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“Playing in the Band” is a Grateful Dead song. The lyrics were written by Robert Hunter and rhythm guitarist Bob Weir composed it. The song first emerged in embryonic form on the self-titled 1971 live album Grateful Dead. It then appeared in a more polished form on Ace, Bob Weir’s first solo album (which included every Grateful Dead member sans Ron “Pigpen” McKernan). It has since become one of the best-known Grateful Dead numbers and a standard part of their repertoire. Indeed according to Deadbase X, it would end up as the fourth-most played in concert Dead song in their long career with 581 performances (not counting isolated reprises), trailing only “Me & My Uncle”, “Sugar Magnolia”, and “The Other One”. “Playing in the Band” was also included on Mickey... Read on...