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Free Music Notes for Santana
Free Music Review: Solid Debut
Hit: 4 Stars
This debut is first rate all the way. Carlos Santana provides some super guitar solos with a cutting edge latin flare. Often overlooked are Greg Rollie's piano, organ, and vocal contributions. His singing on Persuasion, Shades of Time, and You Just Don't Care are very strong. I simply adore the keyboard touches on Treat. That instrumental is a super underatted gem.I can't overlooked the percussion and drumming either. Its these compelling rhythms that separate Santana from many of the jam bands of the late sixties.
Anyway, this is a fine debut which almost rates on the same level as Abraxas and Santana 3.
Free Music Review: Tasty!
Hit: 5 Stars
I used to be a G. Hits Santana fan. No more. This album is is hot and toasty. Every song makes you want to pick up a guitar and join in. The sound is incredible. A remaster so good you want to eat it. In fact if you are into three minute songs skip this one, it is heavy on the jam!Free Music Review: And then after Woodstock came...
Hit: 4 Stars
The first Santana album. This is where it all began (with studio albums anyway, check out Live At The Fillmore '68) and what a start!
Carlos Santana on Guitar
Gregg Rolie on Organ and Lead Vocals
David Brown on Bass
Jose 'Chepito' Areas on Percussion
Mike Carabello on Percussion
and Michael Shrieve on Drums
okay bases are loaded, the game is about to start...
STATS
'Waiting' - a really smooth instrumental with brutal Hammond organ and pounding persistant percussion. Santana's guitar is relatively tame at this point, but that's just to trick the opposition at this early stage in the game.
'Evil Ways' - the Top 10 HIT, comes in, another smoothie, but lyrically sharp and passionately latin. Ready to set the game straight.
'Shades Of Time' - quite a ballad in a way, the tactics continue, but it is building up. Rolie's vocals are more edgy and his Hammond is beginning to burn with World Series anticipation. Santana's guitar is hitting it, too.
'Savor' - straight into Savor, the Latin Lysergics are really going for it now, the percussion of Areas and Carabello is beginning to fire up.
'Jingo' - it's still going on in this vein, the intimidation of the Latins is working and oh!-
'Persuasion' - they're in there! And they're leading. Everything's brutal. The Grateful Dead Devils weren't expecting that.
'Treat' - the Latins are so ahead, thay've got time to cool down. Rolie's piano skills are coming to the fore here, and the percussionists are right on the ball.
'You Just Don't Care' - they're back and they're heavy with intimidation and the All-American-Part-Nicaraguan-Part-Mexican spirit of competition and decimation. Dynamic and brutal.
'Soul Sacrifice' - the icing on the cake of total flawlessness. The world series in their sights, and no, wait, Michael Shrieve's drum solo - man that was unexpected - that's taken them to the top. They are the champions.
Bonus Tracks STATS
'Savor' a spirited feeling of celebration is in order!
'Soul Sacrifice' the track that won them the match! Now played live in the Dead Devil's faces and fifty times better. Brown's bass is superb!
'Fried Neckbones' the finale! They'll be back soon to take on the Jefferson Joints next season, hope you'll be watching, er listening!
Free Music Review: One Of Santana's Best
Hit: 5 Stars
SANTANA, ABRAXAS, and SANTANA 3, along with the two BEST OFs, GREATEST HITS, and ESSENTIAL SANTANA are the cornerstones of any Santana collection. Carlos Santana's belief that the Indonesian drug-smuggling conviction of a young Australian tourist was trumped-up and unjust makes this an essential purchase for both your ears AND your conscience. Get these first, preferably all at once, and then move on to later records like BORBOLETTA, INNER SECRETS, MOONFLOWER, MARATHON, ZEBOP!, and FESTIVAL.Free Music Review: Stunning debut album
Hit: 5 Stars
Santana's self-titled album is an excellent debut and arguably their best album. Their first hits, "Evil Ways" and "Soul Sacrifice", are the most well-known tracks. But there's much, much more excellence to be found. Gregg Rolie's vocals and organ playing on the bluesy "You Just Don't Care" and "Persuasion" are absoultely killer. If you like your percussion, it's all over this album, particularly on the instrumentals, "Jingo" and "Savor." A very powerful piece of music, the newly remastered album also contains 3 tracks recorded of their at the original Woodstock, including "Soul Sacrifice", which was one of the biggest highlights of the festival. It absolutely blows the original version, which was already good, right out of the water. This is timeless music that would be a welcome addition to any music fan's collection.