At age 81, recovering from recent back surgery, on Labor Day that year, on the stage of his Restaurant and music Venue, 'Terrapin Crossing' - Phil Lesh sat and read to children from two books recently released by friends, authors of those children's books. He graciously stood for a photograph with me before he climbed the stairs to the outdoor stage… there, surrounded by musicians not yet conceived when he first met Jerry Garcia and began his musical journey, the tall personification of the age of love, smiled and supported the beat of the music, as 60 year old twirlers danced at his feet, children played in the grass at the feet of their 30 something parents… exposed as several generations before had been exposed to the siren tones of this Peter Pan… Yes Yes Yes, who will deny it was "…a long strange trip" but one of shared joy and love. Rest in peace; I was a traveler who rode your wake, forever grateful for your being. Best wishes to all those who were close to your heart. and knew your love and support..So So Sorry you had to end...
I first saw the GD in 1979, when I was 15. Since then, Phil has always been a part of my life. Lots of Grateful Dead shows, then The Other Ones, The Dead, Furthur, Phil and Friends, Fare Thee Well. Now I’m 60, and very grateful for 45 years of shows with their unmatched fun, joy and camaraderie. Thank you so much, Phil. Rest in peace.
& Dead & Company as well... I too watched every emanation of the band. So blessed "The Music Never Stopped", "Let There Be Songs To fill The Air". Phil wrote this song for his father when he passed away. Beautiful choice to memorialize a moment for Phil Lesh. So grateful we had the times to share this wonderful music 🎶
I met Phil in !983 at an electronics store (The Good Guys) in Berkeley CA . He purchased a Sony SL2700 (Betamax Hi fi) which at the time.. was probably the highest quality audio recorder available for $1300 at the time. I asked him what kind of music would he be recording with it. He told me classical music. I did not recognize him at first.. but when we went to the sales counter to process the transaction, he handed me an AMEX card that read Phil Lesh The Grateful Dead. He could not have been any more of a pleasant human being. I also remember that it was kind of a warm afternoon in Berkeley (he had driven over from his home in San Rafael CA) and he was wearing a red Indy 500 jacket that (at the time and probably still is) the most cool jacket that I have ever seen in my life. Our time on this planet was very brief.. but his beautiful energy will most likely last my lifetime.
The Dead had been gone for over a decade when I was born. Still one of the greatest things I've ever had the privilege to hear. As someone who has never been to a Dead show but has listened to hours and hours of their music, we will miss you Phil.
I too didn't see the Grateful Dead, but I got on with the Other One's/Furthur and have been an avid Dead fan ever since. They are the background music of my life, like countless others in this world. Thanks Phil🙏Your music will forever play in my life, I'm Forever Grateful❤⚡🤍⚡💙
Words cannot convey the importance of the impact that he and the band had (and still have) on the advancement of enlightenment and spiritual growth of humanity, in not only this world but all space and time.
@ivansbacon I think it is safe to say, no matter how many years pass, The Grateful Dead will always live on in the souls of anyone who is touched by them
Same. Never saw the Grateful Dead, but I saw every iteration of the band since. And also most of the side bands like Bembe Orisha, Rat Dog and, obviously, Phil and Friends. My favorite shows all involved Phil. His visible joy in performing for us was beautiful.
A wonderful tribute to brother Phil. I dropped in at Stanford 2/1973. Every show I saw...Phil always brought a smile to my face. I thank him for the wonderful music.
Box of rain, written for Phil and his father as his father was dying. A kind of emotional rollercoaster of grief for the loved one. Now it is Phil and his kids who need the musical healing.
What a beautiful song to serve as a memory for Phil and everything the GD put together. Phil's work of bringing jazz into rock and roll will ripple through future incidents like this. Thank you.
This song was the first thing about the Dead that clicked with me way back when. It has the most lovely lilting quality and the most beautiful lyric.. Just a gorgeous tune.
My older brother took me to my first concert at 15yo, the Grateful Dead, 11/72 in KCK. I’m still a grateful Deadhead, Thanks for all the Fun, Adventure and Community! Now Phil is playing with Jerry and Pigpen in the Heart of Gold Band! Let There Be Songs to Fill the Air!⚡️💀🌹❤️
Gonna miss you Phil. Thanks guys, and of course Bobby. Cannot have been easy for him. GRATEFUL DEAD FOREVER! Just listen and share to make it happen. Been watching and listening for most of my life (did the math, 75% of life).
Started listen to the Dead in 1968, first saw them live in 1973, and caught both of the last shows at Soldier's field August 1995, and many in between. There will never be the like again, and I will always be grateful to have been on the bus. Thank you for the sound track of my life.
1971 introduced to the Grateful , 3 songs got my attention "Box of Rain" is one of them till this day. Phil wrote this song when he visited his dying father who had cancer.
I was at Hampton for the 1986 break out the crowd reaction and love ❤️ was amazing with Phil looking at Jerry over the crowd pure magic much love to brother Phil!!
Seen Phil in 2001 Hard Rock Live in Orlando..Great show..He was so happy that night for positive crowd response..plus seeing so many Dead shows ..Radio City Halloween show 1980 being the best for me..Just a Nice Guy who loved music and cared about the fans..RIP Phil 🎸
One of the benefits of being an old man, saw them frequently, loved their shows every time. The parking lot was every bit as entertaining as the shows. Besides their music a key to their success was allowing anybody to tape shows. It was a treat to get a bootleg tape from different shows, passed around in the family, juicing the wheels.
@ alpine valley 1989 Friday & Saturday - I just was riffing on the whole “Phil Can’t Sing” thing, if it wasn’t obvious. Bob’s best song imho is Me & My Uncle or Mexicali Blues
A box of rain can’t ease this pain but love o sweet Love will see us all the dead heads through Phil’s music will live on for ever and ever i know that Jerry’s at the pearly gates with saint peater to welcom phill to heven❤❤❤ ❤❤❤
Hearts ❤to the LESh family as they are the one who have to answer to all of us on earth. May this family carry on the thoughts he shared with them as they were the closest.
TY My words are there ever enough? 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🚌🚌🐻🐻🦉🦉♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ No Phil Zone The Box of rain was so full today It had to be opened to let the tears in Though I thought of the dog with no nose And how he smelled, “Pretty Awful” And the Bird songs sang Just a little while till they flew off And bombastic bombs filled the air Reverberating into my memorial ears Let him sing! into eternity, came to mind And nights of colours colliding to notes Whilst we danced into the streets To find comfort from the cold, in darkened nights In rooms we sat, spinning copies of the night Maximum records that still spin, in mind, in heart Cassettes scribbled on, in the daze of night We waited for the light of day and yet another night Never the same, the paths we followed led us home Remembering in snippets what had not been seen or heard Before or ever after again and again and again And never would be again, in that order What would you want us to do, whilst you sleep Find the value in it all, while going home Or, was it all just a psychedelic dream We sought on replay, until we too went out the window No pane made falling splinter free yet longer Such a long time to fall, till we hit the ground Running on a dream, that is difficult to re-create Just enjoy in slumber, though one may wonder What was really going on? Solace in song will keep me keeping on I got the Bus ticket, coast to coast To coast again, pop in the clutch, let freedom drive I will take that mystical ride, it’s the ride Not necessarily the destination Who knows where or how we will end up, anyway Today the accolades and concerts fill the screen Oh, Bertha I just gotta move Though it be a hard run I know you care Despite what may be around the corner I just can’t stop gotta get on From place from mind from body Though I fall, I hear a voice a calling Telling me I will land upon my knees In thornless Roses, picked by gypsies in the night Bringing light to day as I remember to inhale deeply Was it all that dancing that let me sleep so peacefully? I can only wish it for all And lay a rose upon your chest, aromatic rest I’ll let you fill in the rest. Once you pass the test, no cheat sheets allowed S. Garland 10/26/24
@@onthebus11 In Sunrise Florida I thanked Phil for great shows and said I enjoyed every minute and am looking forward to tonight's performance! He said Thank you brother! It was dark and he could not see me! All I could see was his shadow on the wall...and his glasses! What a nice guy! He will be missed like Jerry!♥️
So heartwarming :) also really encouraging to see phish and cheese mess up these lyrics cuz my band is playing a dead themed Halloween show this week and are super last minute adding this to the set. Definitely gonna flub some lyrics
@@timharper4246 they should have let Bobby weir sing the lead, the guy drowned him out with the wrong lyrics and sang with no emotion...not at all like Bob or Phil or Jerry ever did. Bad commercial rendition of a great song. Poor Bobby had to participate in this.
I saw the Dead in 1973 when I was 13 again again at least 12 times in Denver Red Rocks until 1978 their legacy will continue until the end of time. They reach the highest level spiritually mankind can reach without an organized religion. Their mark on mankind is eternal…….
1987 Greensboro memorial coliseum me and a friend in high school drove up and had to sneak in and jump the fence next thing we knew someone in the parking lot gave us some blue unicorn and two tickets and we were on our way... Thanks for the memories
New Years Eve ‘68-69, Winterland, GD, Santana, It’s a beautiful day, quicksilver. Ventura County Fairgrounds, Grass Valley, Denver…😢❤ The Other Ones, Denver.
Bob seems to weather these losses pretty well, and since he's the youngest member of the original "front line" it was to be expected that he would outlive his compatriots, but my heart went out seeing him standing on the stage here.
I remember seeing SCI for the first time in Deercreek IN in the late 90s/early 2000s warming up for Phil & Friends with Uncle Warren. Cya Phil, Thanks for the ride, it was grate! Nice show with Bobby!
@bobweir5833 Thanks for asking! I saw my first show in Cincinnati in 1985 and fell in love with the band and the scene. I went to Alpine 87,88,89. 1987 Alpine changed my life and my approach to playing live music forever. I had a crippled friend who I played in a dead band with. One year we were hobbling to a gate and I believe Bill Graham picked him up in a golf cart and gave him a miracle ticket. Some amazing life changing experiences with the Dead. I could go on forever, but I will resist typing my memoirs :) I'm sure there are millions of folks with grate stories. Big Steve has a ton. LOL
Now that I'm started..... I feel compelled to relive a few more thoughts. LOL Hornsby was a beautiful player but a part of me was lost with the passing of Brent. I will never forget Louie Louie in Louisville. Iconic! :) Jeff's band FOG does one of the most beautiful versions of Broken Down Palace, I've ever heard. Its a personal favorite along with 80s Bobby solo record that has a version of the Little Feat tune Its so easy to slip. That version is realistically how the song should have been written and performed. In another shout out to Bob, One of my bands just played One More Saturday Night last week shortly before the county sheriff showed up. 😅🤣. Its always One More Saturday Night.... until it aint RIP Phil!!!!!
@bobweir5833 Unsure. I'm on a lot of lists. (most of them good) 🤣 If you have a link, I'd love to be added! Thanks for asking! Mostly follow events & live performances via youtube.
@bobweir5833 If this is actually Bob's official channel, I'm flabbergasted and honored. Your work has changed my life. Take a bow kind Sir for the millions of paths you have crossed and impacted in this journey!
@searing7549 real stereo systems desperately need a revival. My old stereo still works, but I'd sure love a tuner to be more complex than just that, but less complex than an actual computer. Just something to run streaming, files, etc., through the stereo and an amazing EQ system plus the ability to record that music onto different media while not needing some type of code like from BoobTube just to hear it.
Phil wrote the music and sent it to Robert Hunter who wrote the lyrics. This all was happening while Phil’s dad was in a nursing home with cancer. His dad died while Phil was first learning to play and sing this song.
There's a video on RUclips of Hunter and Lesh discussing it. Phil had it all worked out and was even humming along to it on a recording. Hunter took it home, listened to it a few times, and wrote the words in an afternoon. He said, "i wrote it for a young man who's father was dying".
A great tribute to a great man to honor him. Phil was so vital to the Grateful Dead. Naturally at their concerts we would seem to pay the most attention to Jerry and Bobby but over time would come to the realization that more often than not the band went as Phil went.
...the true reason that Hendrix is the most important electric guitarist is that he showed the world how to take feedback, an unwanted side effect from the amplification of the instrument, and turn it into music...put on I Don't Live Today from the same album, or his Star Spangled Banner from Woodstock: THAT's what no one had done before...
Of all the comments written here, it was your simple statement that brought a tear to this old man’s eyes Funny how sometimes it’s just the simplest statement that have the strongest effect Be safe Brother & know you touched a kindred spirit with your comment😢
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At age 81, recovering from recent back surgery, on Labor Day that year, on the stage of his Restaurant and music Venue, 'Terrapin Crossing' - Phil Lesh sat and read to children from two books recently released by friends, authors of those children's books. He graciously stood for a photograph with me before he climbed the stairs to the outdoor stage… there, surrounded by musicians not yet conceived when he first met Jerry Garcia and began his musical journey, the tall personification of the age of love, smiled and supported the beat of the music, as 60 year old twirlers danced at his feet, children played in the grass at the feet of their 30 something parents… exposed as several generations before had been exposed to the siren tones of this Peter Pan… Yes Yes Yes, who will deny it was "…a long strange trip" but one of shared joy and love. Rest in peace; I was a traveler who rode your wake, forever grateful for your being. Best wishes to all those who were close to your heart. and knew your love and support..So So Sorry you had to end...
Excellent
Wow that is beautiful
Well said
@bobweir5833stop
Amen!
"This is all a dream we dreamed one afternoon, so long ago"
What a powerful line
If you go on a TRIP far enough you know what this line means
I first saw the GD in 1979, when I was 15. Since then, Phil has always been a part of my life. Lots of Grateful Dead shows, then The Other Ones, The Dead, Furthur, Phil and Friends, Fare Thee Well. Now I’m 60, and very grateful for 45 years of shows with their unmatched fun, joy and camaraderie. Thank you so much, Phil. Rest in peace.
me too 79 Augusta Maine
@@onthebus11 Binghamton, NY. 5/9/79 😄
& Dead & Company as well... I too watched every emanation of the band. So blessed "The Music Never Stopped", "Let There Be Songs To fill The Air". Phil wrote this song for his father when he passed away. Beautiful choice to memorialize a moment for Phil Lesh. So grateful we had the times to share this wonderful music 🎶
me 2 bro I am 65 and first saw the band in 1977 in Buffalo and what a long strange trip it's been
@@TomM-wc3eo79/09/02 have nearly every show on an I Book, more sacred than any bible lol
Long long time to be gone,
And a short time to be there.
Glad to have shared time with you, Phil..☮️❤️🎵🌹
I met Phil in !983 at an electronics store (The Good Guys) in Berkeley CA . He purchased a Sony SL2700 (Betamax Hi fi) which at the time.. was probably the highest quality audio recorder available for $1300 at the time. I asked him what kind of music would he be recording with it. He told me classical music. I did not recognize him at first.. but when we went to the sales counter to process the transaction, he handed me an AMEX card that read Phil Lesh The Grateful Dead. He could not have been any more of a pleasant human being. I also remember that it was kind of a warm afternoon in Berkeley (he had driven over from his home in San Rafael CA) and he was wearing a red Indy 500 jacket that (at the time and probably still is) the most cool jacket that I have ever seen in my life. Our time on this planet was very brief.. but his beautiful energy will most likely last my lifetime.
The Dead had been gone for over a decade when I was born. Still one of the greatest things I've ever had the privilege to hear. As someone who has never been to a Dead show but has listened to hours and hours of their music, we will miss you Phil.
I too didn't see the Grateful Dead, but I got on with the Other One's/Furthur and have been an avid Dead fan ever since. They are the background music of my life, like countless others in this world. Thanks Phil🙏Your music will forever play in my life, I'm Forever Grateful❤⚡🤍⚡💙
Words cannot convey the importance of the impact that he and the band had (and still have) on the advancement of enlightenment and spiritual growth of humanity, in not only this world but all space and time.
@ivansbacon I think it is safe to say, no matter how many years pass, The Grateful Dead will always live on in the souls of anyone who is touched by them
Same. Never saw the Grateful Dead, but I saw every iteration of the band since. And also most of the side bands like Bembe Orisha, Rat Dog and, obviously, Phil and Friends. My favorite shows all involved Phil. His visible joy in performing for us was beautiful.
Thank you Phil for ALL of it. "SUCH A LONG LONG TIME TO BE GONE, AND A SHORT TIME TO BE THERE" RIP
Best lyric ever
A wonderful tribute to brother Phil. I dropped in at Stanford 2/1973. Every show I saw...Phil always brought a smile to my face. I thank him for the wonderful music.
Box of rain, written for Phil and his father as his father was dying. A kind of emotional rollercoaster of grief for the loved one. Now it is Phil and his kids who need the musical healing.
And Phil helped write it. Don't forget that. ❤️
What a beautiful song to serve as a memory for Phil and everything the GD put together. Phil's work of bringing jazz into rock and roll will ripple through future incidents like this. Thank you.
R.I.P. Phil. Thank you.
I was glad to be a part of this tribute! RIP Phil. Hulaween 24
The Music and people that changed my life! I'am a Dead Head till Dead and after....
This song was the first thing about the Dead that clicked with me way back when. It has the most lovely lilting quality and the most beautiful lyric.. Just a gorgeous tune.
My older brother took me to my first concert at 15yo, the Grateful Dead, 11/72 in KCK. I’m still a grateful Deadhead, Thanks for all the Fun, Adventure and Community! Now Phil is playing with Jerry and Pigpen in the Heart of Gold Band!
Let There Be Songs to Fill the Air!⚡️💀🌹❤️
And Brent!
Gonna miss you Phil. Thanks guys, and of course Bobby. Cannot have been easy for him.
GRATEFUL DEAD FOREVER! Just listen and share to make it happen. Been watching and listening for most of my life (did the math, 75% of life).
Fare thee well we loved you more than words can tell 😥 thank you for posting this
Started listen to the Dead in 1968, first saw them live in 1973, and caught both of the last shows at Soldier's field August 1995, and many in between. There will never be the like again, and I will always be grateful to have been on the bus. Thank you for the sound track of my life.
My first show was ‘68, at Memorial auditorium , Sacramento
Grateful for the Grateful Dead. Great musicians making music happen everywhere they go. May they forever play on.
That made me cry.
Wonderful tears. Thank you for posting.
Dry you eyes on the wind
☮️❤️🎵🌹🙏
Fly high Phil.
Wow my heart ❤️ 😢 keep on playin in the band in heaven Phil
Never stop the music 🎶
Wow, karaoke for the whole crowd. Thanks for posting. RIP Phil.
That bought the
Rain to my
Eyes
Always a favorite
Fare ye Well Philip ⚘️
One of the best songs ever written
💔🤍💙 A box of rain will ease the pain and love will see you through
"A long, long time to be gone, and a short time to be there."
Been scrolling... this is a another perfect gem
Thank you for recording this. Full body goosebumps ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks for passing it on Phil ❤
Play on, live fully and let the music flow. Love you Bobby all the best the music carries us thru.
Best part of this is how much they bring out the jam in honor of phil! We love you Phil
Thank you for that. Bittersweet but necessary . 🎶
Thanks for posting , and thanks Bobby !!
@bobweir5833you are not Bob Weir
1971 introduced to the Grateful , 3 songs got my attention "Box of Rain" is one of them till this day. Phil wrote this song when he visited his dying father who had cancer.
Phil wrote this song when his father passed. For me, the best shows were always the ones where Phil was driving the bus.
I was at Hampton for the 1986 break out the crowd reaction and love ❤️ was amazing with Phil looking at Jerry over the crowd pure magic much love to brother Phil!!
@@kylehaislip3315 Saw them at Hampton in Spring 1980.
Seen Phil in 2001 Hard Rock Live in Orlando..Great show..He was so happy that night for positive crowd response..plus seeing so many Dead shows ..Radio City Halloween show 1980 being the best for me..Just a Nice Guy who loved music and cared about the fans..RIP Phil 🎸
the highlight of fall 1970 and 'american beauty' ... lesh's music and hunter's words ..
Nice!! Saw the Dead couple Times and Bobby & the midnights 2!!
Phil the well!!!
Lesh bass more Philling!!!!
❤️💕💕 💙 💀 🌹 ⚡
Lesh is more!
Tastes Grate, Lesh Philling!
Rest in paradise man
One of the benefits of being an old man, saw them frequently, loved their shows every time. The parking lot was every bit as entertaining as the shows. Besides their music a key to their success was allowing anybody to tape shows. It was a treat to get a bootleg tape from different shows, passed around in the family, juicing the wheels.
This is great. Thanks for posting.
My favorite tune by those guys 🎉
What a life. I've been listening to a lot of Phil lately. My 1st show 11/26/80 at 17 y/o.
For as good as he played bass he was also a great songwriter and lyricist. RIP Phil Lesh
Perfect way to start a day!!
Thanks for sharing this!❤️
I wish i could have seen Bobby and him on stage one more time.
WE will MISS YOU PHIL!!!! Now you are playing in the greatest band called ETERNITY!!!!
#GRATEFULDEAD
His departure felt really real - and man we were so lucky. Phil CAN Sing (in Heaven) ❤️😊
@ alpine valley 1989 Friday & Saturday - I just was riffing on the whole “Phil Can’t Sing” thing, if it wasn’t obvious. Bob’s best song imho is Me & My Uncle or Mexicali Blues
Thank you for sharing this moment
thank you , peace
Thank you for sharing 🎶🎵 couldn’t get the Nugs stream to load ☮💖
Nugs sucks
I saw phil at many crossroads. He will be loved by many generations to come. . . Just like Jerry Garcia, and everyone this music has touched.
A box of rain can’t ease this pain but love o sweet Love will see us all the dead heads through Phil’s music will live on for ever and ever i know that Jerry’s at the pearly gates with saint peater to welcom phill to heven❤❤❤ ❤❤❤
Phil ❤❤
Hearts ❤to the LESh family as they are the one who have to answer to all of us on earth. May this family carry on the thoughts he shared with them as they were the closest.
TY My words are there ever enough? 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🚌🚌🐻🐻🦉🦉♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
No Phil Zone
The Box of rain was so full today
It had to be opened to let the tears in
Though I thought of the dog with no nose
And how he smelled, “Pretty Awful”
And the Bird songs sang
Just a little while till they flew off
And bombastic bombs filled the air
Reverberating into my memorial ears
Let him sing! into eternity, came to mind
And nights of colours colliding to notes
Whilst we danced into the streets
To find comfort from the cold, in darkened nights
In rooms we sat, spinning copies of the night
Maximum records that still spin, in mind, in heart
Cassettes scribbled on, in the daze of night
We waited for the light of day and yet another night
Never the same, the paths we followed led us home
Remembering in snippets what had not been seen or heard
Before or ever after again and again and again
And never would be again, in that order
What would you want us to do, whilst you sleep
Find the value in it all, while going home
Or, was it all just a psychedelic dream
We sought on replay, until we too went out the window
No pane made falling splinter free yet longer
Such a long time to fall, till we hit the ground
Running on a dream, that is difficult to re-create
Just enjoy in slumber, though one may wonder
What was really going on?
Solace in song will keep me keeping on
I got the Bus ticket, coast to coast
To coast again, pop in the clutch, let freedom drive
I will take that mystical ride, it’s the ride
Not necessarily the destination
Who knows where or how we will end up, anyway
Today the accolades and concerts fill the screen
Oh, Bertha I just gotta move
Though it be a hard run I know you care
Despite what may be around the corner
I just can’t stop gotta get on
From place from mind from body
Though I fall, I hear a voice a calling
Telling me I will land upon my knees
In thornless Roses, picked by gypsies in the night
Bringing light to day as I remember to inhale deeply
Was it all that dancing that let me sleep so peacefully?
I can only wish it for all
And lay a rose upon your chest, aromatic rest
I’ll let you fill in the rest.
Once you pass the test, no cheat sheets allowed
S. Garland
10/26/24
Very nice❤
@@peter-ek3uh thanks appreciate that
@@onthebus11 In Sunrise Florida I thanked Phil for great shows and said I enjoyed every minute and am looking forward to tonight's performance! He said Thank you brother! It was dark and he could not see me! All I could see was his shadow on the wall...and his glasses! What a nice guy! He will be missed like Jerry!♥️
@@peter-ek3uh one way or another🚌🚌🌹🌹I feel so fortunate for the experiences, I'm glad you had them as well
So heartwarming :) also really encouraging to see phish and cheese mess up these lyrics cuz my band is playing a dead themed Halloween show this week and are super last minute adding this to the set. Definitely gonna flub some lyrics
Flubbing lyrics is in the GD spirit❤
@@timharper4246 they should have let Bobby weir sing the lead, the guy drowned him out with the wrong lyrics and sang with no emotion...not at all like Bob or Phil or Jerry ever did. Bad commercial rendition of a great song. Poor Bobby had to participate in this.
Very nice 💀⚡️🌹.. gotta Phil brand new about it … Shine on ..keep on Shining ✨✨✨✨✨
So much loss this week. Be kind family, together we will push past these dark days ❤
I saw the Dead in 1973 when I was 13 again again at least 12 times in Denver Red Rocks until 1978 their legacy will continue until the end of time. They reach the highest level spiritually mankind can reach without an organized religion. Their mark on mankind is eternal…….
Lucky lucky you. I never got to. Just never had an opportunity.
Read “Searching” by Phil Lesh.
❤❤❤❤PHIL LESH❤❤❤❤
1987 Greensboro memorial coliseum me and a friend in high school drove up and had to sneak in and jump the fence next thing we knew someone in the parking lot gave us some blue unicorn and two tickets and we were on our way... Thanks for the memories
The encore "Box of Rain"...RIP Phil. 💜
This is so awesome
Let Phil sing in heaven
Beautiful.
Brother Phil is flying free, fly on freind
RIP Phil
Rest in Peace Phil a true musical artist
For those who don't know 'Box of Rain' was composed by Phil Lesh and sung by him. Rest in Peace 🕊️ Phil. Hope you and Jerry are up there having a Jam
New Years Eve ‘68-69, Winterland, GD, Santana, It’s a beautiful day, quicksilver.
Ventura County Fairgrounds, Grass Valley, Denver…😢❤
The Other Ones, Denver.
Bob seems to weather these losses pretty well, and since he's the youngest member of the original "front line" it was to be expected that he would outlive his compatriots, but my heart went out seeing him standing on the stage here.
I remember seeing SCI for the first time in Deercreek IN in the late 90s/early 2000s warming up for Phil & Friends with Uncle Warren. Cya Phil, Thanks for the ride, it was grate! Nice show with Bobby!
@bobweir5833 Thanks for asking! I saw my first show in Cincinnati in 1985 and fell in love with the band and the scene. I went to Alpine 87,88,89. 1987 Alpine changed my life and my approach to playing live music forever. I had a crippled friend who I played in a dead band with. One year we were hobbling to a gate and I believe Bill Graham picked him up in a golf cart and gave him a miracle ticket. Some amazing life changing experiences with the Dead. I could go on forever, but I will resist typing my memoirs :) I'm sure there are millions of folks with grate stories. Big Steve has a ton. LOL
Now that I'm started..... I feel compelled to relive a few more thoughts. LOL Hornsby was a beautiful player but a part of me was lost with the passing of Brent. I will never forget Louie Louie in Louisville. Iconic! :) Jeff's band FOG does one of the most beautiful versions of Broken Down Palace, I've ever heard. Its a personal favorite along with 80s Bobby solo record that has a version of the Little Feat tune Its so easy to slip. That version is realistically how the song should have been written and performed. In another shout out to Bob, One of my bands just played One More Saturday Night last week shortly before the county sheriff showed up. 😅🤣. Its always One More Saturday Night.... until it aint RIP Phil!!!!!
@bobweir5833 Unsure. I'm on a lot of lists. (most of them good) 🤣 If you have a link, I'd love to be added! Thanks for asking! Mostly follow events & live performances via youtube.
@bobweir5833 If this is actually Bob's official channel, I'm flabbergasted and honored. Your work has changed my life. Take a bow kind Sir for the millions of paths you have crossed and impacted in this journey!
@@sirrobinhood3409 it's not
I became a bass player because of him. In 1986
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Bobby sounds great met phil at book signing in denver cool dude
One of my favorite Dead songs.
Is the bass missing deliberately here?
Listen on headphones, or a real stereo system. It’s there.
@searing7549 real stereo systems desperately need a revival. My old stereo still works, but I'd sure love a tuner to be more complex than just that, but less complex than an actual computer. Just something to run streaming, files, etc., through the stereo and an amazing EQ system plus the ability to record that music onto different media while not needing some type of code like from BoobTube just to hear it.
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Can you imagine Jerry and Phil and Brett sitting around playing a little tune
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Correct me if I'm wrong didn't Phil pen this tune no long after the passing of his father?
I believe he wrote it for his dad as he was sick with cancer, but this essentially rings true
Phil wrote the music and sent it to Robert Hunter who wrote the lyrics. This all was happening while Phil’s dad was in a nursing home with cancer. His dad died while Phil was first learning to play and sing this song.
I'm not sure what the incident was here. Misleading video title.😊
It is the name of the band on the festival bill
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Robert Hunter wrote box of rain for Phil when his dad was dying
lesh had worked out the chord changes .. and then hunter filled in the words ...
Hunter wrote the song With Phil, not for him. Lyrics by Hunter, music by Phil; a collaboration with Phil's Dad in mind and heart, all along.
There's a video on RUclips of Hunter and Lesh discussing it. Phil had it all worked out and was even humming along to it on a recording. Hunter took it home, listened to it a few times, and wrote the words in an afternoon. He said, "i wrote it for a young man who's father was dying".
A great tribute to a great man to honor him. Phil was so vital to the Grateful Dead. Naturally at their concerts we would seem to pay the most attention to Jerry and Bobby but over time would come to the realization that more often than not the band went as Phil went.
...the true reason that Hendrix is the most important electric guitarist is that he showed the world how to take feedback, an unwanted side effect from the amplification of the instrument, and turn it into music...put on I Don't Live Today from the same album, or his Star Spangled Banner from Woodstock: THAT's what no one had done before...
"Bobby Weir Incident" ? Was the incident that y'all shut Bobby Weir's mic off?
They could have lowered his guitar in the mix. Unpopular take but his tone sounds like metal spiders wrestling. And it's been that way for a while.
@@TheLordsofMidlothianRVA at least he knows the words.
@@merlinmililli8165 Don't get me wrong, I love Bobby, but that tone doesn't do him justice.
They shouldn’t have posted the lyrics on the screen and not given them to the artists
@@wompbozer3939 that's an idea
Bobby Weir Incident ????
That is what was listed on the bill for the festival
Philvergnugen......!
Lesh is more
And it s just a box of rain
Of all the comments written here, it was your simple statement that brought a tear to this old man’s eyes
Funny how sometimes it’s just the simplest statement that have the strongest effect
Be safe Brother & know you touched a kindred spirit with your comment😢
The vocals are as off key as the original recording. 😅😅
Oh man, all these years...I thought it was "Must've Boxed For Wayne"!!!😶🌫😎
phil died
hard to listen to
Definitely a great loss 😢