 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 the Dead itself (minus Ron "Pigpen" McKernan), and all songs except "Walk in the Sunshine" became concert staples of the Dead.The album is essentially a Grateful Dead recording in everything but name.