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   and “American Beauty,” Mr. Lesh found a new melodicism in his playing.   
      
   For “American Beauty,” he composed the exquisite melody for “Box of   
   Rain,”   
   with lyrics, provided by Robert Hunter, that expressed Mr. Lesh’s feelings   
   about his father’s imminent death from prostate cancer.   
      
   Mr. Lesh also took a rare lead vocal on the track. But his lack of   
   training as a singer eventually did damage to his vocal cords, causing him   
   to stop harmonizing with the band from 1976 to 1985. After that point he   
   resumed singing, but at a much lower pitch.   
      
   In the wake of the band’s dissolution, Mr. Lesh formed the Other Ones   
   along with other key members of the Dead in 1988. The next year, the band   
   released its first and only album, “The Strange Remain,” a live set,   
   dominated by new interpretations of old Dead songs.   
      
   The Other Ones broke up in 2002, but the next year Mr. Lesh and some of   
   its other members formed a band known simply as the Dead. The new   
   assemblage toured for one year, vanished, then returned for another   
   yearlong stint in 2008, after which Mr. Lesh and Mr. Weir formed Further,   
   which lasted until 2014.   
      
   He played for the final time with other surviving members of his original   
   band in 2015, at a series of concerts held at Soldier’s Field in Chicago   
   billed as the “Fare Thee Well” shows.   
      
   From 1999 to 2006, Mr. Lesh released three albums credited to Phil Lesh   
   and Friends. In 2012, he opened a live venue in San Rafael, Calif.,   
   Terrapin Crossroads.   
      
   Mr. Lesh faced a series of health challenges over the last two decades. In   
   1988, he underwent a liver transplant after contracting hepatitis C,   
   brought on by years of alcohol abuse. He was successfully treated for   
   prostate cancer in 2006 and bladder cancer in 2015. Four years after that,   
   he had back surgery.   
      
   Mr. Lesh’s sons, Grahame and Brian, had played with him in the Terrapin   
   Family Band. Complete information on survivors was not immediately   
   available.   
      
   In his autobiography, Mr. Lesh compared the Grateful Dead’s music to life   
   itself. Both, he said, were “a series of recurring themes, transpositions,   
   repetitions, unexpected developments, all converging to define form that   
   is not necessarily apparent until its ending has come and gone.”   
      
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