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Phil Lesh

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Musician

The Resume

    (March 15, 1940- )
    Born in Berkeley, California
    Birth name was Phil Chapman
    Bassist for the Grateful Dead
    Recorded the solo albums 'Love Will See You Through' (1999), 'There and Back Again' (2002) and 'Live at the Warfield' (2006)

Why he might be annoying:

    As a teen, he was nicknamed 'Phil the Coat' for his shoplifting prowess.
    He quit a job driving a mail truck when the post office insisted that he cut his hair after a customer on the route complained that he looked like an 'unkempt monkey.'
    While testifying in a legal battle between Jerry Garcia's second and third wives over the late guitarist's estate, he said he had spent the previous thirty years 'in one big, smoky haze.'

Why he might not be annoying:

    He had the highest measured IQ in his elementary school.
    His interest in avant-garde music pushed the Dead in new musical directions.
    A popular Deadhead saying was, 'If Phil's on, the band's on.'
    Having received a new liver, he encourages audience members to become organ donors.

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 40 Votes: 20.0% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 14 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 26 Votes: 30.77% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 14 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 20 Votes: 70.0% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 20 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 92 Votes: 66.30% Annoying