Product Description
Grateful Dead – From The Mars Hotel (50th Anniversary)(Black Vinyl)
RELEASE DATE: 21st June 2024
Eight months after the release of Wake Of The Flood, the GRATEFUL DEAD followed up that
masterpiece with the second album on their Grateful Dead Records label, From The Mars Hotel. To
this day, most of the songs on From The Mars Hotel are played frequently by the band members as
they continue to bring the music to the people, and during the GRATEFUL DEAD’S touring career,
more than half of the songs were important parts of their live repertoire. “Scarlet Begonias,” “Ship
Of Fools,” and “U.S Blues” arrived on the scene in 1974, with “China Doll” and “Loose Lucy” coming a
year earlier, and they all quickly became staples of GRATEFUL DEAD live sets for decades, although
“Loose Lucy” had a 15 year hiatus 1975-1989. Phil two songs on the album are often played live
these days when Phil performs with his rotating cast of Friends, and these songs, “Pride Of
Cucamonga” and “Unbroken Chain” are elicit ecstatic responses. These would be the final two Phil-
sung songs on a GRATEFUL DEAD studio album. Peaking at #16 on the Billboard Top 200 chart in
1974, the album's terrific batch of new songs and exceptional production had Dead Heads scooping
up the album 50 years ago upon its release.
Track-listing:
Side 1
1. U.S. Blues
2. China Doll
3. Unbroken Chain
4. Loose Lucy
Side 2
5. Scarlet Begonias
6. Pride Of Cucamonga
7. Money Money
8. Ship Of Fools
