Phil Lesh, founding bassist for the Grateful Dead, died Friday morning at 84, according to a post on his official Instagram account.
His cause of death was not immediately clear.
Lesh, along with Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron McKernan and Bill Kreutzmann, formed the Grateful Dead in Palo Alto in 1965, and the band had a devoted following known as “Deadheads.”
Lesh was born in Berkeley on March 15, 1940.
This is a developing story.
