Lesh to play with Triends’
■ mi i_esn ana rrienas give
Grateful Dead fans musical
energy, while combining
classical, jazz and rock tunes
By Alix Kerl
Oregon Daily Emerald
For 30 years, Grateful Dead
bassist Phil Lesh usually sang har
monies, wrote only a few songs and
assuredly didn’t play with his own
band on the side.
Now, seven years after Dead
frontman Jerry Garcia’s death, Lesh
brings his own group, Phil Lesh
and Friends, to Eugene.
Phil and Friends will play today
at 6:30 p.m. in the Silva Hall at the
Hult Center. Special guest Galactic
will open. Phil Lesh and Friends is
promoting “There and Back
Again,” its debut album.
Ed Kashin, the host of “Short
Strange Trip,” a Grateful Dead
show on KRVM, said he is defi
nitely going to the show. The Dead
were known for stretching 4
minute songs to 40-minute epics at
their live shows. While Kashin is
still a huge fan of the Dead, he also
listens to Lesh. He explained that
Lesh’s musical style is more free
form than the Dead’s.
“The style is jazz, classical, rock
’n’ roll, Grateful Dead fusion,”
Kashin said.
Kashin said he feels a sense of
happiness when he listens to Phil
Lesh and Friends.
“I want to hear all the new
songs,” Kashin said. “I can’t wait to
see what they hear like live. ”
Lesh is a classically trained mu
sician with a knack for jazz and
composition who originally played
violin and trumpet. In 1965, Lesh
joined his friend Garcia’s band, the
Warlocks, which was soon re
named the Grateful Dead. He re
mained with the group for its three
decade existence.
After Garcia’s death in 1995,
Lesh joined with bandmates Bob
News brief
Presentation to focus
on discrimination issues
The YWCA and the Young
Women’s Theater Collective will
present “A Slice of Life” at 7 p.m.
tonight in the EMU Fir Room. The
event will address topics such as
racism, sexism, ageism, dis
ableism and sexual orientation
discrimination.
According to YWCA Racial Jus
tice Advocate Keely Helmick, the
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Promises unfulfilled
College broadcasters are continu
ing to lobby Congress and Billing
ton on the rules. Some radio organi
zations have already reached deals
with the recording industry regard
ing Internet royalties. National Pub
lic Radio reached a deal for all 470
of public radio member stations,
though they would not disclose
terms of the deal. Robinson of
KBVR said she has been told by Col
legiate Broadcasters, Inc., an organi
zation KBVR belongs to, that they
are also trying to negotiate a deal.
Jimenez said the Intercollegiate
Broadcasting System is also at
tempting to work out an agreement.
Record companies are also closely
watching the debate because they
are hard-pressed to keep a high prof
it margin during a period of declin
ing record sales. They blame much
of that decline on music swapping
sites made popular by Napster, and
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Weir and Mickey Hart in the
group Other Ones. He then dis
covered the burgeoning jam band
scene led by Bay Area musicians,
who were inspired by the music
of Grateful Dead. Lesh said he was
fascinated to hear the effect of the
Dead’s inspiration.
“It was strange hearing our music
being played by others and for the
first time I was able to hear the mu
sic from the audiences perspec
tive,” Lesh said. “It was certainly an
eye-opening experience for me.”
For a while, Lesh played with a
rotating crew of musicians that he
called Phil Lesh and Friends. At
various times, the group included
Little Feet members Paul Bararre
and Bill Payne, Allman Brothers
Band guitarist Derek Trucks and
Hot Tuna founder Jorma Kaukonen.
In 1999, Lesh recorded “Love will
See You Through” with some of the
people he had been playing with.
Soon after the release, a perma
nent lineup of Phil and Friends so
lidified. Phil Lesh and Friends now
includes Allman Brothers/Gov’t
Mule guitarist Warren Haynes, gui
tarist and Allman Brothers alumni
Jimmy Herring, drummer John
Molo and keyboardist Ron Barraco.
“There and Back Again” was re
leased May 21, through Lesh’s
presentation will encompass dis
crimination issues that people face
at school, in the workplace and out
in the world on a daily basis.
“The goal of‘A Slice of Life’ is to
raise awareness about oppression
as it relates to different social,
racial, gender and economic groups
in everyday life and to promote ac
ceptance of all people in our com
munity,” Helmick said.
The event will begin with a speech
by Bahati Ansari, the founder of the
Racism-Free Zone in Eugene and a
teacher at Lincoln Middle School.
the ability to easily copy music discs
on home computers.
Stavitsky also pointed out that the
promise of making large sums of mon
ey on the Internet has yet to bear fruit.
He sees this debate as record compa
nies trying to jockey for the future.
“Very few people are making
money off the Web,” he said. “But
you have to keep doing it because
someday somebody will.”
E-mail Pulse and features editor John Liebhardt
at johnliebhardt@dailyemerald.com.
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newly created Lapis Music/Co
lumbia Records label. Lesh said
his plan with Lapis is to search out
new, vital and uncompromising
music, and in partnership with
Columbia, bring it to a wider audi
ence. He hopes to do the same
thing with his own music.
“I wanted this band to make a
record because I wanted to see
whether we could translate that en
ergy that we have live, with the on
stage jamming, into compositions
for recording, which is really an art
in itself,” Lesh said of the album.
The band Galactic is coming into
its own as a favorite of the jam band
scene, though they echo that title.
“Please don’t consider Galactic
another jam band,” Galactic’s pub
licist said.
Galactic came out of New Or
leans in the late 1990s and has
now produced four albums. They
were featured at the Sasquatch
Festival at the Gorge Amphithe
ater with Ben Harper and Jack
Johnson over the weekend.
Tickets are $35 in advance and
can be purchased through Safe
way/Fastixx or the Hult Center
Box Office.
E-mail reporter Alix Kerl
at alixkerl@dailyemerald.com.
A presentation by the YWTC will
include a theatrical performance
created, produced, and performed
by the students — all material will
come from the unique experiences
of the women who put it on,
Helmick said. A group discussion
for questions and further analysis
of the topics will bring the evening
to a close.
“If all goes well, we hope to
continue the event next year,"
Helmick said.
Admission is free.
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