Abraxas - if only for Samba Pa Ti and the time I saw someone at a party play it on the guitar. Which inspired me to listen to more Sanatana - and to learn to play that track myself.
samba pa ti is the song everyone tends to quote but they were so much more and better than that one track. maybe I'm biased as spt was the smoochie one to play at parties and as I was too bloody shy to be a hit with the lady's tended to sit that one out;-((
Would be interested in others' favourite tracks from later albums. I love the first two tracks from Veracruz, thought it was going to be a huge return to form when I first heard it, but the rest of the album wasn't much.
The first five albums were all superb : Santana (@The_President .. I have this but only on CD) Abraxas III (Man with Outstretched hand) Caravanserai Welcome .. The band went downhill when Greg Rollie and Neal Schoen left and Carlos went all religious and vegan
Best: 1) Abraxas (one of the best albums by anybody ever) 2) III 3) Caravanserai
Anyone still got Santana first album with the Lions heads ? One of the most iconic album covers ever - up there with Pink Floyds Prism.
Lions heads? There are faces/heads all over that cover, plus an African maiden in a grass skirt right in the middle.
I would also, probably, say caravanserai is right up there at the top (one of the most recognizable opening few bars of any album I would say). However, the first album has Jingo and the classic Soul Sacrifice, Also, the more recent Supernatural is one sexy album I think (Smooth, Maria Maria. Put Your Lights On).
I've just dug out a vinyl LP I have here - 'Love, Devotion, Surrender' with Carlos Santana and Mahavishnu John McLaughlin. I've probably not played that for 35 years. I'll have to give it a go. :-)
Anyone still got Santana first album with the Lions heads ? One of the most iconic album covers ever - up there with Pink Floyds Prism.
Lions heads? There are faces/heads all over that cover, plus an African maiden in a grass skirt right in the middle.
I would also, probably, say caravanserai is right up there at the top (one of the most recognizable opening few bars of any album I would say). However, the first album has Jingo and the classic Soul Sacrifice, Also, the more recent Supernatural is one sexy album I think (Smooth, Maria Maria. Put Your Lights On).
I've just dug out a vinyl LP I have here - 'Love, Devotion, Surrender' with Carlos Santana and Mahavishnu John McLaughlin. I've probably not played that for 35 years. I'll have to give it a go. :-)
like it.
love devotion and surrender was also a track on the welcome album. i never bothered with Carlos's collaborations maybe I should have let me know how it sounds.
Anyone still got Santana first album with the Lions heads ? One of the most iconic album covers ever - up there with Pink Floyds Prism.
Lions heads? There are faces/heads all over that cover, plus an African maiden in a grass skirt right in the middle.
I would also, probably, say caravanserai is right up there at the top (one of the most recognizable opening few bars of any album I would say). However, the first album has Jingo and the classic Soul Sacrifice, Also, the more recent Supernatural is one sexy album I think (Smooth, Maria Maria. Put Your Lights On).
I've just dug out a vinyl LP I have here - 'Love, Devotion, Surrender' with Carlos Santana and Mahavishnu John McLaughlin. I've probably not played that for 35 years. I'll have to give it a go. :-)
like it.
love devotion and surrender was also a track on the welcome album. i never bothered with Carlos's collaborations maybe I should have let me know how it sounds.
the 'Love devotion and Surrender' on Welcome is not related to anything too 'jazzy' .. it is a very nice melodic piece with terrific piano work and vocals from Carlos, the late Leon Thomas and Wendy Haas, Mike Shrieves' wife '' like this :
The first five albums were all superb : Santana (@The_President .. I have this but only on CD) Abraxas III (Man with Outstretched hand) Caravanserai Welcome .. The band went downhill when Greg Rollie and Neal Schoen left and Carlos went all religious and vegan
Best: 1) Abraxas (one of the best albums by anybody ever) 2) III 3) Caravanserai
I agree more or less, though I have forgotten what's on III. I love Greg Rollie's keyboard work with Santana, wasted in Journey which is where he and Neal Schoen went off to. I played Caravanserai on Sunday after reading this thread and his solo on "All the Love in the Universe" is still stop-what-you're-doing-and-listen stuff. That track is an example of what sounds to me like music too "big" for your speakers. So much going on. Early Killers being another example. If anyone understands what I mean….
Carlos finally came to Prague in 2010. Started with Jingo and went on for three hours...
Anyone still got Santana first album with the Lions heads ? One of the most iconic album covers ever - up there with Pink Floyds Prism.
Lions heads? There are faces/heads all over that cover, plus an African maiden in a grass skirt right in the middle.
I would also, probably, say caravanserai is right up there at the top (one of the most recognizable opening few bars of any album I would say). However, the first album has Jingo and the classic Soul Sacrifice, Also, the more recent Supernatural is one sexy album I think (Smooth, Maria Maria. Put Your Lights On).
I've just dug out a vinyl LP I have here - 'Love, Devotion, Surrender' with Carlos Santana and Mahavishnu John McLaughlin. I've probably not played that for 35 years. I'll have to give it a go. :-)
like it.
love devotion and surrender was also a track on the welcome album. i never bothered with Carlos's collaborations maybe I should have let me know how it sounds.
the 'Love devotion and Surrender' on Welcome is not related to anything too 'jazzy' .. it is a very nice melodic piece with terrific piano work and vocals from Carlos, the late Leon Thomas and Wendy Haas, Mike Shrieves' wife '' like this :
Anyone still got Santana first album with the Lions heads ? One of the most iconic album covers ever - up there with Pink Floyds Prism.
Lions heads? There are faces/heads all over that cover, plus an African maiden in a grass skirt right in the middle.
I would also, probably, say caravanserai is right up there at the top (one of the most recognizable opening few bars of any album I would say). However, the first album has Jingo and the classic Soul Sacrifice, Also, the more recent Supernatural is one sexy album I think (Smooth, Maria Maria. Put Your Lights On).
I've just dug out a vinyl LP I have here - 'Love, Devotion, Surrender' with Carlos Santana and Mahavishnu John McLaughlin. I've probably not played that for 35 years. I'll have to give it a go. :-)
like it.
love devotion and surrender was also a track on the welcome album. i never bothered with Carlos's collaborations maybe I should have let me know how it sounds.
the 'Love devotion and Surrender' on Welcome is not related to anything too 'jazzy' .. it is a very nice melodic piece with terrific piano work and vocals from Carlos, the late Leon Thomas and Wendy Haas, Mike Shrieves' wife '' like this :
Anyone still got Santana first album with the Lions heads ? One of the most iconic album covers ever - up there with Pink Floyds Prism.
Lions heads? There are faces/heads all over that cover, plus an African maiden in a grass skirt right in the middle.
I would also, probably, say caravanserai is right up there at the top (one of the most recognizable opening few bars of any album I would say). However, the first album has Jingo and the classic Soul Sacrifice, Also, the more recent Supernatural is one sexy album I think (Smooth, Maria Maria. Put Your Lights On).
I've just dug out a vinyl LP I have here - 'Love, Devotion, Surrender' with Carlos Santana and Mahavishnu John McLaughlin. I've probably not played that for 35 years. I'll have to give it a go. :-)
like it.
love devotion and surrender was also a track on the welcome album. i never bothered with Carlos's collaborations maybe I should have let me know how it sounds.
the 'Love devotion and Surrender' on Welcome is not related to anything too 'jazzy' .. it is a very nice melodic piece with terrific piano work and vocals from Carlos, the late Leon Thomas and Wendy Haas, Mike Shrieves' wife '' like this :
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Abraxas for me, but to each his own.
I thought it was a sports channel......
Great band though.
Probably Abraxus imo
Santana (@The_President .. I have this but only on CD)
Abraxas
III (Man with Outstretched hand)
Caravanserai
Welcome .. The band went downhill when Greg Rollie and Neal Schoen left and Carlos went all religious and vegan
Best: 1) Abraxas (one of the best albums by anybody ever)
2) III
3) Caravanserai
I would also, probably, say caravanserai is right up there at the top (one of the most recognizable opening few bars of any album I would say). However, the first album has Jingo and the classic Soul Sacrifice, Also, the more recent Supernatural is one sexy album I think (Smooth, Maria Maria. Put Your Lights On).
I've just dug out a vinyl LP I have here - 'Love, Devotion, Surrender' with Carlos Santana and Mahavishnu John McLaughlin. I've probably not played that for 35 years. I'll have to give it a go. :-)
love devotion and surrender was also a track on the welcome album.
i never bothered with Carlos's collaborations maybe I should have let me know how it sounds.
They did .. and here it is .. well a live version some years after
Carlos finally came to Prague in 2010. Started with Jingo and went on for three hours...
Whoah, whoah. Leon Thomas the jazz vocalist who worked with Pharoah Sanders?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XdmevPWZTRg