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Phil was an eclectic one, classically trained. Jerry Garcia handed him a bass and invited him to play with the band that would become the Dead. He'd never played a bass before, but jumped in, playing it like a low guitar.
After Jerry Garcia passed away in 1995 and the dissolving of the Grateful Dead, Lesh continued performing and recording, sometimes with former Dead members.
In 2015 it was reported that he'd contracted bladder cancer after having survived a liver transplant in 1998 from an old Hep-C infection. He and his wife of 40 years Jill opened a restaurant in California where their sons performed as the house band, Phil would join them for Grateful Dead song nights.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/phil-lesh-grateful-dead-dead-1234809976/
After Jerry Garcia passed away in 1995 and the dissolving of the Grateful Dead, Lesh continued performing and recording, sometimes with former Dead members.
In 2015 it was reported that he'd contracted bladder cancer after having survived a liver transplant in 1998 from an old Hep-C infection. He and his wife of 40 years Jill opened a restaurant in California where their sons performed as the house band, Phil would join them for Grateful Dead song nights.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/phil-lesh-grateful-dead-dead-1234809976/
