Phil Lesh, Grateful Dead Co-Founder and Bassist, Dead at 84
“It’s paradise. At that moment, I’m not really there. And no one is. We
are the music, and our personalities as such really cease to exist at
all. We’ve been subsumed into the greater personality of the group mind,
that’s what’s been created. That’s what’s created when we are
creatively improvising, and the flow is really happening. When we are
actually channeling, we are opening that pipeline to another reality
that speaks to us. And we are acting as transformers, and we have to
step that down into musical thought. But this is not something you can
do consciously, learn how to do or be taught. It’s just something that
happens to you when the stars are aligned properly and when your
individual consciousness is open enough.”
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This is sad news.
He lived to see them get that great award at least !
I saw that earlier, another fabulous artist gone.
I hate to read that. I am sad to see him gone.
Lithuania now had its independence – but they did not have the money they needed to sponsor an Olympic basketball team. Which brings us to preparations for the 1992 Olympics…and the strange connection Lithuanian basketball has to the Grateful Dead. This is what the Grateful Dead did for the Lithuanian Olympic Team did! Good on them! I cut and pasted this little blurb by googling the event.
Condolences!
this is what the MusicCares award is all about, the band "giving back"
He lived a good long life. Lots of giving and caring. If only we saw more of this.
My mom just read about him and told dad. They've never seen The Grateful Dead live, but dad says he remembers growing up in western MA and hearing the echos of the band playing at Umass Amherst even though he lived several miles away.
My condolences to all who knew and loved him.
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