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Location: Brisbane Australia | I just got home from seeing Santana in concert on his "Live Your Light" tour.
I have been a fan for years and this was the first time I had the opportunity to see him.
What an amazing show!!
All the members of his band were absolutely fantastic.
He is a Master.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Glad to hear he hasn't lost it over the years. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Always a favorite! I would like to see him in person again. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Carlos does have his own style. One of my favorites! |
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Location: Nashville TN. | He is way underated. |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | Another of my favorite SG players, former, now that he promotes PRS guitars, who transformed the long humbucker thick sustain sound. He took Peter Green's "Black Magic Woman", and made it into a classic. Abraxis, is still one clasic album from start to finish. Glas to hear he's on the circut. |
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Location: Tennessee | Carlos is Santana but Santana is not just Carlos. He has spawned a cottage industry here in the SF Bay Area. Sort of like California's answer to the Yardbirds. Everytime I have seen Santana the show has been great, and I always walk away amazed at the totality. Carlos has a very far-reaching and well-funded foundation putting music programs back into public schools. |
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Location: Parrish, FL | My wife (then girl friend) and I saw Santana in Cleveland at the outdoor pavilion (name escapes me) back in '82 or '83. Perfect summer night, great lawn seats, 'booze in the blender' drinks in the cooler and good food to go along with it.
Best damn show I've ever seen. Just phenomenal! Bobbo is right. The totality' of the show and the musicians was unbeatable.
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Absolutely great show. Seen him twice. Though this is my current favorite version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BrLEuzVCVQ (I had my wife believing this was him, and she said, "he's gone down hill" Now that was funny." |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | He has always been one of my favorites also. I grew up in a latin neighborhood in So. Cal. and have always had a love for that sound. I recall a summer concert in the park a LONG time ago where he played. Sunshine, cool drinks, frizbees and football, and Santana playing in the background. It doesn't get much better than that. |
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Location: Hopkinton, MA | I saw him a few years ago. Absolutely great. I recently found a vid of him on youtube, where he was responding to another vid someone posted. He was telling the story about how he developed his part in Oye Como Va. I was learning how to play the song and happened upon it. Although I love the look of the PRS guitars, they don't seem to "fit" me. SG's or LP's either. I just picked up a Godin today, actually. Never heard of them before yesterday.
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Which Godin did you get? |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Santana...is n`t that the guy who shows his back -side to the crowd..?!.. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | an4340,
That's priceless. I gave you a plug there! ;) |
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