Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead has passed away.

God damn

I will get by, I will survive.......



As Garcia once remarked, Lesh “plays the bass as though he invented the instrument and nobody ever played it before him, [and]…the required stuff is about one percent of what he plays”.

Sad

He's probably grateful.

What a long strange trip it was. Fare the well, Phil.

Look out of any window
Any morning, any evening, any day
Maybe the sun is shining
Birds are winging or rain is falling from a heavy sky

What do you want me to do
To do for you to see you through?
For this is all a dream we dreamed
One afternoon long ago

Walk out of any doorway
Feel your way, feel your way like the day before
Maybe you'll find direction
Around some corner where it's been waiting to meet you

River gonna take me
Sing me sweet and sleepy
Sing me sweet and sleepy
All the way back back home
It's a far gone lullaby
Sung many years ago
Mama, mama, many worlds I've come
Since I first left home

Going home, going home
By the waterside I will rest my bones
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul



Fare you well, Phil

RIP Phil!

RIP Phil. Gone to that big donor rap in the sky.

Such a cool video, you can tell Jerry was ready for that bass bomb at 5:51. They set it up perfectly.