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12Getting SodasThe World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to DieThe World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die
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Gef
That's fantastic but I find the one played at Woodstock in 1969 as the best of all time!
brofenix
Agreed ^^ I just listened to this version and the Woodstock live performance back to back, and I think the Woodstock performance is better. I just wish the Woodstock version had a remastered audio version of it, that sounded this good.
LEANDY777
Obviously, mike shrieve solo is amazing!!!
C.J. O'Dell
@brofenix IMHO, the Tanglewood version is even better than the Woodstock version. Both make the studio version sound downright tame.
JRH tv
Can't argue there.
PlanetFillmore
Nearly 50 years since this, the first album of the original Santana band, was recorded in San Francisco. For me, it still brings to mind the conga jam sessions on SF's Ocean Beach, where 20 or so Black and Latin percussionist would gather each weekend and sometimes during the week on even a foggy day and jam till the sun went down. From what I know, this began early in the 1950s in response to the entry of congas through Dizzy Gillespie and Chano Puzo collaboration on Manteca. Finally, the conga which had already began to find its way into Latin quarters of New York, was beginning to get use in Bop clubs without civil disturbance penalties charged to club owners. Charlie Parker and Dizzy most notably brought this about. But there was more to the story in San Francisco as percussionist such as Mongo Santamaria and Armando Peraza made their way out west with people like Slim Gaillard. The two, along with others could be seen in paying gigs in North Beach and Fillmore, but on a sunny day could be found playing across from Playland at the Beach during the 50s San Francisco. One of the most popular songs played in elongated fashion on the beach was the Jingo rhythm (from the same album) that was considered in some corners as the anthem of the percussion jam sessions. That would be perhaps the one song that eclipses this Soul Sacrifice we're listening to now for percussion vibration and eruption of articulation between conga, timbale, traps and bass line. And you know what? After 50 years, most people still don't see the African Goddess embedded in the lion's face and mane on the album cover. Many won't see it even after I've revealed it's there. Bet.
Justin Gardner
Holy shit I'm looking at my cd and I totally see it
Karol k
@Justin Gardner i see 7 faces in total
Pedro Lopez
9
Pedro Lopez
9 faces