Grateful Dead - From The Mars Hotel - MFSL 45RPM LP

Limited Edition, Numbered, Reissue, Remastered, 180g

Number of Discs: 2

Fifty years ago, the Grateful Dead were cooking with gas. It was spring 1974, the band had successfully emerged from a series of hectic, harrowing times, and would soon follow their transformative Wake Of The Flood with the second acclaimed album release on their very own Grateful Dead Records: From The Mars Hotel. During the mere eight months that had passed between those two beloved LPs, the group also played some of their most exploratory live music and largest venues to date, famously amplified by the homemade, 75-ton Wall of Sound that they debuted on March 23rd, 1974, at their hometown Cow Palace in Daly City, California.

Eternal staples such as "Scarlet Begonias," "Ship Of Fools" and "U.S. Blues" would first be introduced into setlists along that season's tour, before the Grateful Dead spent two months recording and honing them in the studio for From The Mars Hotel. Not to mention perennial classics such as "China Doll" and "Loose Lucy," or "Pride of Cucamonga" and "Unbroken Chain" — the final two tracks Phil Lesh would sing on a Grateful Dead studio album.

A1        U.S. Blues     4:37
A2        China Doll      4:09
B1        Unbroken Chain     6:45
B2        Loose Lucy      3:23
C1        Scarlet Begonias      4:19
C2        Pride Of Cucamonga      4:16
D1        Money Money      4:21
D2        Ship Of Fools      5:22