Phil Lesh and Friends

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(person) by NothingLasts4ever (9.6 mon) (print) ? (I like it!) Thu Jul 26 2001 at 14:08:21

Phil's current band consists of:

John Molo on drums (former drummer for Bruce Hornsby)

Rob Barracco on keyboards (formerly of Zen Tricksters

Warren Haynes on guitar (Allman Brothers Band & Govt. Mule)

Jimmy Herring on guitar (Aquarium Rescue Unit)

They have been touring together during 2001 and Phil has made it clear he will keep this line up around for as long as he can.

Phil and Friends has existed officialy since a 1994 concert in Berkeley in which he was joined by the Dead to play an acoustic concert (their first since the 80's)... After the Dead died, Phil took a few years off... he began playing again in 1997, but didn't play outside of the bay area untill he recovered from a liver transplant in 1999.

His comeback shows from this near death experience were in April '99 at the Warfield in San Francisco with Trey Anastasio and Page McConell of Phish...
ever since then The music never stopped.

Phil has toured with severl groups, either in festival settings or as opening act or as an opening act for Phil:

Bob Dylan

String Cheese Incident

Moe

Glactic

Les Claypool's Frog Brigade

Disco Biscuits

Ratdog

Allman Brothers Band

Willie Nelson

Others to share a stage with Phil (not complete but mostly):

Mike Gordon (Phish)

Bob Weir (Ratdog, Grateful Dead)

David Crosby (CSNY)

Vince Welnick (Grateful Dead, Tubes)

Donna Jean Godchaux (Grateful Dead]

Merle Saunders

Bruce Hornsby (Greatful Dead)

Bransford Marsalis

Greg Osby

Ghram Nash (CSNY)

Bill Kreutzman (Gratful Dead, Backbone, Trichromes)

Kyle Hollingsworth (String Cheese Incident)

Michael Kang (String Cheese Incident)

Al Schnider (Moe)

Paul Barre (Little Feat)

Derek Trucks (Allman Brothers Band, Derek Trucks Band)

David Grisman

Susan Tedeschi

Bob Dylan

Jeff Pevar (CPR)

They have released 2 records so far:

Love Will See You Through (live material) (1999)

There and Back Again (studio material) (2002)

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The String Cheese Incident	Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo	Allman Brothers	Greg Osby
Celebration	There and Back Again	Jimmy Herring	Phil Lesh
Jazz Is Dead	Merle Saunders	Willie Nelson	Moe
Ratdog	Gov't Mule	David Grisman	Warren Haynes
Bruce Hornsby	Little Feat	Branford Marsalis	David Crosby
The Disco Biscuits	Mike Gordon	Bob Dylan	Aquarium Rescue Unit

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