it abundantly clear that he fully intends to continue making music — in fact, it appears likely, more music than ever, both at his Marin County home base, Terrapin Crossroads, and through an innovative agreement with music impresario Peter Shapiro, in which various Phil Lesh and Friends lineups would play more than forty shows in 2014 for Shapiro, primarily through multi-night residencies at the hallowed Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY, with additional dates at venues in the expanding Brooklyn Bowl empire (new venues in London and Las Vegas joined the flagship in Brooklyn this year, with a Chicago branch currently in the works), plus selected appearances at festivals and special one-off events. Between Terrapin and the shows done under the arrangement with Shapiro, Phil's been having oneof his busiest and most productive years ever, but without a lot of the exhausting rigors of getting from gig to gig.

At Terrapin Crossroads, his residencies at the Capitol and his shows at the various Brooklyn Bowls, at New York's Central Park, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the second annual Lockn' Festival and elsewhere, Phil has continued to play a joyous game of mix-and-match with his lineups of Friends, bringing in an ever-changing combination of longtime musical partners, relative newcomers and first-timers, including to name just a few: Joe Russo, Warren Haynes, John Scofield, Tony Leone, Larry Campbell, Teresa Williams, John Kadlecik, Ross James, Jeff Chimenti, Nels Cline, Marco Benevento, Jason Crosby, Luther Dickenson, John Medeski, Anders Osborne and others, plus Phil's sons Grahame and Brian. Just after