. It wasn’t uncommon for Mandel, a Grateful Dead fan, who grew ...
From Bay Area funk to Primus, Dead & Company, and his new project Jayski and the Dawn, Jay Lane reflects on a lifetime of rhythmic loops.
Dean Budnick Bob Weir was still a teenager when he joined the band that would become the Warlocks and later the Grateful Dead ...
Martin G. Knott Jr.’s 8,800-square-foot Mount Vernon rowhouse is more than a home. It’s a shrine to the Grateful Dead, with ...
Cleopatra Records have set a November 6th release date for the reissue of Bill Cutler's solo album 'Ridin' High' that ...
"Happy Birthday Bobby Weir," Don Was said to the audience in Cambridge at The Sinclair on October 16. Was and the Pan-Detroit ...
The California Golden Bears will wear special Grateful Dead helmets on Saturday against Wake Forest as part of Grateful Bears ...
An album that spends 18 years in a closet, survives the death of one of its principal musicians and gets tangled in nearly a ...
Don Was linked up with Jorma Kaukonen for a tribute to the Jefferson Airplane/Hot Tuna guitarist's contemporaries the ...
Last year, Russ Savage traveled about 1,500 miles from his home in Huntsville, Alabama’s funky Five Points neighborhood to ...
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