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Ace was the first solo album by Grateful Dead rhythm guitarist Bob Weir, released in 1972. Its origins come from an offer by the Dead’s Warner Bros. Records label to have band members cut their own solo records, and it came out the same year as Jerry Garcia’s Garcia and Mickey Hart’s Rolling Thunder. However, in the case of Ace, Weir’s backing band was essentially the Dead itself (minus Ron “Pigpen” McKernan), and all songs except “Walk in the Sunshine” became concert staples of the Dead. “Greatest Story Ever Told” and “Playing In The Band” also appear on Hart’s Rolling Thunder, as “The Pump Song” and “The Main Ten” respectively, both of which were also sung by Weir. Read on...