From The Mars Hotel | Limited Edition

Produced for release by Grateful Dead Legacy Manager and Audio Archivist, David Lemieux, the deluxe edition also includes demos of “China Doll” and “Wave That Flag” – the song that became “U.S. Blues” – as well as a previously unreleased live performance of the Grateful Dead at University of Nevada-Reno on 5/12/1974. As the band filled an outdoor football stadium with epic highs like a huge “China Cat Sunflower” > “I Know You Rider,” Mars Hotel cuts including “U.S. Blues” and classics such as “Brown-Eyed Women,” “Tennessee Jed,” “Mississippi Half-Step,” “Truckin'” and “Sugar Magnolia,” a massive wind storm was no match for the Wall of Sound. Designed to improve the listening and performance experience at what were becoming larger gigs and longer, more dynamic and varied sets, the Wall of Sound required 21 stage hands, and underlined the resounding effect the Grateful Dead were having on American audiences and culture at the time, even as the entire operation remained homespun and humble.

Tracks

1~1~U.S. Blues
1~2~China Doll
1~3~Unbroken Chain
1~4~Loose Lucy
1~5~Scarlet Begonias
1~6~Pride Of Cucamonga
1~7~Money Money
1~8~Ship Of Fools
2~1~U.S. Blues
2~2~China Doll
2~3~Unbroken Chain
2~4~Loose Lucy
2~5~Scarlet Begonias
2~6~Pride Of Cucamonga
2~7~Money Money
2~8~Ship Of Fools

Details

Format: Vinyl
Artist: Grateful Dead
Release Date: 21 June 2024
Genre: Rock
Label: RBDO 2171
Distributor: Inertia Music