Phil Lesh & Friends

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• Phil Lesh & Friends

  As you may expect from Phil Lesh, the former Grateful Dead bassist, when you go to see him and his Friends live it isn't your standard rock concert.

  It is hard to explain what a Phil Lesh and Friends show is like and this is primarily due to the fact that the line-up is rarely the same from one tour to the next and that they are constantly updating their sound.

  The band are essentially a Grateful Dead tribute band but in their live incarnation are so much more than that.

  Their first show, in 1994, with Grateful Dead members Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir and Vince Welnick for what was an unplugged Grateful Dead show. The group didn't appear under that name again until 1999 when Phil Lesh appeared with a whole new group of 'Friends'.

  The most consistent incarnation of the group came in the early 2000s under the name the Phil Lesh Quintet, which was comprised of Lesh himself, Warren Haynes and Jimmy Herring (The Allman Brothers Band), Rob Barraco (The Dead), and John Molo (David Nelson Band). The band released an album with this line-up, in 2002, entitled There and Back Again which contained a variety of new songs.

  This line-up were known for their fast-paced, harder rock that was some way away from the Grateful Dead's original sound and tended to verge more on a southern rock sound.

  The current line-up have been touring the USA for a lot of this year and continue to wow audiences across the States. They have also kept one the the Grateful Dead's traditions, which is allowing fans to record live shows, alive. Instead of discouraging the idea of recording shows and trading them over the internet this is something the band embrace, making a live show something spectacular when you see so many phone lights up in the air all at once.

  If you're a fan of the Grateful Dead or southern alternative rock then a Phil Lesh and Friends show is definitely the place to be.

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