Santana's Acid Trip
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- Опубліковано 15 сер 2019
- Carlos Santana reflects on the acid trip of his life at Woodstock, an experience that propelled his career and brain to new heights.
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Imagine being able to say you got acid from Jerry Garcia and then complimented for your performance by Jimi Hendrix. Icon.
That... that is something else.
Happy to see appreciation 😄
That is when you know... you broke ground. You broke bad!
RIGHT!!!
Yes i can imagine.. They both are really lucky
LSD + bad scheduling = One of the best rock performances ever in the history of rock and roll. Cant make this stuff up.......
Was crazy back then
this was the best of the rest ,it was magic ,now is another story ...
Lsd was more pure back in the day
Now they cut it with research chemicals to make more product
the medicine is the greater reality , the knowledge. what seems like "bad scheduling" in this dimension is the Masterful now beyond the veil.
You got it right there !
I saw Carlos walking across the street by guitartar center in Vegas. I slammed on the brakes and yelled "Carlos Fucking Santana" he started laughing came up to my window asked me if I wanted an autograph. I said Fuck yeah lol still hanging on my fridge 12 years later. Amazing guy... Huge fan!
Holy shit! Amazing!!
Legendary 🎆
REALLY...He came UP TO YOU AND ASKED IF YOU WANTED HIS AUTOGRAPH...COME ON NOW.
Are you sure he wasn't the janitor or a landscaper? In his old age, he looks like millions of others.
@@slit4659 I believe it! No matter how he comes across here, or what people want to believe about him...he's one of those guys who holds himself up with great regard. Big ego. If you have a great story, he ALWAYS has one better.
you know acid is powerful when you can recall something that happened years ago this vividly
I still vividly remember my first acid trip in 1979. Even the song going through my head, "It's Magic".
you'd never forget an intense trip like that
I remember my very first trip just as vividly, 48 years ago.
He doesn’t really remember the performance vividly. This is what he said regarding it: “Imagine performing up there on LSD or mescaline or peyote. It was hard for me to even remember anything until I saw the video of it.”
So its pts dope
His hat's third eye is epic
Who Knows sagrado corazon
It's a sacred heart..
Saskia Lavey - Thank you. ☝️🥴
Uli Roth's guitar has an epic third eye
Opal.. Turd eye... same dif
I caught Carlos Santana flying in First Class, early in 2000's, I was on a business trip (only), you could tell he just wanted to chill and not be recognized or have anyone bring any attention to him, so as I passed him in the aisle I put my hands together as in prayer and bowed to his greatness, as I did this he acknowledged me the same exact way , as to say thank you and that as humans we are all equal...true story
Beautiful comment 👌
thats a wonderful way of doing it
He was great in that performance, the whole band was really on, but it was the young guy on the drum kit who really stole the show...
For those that know who he was
Derek Kase Michael Shrieve
@wjwn dkd He looks like he has the Mary Jane eyes though...
Wow
I see it now
Of course Jerry Garcia was there.
He was
and Owsley.....
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley
Richard McCallum 😂😂😂😂
I think he is always there at least in spirit for moments like this
Jerry passing tabs Priceless Life changing. Blessed
I wasn't shocked when he said Jerry Garcia gave him the acid 😂
Bernie Sanders represents the White Male Patriarchy If Garcia offered _me_ some acid, I’d take it.
Only one time that I saw the dead, that I wasn't on acid, or shrooms.
@Piri yeah this story deff checks out
Bernie Sanders represents the White Male Patriarchy: "Captain Trips", was Jerry's nick name back then. He knew "the guy's, guy"(CIA asset), and got as much as he wanted for free...
I took acid at Disneyland back in the 70`s. It was awesome.
That's wicked
The rides must have been horrible. However walking around must have been beautiful.
Nice
@@RivetGardener Yh walking around would be amazing
It’s called nights a freddy
Must have been some heavy acid, ive never seen my guitar neck go snake mode
Chuckle MuChuckle 😂😂😂
Haha it was 1969 man, it was probably quite potent
lmao
this wasn’t anyone’s acid baby, it was Jerry Garcia’s man must’ve been rocked
Orange Sunshine bro 😵
I can't believe I shook that man's hand...
I shook his hand once too. It was after he sat in with the dead at the Oakland coliseum for watchtower. The crowd was dispersing in the parking lot. We were kinda in a hurry, and he was in the middle of a deep conversation. So I just shook and went on my way.
Maybe it's due to the fact, that you were on That acid?
He's just a man. Never understood starstruck people.
Only people on That acid understand such things.
j Glez we can’t either 😂
I saw Carlos Santana three years before Woodstock! He was playing in Hayward California! I was 9 years old!!!
#California magic 💯
That's crazy! How old are u now? Or how long ago was this?
@@imAdolff He was born in 1957. So he'd by 62-63 by now.
where in Hayward?
No you didn’t but nice try bud
Jus him closing his eyes remembering it all
Carlos: I'm not going to endorse LSD but it's very therapeutic and healing. 😜😆😝✌💞✌💖
I'd actually say the same thing to anyone about any drug.
It’s time that those of us in the Psychedelic community speak up in an effort to reverse the stigma that the propaganda of the “War on Drugs” created.
Acid opens your mind to see the world in a completely different way. I've never seen the world the same since I had my first hit in 1979.
"under supervision"
@@johnking7535 Except heroin, right? And meth, and crack.
An acid trip can be a wonderful, cosmic, oceanic experience or it can be a reckoning, you had to be aware that the things you were avoiding could become unavoidable! Set and setting are important factors to consider when tripping. Back in the 1960's, a set of shared beliefs, ideas, attitudes, and knowledge were common within the counterculture. When you tripped, you felt part of that collective consciousness, it was reassuring to sense a connection to everyone. I wouldn't want to trip today, not only because I'm not as strong as I was when young (mindset) but because there isn't a supportive culture (setting).
you got it man. A bad trip is a horrible experience
I always carefully planned my trips. Except this one time I remember peaking on 2 hits of mescaline and my mother came in to my room and said "your father and I want to have a family meeting". It was the things nightmares are made of. I told her I can't and slammed the door. Lucky for me she didn't force the issue or I probably would have had a panic attack. Instead I turned on the black light and strapped in for the rest of the ride. 😂
I get it but there is a subculture
@@buixrule damn lmfao
Yes there is . You just gotta find it .
That performance sounded better than a studio version...it was perfect
Thanks to Jerry, Carlos and God.
Dylan Amen to that
2 of those are real . One isn't.
@@twomindz79 wrong. God is most certainly real and he loves you
@@cronicallyinsane1767 lol..
@Elias Gonzalez
100% certain .
Their performance was amazing. They were unknown mostly as their debut album had yet to hit the market. Michael Shrieve was amazing on drums. They were only 20 years old give or take
Yes. Michael Shrieve was 20 at Woodstock. That footage is just supernal! It will live forever. A statement of the sheer power of the Soul in the strength of youth.
Santana performance at Woodstock was a high-water mark if ever there was one. Any time I hear some new guitarist on the internet being hailed as a genius I ask, "When they can do what Carlos did at Woodstock, then I'll take notice." Not trying to be mean, or cruel, but these guys just ran on pure instinct and energy, and sadly we just don't see that these days...
god
You get it !!
Carlos totally gets it. What a hill to climb in that scenario, handled it like a boss musician and performer.
Doing acid and jimi hendrix likes your music, automatic music god. Probably why hes still alive. 🤘😎
Carlos Santana has given the world some of the very best Latin Rock music ever made in the history of mankind. I admire him for his talent, his faith, and his courage to share his faith with boldness. GOD bless you Carlos. Thank you for your music and your spiritual guidance.
Such a humble guy
For real!
Your avatar, I literally listened to that album today.
Hobostarr180 rock on brother. VILLAIN
@@crappyaccount MF DOOM! gotta listen to him more
Damn bro rip Doom 😓
good interview, good interviewer, and good God, Carlos, you are such a real and down to earth person. So glad you made it through and can still speak intelligently about so many things. Between you and Arlo Guthrie, most things that needed to be said were covered.
Love your comment, it’s the only positive one!
The word from Carlos Santana, "Trust your fingers to know where to go on the guitar" He combined that with trying to simultaneously be in touch with The Great Spirit, thereby in what might be called a Soul Sacrifice, he became the conduit for The Spirit in front of 500 000 people @ Woodstock. He is AWESOME
*Basically, LSD transforms your electric guitar into an electric eel!* LOL! ;-)
*snake
@@matsgilon7075 Don't you get it mate? 😂
@@freemancarl ye i do but you're of
@@matsgilon7075 No you didn't. 😂😂
@@freemancarl mate i get what you mean with it being electric cuz it's an electric eel but still it's weird
one of the best live performance of all time they killed it
Their performance was so soo heavy. I get goosebumps thinking about it
I have seen Santana 3 or 4 times. He never disappoints.
I remember my first and only acid trip as a great experience. I had a cool conversation with Bob Dylan - he was on an album cover stuck to the wall, and I only wish I could remember what we talked about.
We dropped early and were peaking during Santana's set. Saturday at Woodstock was a very intense day. After Santana was done we all went down to the lake and took a group bath with Dr Bronner's. A good time was had by all.
We came in on a helicopter and all could see was a sea of teeth and hair, then I dropped acid 🤯 ......that is a quote of a lifetime 🇮🇪🙏🏻👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀
As someone who did a TON of Acid in the late 80's with my idiot friends, i gotta say I love this story. Thing is, what happened to him on stage happened to all of us at one time or another. The difference is his got focused thru his guitar and someone recorded it for the world to see. And what you see is a deeply "Religious" experience. He said the word "Shaman". But i would say at that time he was just going from Student to Teacher. Like a snake he shed his skin live on stage. In a thousand years people will still watch Soul Sacrifice with open mouths and awe in their eyes. It was the making of a musical Shaman. Respects Mr. Santana
Tuned in turned on dropping acid. Incredible
Well said mann
Santana as a whole performed godlike that day!! That footage of "soul sacrifice" is glorious!!
Best explanation of an " acid ride" ever!
If you.never take any sure..he is full.of shit
But he didn't say what he heard. Acid affects all your senses.
Guy: You gotta go on right now!!
Carlos: I AM on. . ( If you only knew WHAT I'm on! )
The whole band was ROLLING HAAAAAARD! lol absolutely fantastic ! I loved dropping acid back in the early 1990s when my heart was young
I love it; Carlos says the most important thing in the conversation at the very end, “it’s also very therapeutic and healing for you”, but they cut it off right as he says that.
One would really struggle to find more beautiful guitar playing than by Carlos Santana, especially on that Moonflower double album. Just beautiful. It's like God took over.
Pete David
🌹 Well said. ✌️
It’s not hard, just look up Duane Allman or Derek Trucks on UA-cam, Spotify, or Apple Music
SRV!
Moonflower is a great album 👌🏻
It's one of the best live performances ever!!
So like, he battled a guitar serpent and won. That is pretty awesome. Someone needs to make the animated version of that ASAP.
Wow...remembering the Orange Sunshine 🌞
purple haze
edmundo oliver
That had to be the best, good old natural LSD 👍
@@joenuno8071 newsflash, lsd is not natural, it's a semi synthetic substance.
Joe Nuno that was my first trip, orange sunshine, it was raining and I was standing next to the street, what a trip 😎
Be kind man, not mankind. I’m sure they know that. He meant back when it was good and strong. Nowadays you buy it and get somethin that’s not even acid or barely enough on a tab to do anything to you
Love Carlos and his band
Saw Carlos live, he is everything you imagine...the energy was amazing
Key here is success=readiness+opportunity, Santana had practiced these songs diligently for years, he was ready to kill those songs no matter what state his mind was in, and the acid just opened his mind without hindering
I am a big Santana / Carols Santana fan, what great music. I was lucky to see them at Woodstock and also at a show they did 1n 1969 at a Masonic Temple Hall in Elizabeth, NJ., During the 1st half of the show the people were just sitting still in their seats but by the middle of the show everyone was on their feet gyrating, moving to the music and having blast.
The last time I took acid, I went out in to the shed of the house where I was and the drummer who lived there came with me. I got on a keyboard, and we start jamming. Just holding down a random triad cord was enough to send me in to the stratosphere. It was like I was melting in to the rainbow road in Mario Cart. Can't even beging to imagine what Carlos was experiencing.
i've heard this story so many times but it never gets old.
I love it, "when we landed." When he said that, I literally picked up on a space ship hovering over earth. He incarnated to make some freakin out of this world music so the masses could bask and revelate in the goodness.
What a great interview - I can't argue with anything he said.
Carlos Sanrana is a Prince of a man. Love him to pieces. I had the honor to spend three hours with him. He came out to El Paso to support a friend that had surgery. I was the lucky nurse to take care of said friend. He and I just talked and talked. The word got out in the hospital that the great Carlos Santana was in the building. He was so lovely and cordial to all the doctors and nurses that came down to see if it was real. That Carlos Effin Santana was I'm the building. I'll cherish meeting him forever.
Great story. Thank you!
Getting acid is one thing. But getting acid from Jerry Garcia is like the ultimate trip. And Carlos survived it.
Carlos your still a Blessed man..
This is our legacy, and I am very proud to say I love his music.
How could anyone not like Carlos Santana?!
I always thought Carlos Santana has the modesty of a spiritual man. That's why God gave him the lucidity he nedeed to play so beautifully.
Amen.
Imagine jimi likes ur music
Bernie Sanders represents the White Male Patriarchy Where did u read that?
Jimi really dug Cream. No wonder.
Yes, that's true. Hendrix said Billy was his favorite. They were good friends. Also, Jimi said/thought Terry Kath of the band Chicago was better than he (Jimi) was.
Jimi had a stock answer every time someone asked him his fave or, "What's it like to be the greatest guitarist in the world?"
Jimi would say, "I don't know, talk to...(insert name here)."
(Others included Leslie West, Rory Gallagher, Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend, Terry Kath, Buddy Guy...)
Imagine Jimi, Jerry, Janis and Jim Morrison like your music!
Had the same experience at a few concerts in the 70’s. God please help me.
I always liked this dude's songs I knew in middle school but I never realized he was this cool!!!!!
I seen santana in concert. One of the best ones I,ve seen or heard.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
I’m literally 6hrs deep in this acid trip 🤘🏻😍🚀
Man you should have been off your phone and enjoying your trip
Laura I might be weird but I love going on my phone when I’m tripping
If you're stay for that time in the phone that acid was crap....a good acid you're phome 'll became a golden beetle...or some sacred object😄😄😄😄
You type , very well ;)
Imagine being his age with that much talent and in that point of time with that many other talented people and still shined the brightest
One of the best performances ever !!
should be renamed "Santana's acid trip: Volume 459"
I think you mean 397462789492696969696969420420
Carlos is such a great guy!
Thank you very much Mr Carlos Santana
Thanks for this post! Grateful for UA-cam!
God, I love this man. Fame, talent, wisdom, heart of gold, humility. I wish he were a relative of mine, just to hear his stories, experiences.
It was an epic performance ❤️
just wow how amazing the whole story....
Excellent
Thanks Carlos
Always loved your music and your inspiration.
🎉🎉🎉
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
that mantra killed me, been there man. 😂😭
Carlos Santana needs to come to Brazil and taste Ayahuasca tea! XD
I LOVE SANTANA. THEY ALL LIT WOODSTOCK UP!! BAMM! BRILLIANCE...ACID OR NOT! ❤
Great performance...Carlos Santana. And the great band....wow..
At 3:08; I believe the word Carlos uses when describing Jimi Hendrix is IMPERIAL?
Jerry Garcia: " You want some of this?"
Carlos, and any hippie: "Sure....."
"Oops......"
👏🏻🤣Ooooops
Monster! Love to watch him performing at Woodstock, Evil Ways was so intense.
You've healed so many with your music Carlos ! God has blessed us wjth you@
Cary Grant wrote a book about tripping and for those to young to remember him he was as big a star as you can get.
I know who Cary Grant is and I was born in 1986 what is the name of the book?
Cary Grant was a hippie? 🤯
Thanks for including the context for us younger folks. As I was born in the early 2000s, never heard of him.
@@Emanuela9 He suffered from depression. I don't know if he initially took it therapeutically or recreationally, but he credited it as one of the only things that really helped.
I'd like to read that book.
The best black and white cinema era male actor
Carlos epic!!!
Love Santana! Wish I could have been at Woodstock! I was only 7 years old at the time...
*Carlos Santana is Amazing in concert. I had the pleasure of visiting his hometown, Autlan, in Mexico. He has contributed a lot to his hometown such as helping to build a hospital.* ❤
I'm a firm believer that a low dose of acid trip is a cure for social anxiety.
Cannabis is just as good
Maybe in an extremely controlled environment. Psychedelics have therapeutic uses, but they can just as easily make mental problems worse.
@@thebog11 don't I know it. I did Ayahuasca multiple times which really helped my mental health, then I took a decent dose of acid one time and it fucked me up a bit
Jamie W wrong setting? Too high a dose?
@@Zilvinas. both to be honest. This is why these factors are so important. It's ashame because psychedelics really helped with depression and now I am too scared to try them again because of the acid experience...
superbe artiste sa fait trente année que je l écoute tout les jours c est un régale merci a lui
Tout à fait d'accord ! Je vais le voir en concert demain et ça va surement être hallucinant mdr j'écoute sa musique tout le temps mais il ya longtemps que je prends de l'acide
Carlos, if you read this, I love your music for more than 40 years since I heard Europa the first time. I still think it's one of your most beautiful and powerful performances - you have a connection to the divine power of the universe and transferring it when you play your music. I know that.
Wish I was alive during these times to experience this great music in person ✌️☮️
The true warrior has three eyes: one for the opponent, one for the self and one for the unseen world.
I'm with Tim Leary...taking LSD is a religious sacrament.
The problem with Tim Leary is that "he crashed around America selling consciousness expansion without ever giving a thought to the grim, meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all those people who took him seriously. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy peace and understanding for three bucks a hit. See, what Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole lifestyle he helped create. A generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the acid culture. The desperate assumption that somebody, or at least some force is tending the light at the end of the tunnel"
It was a fucking bus party that lasted too long.....end of story hippie
Pogue Mahone paper make brain go brrrrrrrrrr
Spid keells
Yes, you know what Carlos ??? I love your energy too..and I was born a little to early to go to Woodstock, but soul sacrifice..& the faces you made playing guitar OMG, are you kidding me !? It made me love your guitar playin from jump..😍and the conga drummer , to your piano man , no DISRESPECT, but I dont remember their name right now . .YOU GUYS ARE MY FAVE ...YU DO HAVE A VIBE AND ITS MAGNETIC...I LOVE YU BROTHER , TALENT!! RAW TALENT ⁉️🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thanks Dr Santana
I heard he was on acid when he was performing. But this is the first time hearing him tell it. Funny story. Lol. He's up there with the best of guitar players. And one of the few who are "THERE".
Saw him live injune 2019. He is was one of my favorite musicians._.Then there was his wife,the greatest drummer. She left the crowd breathless.
I saw Santana only once back in 1970. They levitated that arena with pure called down Cosmic energy. It was absolutely amazing to experience! Yes. Cindy Blackman. Also long time drummer for Lenny Cravitz. She is a life long member of the Baha'i religion along with the late Jimmy Seals and Dan Seals, Dash Crofts, old L.A. "Studio Wrecking Crew" guitarist member Louie Shelton back in the day, Dizzy Gillespie and many others in the music business. Carlos Santana is a very deeply spiritual man so it would certainly be very interesting to take those two out for dinner!
Soul sacrifice on Woodstock is my Favorize....what a perfomance
Weird. I had goosebumps a good portion of this vid. Santana is a Legend.
Why am I just now finding this out? Always thought that performance was epic, and now i have to watch it again. That said, Mike Shreve the drummer stole the show.
he was triping too !
LMAO! I was wondering if he did it solo, something you never really want to do.
@@glenndespres5317 a bunch took it, but some didnt. Cant remember exactly who but Mike definetly said yes (you can see it haha).
He really played that Sg,,, Obviously did not hurt him at all. Insane playing soul sacrifice. Watch the directors cut a few times year to be humbled.
Not that I had any doubt, but hearing it from him is just so cool
Love this guy. Santana knows what’s up.