Grateful Dead From The Mars Hotel (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)

Grateful Useless From The Mars Lodge (fiftieth Anniversary Deluxe Version)

50 years in the past, the Grateful Useless had been cooking with fuel. It was spring 1974, the band had efficiently emerged from a collection of hectic, harrowing instances, and would quickly comply with their transformative Wake Of The Flood with the second acclaimed album launch on their very personal Grateful Useless Data: From The Mars Lodge. Through the mere eight months that had handed between these two beloved LPs, the group additionally performed a few of their most exploratory stay music and largest venues so far, famously amplified by the home made, 75-ton Wall of Sound that they debuted on March twenty third, 1974, at their hometown Cow Palace in Daly Metropolis, CA. Everlasting staples corresponding to “Scarlet Begonias,” “Ship Of Fools” and “U.S. Blues” would first be launched into setlists alongside that season’s tour, earlier than the Grateful Useless spent two months recording and honing them within the studio for From The Mars Lodge. To not point out perennial classics like “China Doll” and “Free Lucy,” or “Pleasure of Cucamonga” and “Unbroken Chain” – the ultimate two tracks Phil Lesh would sing on a Grateful Useless studio album. Now, as Grateful Useless members and tributaries proceed to have a good time and convey so many of those formative songs to the plenty, From The Mars Lodge has been remastered and expanded with newly unearthed materials and rarities, in honor of its fiftieth Anniversary.

Out June twenty first by way of Rhino, six days earlier than the album’s authentic launch on June 27, 1974, From The Mars Lodge (fiftieth Anniversary Deluxe Version) options remastered audio by GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer David Glasser, with Plangent Processes tape restoration and pace correction. Produced for launch by Grateful Useless Legacy Supervisor and Audio Archivist, David Lemieux, the deluxe version additionally consists of demos of “China Doll” and “Wave That Flag” – the track that turned “U.S. Blues” – in addition to a beforehand unreleased stay efficiency of the Grateful Useless at College of Nevada-Reno on 5/12/1974. Because the band stuffed an outside soccer stadium with epic highs like an enormous “China Cat Sunflower” > “I Know You Rider,” Mars Lodge cuts together with “U.S. Blues” and classics corresponding to “Brown-Eyed Ladies,” “Tennessee Jed,” “Mississippi Half-Step,” “Truckin'” and “Sugar Magnolia,” a large wind storm was no match for the Wall of Sound. Designed to enhance the listening and efficiency expertise at what had been changing into bigger gigs and longer, extra dynamic and assorted units, the Wall of Sound required 21 stage fingers, and underlined the resounding impact the Grateful Useless had been having on American audiences and tradition on the time, at the same time as all the operation remained homespun and humble. 

Pre-order From The Mars Lodge (fiftieth Anniversary Deluxe Version) on 3CD and digital codecs, and listen to “Wave That Flag (Demo),” out there on DSPs for the primary time right this moment

Along with the fiftieth Anniversary Deluxe Version, From The Mars Lodge (fiftieth Anniversary Remaster) might be launched on June twenty first as a single 180-gram black vinyl LP, restricted version Neon Pink vinyl, restricted version “Ugly Rumors” customized vinyl unique to Useless.web, and a specially-designed image disc created in partnership with zoetrope pioneer Drew Tetz. When seen with a digital camera or strobe, the zoetrope LP will seem to animate, and may be pre-ordered together with the remainder of From The Mars Lodge (fiftieth Anniversary Remaster) variants HERE. 

Recorded in San Francisco’s Coast Recorders studio, From The Mars Lodge finds Keith Godchaux significantly shining throughout a wide range of keys, from the “China Doll” harpsichord to the pounding piano on Bob Weir’s “Cash Cash,” to the churchy organ that elevates “Ship Of Fools.” Lyricist Robert Hunter packs “U.S. Blues” with a barrage of images, pop-culture references and sardonic asides – as Canadian writer Ray Robertson writes within the fiftieth Anniversary Version’s liner notes, it “carries an plain whiff of late-capitalism ennui…it is probably the most enjoyable you may ever have dancing to the top of the American Empire.” Jerry Garcia’s jaunty lead guitar drives bouncing melodies throughout the LP, whereas company embrace Ned Lagin’s unnerving synth results on “Unbroken Chain,” Clover member John McFee’s country-rock pedal metal on “Pleasure Of Cucamonga,” and extra. 

From The Mars Lodge peaked at #16 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1974, contributing to the Grateful Useless’s historic achievement final month, once they broke the all-time report for Most Prime 40 albums on the Billboard 200. 

In tandem with right this moment’s announcement, the Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast will premiere its ninth season tomorrow, March twenty eighth. Following 5 million downloads and counting, the official Grateful Useless podcast will now unlock the various secrets and techniques of From The Mars Lodge. Together with a track-by-track breakdown of the album, this season will inform the story of the game-changing Wall of Sound, with archival audio of its mastermind – legendary LSD chemist Owsley Stanley – and new interviews with those that made the larger-than-life speaker system a actuality. 

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