The San Francisco musician Phil Lesh studied trumpet at school, switching to bass in 1965 to play with the Warlocks, a neo-folk group who would later change their name to the Grateful Dead. Lesh wrote some of the Dead’s most notable numbers, including “Box of Rain” and “Unbroken Chain,” as well as raising the profile of the electric bass with his frequently innovative playing. The musician has pursued many side projects throughout his career, spanning electronic avant garde experimentation and a basic bar band repertoire, and, since the Grateful Dead’s 1995 dissolution, has performed with such offshoot bands as The Other Ones and The Dead, as well as his own group, Phil Lesh and Friends.