Another fan wrote, "May the four winds blow you safely home, Phil. Thanks for helping write the soundtrack to my life." Born in 1940 in Berkeley, California, Lesh had been a classically trained ...

The Grateful Dead was formed as a quintet in California in 1965, according to their official website. Jerry Garcia, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Phil Lesh made up the ...