Santana - Everybody's everything

Santana playing at Montreux Jazz Festival, July 16th 1996

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Music

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• carlos
• santana
• montreux

[MarshallAmpMan]

Neal Schon was 15 when he played lead on this on Santana III

[HailDMK]

Yes they Do But none of them Play it like santana

[willmercury]

Neal Schon did not play on Santana (eponymous debut) or Abraxas; he appeared first on Santana III and on the Live w/Buddy Miles album and finally, Caravanserai.

[dtongamusic]

@jimdep1 And Carlos' account was before Abraxas. Still trying to work on an exact timeline, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of info out there on the web. The best info I can find seems to come from interviews and biographies.

[dtongamusic]

@jimdep1 Neal says in interviews he actually met them when he was 14 (they all lived in the Bay Area), I think sometime before Woodstock. I read one of Carlos' biographies, and he talks about meeting Neal. Greg actually met him first and invited him to the studio to jam. Carlos didn't know a thing about Neal until he walked in on a session. Soon after, Greg and the rest of the band decided to ask Neal to join. Carlos didn't want to. Greg threatened to leave the band, so Carlos agreed.

[jimdep1]

@dtongamusic I'm trying to figure when he could have joined Santana in 69. August was Woodstock, a couple months later they did Ed Sullivan and really took off during that time, gigging constantly. They played NYE at the Fillmore ( I think) and Neal still wasn't with them. I just don't know when they had time to do session work, besides working on the beginning stages the Arbraxas Album. I thought it was the next Spring that Gregg met Neal at some club in Palo Alto.hmmm, not sure.

[dtongamusic]

@jimdep1 You're right about Abraxas, I was mistaken (but for some reason, it's listed under his discography under the official site). But Carlos and Neal have both said in interviews that he joined when he was 15 years old (which would've been in '69). I know he did some session work--mostly unreleased material--and rehearsals in the first couple years, but his "official" debut was on Santana III.

[jimdep1]

@q2w3bn876 Neal never rejoined the Santana band after he left. He was gigging steadily with Journey for the remainder of the 70's and beyond, their debut show at Winterland 12-31-73

[jimdep1]

@jimdep1 He could have still been 16.

[jimdep1]

@dtongamusic Neal didn't play on Arbraxas, he joined the band in between Arbraxas and Santana III, if I remember right, he officially joined Santana in early 1971.

[dtongamusic]

@jimdep1 Neal actually joined when he was 15 years old in 1969, sometime after Santana's Woodstock performance. He recorded 3 studio albums with Santana (Abraxas, Santana III, Caravanserai). He was 17 at the time Santana III was recorded. He left in 1973, when he was 19 years old.

[aracelydiaz100]

I like him.