I've loved Carlos and his music since the 1960's and Black Magic Woman. I used to use his records to check my speakers, knowing everything was right when the woofers would blow candles out. Later, I was blessed to photograph one of his shows at L.A.'s Greek Theater and was asked to video him performing at a bull ring in Tijuana. He considers himself to be one of Bob Marley's biggest fans, and as such, I was honored to have him in my apartment that doubles as a huge and respected Reggae and Ethiopian Archive. I know of no one who works harder every day to make the world a better place. My hat is off to you Mr. Carlos Santana!
August 17, 1969 was my birthday. A Mexican friend of mine who I was in Vietnam with (TACO a nickname) told me about this Santana in which I had never seen. And that he was going to be at Woodstock Festival. This was about a week before my birthday. I had just gotten out of the Army after a tour in Vietnam. I needed some get away time. So he and I went to Woodstock on Aug. 13th for this concert. All I heard on the way up there from Maryland was Carlos this and Carlos that. By the time I got there all my mind told me is, You gotta see this man". I think Taco brainwashed me. August 16th: So we couldn't get real close to the stage most of the time, but when Santana was to come on stage we had to fight our way to get close enough to really see him. It took us 15-20 minutes to do this. And it wasn't but about 100 years away. I was mesmerized by the performance, a few good hits from the bong played a part of it I think. I am now 77 years old myself and a disabled Vietnam Veteran but would love to see him again before I leave this earth. There is something about his style of music that I can never get enough of. Coming from a guy that grew up with Bluegrass and Country Music. PLAY ON CARLOS SANTANA... 🎵❤👴🏻
Man- that is beautiful ~! Thank You for serving our country- You lived what the music is describing! Thank You for sharing your story- ...wish I was there with you that day~!
Some people you just can’t dub and Carlos is another one that will never be dubbed ! Thank You for your service to the musical community and industry! 💚☮️ Dude
What a phenomenal guitarist! Santana's music has been a part of my life for over 50 years. One of my biggest influences on playing guitar and making it my career. He is one of a kind with a style and feel that can't be duplicated. One of the best ever!
I was a young lawyer with David Birenbaum's small office in San Francisco near Union Street. I remember David talking about helping you when you were 18 playing in the Mission! A few years later I was in LA representing a large group of eldrly folks in a Garden Grove Govt Apartment building on a construction defect case. It was just me and 11 defense attorneys opposing me, along with the Judge. Every mornng for 4 months I played your CD I'm winning" on my way to my trial...I did.. Thank You Carlos..James Clay
Wow I had no idea of all of his suffering 😥😥😥I love his music and I also bought some of the beautiful shoes 👠 diseñados by him. We love you Carlos ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
My older brother took me to my first live concert when I was 8 years old. It was 1987 in Houston at Tinsley Park. Everyone was blazing.The cops just smiled and had a good time. When Oye Como Va and Black Magic Woman played… it was electric! It’s always been one of my favorite core childhood memories. Thank you to my brother Cacho, I love you! Thank you, Carlos Santana. I hope you read this one day.
Thank you Mr Santana 🎉prayers for you and your family 😎 👍. Time for a FEDERAL NATIVE FEDERATION to represent ALL NATIVE PEOPLE IN NORTH AMERICA and the world 🎉🎉🎉
Carlos Santana is one of the better guitar play of the world.... He is loved for all Latin American people and all the music"lover. Happy New Year, Carlos Santana and his fans.✨✨🌻🌻🤗🤗
He lived close by in our neighborhood. My brother, who was also a musician, named my first orange cat “Santana.” He and Mark Knopfler are my favorites.🌟
My friends and I heard pre-release cuts from his first album and waited with bated breath for it to finally become available in the shops -- I can still remember the excited day at work when I got the phone call that it was now available. Santana's music changed everything in how it brought Latin percussion into the acid rock of the day. Bill Graham of the Fillmore West noted that women danced differently to Santana's music, from the hips, unlike how psyche rock inspired people to dance. The Latin rhythms grounded things and gave people more that they could relate directly to, unlike the rarefied heights toward transcendence that acid head psychedelic music often strove for. Music has been better off for Santana ever since that first album. No one then, or since, has brought forth such musical taste, creativity, sensitivity and prowess with rock guitar couched in Latin percussion. Now, at the age of 74, it still shows (literally) in my life as I sit here with three conga drums, 2 sets of bongos, a couple of African drums and a myriad of hand percussion instruments around me, always with the auditory memory of the power of the congas in the recorded and the Woodstock versions of Soul Sacrifice. Carlos, you are a blessing to us all! You are a blessing to the music of the Americas! We could never thank you enough! I hope you can feel the ocean of love that your fans have for you.
How Cool, Percussion is the Heart Beat of Latin Rock and Latin Music, you must make the Room shake with all that Skin around You in any Gerne, Blessings Brother.
Saw Carlos 8 times Have a demo from SSB Salvador Santana band His son You cannot find this demo anywhere Has 5 songs I’m 66 now I was into him in the 60s The guitarist with soul Jimi Hendrix considered him the best because he made his own music
Carlos Santana 's music is touching, soulful! I grew -up with his sound. So many nice memories, as I grew-up. Thank u , Carlos! I still , jam-out to u ! 😊
My HERO.....great music that I have been listening to since I was 10 years old. Met him and his band in an after show in 2003 in Perth, Australia. Today at 65, his music is loaded in my car. Cannot start my day without listening to him.
Santana got new guitarists into minor keys when most hard rock was major. Caravanserai was as much jazz as it was rock, deepening the musical experience.
1950, rock and roll was R&B in second gear. Well, white musicians were classically trained in school resulting in following major scales. Black music was introduced to non-black audiences. But, it was fused from other styles (C&W, boogie woogie, be bop & R&B). Today, it has stretched boundaries far beyond. I lived abroad while on active duty. Became fascinated when walking into a bar in many countries and hearing R&R. And with it evolving into an eclectic global genre producing local harmonies while creating a DEEPENING MUSICAL EXPERIENCE. Man! I agree with you on Caravanserai. Jorge Santana was a pretty good guitarist also.
I got to see him choreograph for Rob Thomas at a corporate event in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the song 'Smooth', giving him pointers on his movements. I met him backstage in Orlando, Florida and thanked him for all the great music. Many memorable moments as a stage hand that I'll never forget, meeting him was the greatest of all. Thank Carlos!
What area?? Cesar’s Club on Green Street?? Armando Peraza conga player got us to play with him and Mongo Santamaria, San Francisco was very strict about young kids Playing in Clubs, but at Cesar’s we were hidden, we were in our teens.
@lorenzogonzalez6488 san Bruno Ave had a bar that I know he played in, but don't know the name, a bar on 24th street don't know the name, don't know how many times he played in these places either as a ten year old,thanks!
Saw Santana in the early eighties at the Portland , Maine civic center . One of the Greatest concerts I ever went to . After the two normal encores , The people would not leave and would not shut up , I mean really ! So they came out and did another ! 3 encores , people STILL would not shut up or leave ! Finally , after a bit , the lights are all on now , Carlos himself comes out on stage . I don't remember his words exactly , but he held out his arms and expressed his love , and told he would love to stay but he had to go , so , when he left the stage we all knew , that , I guess it was time to go . So , it was not just me that considered what we had just seen had to have been one of Santanas greatest concerts . I would love to know if there is a recording of it out there !
I lived off No. Meridian in Puyallup, WA, next to the state's fairgrounds. In the summer Mr.Santana would concert there and we could hear him play almost as if we were in the concert, loved every minute of it...
Carlos 2 me is the Greatest Guitar player he created his own style he has a GREAT Sound 2 this day 2o25 im from the Mission Dist San Fran class of 1972 Mission High
Per my mama, Javier Batize and his sister Baby Batize are musicians he played with in Tijuana. It is said , Javier Batize taught him how to play the guitar..20 yrs ago, while I was visiting my aunt in Tijuana, I was fortunate to be invited to a Baby Batize concert at a park it was amazing with the Santana sound.
Master Santana thank you for sharing I know you've been blessed and also you passed it on to bless the real people that need blessing thank you so much for your wonderful music never forget it and my heart much love and God bless
ABRAXAS is just out of this world 🌎 Every song was dynamite 😂 Carlos is one of top 5 guitarist as far as I know 😊Samba Pa Ti is was made from heaven 💙 It sounds like pure ecstasy through my entire body and.soul.🥰💖💜💜 LOVE YOU CARLOS A SUPER LEGEND 😍💝💫 PEACE OUT ✌️
When you are a popular and gifted musician, like Carlos Santana, and you have your own values and convictions, when anyone else believes differently than you, they do not have the authority or integrity to try to diminish who you are just because they disagree with your values.
Santana played a benefit concert at my High School my Freshman year. They had top billing over Cold Blood and another band called Gropis Cacus or some such. This was just before they had released their first album and their appearance at Woodstock. I had grown up listening to Brazilian Jazz that my parents put on the record player and I was just really getting into the rock music at the time. Santana combined both Latin rhythms and the rock music I was loving. I was hooked and have been ever since.
There are very few guitar players in the world that you can hear them play 2 notes and you know who it is. Carlos Santana would be a prominent member of that elite group!
Amen .I have always loved Carlos Santanas music from the first time i heard it, as its so beautiful to me and i always will .He is an excellent singer and gutiar player an excellent musician ,one of the very best ,like Jimmy Hendrix ,he could also make his gutiar talk.God bless him always.🎉🎉🎉💞💐♥️🌸🌷💕🌺❤️💝💖💖💖💖💖💖💖🧬🐕🦺😼😼🦦🌹🎉🎉🎉
.. I love his music .. 'Santana' to me is the music of Carlos Santana and his band .. on his personal life and his outlooks; who am I to judge all that?
love his band and his being a spiritual religious as well as composer musician = live long and prosper ! fan since the first album ! more than half a century ago ? my god ! my goodness !! lol !
I been a Santana fan since Wood stock. I also share the same drama of being sexually molested bat a young age. Carlos music has been a Blessing to me my whole life. Although Supernatural was his biggest album. My favorites is Caravanserai, Love this album .Abraxas, Santana,Santana 3,Barboletta, Moonflower, Welcome,love this album. John McLaughlin and Santana with Billy Cobham. Also his latest Africa Speaks. Carlos you are a Blessing to me and my Son. I am a African Kamitic Priest that loves you and your music. Every time you were in Philly, except one time, I was at your concerts. Blessings to you me Hermano.
How wonderful that after your early Beginnings with sexual abuse you found a way to turn that into a call to teach others and extend the principles of peace and love and understanding. May you continue to bless others and be blessed. And thanks for reminding me of the album with Billy Cobham I'll be looking to find it again today.
I met Carlos at my guitar teacher’s house when I was 19. (around 1983) Richard and Barbara were good friends with Carlos and he’d come over to their apartment near Golden Gate park. I knew that they knew him but I hadn’t met him yet. I was at their place for guitar lessons and dinner and just hanging out. They often had guests drop by and they knew a lot of famous musicians and artists so you never knew who’d be at their door. I was in my first year of guitar lessons and Richard I’m sure, set it up so Carlos would come by to hang out while I was there. Barbara was baking her famous chicken when the doorbell rang and she asked me to answer the door. I opened the door and was shocked to see Carlos Santana standing there. He said, “Hi, I’m Carlos, are Richard and Barbara here?” I stammered something like, “Yeah, come on in.” He walked right into the kitchen and gave Barbara a hug and a peck on the cheek. Mentioned how good the chicken smelled. I’m thinking, well I guess I’ll be eating dinner with Carlos Santana, which was just surreal! He was such a humble and nice guy. Always joking around. After dinner we all sat down in the living room and Richard sat at the piano. Started playing some bluesy stuff. Carlos asked if he could play one of his guitars (all acoustic) and so now they’re playing some really old blues tune I didn’t recognize. Barbara pushed me to join in so I did. Simple 3 chord blues shuffle in E. Barbara had rolled a joint and it went around the room. (So yes, I smoked a joint with Carlos Santana) As it got later it was just me and Carlos talking as Richard and Barbara were already out on the couch. I told him I was trying to learn how to play Europa because that was me and my girlfriend’s song, but I wasn’t getting it by ear. I played what I knew of it and he smiled and said I was pretty close, “but this is how it goes”. So I played along where I could but of course he left me in the dust as the licks got more complicated and faster. He wrote down the tabs for the song and said goodbye to us as he left. That was the last time I saw him since he was going on a world tour. I later joined a Bay Area rock band and then moved to Hawaii. I’ll never forget meeting Carlos though. What an excellent guitarist and humble guy he was.
@ , No, it was Richard and Barbara Fictel. I wouldn’t use their last name but they both passed away in the late 90’s. I was in Hawaii at the time and couldn’t attend their funerals. They died 6 months apart of cancer. I don’t think Carlos went to their funerals either but he definitely knows of their passing. And now that I said their last name, I hope Carlos reads this and remembers that night at their apartment where he changed my life and music career.
Santana was not just a good guitar player. He played more musical instruments than most of the artists then and forever, not just a keyboard with sounds. His music could be felt in our souls. I have 7 of his albums, a few before Woodstock. I keep a record player around to listen to the old albums and reminiscing about 50 years ago.
Boy, that comeback story was not what circulated in the biz. Santana wanted the comeback and begged Clive for another shot. This is not to diminish Carlos one bit, but says much about the nature of the industry, which has it's own mafia like feel. Clive agreed, but the comeback came with conditions of having a bunch of young relative unknowns in the show to piggyback on the Santana name. There is a bit more to the story, but that's the core of it. Fame is fickle. I only hope that Carlos feels whole and he certainly was a great contributor to the diversity of music which shaped the past few decades!
You are his creation, and he made you in and before the womb. If you are confused about your gender it is the result of perversion. The evil one perverts everything he can. Recognize this and celebrate who you were born to be. Feelings and emotions can be misconstrued.
I love all of the early Santana, never understood the lyrics and thought they were all very mystical until I married a mexican girl and she translated for me. Oye cómo va mi ritmo bueno pa' gozar Mulata. Even after realising they were a little simpler than my imagination, I have always loved his music but always wished he would go back to the big band style ala Woodstock; those congas!
If you can travel to Las Vegas at the House of Blues, you will see and hear old Brothers beating the skins, Jose Chepito Arias has health issues and not well, Mike Carabello has joined and Mike Schrieve visits together with Gregg Rollie … still tearing out old School sounds, Coke Escobedo passed and Brother Malone., you’re Old School sound.
Ever notice the ARROWS CLUTCHED IN THE EAGLES CLAW on the U.S 1.00 bill 🎉NATIVE CULTURE IS ALIVE AND THRIVING 🎉let's do it again 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Peace to ALl PEOPLE 🎉🎉🎉🎉
I always give credit where it's due. For the record Santana's style overall isn't really my cup of tea. That said, I certainly don't "hate" them as a band, I like some of their stuff, but their vibe's a little different than my taste. That however doesn't mean I don't realize, and appreciate how good they are musically. They've always had some of the best musicians available amongst the various incarnations. They were INCREDIBLE at Woodstock, the performance put them on the map, deservedly so! The whole band was Outstanding, with the Drum solo played by a Drummer who (I heard) was only 18-19yrs old. Unbelievable!
Santana was a pupil or student in guitarr electric from a peruvian teacher Enrique delgado montes...around 1960s..., same way with erick Clapton. etc...(Destellos singer ,compositor )
What a quote:" before we were born we knew who we were!" Love it 😊
I've loved Carlos and his music since the 1960's and Black Magic Woman. I used to use his records to check my speakers, knowing everything was right when the woofers would blow candles out. Later, I was blessed to photograph one of his shows at L.A.'s Greek Theater and was asked to video him performing at a bull ring in Tijuana. He considers himself to be one of Bob Marley's biggest fans, and as such, I was honored to have him in my apartment that doubles as a huge and respected Reggae and Ethiopian Archive. I know of no one who works harder every day to make the world a better place. My hat is off to you Mr. Carlos Santana!
Hahaha, sound check… Soul Sacrifice… must get your Heart going.
😊Very few know that, Black Magic Woaman was not written by Carlos Santana, but his guitar playing and arrangment, made a HI T
We used to see his dad's mariachi band at weddings, concerts.
I love Carlos Santana's music.
August 17, 1969 was my birthday. A Mexican friend of mine who I was in Vietnam with (TACO a nickname) told me about this Santana in which I had never seen. And that he was going to be at Woodstock Festival. This was about a week before my birthday. I had just gotten out of the Army after a tour in Vietnam. I needed some get away time. So he and I went to Woodstock on Aug. 13th for this concert. All I heard on the way up there from Maryland was Carlos this and Carlos that. By the time I got there all my mind told me is, You gotta see this man". I think Taco brainwashed me.
August 16th: So we couldn't get real close to the stage most of the time, but when Santana was to come on stage we had to fight our way to get close enough to really see him. It took us 15-20 minutes to do this. And it wasn't but about 100 years away. I was mesmerized by the performance, a few good hits from the bong played a part of it I think. I am now 77 years old myself and a disabled Vietnam Veteran but would love to see him again before I leave this earth. There is something about his style of music that I can never get enough of. Coming from a guy that grew up with Bluegrass and Country Music. PLAY ON CARLOS SANTANA... 🎵❤👴🏻
Man- that is beautiful ~! Thank You for serving our country- You lived what the music is describing! Thank You for sharing your story- ...wish I was there with you that day~!
This story is so relatable. I love the nickname you gave your friend. Terms of endearment are the best. Taco, I love it. ❤❤❤
Some people you just can’t dub and Carlos is another one that will never be dubbed ! Thank You for your service to the musical community and industry! 💚☮️ Dude
SANTANA IS THE BADDEST GUITARIST 🎸 LIVING LEGEND ON THE PLANET 🌏
His music lifts my soul and I hope he knows how much he is loved and how much love he has brought to others.❤
Good for him,hope he keeps Jesus first
We like that Santana Freeman of speech. We love him cause what said about his father in heaven cause only God can give you this peace.
My first concert was in Chicago. Santana, Chicago & Tower of Power were the bands. I was 18yrs old. This year I turn 72. Love him! God bless him.
What a phenomenal guitarist! Santana's music has been a part of my life for over 50 years. One of my biggest influences on playing guitar and making it my career. He is one of a kind with a style and feel that can't be duplicated. One of the best ever!
Love Carlos while cruising, Hard Rock, psychedelic jams, smooth love songs, Carlos ROCKS 2025🏵💮⚡️⚡️🌋🎊📀🪘🪘🎵🎵📻🎸🎹🎤📻🇸🇳
Road music 🙋🏽♀️🌴💯🎶🔥
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❤I'm glad he found Jesus Christ 🌹🙏 Many Blessings 🌍 ❤️
Never Left, just Redirected, God Is Good
All was a blessing to hear and feel 🙏 your music 🎉
Thank you and your team.🎉
I was a young lawyer with David Birenbaum's small office in San Francisco near Union Street. I remember David talking about helping you when you were 18 playing in the Mission!
A few years later I was in LA representing a large group of eldrly folks in a Garden Grove Govt Apartment building on a construction defect case. It was just me and 11 defense attorneys opposing me, along with the Judge. Every mornng for 4 months I played your CD I'm winning" on my way to my trial...I did.. Thank You Carlos..James Clay
Wow, Touching.
Great story!
I remember my first Santana album, Abraxas I've loved his music ever since 😂😊
Wow I had no idea of all of his suffering 😥😥😥I love his music and I also bought some of the beautiful shoes 👠 diseñados by him. We love you Carlos ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
My older brother took me to my first live concert when I was 8 years old. It was 1987 in Houston at Tinsley Park. Everyone was blazing.The cops just smiled and had a good time. When Oye Como Va and Black Magic Woman played… it was electric! It’s always been one of my favorite core childhood memories. Thank you to my brother Cacho, I love you! Thank you, Carlos Santana. I hope you read this one day.
Thank you Mr Santana 🎉prayers for you and your family 😎 👍.
Time for a FEDERAL NATIVE FEDERATION to represent ALL NATIVE PEOPLE IN NORTH AMERICA and the world 🎉🎉🎉
Carlos Santana is one of the better guitar play of the world.... He is loved for all Latin American people and all the music"lover. Happy New Year, Carlos Santana and his fans.✨✨🌻🌻🤗🤗
I’ve been a fan of Santana since “Evil Ways”. I got to see him perform in Vegas in 2014. Show was magnificent.
"You've got to change your underwear, baby"
my visiting nurse does that for me
He lived close by in our neighborhood. My brother, who was also a musician, named my first orange cat “Santana.” He and Mark Knopfler are my favorites.🌟
My friends and I heard pre-release cuts from his first album and waited with bated breath for it to finally become available in the shops -- I can still remember the excited day at work when I got the phone call that it was now available. Santana's music changed everything in how it brought Latin percussion into the acid rock of the day. Bill Graham of the Fillmore West noted that women danced differently to Santana's music, from the hips, unlike how psyche rock inspired people to dance. The Latin rhythms grounded things and gave people more that they could relate directly to, unlike the rarefied heights toward transcendence that acid head psychedelic music often strove for. Music has been better off for Santana ever since that first album. No one then, or since, has brought forth such musical taste, creativity, sensitivity and prowess with rock guitar couched in Latin percussion. Now, at the age of 74, it still shows (literally) in my life as I sit here with three conga drums, 2 sets of bongos, a couple of African drums and a myriad of hand percussion instruments around me, always with the auditory memory of the power of the congas in the recorded and the Woodstock versions of Soul Sacrifice. Carlos, you are a blessing to us all! You are a blessing to the music of the Americas! We could never thank you enough! I hope you can feel the ocean of love that your fans have for you.
How Cool, Percussion is the Heart Beat of Latin Rock and Latin Music, you must make the Room shake with all that Skin around You in any Gerne, Blessings Brother.
Saw Carlos 8 times Have a demo from SSB Salvador Santana band His son You cannot find this demo anywhere Has 5 songs I’m 66 now I was into him in the 60s The guitarist with soul Jimi Hendrix considered him the best because he made his own music
....you just can't suppress, determination and good talent,...such great music, immortal.
Carlos Santana 's music is touching, soulful! I grew -up with his sound. So many nice memories, as I grew-up. Thank u , Carlos! I still , jam-out to u ! 😊
Authentic. Wonderful musician. Great guitarist.
My HERO.....great music that I have been listening to since I was 10 years old. Met him and his band in an after show in 2003 in Perth, Australia. Today at 65, his music is loaded in my car. Cannot start my day without listening to him.
Cool,Blessings
Santana got new guitarists into minor keys when most hard rock was major. Caravanserai was as much jazz as it was rock, deepening the musical experience.
1950, rock and roll was R&B in second gear. Well, white musicians were classically trained in school resulting in following major scales. Black music was introduced to non-black audiences. But, it was fused from other styles (C&W, boogie woogie, be bop & R&B). Today, it has stretched boundaries far beyond. I lived abroad while on active duty. Became fascinated when walking into a bar in many countries and hearing R&R. And with it evolving into an eclectic global genre producing local harmonies while creating a DEEPENING MUSICAL EXPERIENCE.
Man! I agree with you on Caravanserai.
Jorge Santana was a pretty good guitarist also.
Love the key of A and G root, but rip in Majors.
I got to see him choreograph for Rob Thomas at a corporate event in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the song 'Smooth', giving him pointers on his movements. I met him backstage in Orlando, Florida and thanked him for all the great music. Many memorable moments as a stage hand that I'll never forget, meeting him was the greatest of all. Thank Carlos!
Carlos played in small bars around san Francisco in the early sixies, I would hear him when walking by as a ten year old
What area?? Cesar’s Club on Green Street?? Armando Peraza conga player got us to play with him and Mongo Santamaria, San Francisco was very strict about young kids Playing in Clubs, but at Cesar’s we were hidden, we were in our teens.
@lorenzogonzalez6488 san Bruno Ave had a bar that I know he played in, but don't know the name, a bar on 24th street don't know the name, don't know how many times he played in these places either as a ten year old,thanks!
Saw Santana in the early eighties at the Portland , Maine civic center . One of the Greatest concerts I ever went to . After the two normal encores , The people would not leave and would not shut up , I mean really ! So they came out and did another ! 3 encores , people STILL would not shut up or leave !
Finally , after a bit , the lights are all on now , Carlos himself comes out on stage . I don't remember his words exactly , but he held out his arms and expressed his love , and told he would love to stay but he had to go , so , when he left the stage we all knew , that , I guess it was time to go . So , it was not just me that considered what we had just seen had to have been one of Santanas greatest concerts . I would love to know if there is a recording of it out there !
I lived off No. Meridian in Puyallup, WA, next to the state's fairgrounds. In the summer Mr.Santana would concert there and we could hear him play almost as if we were in the concert, loved every minute of it...
ONE OF THE GREATEST GUITARIST LIVING. NUMBER ONE.😊
I just say he is a great guitar player love his music
I saw Santana several times in the 70s and at least thirty times since.
Wow, you’re not broke?.. cool
I honestly wonder who doesn’t know Carlos Santana……..nadie!❤❤❤
Love me some Santana!
Carlos 2 me is the Greatest Guitar player he created his own style he has a GREAT Sound 2 this day 2o25 im from the Mission Dist San Fran class of 1972 Mission High
How Cool.
@@lorenzogonzalez6488 thx
Per my mama, Javier Batize and his sister Baby Batize are musicians he played with in Tijuana. It is said , Javier Batize taught him how to play the guitar..20 yrs ago, while I was visiting my aunt in Tijuana, I was fortunate to be invited to a Baby Batize concert at a park it was amazing with the Santana sound.
Great guitar player !
Thanks for sharing all this I always loved your music an still do this day God Bless❤
Master Santana thank you for sharing I know you've been blessed and also you passed it on to bless the real people that need blessing thank you so much for your wonderful music never forget it and my heart much love and God bless
What a story,what a genius!
Everything Carlos did is Magickal! We are so blessed to have you .
ABRAXAS is just out of this world 🌎 Every song was dynamite 😂 Carlos is one of top 5 guitarist as far as I know 😊Samba Pa Ti is was made from heaven 💙 It sounds like pure ecstasy through my entire body and.soul.🥰💖💜💜 LOVE YOU CARLOS A SUPER LEGEND 😍💝💫 PEACE OUT ✌️
“Incredible” indeed!🤗
Santana music hits the soul.
I can still remeber his trilogy Caravanserai, Borboletta and Welcome.
When you are a popular and gifted musician, like Carlos Santana, and you have your own values and convictions, when anyone else believes differently than you, they do not have the authority or integrity to try to diminish who you are just because they disagree with your values.
Santana played a benefit concert at my High School my Freshman year. They had top billing over Cold Blood and another band called Gropis Cacus or some such. This was just before they had released their first album and their appearance at Woodstock. I had grown up listening to Brazilian Jazz that my parents put on the record player and I was just really getting into the rock music at the time. Santana combined both Latin rhythms and the rock music I was loving. I was hooked and have been ever since.
Musicians could get started like that back in the day when most places preferred a live band.
There are very few guitar players in the world that you can hear them play 2 notes and you know who it is. Carlos Santana would be a prominent member of that elite group!
Amen .I have always loved Carlos Santanas music from the first time i heard it, as its so beautiful to me and i always will .He is an excellent singer and gutiar player an excellent musician ,one of the very best ,like Jimmy Hendrix ,he could also make his gutiar talk.God bless him always.🎉🎉🎉💞💐♥️🌸🌷💕🌺❤️💝💖💖💖💖💖💖💖🧬🐕🦺😼😼🦦🌹🎉🎉🎉
For Me as a Gitarrist, both Nylon and Steel, Carlos is one of My ABDOLUT HEROS ( whit Jimmy and Jeff ofcourse)
Thank you idol for the unique music god bless!!❤
Wonderful man, world class musician, faithful child of God, like all of us.
Enjoying his music since early 70’s……
.. I love his music .. 'Santana' to me is the music of Carlos Santana and his band
.. on his personal life and his outlooks; who am I to judge all that?
I always the jazz piano influenced Treat on the original 1969 album!❤
❤❤❤❤❤❤Amazing Bio! Amazing Man .😊
love his band and his being a spiritual religious as well as composer musician = live long and prosper ! fan since the first album ! more than half a century ago ? my god ! my goodness !! lol !
One of the most naturally gifted guitar players similar to Eric Clapton.
Carlos is one of a kind!, we love him in Chicago ❤🙏
People decides for themself who they are!
Musicly I love his 1969 and 70s stuff. I have bought them almost all on CD.
My man forever n always. Samba pa ti is my daily medicine 🙋🏽♀️🌴💯❤️🔥🎶
I been a Santana fan since Wood stock. I also share the same drama of being sexually molested bat a young age. Carlos music has been a Blessing to me my whole life. Although Supernatural was his biggest album. My favorites is Caravanserai, Love this album .Abraxas, Santana,Santana 3,Barboletta, Moonflower, Welcome,love this album. John McLaughlin and Santana with Billy Cobham. Also his latest Africa Speaks.
Carlos you are a Blessing to me and my Son. I am a African Kamitic Priest that loves you and your music. Every time you were in Philly, except one time, I was at your concerts. Blessings to you me Hermano.
How wonderful that after your early Beginnings with sexual abuse you found a way to turn that into a call to teach others and extend the principles of peace and love and understanding. May you continue to bless others and be blessed. And thanks for reminding me of the album with Billy Cobham I'll be looking to find it again today.
He is the best .
Mr Stamina...he's plenty to feed his emotive musical soul ✌
the BEST!! Through Jesus Christ Amen 🙏
Carlos Santana was my neighbor in Tijuana back in 1958.....
Qué Colonia en Tijuana?
Marti
It’s Better To Under Stand Forever -Of 2 -On Earth ……Negative and Positive To Gather……..🌞
To sit with him playing a dream 🙋🏽♀️🌴💯❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥
😂I Just Adore His Music……Love His Art Of Music……..🌞
Santana, Clapton, Knopfler, Hendricks, the aces!
Tough life as it is teach us only the strong and great survives this hell call human existence.
I love Borbolleta the album was magical for a non-commercial touch sound track was ahead of his time
I met Carlos at my guitar teacher’s house when I was 19. (around 1983) Richard and Barbara were good friends with Carlos and he’d come over to their apartment near Golden Gate park. I knew that they knew him but I hadn’t met him yet. I was at their place for guitar lessons and dinner and just hanging out. They often had guests drop by and they knew a lot of famous musicians and artists so you never knew who’d be at their door. I was in my first year of guitar lessons and Richard I’m sure, set it up so Carlos would come by to hang out while I was there. Barbara was baking her famous chicken when the doorbell rang and she asked me to answer the door.
I opened the door and was shocked to see Carlos Santana standing there. He said, “Hi, I’m Carlos, are Richard and Barbara here?”
I stammered something like, “Yeah, come on in.” He walked right into the kitchen and gave Barbara a hug and a peck on the cheek. Mentioned how good the chicken smelled. I’m thinking, well I guess I’ll be eating dinner with Carlos Santana, which was just surreal!
He was such a humble and nice guy. Always joking around. After dinner we all sat down in the living room and Richard sat at the piano. Started playing some bluesy stuff. Carlos asked if he could play one of his guitars (all acoustic) and so now they’re playing some really old blues tune I didn’t recognize. Barbara pushed me to join in so I did. Simple 3 chord blues shuffle in E.
Barbara had rolled a joint and it went around the room. (So yes, I smoked a joint with Carlos Santana)
As it got later it was just me and Carlos talking as Richard and Barbara were already out on the couch. I told him I was trying to learn how to play Europa because that was me and my girlfriend’s song, but I wasn’t getting it by ear. I played what I knew of it and he smiled and said I was pretty close, “but this is how it goes”. So I played along where I could but of course he left me in the dust as the licks got more complicated and faster. He wrote down the tabs for the song and said goodbye to us as he left.
That was the last time I saw him since he was going on a world tour. I later joined a Bay Area rock band and then moved to Hawaii.
I’ll never forget meeting Carlos though. What an excellent guitarist and humble guy he was.
Richard Bean ?..
@ , No, it was Richard and Barbara Fictel. I wouldn’t use their last name but they both passed away in the late 90’s.
I was in Hawaii at the time and couldn’t attend their funerals. They died 6 months apart of cancer. I don’t think Carlos went to their funerals either but he definitely knows of their passing. And now that I said their last name, I hope Carlos reads this and remembers that night at their apartment where he changed my life and music career.
Can't wait seeing Carlos on stage in Rosenheim in Germany in July 25
Santana was not just a good guitar player. He played more musical instruments than most of the artists then and forever, not just a keyboard with sounds. His music could be felt in our souls. I have 7 of his albums, a few before Woodstock. I keep a record player around to listen to the old albums and reminiscing about 50 years ago.
Violin?..finger dexterity at its best, can still rip that bow!,,
Boy, that comeback story was not what circulated in the biz. Santana wanted the comeback and begged Clive for another shot. This is not to diminish Carlos one bit, but says much about the nature of the industry, which has it's own mafia like feel. Clive agreed, but the comeback came with conditions of having a bunch of young relative unknowns in the show to piggyback on the Santana name. There is a bit more to the story, but that's the core of it. Fame is fickle. I only hope that Carlos feels whole and he certainly was a great contributor to the diversity of music which shaped the past few decades!
I love Carlos. He's a Blues god.
SANTANA IS RIGHT GOD DECIDES WHO YOU ARE.
no he doesn't...there is no invisible sky daddy choosing what you do...either YOU make the choices or another HUMAN makes them for you.
You are his creation, and he made you in and before the womb. If you are confused about your gender it is the result of perversion. The evil one perverts everything he can. Recognize this and celebrate who you were born to be. Feelings and emotions can be misconstrued.
He was absolutely correct !
The legend
I want to be there 🙋🏽♀️🌴💯🔥🔥🔥🔥
I grew up with you, thank you it's ben a great ride. 😎
I love all of the early Santana, never understood the lyrics and thought they were all very mystical until I married a mexican girl and she translated for me. Oye cómo va mi ritmo bueno pa' gozar
Mulata. Even after realising they were a little simpler than my imagination, I have always loved his music but always wished he would go back to the big band style ala Woodstock; those congas!
If you can travel to Las Vegas at the House of Blues, you will see and hear old Brothers beating the skins, Jose Chepito Arias has health issues and not well, Mike Carabello has joined and Mike Schrieve visits together with Gregg Rollie … still tearing out old School sounds, Coke Escobedo passed and Brother Malone., you’re Old School sound.
@@lorenzogonzalez6488 Cool, maybe one day I'll get the chance. Abrazos!
i love this man, he lived in Tijuana ❤
Ever notice the ARROWS CLUTCHED IN THE EAGLES CLAW on the U.S 1.00 bill 🎉NATIVE CULTURE IS ALIVE AND THRIVING 🎉let's do it again 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Peace to ALl PEOPLE 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Santana was right about everything.
Now is clear why is he popular.
Abraxas is a Masterpiece!! PLAY LOUD
Yup
Those songs were my cruising songs in my car with my girlfriend.
And what has Carlos Santana finally reveal “ what we all suspected “?
Personally I never suspected anything.
I see the Light 🙏🙏🙏❤️☮️👏
My favorite song is WINNING.
1st Santana WoodStock "Listen = Chills Running Up & Down your Spine
I would trust Santana over any of the groups mentioned from San Francisca.
The best.
I always give credit where it's due. For the record Santana's style overall isn't really my cup of tea. That said, I certainly don't "hate" them as a band, I like some of their stuff, but their vibe's a little different than my taste. That however doesn't mean I don't realize, and appreciate how good they are musically. They've always had some of the best musicians available amongst the various incarnations. They were INCREDIBLE at Woodstock, the performance put them on the map, deservedly so! The whole band was Outstanding, with the Drum solo played by a Drummer who (I heard) was only 18-19yrs old. Unbelievable!
Santana was a pupil or student in guitarr electric from a peruvian teacher Enrique delgado montes...around 1960s..., same way with erick Clapton. etc...(Destellos singer ,compositor )
Hmmmm ….???