Grateful Dead – From The Mars Hotel (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) Announced
The Grateful Dead will celebrate 50 years of their classic album From The Mars Hotel with a anniversary deluxe edition of the album, out 21 June on Rhino. A demo of Wave That Flag, the song that became US Blues, from the set has also been shared, listen below.
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From The Mars Hotel (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) features remastered audio by GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer David Glaser, with Plangent Processes tape restoration and speed correction. 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, 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 US Blues and classics such as Brown-Eyed Women, Tennessee Jed, Mississippi Half-Step, Truckin’, 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.
In addition to the 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, From The Mars Hotel (50th Anniversary Remaster) will be released on 21 June as a single 180-gram black vinyl LP, limited edition Neon Pink vinyl, limited edition “Ugly Rumors” custom vinyl exclusive to Dead.net, and a specially-designed picture disc created in partnership with zoetrope pioneer Drew Tetz. When viewed with a camera or strobe, the zoetrope LP will appear to animate, and can be pre-ordered along with the rest of From The Mars Hotel (50th Anniversary Remaster) variants HERE.
From The Mars Hotel (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) tracklisting
Disc 1
US Blues
China Doll
Unbroken Chain
Loose Lucy
Scarlet Begonias
Pride Of Cucamonga
Money Money
Ship Of Fools
-Bonus Tracks-
China Doll (Demo)
Wave That Flag (Demo)
Disc 2 – Live From The University Of Nevada-Reno, 5/12/74
Sugaree
Mexicali Blues
Tennessee Jed
Jack Straw
Brown-Eyed Women
Beat It On Down The Line
China Cat Sunflower>I Know You Rider
El Paso
US Blues
Greatest Story Ever Told
It Must Have Been The Roses
Me And Bobby McGee
Disc 3 – Live From The University Of Nevada-Reno, 5/12/74
Deal
Around And Around
Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
Truckin’>The Other One>Row Jimmy
Big River
Ship Of Fools
Sugar Magnolia