Dead and Company closed his concert to the sphere of Las Vegas by taking up “ Box of Rain », The favorite song of the bassist.
On Saturday, Dead and Company was back to the sphere of Las Vegas. The group has chosen to finish the concert by paying tribute to Phil Lesh with an interpretation of “ Box of Rain », The emblematic song of the bassist of Grateful Dead. It was the first time that the group had played the classic ofAmerican Beauty Since the death of Lesh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml70nsepxzy
Phil Lesh, co -founder of Grateful Dead, died in October 2024 at the age of 84. “” The muse gives us the people and the tools with whom to work with. The direction we take with this work emerges somewhere between our intuition and its inspiration. It is a process always wrapped in mystery, and in the best of cases, the mystery continues forever, Bob Weir said in a statement following the death of Lesh. In the meantime, since death is the last and best reward for a life *Good and fully lived *, I am delighted with its release … »»
The surviving members of the Grateful Dead (Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann) added: “ Phil Lesh was irreplaceable. In a single note from the Phil Zone, you could hear and feel the world born. Its bass flowed like a river. She went where the muse took her. It was an explorer in the interior and exterior space that played bass. It was a circumnavigator of formerly unknown musical worlds. And many other things. »»
In a new interview with WECB, Bob Weir revealed that he had spoken to Lesh shortly before his death to discuss the ceremony at the Kennedy Center paying homage to Grateful Dead as well as a possible reformation to mark the 60th anniversary of the group: “ The last phone call I received from him is when we learned that we were going to be honored at Kennedy Center. He called me simply to congratulate me and congratulate us, and that was the only reason for his call. (…) We tried to measure the reach of all this for a little while. And then we have more or less said “Well, well, we see each other there”. »»
