Santana

Musicwhore A-Z · 06-03-2015, 01:37 PM

No question about it, Santana remains one of the most important and innovative bands in the history of popular music. However, I'd argue that the BAND is more crucial to their sound than Carlos himself in some ways. That's saying a hell of a lot, by the way! I'm NOT a fan of "jamming" or the jam aesthetic, however, Santana are one of the VERY few who can still pull it off, and mean every note they play. For better or worse. Like someone said earlier, YES, 'Abraxas' is still their best album to this day. A near masterpiece for sure (...

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Plankton · 06-03-2015, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Musicwhore A-Z

No question about it, Santana remains one of the most important and innovative bands in the history of popular music. However, I'd argue that the BAND is more crucial to their sound than Carlos himself in some ways. That's saying a hell of a lot, by the way! I'm NOT a fan of "jamming" or the jam aesthetic, however, Santana are one of the VERY few who can still pull it off, and mean every note they play. For better or worse. Like someone said earlier, YES, 'Abraxas' is still their best album to this day. A near masterpiece for sure (...

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Credit Karl Perazzo to much of that. Especially on the Sacred Fire album, which is one album that will always get some play from me.

~~Dude111~~ · 08-21-2018, 04:22 AM

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Carlos is an amazing player with a very distinct tone and style.

Yes and its sad he threw it all away after the 3rd album!!!!!

I just got SANTANA III and it kicks all ass!!!!!!!

I say the first 3 albums are the best.... Then the band broke up and werent ever as good in my opinion.........

Plankton · 08-21-2018, 08:12 AM

Good morning Dude. I was just listening to some "Blues For Salvador" this morning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2M6l2kKUHc

Chula Vista · 08-21-2018, 04:21 PM

Late to the party. Those first 3 albums were huge. On a side note, where would PRS be today without Carlos?

~~Dude111~~ · 08-22-2018, 01:53 AM

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Good morning Dude. I was just listening to some "Blues For Salvador" this morning.

Excellent my friend

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Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Late to the party. Those first 3 albums were huge. On a side note, where would PRS be today without Carlos? __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

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Musicwhore A-Z Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2014 Posts: 139	No question about it, Santana remains one of the most important and innovative bands in the history of popular music. However, I'd argue that the BAND is more crucial to their sound than Carlos himself in some ways. That's saying a hell of a lot, by the way! I'm NOT a fan of "jamming" or the jam aesthetic, however, Santana are one of the VERY few who can still pull it off, and mean every note they play. For better or worse. Like someone said earlier, YES, 'Abraxas' is still their best album to this day. A near masterpiece for sure (... ).