HOW THE DEAD CAME TO LIFE.

This article presents information on the rock performer The Grateful Dead from North Carolina. Phil Lesh is a member of this band. He mothballed his undergraduate dream of becoming a composer or conductor of avant-garde music. It was also a hint of where Lesh would soon be going and where he would help take American music with the band he joined as bass player in June 1965. Bob Weir, another member of the band, had been expelled from a string of private academies around the Peninsula and ended up in Menlo-Atherton High School, near Palo Alto, in 1964. He liked music, liked playing music, and played guitar really well.