Editing Phil Lesh and Friends (section)

=== The Phil Lesh Quintet ===
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The most permanent of the Phil Lesh and Friends lineups, known as the Phil Lesh Quintet (PLQ or just "the Q" for short) played on a mostly-regular basis from September 2000 through December 2003. The members of this incarnation were Lesh, [[Warren Haynes]] (guitar & vocals; also of [[Gov't Mule]] and Allman Brothers Band), [[Jimmy Herring]] (guitar; [[the Allman Brothers Band]], [[Col. Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit|Aquarium Rescue Unit]], and most recently [[Widespread Panic]]), [[Rob Barraco]] (keyboards; [[The Dead (band)|the Dead]], the [[Zen Tricksters]], [[Dark Star Orchestra]]) and [[John Molo]] (drums; [[Bruce Hornsby and the Range]], [[the Other Ones]], Modereko, [[Keller Williams]], [[David Nelson Band]], Jemimah Puddleduck, and [[John Fogerty]]).

This lineup released the only Phil Lesh and Friends studio album, ''[[There and Back Again (Phil Lesh album)|There and Back Again]]'', on [[Columbia Records]] in 2002. It included several new songs from Lesh and [[Robert Hunter (lyricist)|Robert Hunter]], longtime Grateful Dead lyricist, as well as one recent favorite from [[Jerry Garcia]] and Hunter, and several original contributions from Haynes, Barraco/Mattson and Herring.

During the summer tour of 2001, the band performed a series of instrumental numbers composed by Lesh. The songs were inspired by the [[Solar System]]. While they were never officially released on an album, they have come to be known as the ''Planet Jams''. A bootleg compilation of these songs has been circulating since then.