Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel
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| Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel | ||
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| Studio album by The Grateful Dead | ||
| Released | June 27, 1974 | |
| Recorded | CBS Studios, San Francisco, CA, 3/30/74 - 4/19/74 | |
| Genre | Folk rock, Rock | |
| Length | 37:26 | |
| Label | Grateful Dead | |
| Producer(s) | Grateful Dead | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| The Grateful Dead chronology | ||
| Skeletons from the Closet: The Best of Grateful Dead (1974) |
Grateful Dead From the Mars Hotel (1974) |
Blues for Allah (1975) |
Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel is the seventh studio album by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded in August 1973 and originally released on June 27, 1974. It was the second release under the band's own label, Grateful Dead Records, after fulfilling their contract with Warner Bros. Records.
This was the final album before the band's hiatus from touring in October 1974 during which time the band would finish up the film editing of The Grateful Dead Movie.
The album was released in a variety of ways after its original run:
- It was released again on LP in 1980 by Mobile Fidelity Records.
- It was released for the first time on CD in 1995 by Arista.
- It was remastered, expanded, and released as part of the Beyond Description (1973-1989) 12-CD box set in October 2004.
- The remastered version was then released separately on CD on March 7, 2006 by Rhino Records.
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
[edit] Original release
[edit] Side one
- "U.S. Blues" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:42
- "China Doll" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:10
- "Unbroken Chain" (Lesh, Peterson) – 6:46
- "Loose Lucy" (Garcia, Hunter) – 3:22
[edit] Side two
- "Scarlet Begonias" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:19
- "Pride of Cucamonga" (Lesh, Peterson) – 4:17
- "Money Money" (Barlow, Weir) – 4:23
- "Ship of Fools" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:27
[edit] 2004 reissue
- "U.S. Blues" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:40
- "China Doll" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:10
- "Unbroken Chain" (Lesh, Peterson) – 6:45
- "Loose Lucy" (Garcia, Hunter) – 3:21
- "Scarlet Begonias" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:19
- "Pride of Cucamonga" (Lesh, Peterson) – 4:16
- "Money Money" Barlow, Weir) – 4:24
- "Ship of Fools" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:38
- "Loose Lucy" (alternate take) – 4:43
- "Scarlet Begonias" (live) – 9:09
- "Money Money" (live) – 4:19
- "Wave That Flag" (Garcia, Hunter) (live) – 5:34
- "Let It Rock" (Berry) (live) – 3:22
- "Pride of Cucamonga" (acoustic demo) – 4:24
- "Unbroken Chain" (acoustic demo) – 6:20
[edit] Personnel
- Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals
- Bob Weir - guitar, vocals
- Keith Godchaux - keyboards, vocals
- Donna Jean Godchaux - vocals
- Phil Lesh - bass
- Bill Kreutzmann - drums
Additional preformers:
- Vassar Clements - violin
- Matthew Kelly - harmonica
- Bill Atwood - trumpet
- Joe Ellis - trumpet
- Martin Fierro - saxophone (alto, tenor)
- Sarah Fulcher - vocals
- Frank Morin - saxophone (tenor)
- Pat O'Hara - trombone
- Doug Sahm - guitar
- Benny Velarde - percussion
Production:
- Mary Ann Mayer - illustrations, creation
[edit] Bonus tracks production details
- "Loose Lucy" - studio outtake, recorded August 7, 1973
- "Scarlet Begonias" - recored live at the Winterland on October 16, 1974
- "Money Money" - recorded live in Vancouver, BC on May 17, 1973
- "Wave That Flag" - recorded live in Springfield on March 28, 1973
- "Let It Rock" - recorded live in Miami on June 23, 1974
- "Pride Of Cucamonga" - studio acoustic demo, recorded August 4, 1973
- "Unbroken Chain" - studio acoustic demo, recorded August 11, 1973
[edit] Reissue production credits
- David Lemieux, James Austin - reissue producers
- Reggie Collins - annotation
- Joel Selvin - liner notes
- Sheryl Farber - editorial supervision
- Tom Flye - mixing
- Roy Segal - engineer
- Cameron Sears - executive producer
- Jimmy Edwards, Robin Hurley, Hale Milfgrim, Scott Pascucci - associate producer
- Joe Gastwirt - mastering, production consultant
- Eileen Law - research
- Ed Perlstein, Bruce Polonsky, Richard Pechner - photography
- Hugh Brown, Steve Vance - design, reissue art directors
- Steven Chean, Bill Inglot, Jeffrey Norman, Randy Perry - project assistants
- Robert Gatley - mixing assistant
- Ned Lagin - synthesizer
- Mary Ann Mayer - artwork
[edit] Charts
Album - Billboard
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 1974 | Pop Albums | 16 |
