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Despite being huge in the States, they rarely troubled the airwaves here or even made much of an impact on the charts either side of the Atlantic
Their single " Truckin' " got to a heady No 64 in 1971
And " Touch of Grey " got to No 10 in 1987
One of their slightly more quirky claims to fame is that they sponsored the Lithuanian Basketball Team for the 1992 Olympics
Truly magical music and gloriously spaced out people
R I P Phil
I didn't know about the Lithuanian basketball team but I knew about their funding of little known modern day English classical music composers, and that's not all:
'"We look for things that have fallen through the cracks of the big charities, that need an angel to come down and give them a shot," says Phil Lesh, the band's bassist.'