“Our goal is to create a vibrant community gathering place: beautiful, comfortable, welcoming for members of the community to commingle and enjoy good music.” Grateful Dead founding member Phil Lesh now has one more thing to add to his resume: entrepreneur. The 71-year old cancer survivor, political activist and organ donor advocate is reportedly in the first steps …
Tag Archive: Phil Lesh
Mar
30
2011
Dec
09
2010
20 Predictions for Bonnaroo 2011
Inspired by one of the best in music festival coverage – Consequence of Sound (though specifically their recent Coachella predictions), I thought why not put together something similar regarding my one true love – the Bonnaroo Music Festival. Every year for about the past half decade, I’ve made extensive lists containing hundreds of bands I thought might be possible to …
Mar
20
2010
Grateful Dead Members Host Festival
Last year, Grateful Dead founding members Bob Weir and Phil Lesh put together yet another Dead-related project, Furthur, featuring Jeff Chimenti, John Kadlecik, Jay Lane and Joe Russo. Chimenti comes from Weir’s other project, RatDog; Kadlecik hails from the Dead-tribute band, Dark Star Orchestra; and Russo is one half of the Benevento/Russo duo. Lane, also of …
Dec
04
2009
Going Furthur On Up (and Down) the Road Feeling Bad
Very few people may understand the title of this post. The title was actually something I came up with, combining two song titles together. The great blues song “Further On (Up the Road)” and the Grateful Dead’s “Going Down the Road Feeling Bad.” Although I’ve chosen a alternate spelling of the word “further”, which actually has …