Phil's 1st "band bio", 1965:
Bass player, Phil Lesh, was well-known to two generations of American youngsters as the lovable Miss Frances of "Ding Dong School". Lesh's remarkable ability at characterization was further demonstrated in 1960, when he campaigned for the Presidency in several states under the name of Richard Nixon. Lesh grew up on a nutmeg plantation in southwest Luoisiana, and his interest in music stemmed from his childhood habit of humming musical radio commercials to himself as he worked in the fetid bayous. However, Phil later received classical musical training, and he spent two years as featured singer with the San Francisco Opera, handling such varied roles as the leads in Aida and Falstaff Entering rack-and-roll because of the social stigma attached to operatic performers in this country, Lesh quickly established himself as the outstanding big-beat interpreter of the songs of Stephen Foster. In his non-performing moments, Phil sculpts miniature figurines of major San Franscsco political figures, a common pastime of the city's "hippies".
His 2nd; still '65:
NAME: Phillip Chapman Lesh
HEIGHT: 6'1"
EYES: Blue
HAIR: Blonde
BIRTHDATE: March 15, 1940
BIRTHPLACE:[size=78%] [/size]Berkeley, California[size=78%] [/size]
INSTRUMENT: Bass
"Born in a jail cell, the last of a line of at least three generations of horse thieves. Thereafter, history took over leaving me bewigged, latered, and ready for the axe. (The axe fell and I was killed, of course.) What you see is but a mere shadow of my former self, incarnate in 3,000,001 eras of eons and kalpas as the one and only Chicken-Licken, Magistrate Auspiate and Ex-minister Plenipotentiary From The Land Of Mayonnaise."
"Fortunately, however, I was able to extricate myself from the clutches of the Graet Kumquat, who had confined me in a no-dimension under the alias of Adzerbadger, The Sugarless Gum King. Wending my way through the galaxy's largest parking lot, I comandered a 1902 Blitzen, driven by none other than the Max Post Lingo,propriator of the great copulation site of helidor. After a pleasant, but exhaustive visit to his domain, he was kind enough to furnish me with a one-way ticket on a fly-by-night pterodacty, which left me off at the corner of California and 1965, so there you have it...... all there is to know."
Hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
Peter (who will add that spelling, grammar, etc., is all Phil's)
