Phil Lynott was the consummate rock bassist: always holding Thin Lizzy together, driving things along and just occasionally reminding everyone that there's more to rock bass guitar than root notes and ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images At the age of 25, Phil Soussan was jamming with Jimmy Page and being offered ...

Bassist Phil Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead, passed away recently at the age of 84. Phil was one of the weirdest bass players in the history of rock. His idiosyncratic style was partly ...

Phil Lesh grew up listening to classical and jazz music. Then he reimagined the electric bass and changed rock history. The Grateful Dead’s co-founder died on October 25 at age 84. His approach to the ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has acquired the “Eye of Horus” bass guitar from Phillip “Phil” Lesh, formerly of the Grateful Dead. The bassist purchased the handmade instrument ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass guitar as a founding member of the Grateful Dead, died ...

After being diagnosed with hepatitis C three years ago, Phil Lesh, 62, was nearly the latest member of the Grateful Dead to reach the great beyond. A liver transplant not only saved his life but also ...

On June 19 and 20, a number of noteworthy pieces of music memorabilia will be auctioned off through Julien’s Auctions. Phil Lesh’s stage-played Modulus bass, used circa 1990, is one of the items. In ...

During Dead & Company’s fourth weekend at Sphere in Las Vegas, Thursday, April 24 through Saturday, April 26, bassist Oteil Burbridge played a replica of Phil Lesh’s Mission Control #2. The instrument ...

At the age of 25, Phil Soussan was jamming with Jimmy Page and being offered a place in his new band, The Firm. At the same ...