![]() Garcia had played in CBS Studios earlier in the year with Art Garfunkel during the sessions for Angel Clare. According to Segal, Garcia liked the room because it had a more "live" sound than the Record Plant, where the band had recorded their previous album. They produced the album themselves with engineer Roy Segal. ![]() The studio had since been purchased by CBS Studios and refurbished. The band chose to return to Coast Recorders on Folsom Street in San Francisco, where they had recorded "The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)" as a single for their first album, in 1967. Rhythm guitarist Bob Weir contributed "Money Money" with writing partner John Perry Barlow. This was the only time he would sing two songs on a Dead studio album, and they would be his final lead vocal work for the band until 1985. However, "Pride of Cucamonga" and "Unbroken Chain" were both written and sung by bassist Phil Lesh with the assistance of poet Bobby Petersen. The majority were again composed by lead guitarist Jerry Garcia and lyricist Robert Hunter and featured Garcia's lead vocals. The Grateful Dead returned to the studio at the end of March 1974, having readied another batch of songs. From the Mars Hotel came less than one year after their previous album, Wake of the Flood, and was the last before the band's then-indefinite hiatus from live touring, begun in October 1974. It was the second album by the band on their own Grateful Dead Records label. It was mainly recorded in April 1974, and originally released June 27, 1974. ![]() Skeletons from the Closet: The Best of Grateful Deadįrom the Mars Hotel is the seventh studio album (eleventh overall) by rock band the Grateful Dead.
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