Bootleg Originals Part Two - Santana - USA 1976

Carlos Santana is sixty years young this year, yep once again another one of those now familiar milestones for music fans.

Was it really 35 years ago that I bought Caravanserai, an album of timeless qualities, which I think pretty much sums up so much of the music of Santana.

This concert was recorded in 1976. Lets get the period in context.

Carlos Santana along with Tom Coster, producer David Rubinson, and drummer Ndugu Leon Chancler had formed yet another version of Santana, adding vocalist Greg Walker.

The album "Amigos" was released in 1976 which featured the songs "Dance, Sister, Dance" and "Let It Shine" and had a strong funk and Latin sound.

The album also received considerable airplay on FM (USA) album oriented rock stations with the instrumental "Europa (Earths Cry Heavens Smile)" and re-introduced Santana back into the charts. Rolling Stone magazine ran a second cover story on Santana entitled; "Santana Comes Home" there was a lot of interest in the band that year.

This concert captures so well one of Santana's most special aspects, namely playing live.

Recorded at The Beacon Theatre, New York City, USA on the 7th May 1976, the band were in sparkling form, the venue seems ideal for their kind of skilled musicianship.

This was a professionally recorded and mixed show, that does such a well crafted and vibrant band justice. It was recently given a digital clean up by the BBC for rebroadcast. This is the nice new 'cleaned up' copy!

Set list is:

1. Gitano
2. Black Magic Woman / Gypsy Queen
3. Dance Sister Dance (Baila Mi Hermana)
4. Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)
5. Samba Pa Ti
6. Let Me
7. Incident At Neshabur
8. Evil Ways

Replacement download link in comments below (8th February 2012).

Some Santana Cd's from their seventies era HERE .

Comments

ELASTIC ROCK said…
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Anonymous said…
Thanks Beehive for keeping your comments open to anyone without censorship.

Please ignore 'around the blogs' who seems determined to hijack music bloggers with a self centered poison.

From another source, I know that REM representatives asked a number of bloggers to promote the new DVD, you did, so where is the hypocracy.

Excellent blog keep it up
Anonymous said…
Thank you for posting this. I'm a big fan of this vintage of Santana and it's nice to get another show that has been "cleaned up" as well as this one has.

Keep up the great work!
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thanks
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Remy29 said…
Thank you
Remy29 said…
Thank you Good Stuff
Anonymous said…
When Flameload sez:
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I assume that means all Flameloads are dead.
Sad, I dig Carlos. I might have even seen this show, but what the heck, that was a long time ago. I know the Beacon Theatre was a big, old movie house that had great vibes and wonderful acoustics. Now renovated, it still sports the best in world entertainment, like Peter Framton is coming in a few days. It's a goof, they are still using his angelic face from Comes Alive days. People who go to see that guy will wonder if they are in a time warp!! Har Har.

Thanks for all your work, and if you are busy as a bee and if you put Santana up in currently working Mediafile, good for you! And us!

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Beehive Candy said…
REPLACEMENT DOWNLOAD LINK (8TH FEBRUARY 2012):

http://www.mediafire.com/?shw28tlfg42s4ez

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