The Remoted Bass Grooves of The Grateful Lifeless’s Phil Lesh (RIP)

By[email protected]

This previous Fri­day, the bassist of The Grate­ful Lifeless, Phil Lesh, handed away at age 84. Nearly imme­di­ate­ly the trib­utes poured in, most rec­og­niz­ing that Lesh was­n’t your ordi­nary bassist. As Jon Par­e­les wrote within the New York Occasions, Phil Lesh held songs “aloft.” His “bass strains hopped and bub­bled and con­stant­ly con­versed with the…

Stanford Persevering with Research Providing an On-line Course Exploring the Music of the Grateful Useless

By[email protected]

Picture by way of Wiki­me­dia Com­mons A fast heads up: On Octo­ber third, Stan­ford Con­tin­u­ing Stud­ies will kick off an 8‑week on-line course known as Did It Mat­ter? Does It Now? The Music and Cul­ture of the Grate­ful Useless. Led by David Gans (creator of Play­ing within the Band: An Oral and Visu­al Por­trait of…

When the Grateful Useless Performed on the Egyptian Pyramids, within the Shadow of the Sphinx (1978)

By[email protected]

In Sep­tem­ber of 1978, the Grate­ful Useless trav­eled to Egypt and performed three reveals at the Nice Pyra­mid of Giza, with the Nice Sphinx look­ing over their shoul­ders. It was­n’t the primary time a rock band performed in an historical set­ting. Pink Floyd per­fashioned songs within the mid­dle of the Amphithe­atre of Pom­peii in Octo­ber 1971. However Floyd…