3.Santana- Soul Sacrifice
For 2 years Santana worked the San Francisco club circuit. They mostly played shows for 100 people or less, until Woodstock where they dazzled a sea of 500,000 hippies with their original blend of jazz, rock, and salsa. They work so fluidly as an on-stage music ensemble, from the thundering percussion section featuring 20 year old Michael Shrieve with his spastic drum fills and solos, to the jazzy bass grooves of David Brown, to pale-face Carlos Santana's sacrificial guitar surges. The music is so undeniably bad-ass. As you can see from the electrified crowd it was the kind of rock people needed in the late 60's........and yes that is a naked dude dancing with a sheep(on the left at 7:05).
".....I was under the influence of LSD.....the guitar neck felt like an electric snake that wouldn't stand still. That's why I was making ugly faces, trying to make the snake stand still so I can play it."
-Carlos Santana
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