Got this album in 1973 ! ; this has stuff in common with some of Stevie Wonder's stuff from the same period and a bit later, like Songs In The Key Of Life from 1976
This entire song is wonderful, but that change at 3:54 could have ran another 3 minutes so I would'nt have had to keep replaying that section over and over! lol
@mrobertson70 Dillon Stadium!!! That's a flashback!!! I saw the Grateful Dead there in '74..and Santana with Earth,Wind & Fire at the New Haven Coliseum...some truly memorable shows!!!!
My older brother use to listen this song when he was stationed at NAS,Agana,GUAM from 71-74. He said it relaxed him after sending Go-codes to the F4's, A-7's and EA6-B Intruders. To do what ,I have no idea.
It took only this song to make me a Leon Thomas fan 4 life. Much of his solo work is brilliant..very ..and i do mean very...rhythmic, soulful, spiritual..He sings his own rendition of Caravanserai's "just in time to see the sun" a certain must hear. yep...ALSO, his studio version of "Precious Energy(the sun song)"..brilliant and so very beautiful...Thank you Leon! RIP
I met personally Carlos in Cologne (Germany) in sept 1975. After the concert in the sporthalle I called Armando Peraza and he kindly helped me to overpass the police belt. I spent that night (drinking Pepsi and eating apples) together with the whole Santana band and the Earth Wind & Fire who played in the same concert. Do you know how I cheated the cops? I showed them my basketball team personal card telling them I was a journalist.
I can relate..I was on a road tripback east and had this 8 track..I palyed it until it jammed up ....then promptly went and got the LP, which I still have...The line-up on this LP ..Airto..Flora Plurim, et. al.. So Cool...
When I saw Leon Thomas's name on this LP after being a Pharoah Sanders fan and loving Caravanserai--I thought, wow, Carlos ain't kiddin around on this one. I wasn't disappointed. This is what fusion was SUPPOSED to be like. (And Mahavishnu, RTF, Weather Report, hell, Blow by Blow-era Beck, "Katy Lied" by the Dan, and I can keep on going)
Absolutely one of my favorite all-time albums! "Flame-Sky" and this cut, with Michale Shrieves's subtle but tasty drumming just does it for me! Listen to the variations in beats and accents -- then to kick off into that funk jam in the end...a masterpiece!
This came out at the peak of fusion rock, along with jethro, focus and many many others (too long to list). The best time of experimental rock music was from 1968 to 1973 - after shaking off the original usage of the electric guitar in the late 50's and 60's, many bands took to the guitar hard and mixed it in with keyboards, hard drums, blues, jazz, along (with slight early versions of pop and disco before they were born). This was the time of experimental drugs AND music
Forgot to mention, dressing all in white was also part of being a Sri Chinmoy disciple. Michael Walden was also friends with Santana and McLaughlin, and a fellow disciple. He still is, AFAIK. "Narada" was his spiritual name, given by Sri Chinmoy, BTW. I think Mahavishnu was the name given to McLaughlin, too.
He and John McLaughlin were both disciples of Sri Chinmoy, at the time. I knew there was something deeply mystical about this album for years. Was living in Buenos Aires when it came out. Years later I moved to the US, and later Canada, and became a disciple of Sri Chinmoy myself, and that's when I heard the whole story. When I Look Into Your Eyes is a song *about* Sri Chimoy: One of the types of meditation we did was walking past him looking into his eyes...
@privateerburrows maybe you, then can explain to me how a person who is disciple of someone so espiritual and is around and into spirutual things...can be a drug addict? carlos santana is an extraordinary musician and he has presented himself as a spiritual follower... is addiction a spiritual thing?
Wow!! Carlos had that something that was mystical and the people just wanted to feel it. It didn't hurt to have some kind of drugs on board to enhance that feeling of wanting to touch it.
Lamont. my friend! I was the one who told you about the near riot in Caracas, Venezuela when Santana appeared at the University Stadium. My YT channel was suspended (I wonder why) and I had to create a different channel and fish all my 200+ favorites by memory. Thank goodness I'm back! Man, am I tired!
My late beloved sister turned me on to the new Santana band after "Caravanseria" back in 74' and I've been with Santana every since. This album is special to me because my sister loved it.
this is so very different from the santana that i listened to from the late 60's and early 70's. but let me not confuse anything--is there more than one santana? i only know carlos santana--the one that played the mean spanish/mexican rock guitar.
This is the Original Santana. This is from the early 70's. This pix of him is from the 60's period, Black Magic Woman, Abraxis, Soul Sacrifice, etc. See "Yours Is the Light" to get more from this lp.
We are always free to be and live whatever makes us happy. Why we the God started to think, feel, be and live less than the God? Start living today, why wait! Our growth grows the God and makes us, All The God happy!
One of my favorite Santana songs of all time. He was going through a spritual awakening and his music showed it. I love the inclusion of different artists who brought thier own flavor, Leon Thomas, for instance from Pharoah Sanders and his unique vocals, Outstanding!
Carlos Santana.....simply like no one else, excellent music...that will last an eternity.....
seranto100 8 months ago
Got this album in 1973 ! ; this has stuff in common with some of Stevie Wonder's stuff from the same period and a bit later, like Songs In The Key Of Life from 1976
TheKenfig 9 months ago
Preciosa melodia donde se armonizan unas notas y unas texturas musicales.
willieroudi 9 months ago
Tremendo hermosa pieza donde se oye una armoniosa combinacion de texturas sonoras.
willieroudi 9 months ago
such asweet wave of memories..***** !!
mymindourdream 1 year ago
A terrific song - and I don't even mind that it borrows its main riff from the Four Tops' Bernadette!
jamieskilt 1 year ago
This entire song is wonderful, but that change at 3:54 could have ran another 3 minutes so I would'nt have had to keep replaying that section over and over! lol
6402680 1 year ago 3
Saw this band Dillon Stadium Hartford Ct 1972 played about 2 hrs straight! amazing same band pictured
mrobertson70 1 year ago
@mrobertson70 Dillon Stadium!!! That's a flashback!!! I saw the Grateful Dead there in '74..and Santana with Earth,Wind & Fire at the New Haven Coliseum...some truly memorable shows!!!!
mamaserene 1 year ago
My older brother use to listen this song when he was stationed at NAS,Agana,GUAM from 71-74. He said it relaxed him after sending Go-codes to the F4's, A-7's and EA6-B Intruders. To do what ,I have no idea.
Dakers11 1 year ago
I thought I had just imagined this song I haven't heard it since high school! Thanks so much for posting it! Great song!
queeneileen73 1 year ago
What an album, what a tune!!!! There will never be music like this ever again!!
simonprs 1 year ago
I bought this the year we married in 1976!And still goes on.
RasMajnouni 1 year ago
It took only this song to make me a Leon Thomas fan 4 life. Much of his solo work is brilliant..very ..and i do mean very...rhythmic, soulful, spiritual..He sings his own rendition of Caravanserai's "just in time to see the sun" a certain must hear. yep...ALSO, his studio version of "Precious Energy(the sun song)"..brilliant and so very beautiful...Thank you Leon! RIP
hubiex 1 year ago
One of my all time favorite's from Santana
ponchmaen 1 year ago
Carlos is still around guy's. Give him all your support, he's no spring chicken any more, Reality isn't easy as we all know. I love the Man .
Bruce097 1 year ago
Truly unbelievable song...
kaynanadili1 1 year ago
I met personally Carlos in Cologne (Germany) in sept 1975. After the concert in the sporthalle I called Armando Peraza and he kindly helped me to overpass the police belt. I spent that night (drinking Pepsi and eating apples) together with the whole Santana band and the Earth Wind & Fire who played in the same concert. Do you know how I cheated the cops? I showed them my basketball team personal card telling them I was a journalist.
passacaglia57 1 year ago
Grandissimo pezzo. Grazie Carlos.
MrAndreadirettore 1 year ago
. . .Leon Ndugu Chancelor is the drummer on this !
aammirr 1 year ago
Where did the time go?I was 19 when this awesome song hit...
consw1 1 year ago
@consw1
I can relate..I was on a road tripback east and had this 8 track..I palyed it until it jammed up ....then promptly went and got the LP, which I still have...The line-up on this LP ..Airto..Flora Plurim, et. al.. So Cool...
0154atv 1 year ago
beautiful beautiful song
cptrace 1 year ago
This was a Turningpoint in Santana's Music, like it or not he was on his way back with a vengenace then along came Amigos
groovinveebee 2 years ago
have always loved this song..especially when it gets to 3:53 It takes you back to that time period.
popeyenolive 2 years ago
When I saw Leon Thomas's name on this LP after being a Pharoah Sanders fan and loving Caravanserai--I thought, wow, Carlos ain't kiddin around on this one. I wasn't disappointed. This is what fusion was SUPPOSED to be like. (And Mahavishnu, RTF, Weather Report, hell, Blow by Blow-era Beck, "Katy Lied" by the Dan, and I can keep on going)
hooptyhee 2 years ago
Herbie Mann's " Push Push" album is great
66kootsa 2 years ago
Herbie Mann on Flute...dig deep into your 1970 jazz and you will know.
69MC97gc 2 years ago
I thought it was Joe Ferrell!
osensei2987 2 years ago
You are right,it is Joe Farrell who plays the solo,also on flutes are Mel Martin and Bob Yance.
69MC97gc 2 years ago
Soulful love cut until 3:53, then let the dance of joy take over......
6402680 2 years ago 2
this song rocks .......¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
vivan los 70's
macatan62 2 years ago
Fabuloso Santana!!!!
MexNortheastTaste 2 years ago 5
Paraguay vive Carajo!!!!
Beatfabi 2 years ago
wonderfull music, great times 70tees!
maduka37 2 years ago 4
NIcaragua!
lbchampcarfan 2 years ago 2
Te escribe un nica que estubo en ese concierto...... VIVA NICARAGUA ! NUNCA LO OLVIDARE
FGarcia26 2 years ago
Absolutely one of my favorite all-time albums! "Flame-Sky" and this cut, with Michale Shrieves's subtle but tasty drumming just does it for me! Listen to the variations in beats and accents -- then to kick off into that funk jam in the end...a masterpiece!
dadduorp 2 years ago 8
You know your shit bro!
Alraul2008 2 years ago
Thanks 4 The Post...Great Period In MUSIC!
bigslick45 2 years ago
It was...Michael Shrieve composer and lyricist...Man ,This is Santana´s finest Hour,although most say it is Caravanserai.
69MC97gc 2 years ago 2
Co-written by keyboardist Tom Coster -- now in the band Vital information.
dadduorp 2 years ago
WENDY HASS .........WHAT A VOICE
abraxas505 2 years ago 4
I definitely hear "Bernadette" in the intro...
JohnHuntFitch 2 years ago
This is my favorite Santanna Album.
I was in my teens when it came out (1973?) wow! Such a long time ago, but this album still kicks glutes!
deadblock1 2 years ago 2
Is it just me or does this song have a little bit of the Four Tops song "Bernedette" in it?
ItalianQue 2 years ago
THis would be graet song for Santana revive with Tom Jones on vocals. Can you hear the match ?
PDEZ100 2 years ago
wendy haas on vox, also, and on LDS
mloaks 2 years ago
This came out at the peak of fusion rock, along with jethro, focus and many many others (too long to list). The best time of experimental rock music was from 1968 to 1973 - after shaking off the original usage of the electric guitar in the late 50's and 60's, many bands took to the guitar hard and mixed it in with keyboards, hard drums, blues, jazz, along (with slight early versions of pop and disco before they were born). This was the time of experimental drugs AND music
PaulJuliusSokoloff 3 years ago
3:55 ->
Trippiest music ever
prac2 3 years ago
Yeah man, thanks for posting this, Leon Thomas is smoking...makes me wish that Santana and Donny Hathaway had recorded ..great stuff
victormusic01x 3 years ago
Music at it's best
Mannyman50 3 years ago
listen to tom coster keyboards
jose chepito arias percussion
armando peraza congas
leo thomas vocals
maytreya michael shrive drums
doug rauch bass
best in1977 i have the original ic cd
by columbia records
yupitalinda 3 years ago 2
those were the dark times when carlos
was devadip and sri chinmoy was the leader
then he left.......
yupitalinda 3 years ago
Lamont,
Dogg, what a great find...I love this song but have heard since a th 90's when I played the 1973 LP.
3:55 onward is just "straight up cold". Love what Sanatana did with this masterpiece.
tygbro 3 years ago
Great Post. Wonderful Period IN MY LIFE
bigslick45 3 years ago
FANTASTIC MUSIC! MAGICAL!!
titusho2 3 years ago
thank you!...this is one of my very favorite albums that i still listen to very frequently!...namaste'...wally ~:-]
1nessism 3 years ago
This is music ! Pure 70's
BALCACER 3 years ago
Nothing like it. It will never be the same.
LamontCJ 3 years ago 4
Forgot to mention, dressing all in white was also part of being a Sri Chinmoy disciple. Michael Walden was also friends with Santana and McLaughlin, and a fellow disciple. He still is, AFAIK. "Narada" was his spiritual name, given by Sri Chinmoy, BTW. I think Mahavishnu was the name given to McLaughlin, too.
privateerburrows 3 years ago
He and John McLaughlin were both disciples of Sri Chinmoy, at the time. I knew there was something deeply mystical about this album for years. Was living in Buenos Aires when it came out. Years later I moved to the US, and later Canada, and became a disciple of Sri Chinmoy myself, and that's when I heard the whole story. When I Look Into Your Eyes is a song *about* Sri Chimoy: One of the types of meditation we did was walking past him looking into his eyes...
privateerburrows 3 years ago 4
Thanks for the continued insight on this great artist. His music has endured so many changes while retaining imagination and excellence. Peace.
LamontCJ 3 years ago
@LamontCJ
i think m schreive wrote the lyrics
mloaks 8 months ago in playlist santana
@privateerburrows I believe this song is more a Maitreya
Michael Shrieve Song.Howoes he fit since he was never a Sri Chinmoy disciple?
69MC97gc 1 year ago
@privateerburrows maybe you, then can explain to me how a person who is disciple of someone so espiritual and is around and into spirutual things...can be a drug addict? carlos santana is an extraordinary musician and he has presented himself as a spiritual follower... is addiction a spiritual thing?
aghnifrid 5 months ago
Wow!! Carlos had that something that was mystical and the people just wanted to feel it. It didn't hurt to have some kind of drugs on board to enhance that feeling of wanting to touch it.
LamontCJ 3 years ago
That's terrible! It was the times, free love , free drugs, and for one unfortunate person, free "fall."
LamontCJ 3 years ago
Lamont. my friend! I was the one who told you about the near riot in Caracas, Venezuela when Santana appeared at the University Stadium. My YT channel was suspended (I wonder why) and I had to create a different channel and fish all my 200+ favorites by memory. Thank goodness I'm back! Man, am I tired!
ElCid48 2 years ago
Pretty sure this is Greg Walker singing
DNRLBL 3 years ago
Maybe a little later on lp's like "MoonFlower" but on "Welcome" it was the great Leon Thomas.
LamontCJ 3 years ago
Hey, thank you and I'm enjoying you tube.
"Journeys'" Neal Schon played with Carlos for the early Premier albums. Neal is quite a man of his own since.
DNRLBL 3 years ago
My favorite Santana album by far!!! Thanks for posting this!
StreetSmartVideo 4 years ago
Mine Too! with "Moonflower" a close second
LamontCJ 4 years ago
I am a big fan of Leon THomas. Check out a song by him called "Song for my Father"
ItalianQue 4 years ago
Thanks! I'm on it!
LamontCJ 4 years ago
Great song from a truly great album.
moeran1944 4 years ago
My late beloved sister turned me on to the new Santana band after "Caravanseria" back in 74' and I've been with Santana every since. This album is special to me because my sister loved it.
LamontCJ 4 years ago
rocks!
n2cora 4 years ago
Vintage Santana has ALWAYS ROCKED!!!!!
LamontCJ 4 years ago
this is so very different from the santana that i listened to from the late 60's and early 70's. but let me not confuse anything--is there more than one santana? i only know carlos santana--the one that played the mean spanish/mexican rock guitar.
n2cora 4 years ago
This is the Original Santana. This is from the early 70's. This pix of him is from the 60's period, Black Magic Woman, Abraxis, Soul Sacrifice, etc. See "Yours Is the Light" to get more from this lp.
LamontCJ 4 years ago
We are always free to be and live whatever makes us happy. Why we the God started to think, feel, be and live less than the God? Start living today, why wait! Our growth grows the God and makes us, All The God happy!
silja564 4 years ago
Leon Thomas yodeling!!!! One of my favorites from " Welcome."
pennman82 4 years ago
One of my favorite Santana songs of all time. He was going through a spritual awakening and his music showed it. I love the inclusion of different artists who brought thier own flavor, Leon Thomas, for instance from Pharoah Sanders and his unique vocals, Outstanding!
LamontCJ 4 years ago