VA - Fillmore : The Last Days (2 CD, 1972/FLAC + DVD 9)

 

Fillmore: The Last Days is a live album, recorded at the Fillmore West in San Francisco, California from June 29 to July 4, 1971. It contains performances by 14 different bands, mostly from the San Francisco Bay Area, including Santana, the Grateful Dead, Hot Tuna, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and the New Riders of the Purple Sage. It was released by Columbia Records in June 1972 as a three-disc LP. It was re-released by Epic Records in 1991 as a two-disc CD.

 Fillmore, a music documentary film showcasing the same run of concerts, was released on June 14, 1972. It was released on DVD on June 9, 2009. In addition to the concert material, the movie shows the emergence of the San Francisco music scene in the 1960s, and includes extensive footage of Bill Graham.

Fillmore: The Last Days is not a soundtrack album. Eight songs are included in both the film and the album, but eight songs are in the film and not on the album, and twelve songs are on the album but not in the film. 

 

Santana - Transmission Impossible (3 CD, 2016) [FLAC + 320]

 This 3 CD collection features a number of live appearances made by Santana at various junctures across their lengthy career, all of which were the subject of FM radio broadcasts at the time of the shows in question, and which make plain what a timeless, artful and graceful group of master musicians this collective have always been. Kicking off with a delightful performance the band gave at the Berkeley Community Theater, on 6th February 1970, six months after their stunning appearance at Woodstock in August 69, which bought Santana worldwide attention.

 

 

Santana, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane - A Night at the Family Dog (DVD 5)

Filmed on location at the Family Dog Ballroom in San Francisco in September 1970, the show captures the heyday and diversity of the San Francisco sound with three of the most well known bands to emerge from the scene: Santana, who would release their second album at the end of 1970; The Grateful Dead, including original band member Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, who were making a name for themselves with their jam-filled performances; and Jefferson Airplane, who were at the time the biggest of the bands from the area.

Santana

-Incident At Neshabur

-Soul Sacrifice

The Grateful Dead

-Hard To Handle

-China Cat Sunflower

-I Know You Rider

Jefferson Airplane

-The Ballad of You And Me And Pooneil

-Eskimo Blue Day

A Super Jam -All Star jam with members of all 3 bands

 

Santana - At Budokan: Live In Tokyo 1991 (DVDRIP video)

 

By 1991 the band Santana had evolved from latin organ and percussion grooves through trippy jazz-fusion and arrived at a form of high energy latin soul/rock. It’s a journey few watching them at Woodstock in 1969 would have predicted. Twenty-two years and countless albums later Carlos Santana himself was the only original member present in Tokyo. A close friend of Miles Davis and devotee of John Coltrane, he had regularly incorporated elements of jazz into his music, so it is no surprise to see Japan’s greatest living saxophonist, Sadao Watanabe, added here. For his part Watanabe is happy to play latin, funk and fusion, his solos easily matching Santana’s overdriven guitar for invention and energy. The tunes are taken from the Santana albums Freedom (1987) and Spirits Dancing In The Flesh (1990) as well as classics from their LPs Abraxas (1970) and Amigos (1976). 

Performed at the Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan 21st May 1991 and broadcast on NHK radio.

    Bass – Benny Rietveld

    Congas – Raul Rekow

    Drums – Gaylord Birch

    Guitar – Carlos Santana

    Keyboards – Chester Thompson 

    Percussion – Karl Perazzo, Raul Rekow

    Saxophone – Sadao Watanabe

    Timbales – Karl Perazzo

    Vocals – Tony Lindsay

 

Santana - The Birth Of Santana - The Complete Early Years (3 CD, 2003/FLAC)

 For more than five decades, the band Santana, led by guitar virtuoso Carlos Santana, have fused rock, blues, and Latin styles into a percussive, colorful and unique collage of sound. Inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame in 1998, Santana has released a total of 36 albums, collectively selling more than 50 million copies. And it all started right here...

The Birth Of Santana is an essential compilation and a true artifact of rock music, documenting the rise of one of its most beloved artists. The first two discs features recordings from 1969 sessions at Pacific Recording Studios in San Mateo, CA and are believed to be the original demo tapes that landed Santana their deal with Columbia Records. An early incarnation of Jingo, the Top 40 single from Santana s self-titled debut album appears here, as does the impressive Soul Sacrifice. The third disc is the legendary live recording at the Fillmore Theater in San Francisco. While the exact date of these recordings is unknown, this live performance also predates the group s self-titled debut album on Columbia. Carlos and the boys are indeed in fine form. Highlights include an outstanding rendition of Evil Ways, a song that went on o be a standard in the annals of rock history. Young, raw and on the brink of superstardom, this is Santana like you ve never heard them before!

 

VA - The Many Faces of Santana (3 CD, 2017/FLAC)

 

In the late 1960s, when acid rock reigned and the British Invasion was still raging, Carlos Santana and his band introduced a Latin-based rock sound featuring an Afro-Cuban beat. Carlos Santana was a fourth-generation musician and the son of a violinist who played mariachi music. His father tried for many years to teach him violin, but at age eight, Santana discovered the guitar and started listening to the electric blues of B.B. King and John Lee Hooker and that was the end of it. During his long-lasting career, Carlos Santana's name has become synonymous with some of the most important genres of music today - jazz, Latin, salsa, blues and rock. In The Many Faces of Santana we will explore Santana's inner world, including it's members' side projects, alternative versions of some of his classics y his vast range of influences who made the multifaceted artist he ended up being. With fantastic artwork and remastered sound, we welcome Santana as another essential addition to our The Many Faces collection.

 

Santana - Original Album Classics 4 (3 CD, 2011/FLAC)

 

CD1 - 1983 - Carlos Santana - Havana Moon 

CD2 - 1985 - Santana - Beyond Appearances 

CD3 - 1990 - Santana - Spirits Dancing in the Flesh 

 

 

Santana - Original Album Classics 2 (5 CD, 2009/FLAC)

 

CD1 - 1978 - Santana - Inner Secrets 

CD2 - 1979 - Santana - Marathon 

CD3 - 1981 - Santana - Zebop! 

CD4 - 1982 - Santana - Shango 

CD5 - 1987 - Santana - Freedom 

Santana - Original Album Classics (5 CD, 2008/FLAC)

 

1972 - Santana - Caravanserai 

1973 - Carlos Santana & John McLaughlin - Love Devotion Surrender 

1973 - Santana - Welcome 

1974 - Santana - Borboletta 

1976 - Santana - Amigos 

Santana - The Ultimate Collection [2 CD, 1998/FLAC]

 There are a couple of Santana best-of compilations out there, and even a few mastersound gold-plated CDs, but this collection is as good a place as any for a newcomer to explore. It contains the band's three essential charters--"Black Magic Woman," "Evil Ways," and "Oye Como Va"--along with some lesser hits. Santana broke barriers, making ethnic-influenced music palatable to the mainstream, but this set doesn't sound like a history lesson. Few bands have ever made better music for driving on a hot summer day, and this CD is ideal for blasting out the windows of your car on a crowded thoroughfare.