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

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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…