Phil Lesh solos

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[bassdude51]

I've always loved Phil's bass with the GD. His bass playing is unique and unpredictable. It is outside the realm of tradition bass lines.

But, hearing him solo is not very enjoyable. Kind of just noodling around. IMHO

Amazing that he is 82 years old. I think that he is living with a liver transplant. "What a long strange trip it's been."

Happy Birthday, Phil!

 

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I've always loved Phil's bass with the GD. His bass playing is unique and unpredictable. It is outside the realm of tradition bass lines.

But, hearing him solo is not very enjoyable. Kind of just noodling around. IMHO

Amazing that he is 82 years old. I think that he is living with a liver transplant. "What a long strange trip it's been."

Happy Birthday, Phil!

Yeah, I wasn't too wowed by the soloing, but he does have a different way of weaving his bass lines - I also think he's best when doing counter-melody to someone else's melody.

 

[Bob_Ross]

His bass playing is unique and unpredictable. It is outside the realm of tradition bass lines.

But, hearing him solo is not very enjoyable. Kind of just noodling around.

Boom! ^^^This. Or, as I've written elsewhere on TB:

My biggest beef w/ the Dead is that when I hear Phil Lesh talk about music and what he's trying to achieve on the bass in the Dead's music, I think "Yeah! Cool! This guy gets it! I really want to hear some of that!"

...and then I listen to the music, and his bass playing is indistinguishable from modal wanking. None of the musically substantive stuff he talks about is audible in his playing, at least not beneath the morass of noodling.

 

[Ferniff]

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Awesome. I made that video! I was so proud when it got featured on JamBase for Phil's birthday last year. Also I disagree with everyone here, I think Phil had some very interesting solos like 2-26-77 and (not featured in this one) 8-6-74 Eyes