DEAD MEMBERS PLAY S.F. BENEFIT.Byline: Daily News The Grateful Dead's Phil Lesh Phillip Chapman Lesh (born March 15, 1940 in Berkeley, California) is a musician and founding member of the rock band, Grateful Dead; he played bass guitar in that group throughout their entire 30-year career. , Bob Weir and Mickey Hart Mickey Hart (born September 11, 1943) is a percussionist and musicologist. He is best known as one of the two drummers from the rock band the Grateful Dead. He and fellow Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann earned the nickname "the rhythm devils". reunited with former band members Donna Jean Godchaux Mackay and Bruce Hornsby for a two-set benefit concert Dec. 7 at San Francisco's Maritime Hall The Maritime Hall is a historic 3,000 capacity concert hall in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood that operated from 1995 through 2001 as a popular music venue and nightclub. . The event, dubbed ``PhilHarmonic,'' raised $70,000 for the Unbroken Chain Foundation. Weir is currently on tour with his band, Ratdog. Ratdog performs tonight at the Wiltern Theatre The Wiltern Theatre and adjacent 12-story Pellissier Building are an Art Deco landmark located on the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue in Los Angeles, California. The entire complex is commonly referred to as simply the Wiltern. in Los Angeles. Lesh founded Unbroken Chain Foundation in 1997. The all-volunteer Organization supports neighborhood causes. ``Unbroken Chain'' is the last song the Grateful Dead sang in concert before singer/guitarist Jerry Garcia's death. For more information, call (415) 457-6388 or visit the Web site at www.dead.net. |
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