Phillip Chapman Lesh has an estimated net worth of $40 million. Phil Lesh is a musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career. He was born on March 15, 1940, in California. Songwriting and music are some of his major sources of income. Lesh started his musical career as a violin player. However, while in high school, he switched to trumpet. He is hugely recognized as the bass player for a band called Grateful Dead. Besides, he was one of the founding members of the group that later got disbanded in the year 1995.