Phil Lesh, the bassist for the Grateful Dead who propelled many of its wildest musical explorations yet also composed and sang one of its loveliest songs, “Box of Rain,” has died. He was 84.

Phil Lesh, the bass player who co-founded the legendary rock band Grateful Dead, died on Friday. He was 84. Lesh’s death was announced in a statement posted on his official Instagram account.

The surviving members of the Grateful Dead, as well as other musicians and fans, are paying tribute to Phil Lesh, one of the founding members of the band, who died Friday at the age of 84.

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Phil Lesh, bassist and founding member of The Grateful Dead, died Friday, a producer who worked with him, Peter Shapiro, confirmed to CBS News. Lesh was 84 years old. A post on his Instagram ...

Phil Lesh, the prolific bass player and co-founder of the legendary rock band the Grateful Dead, has died at 84. Lesh's death was announced Friday in a post on his official Instagram page, which ...

Phil Lesh, the classically trained musician who co-founded the Grateful Dead and whose unconventional bass playing steered the band into some of its most experimental directions, died Friday at th ...

Grateful Dead founding member Phil Lesh has died at age 84 LOS ANGELES -- Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass ...

By Jim Farber Phil Lesh, whose expansive approach to the bass as a charter member of the Grateful Dead made him one of the first performers on that instrument in a rock band to play a lead role ...

Bassist Phil Lesh, whose dense, inventive playing powered the Grateful Dead and, following the 1995 death of guitarist Jerry Garcia, many of the San Francisco band’s touring reincarnations ...