From the Mars Hotel 50: China Doll

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🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

The Deadcast explores “China Doll,” perhaps the most delicate Dead song, the innovative studio techniques pioneered for From The Mars Hotel, the formation of Round Records (& the making of Jerry Garcia’s sophomore solo album), & the infamous Wall of Sound test at the Cow Palace.

Guests: Elvis Costello, Ron Rakow, Richard Loren, Andy Leonard, Richie Pechner, Steve Brown, Michael Parrish, David Gans, Steve Beck, David Lemieux, Brian Kehew, Shaugn O’Donnell, Brian Anderson

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0:00.0	The Good Old Grateful Dead cast, the official podcast of The Grateful Dead.
0:09.9	I'm Rich Mahan with Jesse Jarno, exploring the music and legacy of the Grateful Dead for the committed and the curious.
0:17.0	Ladies and gentlemen, fellow Dead Heads, welcome to season 9 of the Good Old Grateful Dead cast.
0:23.4	I'm your co-host Rich Mahan.
0:25.0	Thank you very much for tuning in.
0:27.7	We are back with season 9, and we're diving into track 2 in this episode,
0:32.0	certainly one of the Grateful Dead's most haunting
0:35.0	and melodically complex tracks China Doll. It is the 50th anniversary of the
0:42.0	Grateful Deads from the Mars Hotel.
0:44.1	And to celebrate this, Rhino has a grand 50th anniversary release in the works,
0:49.5	which includes the original album remastered, some really cool early demos of songs from the album
0:56.1	and a previously unreleased live show you're going to need to hear to believe. The Grateful
1:00.9	Dead played University of Nevada Reno on May 12th, 1974.
1:06.7	And this was the first road show for the infamous Wall of Sound which debuted weeks earlier at
1:12.1	home in San Francisco on March 23rd at the Cow Palace.
1:16.9	This audio was cleaned up and remastered by Grammy Award winning engineer David Glasser
1:21.9	with the Plangent Processes, tape restoration and speed correction
1:25.9	and was produced for release by David Lemieux.
1:30.1	The aforementioned is available as a 3-cedy set as well as digitally.
1:34.2	There is standard black vinyl, a dead.net exclusive custom vinyl,
1:39.4	and a very cool
1:50.0	more info and oleotropic vinyl version you have to see to believe it's graphics animate when you spin it on your
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