Put Your Lights On - CyberJam

ourmathew made this cover of Put Your Lights On . since he was gracious enough to provide some very pretty lead on my vid "your a big girl now", i decided to return the favor for his. ;o)
Supernatural is a 1999 concept album by Santana. The songs on the album represent one man's personal emotions through its various Cuban and Latin rhythms. It went 15 times platinum in the US and won nine Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year.

The album, conceived by Clive Davis and A&R'd by Pete Ganbarg, was phenomenally successful, eventually selling over 25 million copies worldwide; it is generally seen to have revived Santana's dormant career. It included the hit single "Smooth", which featured Matchbox Twenty singer Rob Thomas on vocals, and was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 12 weeks. The follow-up single, "Maria Maria" (which featured Wyclef Jean), was #1 on the same chart for 10 weeks. Santana and Rob Thomas won 2 Grammys for their collaboration on the song "Smooth" while Santana and Everlast won another for the song "Put Your Lights on"

Among the other guest artists: Eric Clapton, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Lauryn Hill, Dave Matthews, and The Product G&B.
Carlos Augusto Alves Santana (born July 20, 1947), known simply as Carlos Santana or Santana, is a Grammy Award-winning Mexican-born American Latin rock musician and guitarist.

He became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, the Santana Blues Band, going mostly under the title "Santana," which created a highly successful blend of salsa, rock, blues, and jazz fusion. Their sound featured his often high-pitched and distorted guitar lines set against Latin American instrumentation such as timbales and congas. Santana continued to work in these forms over the following decades, and experienced a sudden resurgence of popularity and critical acclaim in the late 1990s.

Over his career he has sold an estimated 85 million albums worldwide.
Santana's record sales in the 1990s had been very low, and towards the end of the decade he was without a contract. However Arista Records' Clive Davis, who had worked with Santana at Columbia (which is now co-owned with Arista under Sony BMG), signed him and encouraged him to record a star-studded album with mostly younger artists. The result in 1999 was Supernatural, which included collaborations with Bobby Martin, Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty, Eric Clapton, Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, Cee-Lo, Maná, Dave Matthews, KC Porter,[1] and others.

The first single was "Smooth", a dynamic cha-cha stop-start number co-written and sung by Rob Thomas, and laced throughout with Santana's guitar fills and runs. The track's energy was immediately apparent on radio, and it was played on a wide variety of station formats. It spent twelve weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming in the process the last #1 single of the 1990s; a music video set on a hot barrio street was also very popular. Supernatural sold large numbers of records and soon reached triple platinum status. The album also reached number one on the US album charts. The follow-up single, "Maria Maria", arranged by Bobby Martin and featuring the R&B duo The Product G&B, also reached number one and spent ten weeks there in the summer of 2000. Supernatural eventually sold over 15 million copies in the United States alone, making it Santana's biggest sales success by far.

Supernatural and the different tracks on it then won nine Grammy Awards (eight for Santana personally), including Album of the Year, Record of the Year for "Smooth", and Song of the Year for Thomas and Itaal Shur. Santana's acceptance speeches described his feelings about music's place in one's spiritual existence.

In 2001, Santana was featured in Michael Jackson's song Whatever Happens, from the album Invincible, playing guitar.

In 2002, Santana released Shaman, revisiting the Supernatural format of guest artists including P.O.D., Seal, and others. Although the album was not the runaway success its predecessor had been, it still produced two radio-friendly hits: the infectious "The Game of Love" featuring Michelle Branch which reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent many weeks at the top of the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart; and "Why Don't You and I" featuring Chad Kroeger from Nickelback the original and a remix with a different singer were combined towards chart performance) which reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100. "The Game of Love" went on to win the Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals.

In August 2003, Santana was named fifteenth on Rolling Stone magazine's "List of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". In 2004, the magazine ranked him #90 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[2]

In 2005, Herbie Hancock approached Santana to play on, as well as to help in gathering other artists to record, an album similar to Supernatural. The resulting album, titled Possibilities, was released on August 30, 2005, featuring Carlos Santana and Angélique Kidjo on "Safiatou".

Santana's album All That I Am (2005) followed the format of Supernatural and Shaman, consisting primarily of collaborations with other artists; the first single, the peppy "I'm Feeling You", was again with Michelle Branch and The Wreckers. Another song on the album, "Trinity," featured Santana collaborating with Kirk Hammett of Metallica and Robert Randolph of Robert Randolph & the Family Band.

In April and May 2006 he started a tour in Europe where he promoted the band of his son Salvador Santana as his opening act.

At 2007 Santana appeared playing his guitar at Gloria Estefan new album 90 Millas on her hit "No Llores" along Sheila E. and Jose Feliciano.

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[LulitoXFoundationSB]

i just loved the improvised pich harmonics and the tappping and all of that, tell me what pedal effect you're using? you're sick ;)

[strat2caster]

@LulitoXFoundationSB

thanks much, i was using my GNX4 pedalboard with an effect that makes the Strat sound more like a Les Paul. ...its called GaryMore ;o)

check out my vids "re:Momma I Love Her, and "Still Got the Blues"; its the same tone.

[skaterman2223]

that was so sick

5 stars

[strat2caster]

thanks !

[Dismas444]

Ahhhh brings back memories of the old days. My mates and I used to play this when we were at school for most charity fundraising or summer concerts etc. Always went down well :D

[strat2caster]

cool man !

[sexywhitebitches]

That's a beautiful guitar!

[mojo9o]

I gave it an excellent I hope you can understand that I still like Carlos Santana's playing better. Seek to a deeper you, man! I like your tye-dye outfit, long hair, your guitar cover playing but sometimes I hear the same techniques over again. Just trying to help you out. Good playing! You've got it but seek more!

[GriffTheRiff83]

SWEET

[tanvo93]

OMG when i was a little kid my dad always played this song and album all the time..in the car..OMG

[PersianLord1995]

you must be joking?

that's total 80's man

[Andrejplan]

Great job! Nice sound and the improvisations fit the song perfectly!

[willofallparties]

looks like a hippy?

[lui93t15M]

dude you look like a hippy but u can rock very. good job man!!

[superknalfantastisch]

good playing, but wrong for this song

[Obsidian117]

Amazing