If, as some savants of consciousness suggest, we are actually agreeing to create, from moment to moment, everything we perceive as real, then it stands to reason that we're also responsible for keeping it going in some harmonious manner.

Recently Lesh has opened a music venue called Terrapin Crossroads and has been performing with Furthur alongside former Grateful Dead bandmate Bob Weir. This was a peculiar turn of events as Lesh had never played bass before. Musical background
Lesh started out as a violin player.

Phillip Chapman Lesh (born March 15 1940 in Berkeley California) is a musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career. Phil & Friends helped keep a legitimate entity for the band's music to continue but have been on hiatus since 2008.