Unbroken Chain. Rest In peace Philip Chapman Lesh.

[LuckyCharms]

Lyrics below video.

Blue light rain, whoa unbroken chain,
Looking for familiar faces in an empty window pane.

Listening for the secret, searching for the sound
But I could only hear the preacher and the baying of his hounds.

Willow sky, whoa, I walk and wonder why,
They say love your brother, but you will catch it when you try.

Roll you down the line boy, drop you for a loss,
Ride you out on a cold railroad and nail you to a cross.

November and more, as I wait for the score,
They're telling me forgiveness is the key to every door.

A slow winter day a night like forever,
Sink like a stone, float like a feather.

Lilac rain, unbroken chain, Song of the sawhet owl.
Out on the mountain, it'll drive you insane, Listening to the winds howl

Unbroken chain of sorrow and pearls, Unbroken chain of sky and sea.
Unbroken chain of the western wind, Unbroken chain of you and me.

Songwriters: Philip Lesh / Robert M. Peterson

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. To a life, well lived.

Thanks for the memories, Phil. I am in the Phil Zone tonight.

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[LuckyCharms]

2. Quite honestly, I'm stunned. I've had death premonitions about every one of my aunts and uncles who passed.

only I do not realize they are premonitions until after they die.

If you scroll down in the lounge to a few days ago, I posted the song "Box of Rain". And I've been playing that posted song, on DU, several times a day for the past few days. Obsessively. And today, Phil passes away.

He was a hero of mine. He was a good man.

Premonition.

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. oh wow....for some reason Phil's passing has really hit me. I wonder how Bob and Bill and Mickey are feeling

in this moment? He was such a quiet man, but damn, he took his bass to other places....

[LuckyCharms]

6. i remember being at a show, sober as a judge, focused on Phil's playing...

and thinking he might be some sort of God. It wasn't that he was "good", it was that he was completely different. Nobody plays the bass like him.

Probably comes from his formal training as a classical musician. When it came to music, he was studied and serious.

[OAITW r.2.0]

7. Billy K - Lesh - Weir - Garcia.......a quadruple play!

[OAITW r.2.0]

8. I read something a long time ago, that Phil played French Horn with the SFO.

Did I dream this?

[LuckyCharms]

9. He played the trumpet with the Oakland Symphony Orchestra while still in his teens.

[Pluvious]

10. They probably had already steeled themselves for the news...

He'd stopped touring with Bobby (i'm sure he definitely would've joined them in the Sphere!)

IIRC Phil was battling with kidney problems for some time now

RIP Mr. Lesh

[OAITW r.2.0]

14. Phil lived a great life.

Bet he'd live it all over again.

[quaint]

4. It's real.

Earlier today I replied to your thread with a pic of tickets to my first three Box of Rain shows.

[AltairIV]

5. RIP kind sir.

Sad news indeed.

[Pluvious]

11. Just a Box of Rain... (nt)

[Elessar Zappa]

12. Excellent.

I’ve been listening to the Dead’s music for the first time for a few a months now. I don’t know how I missed their greatness for so long! I was born in ‘83 but started to listen to old music when I was in high school. Somehow the Dead escaped my notice but no more.

[OAITW r.2.0]

13. By Old Music, did you mean this?

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