Grateful Dead – From The Mars Hotel – CD

Digipak, Anniversary Edition, Deluxe Edition

‘From the Mars Hotel (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)’ includes the Dead’s nearly complete, previously unreleased show from May 12, 1974, at the University of Nevada in Reno, playing an outdoor football stadium during a huge wind storm. The classic performance features all of the highs you expect from the Grateful Dead at this time: a huge ‘China Cat Sunflower’ > ‘I Know You Rider’, ‘From the Mars Hotel’ tunes including ‘U.S. Blues’ an ‘Ship of Fools’, a second set jam featuring one of those versions of ‘The Other One’, and plenty of classic Dead such as ‘Brown-Eyed Women’, ‘Tennessee Jed’, ‘Mississippi Half-Step’, ‘Truckin”, ‘Sugar Magnolia’, and so many more great songs from their entire career. This is prime Wall of Sound-era Grateful Dead, from the sound system’s first-ever road show. Coming on the heels of the Dead’s two months in the studio recording ‘Mars Hotel’, it was an exceptionally exciting time in Grateful Dead world, even by their lofty standards.

Disc: 1
1 U.S. Blues (2024 Remaster)
2 China Doll (2024 Remaster)
3 Unbroken Chain (2024 Remaster)
4 Loose Lucy (2024 Remaster)
5 Scarlet Begonias (2024 Remaster)
6 Pride of Cucamonga (2024 Remaster)
7 Money Money (2024 Remaster)
8 Ship of Fools (2024 Remaster)
9 China Doll (Demo) [2024 Remaster]
10 Wave That Flag (Demo) [2024 Remaster]

Disc: 2
1 Sugaree (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74)
2 Mexicali Blues (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74)
3 Tennessee Jed (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74)
4 Jack Straw (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74)
5 Brown-Eyed Women (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74)
6 Beat it on Down the Line (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74)
7 China Cat Sunflower (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74)
8 I Know You Rider (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74)
9 El Paso (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74)
10 U.S. Blues (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74)
11 Greatest Story Ever Told (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74)
12 It Must Have Been the Roses (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74)
13 Me and Bobby McGee (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74)
14 Deal (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74)

Disc: 3
1 Around and Around (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74)
2 Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74)
3 Truckin’ (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74)
4 The Other One (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74)
5 Row Jimmy (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74)
6 Big River (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74)
7 Ship of Fools (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74)
8 Sugar Magnolia (Live at University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 5/12/74)