Santana - Live at the Fillmore 1968
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Artist: SantanaEdition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 1997-03-11
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Jingo
- Persuasion
- Treat
- Chunk A Funk
- Fried Neckbones
- Conquistadore Rides Again
- Soul Sacrifice
- As The Years Go Passing By
- Freeway
Free Music Notes for Live at the Fillmore 1968
Free Music Review: Drop the bongs, guys, there's actual music to be made...
Hit: 2 Stars
Oye. Okay, here we go. The acid-happy meanderings of Santana before their Woodstock breakthrough. See, what had made Santana good in the early days was their ability to make a jam compact, but there's no sense of that here. None of these songs run at logical lengths, and in fact most are excruciating. The half-hour "Freeway" is particularly bad. It just goes. And goes. And goes. Thirty minutes, one chord, probably because the group was too stoned to play a second. And that's what the rest of the album's like. Plus it features Carlos experimenting with quasi-metal tones ("Jingo"; "Persuasion") that fit him like a Latin tone would fit Toni Iommi. "Chunk a Funk", one of the many otherwise unreleased tunes here, is funky, but also crappy. Too much of it is devoted to Greg Rollie, who plays a very familiar chord sequence. But not even that could be as bad as, say, "Fried Neckbones" - an insignificant vamp with inconsequential lyrics and insipid playing. Even "Soul Sacrifice" sounds bad - the organ is more Steppenwolf than Santana. Carlos sounds timid during his solo as well. Check out the Woodstock version instead. There's also a long, generic blues ("As the Years Go Passing By") that's notable for two reasons: it doesn't really suck, and it more or less is "Since I've Been Loving You". Same introducing solo, same melody (though, in interest of fairness to Jimmy Page, it also has the same melody as "Going Down Slow" and a thousand other blues songs), similar chord progression (though, once again...). All it lacks is the huge emotional release that made "Since I've Been Loving You" good as it is. However, Carlos' playing on it is inspired, with him making the absolute best of the generic blues riffs he's shooting out. I mean, yeah, you've heard them a dozen times before. But Carlos injects them with a certain emotional freshness, as if that progression means everything to him. And that, in my mind, is guitar soloing. It's not an entirely good song, because the vocal passages are interminable, but compared to "Freeway"? We're dealing with divine quality here. With that said, any given Allman Brothers or Jimi Hendrix blues jam smokes it. I mean, you think this can compare to "Hear My Train a-Comin'" or "Stormy Monday"? Ha. So the remaining good song is "Treat", equipped with a fine jazzy piano solo and the kind of high-quality playing Santana was capable of, even during his drugged-out hippie moments. Santana's first five studio albums rule, and so does the (mostly) live Moonflower. That, in my mind, is much better Santana.
Live at the Fillmore 1968 Poster
Had this 2 CD set, recorded just prior to the band's Columbia debut in 1968, been released in the mid-'70s, it would have been a multi-platinum certainty. Today it's an object lesson in how time can turn white-hot acts into stone cold catalog filler. Pretty cool version of "Soul Sacrifice," though. --Jeff BatemanPop Music CDs
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