Salad Days Vol. 1

Motorpsycho

A 4 LP collection of early Motorpsycho recordings. The set includes the album Lobotomizer (1991), the mini-album Soothe (1992) and two additional LPs with the title Becoming Motorpsycho: Juvenilia, Oddities And Artefacts From The Vaults, 1990-1993. One of the additional LPs includes a cover of the Grateful Dead song Mason's Children which was originally released on a compilation in 1993. The inner packaging of the Salad Days set includes a Robert Hunter quote.

Tracks

LP 1 (Lobotomizer):

• Lobotomizer
• Grinder
• Hogwash
• Home of the Brave
• Frances
• Wasted
• Eternity
• TFC

• Lighthouse Girl
• Sister Confusion
• The Wait
• Step Inside
• ...We All Float Down Here...
• California Dreamin'

• Have Fun
• Loaded
• Some Real Mindfuck
• California Dreamin'
• We All Float Down Here Too!
• Into The Sun
• Blind Eyed God
• Sunchild
• Mason's Children
• Babylon
• Come On In
• Mad Sun
• Cherry Red
• You Gave It All Away
• The Sift
• The Golden Core
• Come On In
• Demon Box

The cover of Mason's Children was originally released on the Comin' Down Fast compilation in 1993. On this compilation the song was given the title Manson's Children and credited to just J. Garcia. On the Salad Days set the Mason's Children title is restored and credits are Garcia, Weir, Lesh and Hunter.

The cover of Mason's Children was recorded some time in the winter of 1992/93.

The inner packaging of the Salad Days Vol. 1 release includes a Robert Hunter quote:

Once in a while you get shown the light
In the strangest of places if you look at it right

The cover of Mason's Children was originally released on the compilation:

• Comin' Down Fast, Various Artists, 1993

• Becoming Motorpsycho: Juvenilia, Oddities And Artefacts From The Vaults, 1990-1993, Motorpsycho, 2024