“Is she ok?” 🤣

I could have lived without the first minute of this video 😵‍💫

I love hearing Phil's voice read Searching For The Sound. Wonderful writing talent, as well.

One of the greatest bass players, always seemed to be "on" with band. He was reason the band was successful,but did it without fanfare or ego. Love Phil

This might be strange…But I love getting stoned (on weed) and listening to the Dead while mowing the lawn

Very cool! My favorite bass player and my favorite late night host!! Thanks for this Cleveland!

Phil is a worthy rockstar to be proud of. Phil changes the game still to this day. Id also like to note that he is the most accurate and articulate musician in the band.. Phil is a professor in another dimension....

Phil is an intelligent, talented, nice guy. Thanks for this short interview!

interviews with both Phil and Jerry are riveting for different reasons. Phil is very thoughtful; Jerry’s “just” a guy who loves to play. and I loved Phil‘s book, every time he talked about a show, I found myself dialing it up on Relisten/Archive to (re)live the sound.

Craig Ferguson was in over his head, with Phil, and it appears that he knew it.

Ha! That was amazing! I loved Phil's reaction to Craig's suggestion that he'd heard that there were drugs involved with the Grateful Dead! Hilarious!

Craig was in no way expecting Phil to be so intelligent. He was expecting to make fun of a stoner hippie. He got an articulate artist and looked like an ass.

Phil is 80 years old !!!! love Phil. Read his book its really good.

I love how far ahead Phil is in front of Craig’s questioning. One did loads of drugs, helped create endless inspired musicality and tells the tale and the other likes the sound of his own voice.

I listened to this audiobook from a library whilst homeless in Sweden in 2010. It made me proud to be American

Probably my favorite rock bassist. He inches out Casady and Bruce. Phil is the loosest of them all and still never misses a beat. He creates space with sound, whole vistas for the others to fill with details.

Everyone should try LSD at least once in their lives.

Thanks for posting this. I think he would be the most likely member of the Grateful Dead that I would get along with. A friend asked me one time if I would like to meet Jerry Garcia, and I told him it would depend on the circumstance. If it were just to shake hands and tell him how great he was or some other gushing drivel, no. If I would have something to do with him, like jam or get a mini-guitar lesson, definitely. It would have to be something organic, the result of something that brought us together. This of course never happened. We have the people in our lives that we have by living. I saw the Dead six times, am forever grateful for the experience. It's great to see Phil Lesh in an interview. He is a great bass player, plays like Jerry. I know the band from a distance, which is good enough for me.

I've been listening to, studying & have been fascinated with his bass work, style & technique for years. This is the first time I've ever seen him speak. Finally, The Man behind the bass. Seems like a really cool fellow.🎵🎵

Oh man I’m surprised I never seen this … 🙏thx 4 the upload

At one of my favorite GD concerts in between songs we all were shouting, "We want Phil! We want Phil!" After a moment Phil says, "Well alright; just this once." And he sang "Tom Thumb".

As a deadhead for over 55 years, personally I've always thought their most provocative song was Unbroken Chain, by Phil

Met most of the boys - Phil would actually engage in conversation - a nice human indeed

Phil Lesh is a grand gentleman with tons of class, who has contributed so much to the world of music. This interviewer, on the other hand, is a classless tool who clearly doesn’t get it and asks inane, disrespectful questions.

Phil is the coolest.. I was literally a kid in the 60's and grew up in the 70's, so never really a hippie. But I still see vestiges of the 60's in society today, though I think it's more unconcious than known. Craig tried to send him up...and failed. Great interview!

I remember watching this when it aired, I'd bought his book just a couple days before. He came to town for a book signing a month later where they made you buy the book, so then I had two copies. Then somebody gave me a copy a few years later as a gift. I only have the signed copy now though. I met Weir that week, too, in an unrelated incident.

Man, I was so excited to see this pop up! As a longtime fan of Craig Ferguson and the Dead - especially Phil - I thought this would be a fantastic, thoughtful, interesting conversation, but alas. This is unfortunately VERY early in his tenure on the Late Late Show (2005 is his first year hosting it) and it seems he hadn't yet hit his stride or found his own personal voice, and was still trying to emulate his boss David Letterman at this point. Craig is uncharacteristically shallow here; he's a smart, incredibly insightful guy but regrettably he was just working the cheap jokes (again, like Letterman) that night. Four years later, Ferguson won a prestigious Peabody Award (the broadcast equivalent of a Pulitzer Prize) for his interview with Desmond Tutu; I wish we could have had that version of Craig's show when Phil was a guest.

Phil is one of the great men of the 20th century. For real!

Phil- thanks for the sonic boom on the Friday night sound check At Watkins Glenn. All the Wharf creatures heard that one. Very talented man. Nice interview. Sad the hostilities never quite seemed to clear between Phil and old friends.

Got my 2(!) Copies of his book for a dollar apiece from Dollar Tree back in 2005! Love that book. I bought one copy, read it to shreds and went out and bought a second, pristine copy, for the bookshelf. Phil and Jerry were great!

Its a great interview.

Would've liked to have heard Phil talk about Owsley "Bear" Stanley's role he provided for the band.

Phil’s wicked smaht

They are everywhere!!

...."Is she Ok?" Brilliant!

I always personally always thought that the Grateful Dead’s earlier work was a lot better than their later stuff. Now it all makes sense.

What he said about it being alive and well, when I saw Dead & Company in Hersheypark going to shakedown first, and then the way that stadium is built and just the vibe of community that was there and everybody loving the dead. You really felt like you were back in time.

Phil wasn't given much time here. Such a short interview.

Master player! Love the Phil Bombs!

Thank you Phil!

You are awesome dude!

I want to thank Phil for 1974.

Seen them in Philly at the Spectrum late 80’s early 90’s can’t remember exactly but I do remember how crazy it was with thousands of people tripping smoking and popping pills

Hey there, we're collecting all the episodes of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Do you happen to have the full episode of this interview? or any other episodes?

Phil sounds like Leonard Nimoy.

My favorite book about the Dead

Thanks to Phil I was able to be backstage for many a show. He was generous and thanks to him my many years of being a Dead Head only got better with time.

Craig ferguson sounded like he was trying let Phil know Im right on you after every question it seemed like craig was eyeballing him, watching with an eagles eye on every answer like he was critiquing him and if he gave a just off answer it was very cold and intimidating, even toward the end he never really gave him any warmth or kindness or real friendliness at the very end when he just shook his hand and looked the other way.

He’s “old school” California

Sweet!!!

Technically, Phil answered that wrong: there are Three founding members alive, the fourth Mickey Hart joined the band around September 67!

Deadheads change the world and Craig helped wish Phil would have given a nod to Bill Walton. Garcia once opened a show with this line for Bill and his friends. This one’s for you Larry this is how we light up an arena

Early Craig.. a few years later I think this would have been a much more generative conversation

Love Phil!!!

An enjoyable and thought provoking read. The host comes across as impatient.

haven't seen that much Craig Ferguson, maybe a dozen interviews enough to wonder if this is the only time Craig ever raised the topic of social change

Gotta agree with some other commenters, Ferguson really screwed this interview up while Phil Lesh was just being his humble cool self.

Diaspora! great vocab on Phil!

We are everywhere, no doubt!!

phill dosed at pretty much every dead show he played and probably still does :)

Never considered myself a Dhead but I did drive a cab in Oakland and picked up my share of them. He worked at KPFA ( est. 1949) which I think changed a lot of things. Here is something else out of Berkeley, Oh Happy Day : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e8x3d9l1rKubqp8.html I'm not religious but it is a great song.

I love Greatful dead and they are rock gods. At least they will admit to taking drugs unlike some other bands. PINK F🛸👽🙀🙀🙀💖

Unbroken Chain ❤ still holding strong

I have meet a number and times. He is a hoot.

Would have liked a longer, more in-depth interview.

Nice intro

"Is she okay?" 🤣😂🤣😂

Look at those kicks!

Best show I ever hallucinated at

Phil was so cool he could do a show on acid?

In my opinion just as the host said it made him " Crazy " ive always felt that Acid is mostly research chemicals and probly what he had and the real thing i know me and my cats called it just "L". In fact i wouldn't even take it if it was presented as acid. Only L. Anyone else have this experience?

let Phil sing

I used to be so into the dead up until I realized it was just another facet of the social engineering machine.

Impedance mismatch.

Everywhere

The first 60 seconds reminded me of colonoscopy photos.

Seen plenty of shows after 95. Last so many yrs , it's only been " Phil & friends " mostly in Westchester, NY. Dead & company is a lot of kids who dress up in tydie and try to create a scene they missed. I just felt every bit of my 66 yrs at citi field . The music will never stop,but the scene seemed weird. Small venues to catch wolf bros, and the capital in Port Chester, for Phl for live music is my path after 45 yrs. 🌹💀⚡️✌️🎶❤️

Take a look at Kensington PA videos . That is the result of : Tune in , turn on , and drop out . Drugs have ruined the lives of millions..... including one of Phil's best friends

Only a few bands....IMO...that I would see 10 shows or more in a row and EVERY SHOW was different...."Life is like a Dead show....you never know what you might get" forget about a box of Chocolate 😎✌️

I got a signed copy on line for like five bucks 🤗

It will forever be humorous to me that the only thing I saw at Carnegie Hall in 17 years in the City was Craig Ferguson.

I miss L ✨✨✨✨✨✨

I hesitate to correct Phil but in 2005 there were only 3 surviving founders; Phil, Bill, Bobby; with Pigpen and Jerry deceased. Mickey joined a couple of years after the beginning.

👂 🌎 ❤

lesh hammed it up a bit but made the point.. the dead were/are about community tradition and transcendence..

Phil handled this interview well. I’m not sure who the guy is interviewing him but he seems to be rather immature and ignorant. Phil is a class act. Jerry was as well but would have walked away.

*”Donor Rap”*

what’s with the wierd stuff at the front

Now we have medical mushrooms!

Really disappointed by the interviewer. He managed to stay right on the surface and ask click bait gotcha stereotype questions. Phil stayed above it towering in intellect and calm. Ferguson must not connect with his sister if he can’t connect and respect phill. Sad.

Phil is talkin man. I hope people are hearin him. The Dead are not a band, they are a lifestyle, a religion if you will. Only the best parts of religion, none of the negative bullshit. Im an atheist so i use religion as a noun and nothing more.

Philharmonic.

And here I thought Phil and Craig were gonna be "on" LSD... perhaps after the show.

I caught the dead from 79 to 94, didn’t make it the last year, saw over 300 shows at least 75 JGB shows. I live amongst the social change everyone is talking about. It’s called Los Angeles also known as Detroit with better weather. Born in Manhattan. The major cities in America are lost. Bad news for me, I’m a elevator mechanic I’ve got no choice. I do have memories. Can’t vote your way out of this situation. It’s too late.

What a "dopey" interview. What a dopey interviewer. Love how he tosses the book aside.

do yourself a favor and skip to about 1:30

*spoiler alert: the guy running his mouth at the beginning spoils the interview....

Bro....stop the cooleyedoscope

The Grateful Dead are as American as apple pie

Reddy Kilowatt!