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Grateful Dead From The Mars Hotel [Original recording remastered, Extra tracks]

Grateful Dead Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (10 April 2006)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording remastered, Extra tracks
  • Label: Grateful Dead / Rhino
  • ASIN: B000E1ZBF4
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 73,166 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

1. U.S. Blues
2. China Doll
3. Unbroken Chain
4. Loose Lucy
5. Scarlet Begonias
6. Pride of Cucamonga
7. Money Money
8. Ship of Fools
9. Loose Lucy (Studio Outtake) (Bonus Track)
10. Scarlet Begonias (Bonus Track)
11. Money Money (Bonus Track)
12. Wave That Flag (Bonus Track)
13. Let It Rock (Bonus Track)
14. Pride Of Cucamonga (Studio Acoustic Demo) (Bonus Track)
15. Unbroken Chain (Studio Acoustic Demo) (Bonus Track)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps the Dead's best kept secret 3 Dec 2009
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For some reason I came late to the Grateful Dead. A perceptive workmate introduced me to Workingman's Dead and American Beauty in the mid-70s, and loaned me their then latest release, which subsequently became a lifelong favourite.

The eight songs here all feature taut songwriting and, in contrast with the legendarily loose nature of the band's live shows, gratifyingly tight performances. All would lend themselves to funky stretchout treatment on stage, yet benefitted from the distillation necessary to fit them into a studio collection. Jerry Garcia still finds space to weave his magical, sparkling lines among the verses, and the effortless tightness of the three-man rhythm section (only Bill Kreutzmann on drums here) surmounts the oft-shifting rhythms. Keith Godchaux provides a new versatility on keys - synth, harpsichord and acoustic piano as well as trademark organ - and his wife Donna gives a new soprano edge to the harmonies so saccharine-sweet on American Beauty.

From the opening jaunty shuffle "U.S. Blues", which captured hilariously the cynical yet defensive national attitude following Watergate, to the brooding Dylanesque closer "Ship Of Fools", there really are no weak tracks here. For me the standouts include Garcia and Hunter's irresitably funky "Loose Lucy" which gallops along on one of Captain Trips's finest riffs, and Bob Weir's highly enjoyable reinvention of the old Motown standard "Money" as "Money Money", in which the avarice is transferred to his unidentified lady friend and the original riff neatly subsumed into a new rolling chord sequence and broken time signature. Phil Lesh finally attains composer status with the hazy, summery "Unbroken Chain" and the lilting "Pride Of Cucamonga" on which guest pedal steelist, Cactus's John McFee, provides tremendous accompaniment to Lesh's earnest vocal. The most gifted singer in the band is of course Garcia, and my personal favourite is the rollicking "Scarlet Begonias" which forefronts the Captain's delightful plaintive tenor either side of a concise, exemplary Garcia solo. Oh, yes, and the album title refers to the nickname of an itinerants' hostel around the corner from the studio.

This album could be the Dead's best kept secret. Go discover.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Ugly Rumors 18 May 2010
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Ceratinly one my favourite Dead albums and one that has a personal significance for me. This was the band's current U.K. release when I first ever saw them at the Alexandra Palace on Monday 9th September 1974 (my 25th birthday,in fact). 'Scarlet Begonias' must rival 'Althea' as my favourite Dead song and, on this expanded reissue, there is an excellent live version too.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Mars hotel 8 April 2012
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Still shows the brilliance of Garcia et al: Unbroken Chain a Dead classic. Enjoy listening to this again and again.
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