Posted on 03/18/2015 5:09:35 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck
My wife knows I love Santana's music so when we saw his autobiography at Sam's one day, I knew that was in my stocking for Christmas. So I've been reading it, nearly all the way through 544 pages, and I have a few comments, see below.
Can’t stand his politics.
But he composed the sexyist song ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRIbuIeTew4
I liked, hell loved, his music up to the age I became educated on the difference between good and evil and his political beliefs. He is either evil, or ignorant of evil. Either way, I have no use for him or his music now.
Amen, my fellow Gator.
Would you had been one of the few who actually paid to be there?
He had a mean Hammond organ player back in those days, that I think was as much a key to his classic sound as the guitar and the percussion. Went on to help found Journey too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg_Rolie
You mean when he was molested? Yeah, that had to take some balls just to mention.
I am not a musician, so my opinion as always is worth exactly what y’all paid for it :)
Should have said “musician” instead of “man” perhaps.
I’d have went if Cream had played. Oh well.
Didn’t he kick Neal Schon out of Santana because Neal was blowing him off the stage?
That reminds me a lot of “Parisienne Walkways” by Gary Moore & Phil Lynott:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18FgnFVm5k0
Slash is a better player...
Santana is just a playuh....
yep the molestation.
Men by and large don’t ever bring that up.
Isn’t he a known occultist? I think I once read that he attributes his success to a demon entity he regularly communicates with.
“hes got the pentatonic scales down pretty well
I don’t want to slight em...I just think he might be a bit..over rated as a musician.”
See, this is where I differ musically from Jazz or Classical guys. Yes, there is an entire world of music outside the blues scale, or three chord harmonies. However, you can also spend a lifetime exploring just those elements and still not master all the possibilities.
The limitations that blues, rock, country, folk, and even pop musicians work under aren’t necessarily a sign of lack of skill, because they are self-imposed structures. Other styles of music eschew structures in order to explore the possibilities in music more horizontally, but if you are devoted to the more traditional or folksy styles, you are working vertically, finding every nook and cranny in the narrow space that marks out that territory.
I didn’t know about that one!
In fact, it's the other way around, if there's any respecting going on at all.
I love the guy’s music. I don’t care about his politics.
Early 80’s Al Dimeola opened for Santana in SF. He rocked it.
Santana came on and played like he was drunk. We were all looking at each other with a ‘what the h*ll look’ on our faces. Mediocre at best live that day.
DiMeola never opened for Santana again to my knowledge.
Nothing like watching a college chick dance to “Oye como va”.
This is the exception. His finest work and an amazing piece of music:
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