Bob Weir | Ace (50th Anniversary Remaster/Translucent Red Vinyl)

Bobby Weir celebrated the 50th anniversary of his solo 1972 debut, Ace, on stage in April 2022 with two special shows at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall. On both nights, he performed the entire album live with his group Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros, featuring The Wolfpack, a string and brass quintet, pedal steel player Barry Sless, and special guests Tyler Childers and Brittney Spencer.Issued the same year as Jerry Garcia’s Garcia and Mickey Hart’s Rolling Thunder, Ace features all of the Grateful Dead members at the time except for Ron “Pigpen” McKernan including Jerry Garcia, Keith Godchaux, Bill Kreutzmann, and Phil Lesh. The album includes studio versions of “Playing in the Band” and “One More Saturday Night” which became concert staples for the Dead.When Weir started working on Ace at Wally Heider’s Studio in San Francisco in early 1972, he wasn’t planning for the Dead to be his backing band. It just happened. “I pretty much knew in the back of my mind what