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Ace is an album by Grateful Dead singer and guitarist Bob Weir. His first solo album, it was released in 1972. His first solo album, it was released in 1972. Weir's bandmates in the Grateful Dead back him on the album, and all but one of the songs became staples of the band's live shows.
The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir is a documentary film about Bob Weir, who rose to fame as a guitarist and singer in the rock band the Grateful Dead. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 23, 2014. [1] It was distributed through Netflix starting on May 22, 2015. [2] [3] The film runs for an hour and twenty-five ...
Weir was born in San Francisco, California, to John (Jack) Parber (1925–2015), of Italian and German ancestry, and a fellow college student, Phyllis Inskeep (1924–1997), of German, Irish, and English ancestry, who later gave him up for adoption; [5] he was raised by his adoptive parents, Frederic Utter Weir and Eleanor (née Cramer) Weir, in Atherton. [6]
He also played on "Box of Rain", a song from American Beauty, [3] and on "Greatest Story Ever Told" from Bob Weir's solo album Ace. Additionally, he was a founding member, with Matthew Kelly, of the band Kingfish. [4] [5] [6] Torbert died of a heart attack in 1982. Among the songs that Torbert wrote and sang lead with the New Riders were ...
In the liner notes for the show on 4/17/72 Blair Jackson writes that "Video and film representations of the Dead in the early '70s are few and far between" making "The 13 songs shot in Denmark that night, using multiple cameras, give us perhaps the best unfiltered look of the Dead in that era", despite the fact that "the cameras weren't on for ...
At 74, the Grateful Dead's Weir remains a musical adventurer, from his trio Wolf Bros to collaborating with orchestras to reimagining the Dead's legacy. Bob Weir's long, strange dreams of Jerry ...
The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in Palo Alto, California, in 1965. [1] [2] Known for their eclectic style that fused elements of rock, blues, jazz, folk, country, bluegrass, rock and roll, gospel, reggae, and world music with psychedelia, [3] [4] the band is famous for improvisation during their live performances, [5] [6] and for their devoted fan base, known as "Deadheads".
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