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Andy Frasco's World Saving Podcast

Grahame Lesh on Phil Lesh's Legacy, 10,000 Sit-Ins & Golden Gate Park's Grateful Dead Celebration

Andy Frasco's World Saving Podcast

Andy Frasco

Music Interviews, Music

4.8575 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Grahame Lesh sits down with Andy Frasco and Nick Gerlach to discuss the monumental task of organizing the Golden Gate Park Grateful Dead 60th anniversary celebration. Graham opens up about processing his father Phil Lesh's passing while honoring his legacy through music.

Topics Discussed:

  • The "10,000 sit-ins" concept and musical directing challenges
  • Processing grief while celebrating Phil Lesh's incredible life
  • Growing up in the Grateful Dead community and finding his own musical path
  • The impact of Terrapin Crossroads on Bay Area musicians
  • The Grateful Dead legacy as a "tree with many branches"
  • Behind-the-scenes stories from a life in the Dead family
  • Building community through improvisational music

Links: Grahame Lesh: https://www.grahamelesh.com Midnight North: https://midnightnorth.com


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Transcript

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0:00.0

So much of the music we make is creative, even in a non-songwriter, kind of a way.

0:05.5

You know, we're improvising every time we get on stage and we're creating things every time

0:10.8

we get on stage. And that's the spirit and the ethos of the Grateful Dead music is you,

0:15.8

my dad used to say we never played anything the same way once. And so it's, it's something he always, you know, kind of instilled in us, especially, you know,

0:25.1

in the last 10, 15 years when we had, you know, he had the music venue,

0:29.0

Terrap and Crossroads right down the road from where I am.

0:31.3

And all of us young kids would just go play in the bar every, every night and just sort

0:37.2

of figure it out.

0:38.3

Just get up there and go figure out how to be a musician and how to improvise.

0:43.4

We should write together, bro.

0:44.9

100%.

0:45.5

And we're live, Andy Frasco's World Saving Podcast.

0:52.9

I'm Andy Frasco.

0:57.1

Grateful Dead edition. Hello.

1:05.7

Big show. G.D. 60. 60 is this week. And there's something special about that because Grateful Dead are playing in San Francisco for their 60th anniversary.

1:11.3

Let's do it.

1:12.5

The Dead in Co, you mean.

1:13.8

So our guest this week is Mr. Graham Lesh, Phil Lesh's son, who's doing a big old show,

1:20.1

and he asked me to be on it and a hundred other jam bands.

1:23.5

There's a lot of artists.

1:25.0

And we just interviewed him, so I felt like, and we were talking about Shapiro. The mastermind. The mastermind who's sending this whole thing up. So I thought we'd call him. You think he's going to make another air rainbow? What? You don't remember that? Hey, dude. Hey, Peter Shapiro on the Andy Frasco podcast. What's up, buddy? Yeah, I'm in a parking lot. You know, when you text and, you know, and say, hey, what are you doing? And you're in a parking light, you just say, I'm talking to you. You fucking love you. That's what he do. Come on, bro. What's going on? I, you're giving, I was wondering, I think aboutham lesh and his mental health every time you add

2:02.0

another fucking musician onto this man we call i mean this is a podcast we can say it's more

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