‪Santana - "Incident At Neshabur" a scene from the film "Dominoes"‬

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Santana - Incident At Neshabur - the tropical sound of Santana's unrelenting guitar early in INCIDENT AT NESHABUR seems to portend the desperation of Americas Southeseast Asian domino theory DRIVEN foreign policy as it was violently played out in tropical South Vietnam. Santana's rapid drumbeat captures the martial rhythm of the U.S. draft machine that moved GIs through training and onto the ground in Vietnam. Midway through INCIDENT AT NESHABUR, the guitar riffs suggest a swarm of angry helicopters and rockets that instantaneously blast ground positions into enormous fireballs. The urgency of American troops in combat, hand to hand, or via flame-throwers and artillery, is matched to that of enduring emblems of the Vietnam War: street executions of Vietnamese and the nine-year old Vietnamese girl, Kim Phuc, fleeing naked in the aftermath of a napalm attack. With its intensity unabated, Santana's guitar shifts to a pained tone as we see cargo-net lifts of Vietnamese and Vietcong dead. Relief from Santana's instrumental frenzy arrives in the form of incredible aerial ballets over Vietnam by American planes spraying Agent Orange, and dropping propaganda leaflets and bombs. INCIDENT AT NESHABUR perfectly orchestrates the segments finale, as Santana's last melancholy notes play over a sweeping pan of Arlington National Cemetery.

This is a clip from the DOMINOES Movie that features music by the Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Crosby Stills Nash Young ( CSNY ), Grateful Dead, Santana, B. B. King, Marvin Gaye, Janis Joplin, Van Morrison, Canned Heat, Richie Havens and more. DOMINOES is about the electric, turbulent decade of rock, revolution, and the Vietnam War and focuses on a succession of thirteen evolutionary tableaus, conveying the directors view that one thing leads to another, as in the domino effect where one change or event causes a similar one, which then causes an additional one, and so on in a linear sequence. DOMINOES creation began in 1976, long before the appearance of rock videos. Its composition marked a radical departure in documentary filmmaking, that continued to separate it from other sixties films and videos. Completed in 1989, its release was delayed until summer of 2009, when it acquired dynamic distribution.
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