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Today, with Rhino s surprise release of From The Mars Hotel: The Angel s Share, the Grateful Dead vaults have once again been opened. Featuring 16 newly unearthed session recordings, the digital collection brings listeners directly into San Francisco s Coast Recorders during the spring of 1974, revealing the band s real-time process as they crafted such eternal staples as "Scarlet Begonias," "Ship Of Fools," "China Doll," "U.S. Blues," "Unbroken Chain" and more that would make up their classic From The Mars Hotel LP.
50 years ago, the Grateful Dead were cooking with gas. It was spring 1974, the band had successfully emerged from a series of hectic, harrowing times, and would soon follow their transformative Wake Of The Flood with the second acclaimed album release on their very own Grateful Dead Records: From The Mars Hotel.
50 years ago today the Grateful Dead performed a "monster" version of "Here Comes Sunshine" that helped jumpstart their beloved 'Dick's Picks' live archival release series.
The 1973 album Wake of the Flood could be seen as the studio fount for a group of songs that became staples of Grateful Dead shows over the next couple of decades.