Philip Chapman Lesh (born March 15, 1940)[1] is an American musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career. (wikipedia)
But the Grateful Dead was my band, and I don't have any desire to form a band of my own, or tour with another band, or do anything like that.
Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.
Many people out there know that I was trained in classical music, and I studied composition for many years before joining the band.
And many times that did take place, but what I've said in the past, and my gut feeling, is that it was started to calcify in a sense.
Of course, we didn't survive to play all the way through the '90s, so I can say that - as I said, everybody in the band was aware of this, and we trying to figure out ways to make it different.
But we were really locked in to that kind of format, and as the '90s wore on, it became for me more solidified, in that sense that there weren't as many of those magical shows that were just magic all the way through as there had been in earlier years.
When the band would leave the stage, and then the audience would just take over, and keep the groove goin'.
Yes, Pluton, actually, in the play. And I play him in my most stentorian voice.
In a way, it's my way of dealing with, finding closure with Grateful Dead music, and giving thanks in a way to Jerry and Bob and all the guys in the band for making up this wonderful music.