Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel

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Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel
Studio album by Grateful Dead

Publication
(s)

June 1974

Label (s) Grateful Dead Records

Genre (s)

Folk rock , country rock

Title (number)

8 (LP), 15 (CD)

running time

37:28 (LP), 75:24 (CD)

occupation

production

Grateful Dead

chronology
Skeletons from the Closet: The Best of Grateful Dead (1974) Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel Blues for Allah (1975)

Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel is the seventh studio album and the twelfth album by the band Grateful Dead .

history

The album was largely recorded in April 1974 and released on June 27, 1974. After the contract with Warner Bros. Records had expired, Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel is the second album that the band released with their own label Grateful Dead Records .

The name of the album is based on the Mars Hotel , which was located near the recording studio .

The next album Blues for Allah was to be released after a break in September 1975. In October 1974 the band went on tour. The five-day performance at the Winterland Music Theater in San Francisco was the occasion for a documentary called The Grateful Dead Movie , which was the first film only about the Grateful Dead after the band had appeared in the documentary Festival Express and had their performance shown on the Woodstock Documentation was denied by the band. The demolition of the Mars Hotel was also recorded in this documentation . After this tour, the band took a long break without performing.

If you look at the album upside down in the mirror, the graphics on the cover look like the words Ugly Rumorz or Ugly Rumors . This became the name of a band that u. a. Tony Blair and music journalist Mark Ellen belonged, with Blair said to have been the only one who wasn't a fan of the Grateful Dead. Ugly Rumors is also used by fans to denote the album. In addition, is From the Mars Hotel used as another name.

Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel may not be considered the usual Grateful Dead album, but it is one of the better studio albums.

Like the other Dead albums, Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel was released more often. In 2004, a revised version of the eight songs and seven additional songs by Rhino Records for the box set Beyond Description (1973–1989) came onto the market, which were then also released in 2006 as a single CD.

The song Scarlet Begonias has been covered many times. Artists include Sublime , Phish , Jimmy Buffett , Jamaican reggae band The Melodians, and Bruce Hornsby .

The song Ship of Fools is based on Narrenschiff of Sebastian Brant .

successes

The album reached number 16 on the Billboard charts .

Track list

1974 LP

page 1

  1. US Blues ( Hunter , Garcia ) - 4:42
  2. China Doll (Garcia, Hunter) - 4:10
  3. Unbroken Chain ( Phil Lesh , Robert Peterson) - 6:46
  4. Loose Lucy (Garcia, Hunter) - 3:22

Page 2

  1. Scarlet Begonias (Garcia, Hunter) - 4:19
  2. Pride of Cucamonga (Lesh, Peterson) - 4:17
  3. Money Money ( Barlow , Weir ) - 4:23
  4. Ship of Fools (Garcia, Hunter) - 5:27

Bonus 2004

  1. Loose Lucy (Garcia, Hunter) - 4:43
  2. Scarlet Begonias (live) - 9:09
  3. Money Money (live) - 4:19
  4. Wave That Flag (Garcia, Hunter) (live) - 5:34
  5. Let It Rock ( Chuck Berry ) (live) - 3:22
  6. Pride of Cucamonga (demo (acoustic)) - 4:24
  7. Unbroken Chain (demo (acoustic)) - 6:20

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BBC Review Ugly Rumors
  2. ↑ Interview with Mark Ellen in Political Guardian (April 27, 2003)
  3. ↑ Placement according to AMG

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