Grateful Dead

Phil Lesh Bass Cabinet with JBL D140F Loudspeaker with birch construction built in the San Francisco Bay Area by the Grateful Dead road crew (later known as Hard Truckers) in collaboration with Alembic. Assigned to Phil Lesh's bass array and matched to his famous Osiris bass guitar. Lesh debuted his Osiris bass on stage 16 June 1974, and he played it at nearly every show through 1979, including footage shot at Cornell University on 8 May 1977, the Great Pyramid concerts, and the closing of Winterland. This cabinet was purpose-built for that specific instrument. 

Lesh's bass setup featured a custom quadraphonic, six channel instrument that sent each of its four strings to a separate channel. This cabinet was one of the dedicated low frequency boxes in that bass array.  A New Riders of the Purple Sage sticker on the cabinet side places its use in 1974, when the New Riders regularly opened for the Dead and shared access to the “Wall of Sound.” 

With new custom road case decorated with stickers. 

Dimensions 

Speaker cabinet: 25 ¼ x 20 x 28 ½ in.  

Road case: 29 x 23 ¾ x 32 ½ in.