I appreciate so much Malo, and the Latin music they produced. Pana, Nena, Latin Boogaloo, so many wonderful songs! My youth was graced with the sounds of this wonderful group of musicians.
Thanks very much Daniel for trying so hard to explain & to tell some sides of the whole story. I feel there are many musicians who did not participate & whose take would have added more depth to the story. MALO remains the soundtrack of my youth,at 68 I keep playing Latin Rock. Malo,Azteca,Sapo,Santana The Latin sound of SF forever.
Grow up Listening to malo l became a big fan of Malo after there were broken up .l Was 9 years old my Mother Record Collection was my Libery to music Santana Azteca el Chicano the Doors Chicago the Beatles and so many more .l love all 4 of Malo Albums but my favorite is still by fare Accession Jorge Santana guitar playing is magical. MALO is For ever and Ever!! Loved the video great interview and stores hope a new generation discovers this Great Band and there music to thank its been 51 years since Malo made Music History!!
Daniel, a heartfelt thank you to you and everyone associated with the production of this film. I am also forever thankful and grateful to the founding members of MALO and their incredible much beloved music. 1972 seems like a long time ago; however, I continue to be emotionally connected to the sound of that first album. Wishing you and everyone all the best throughout this journey called life.
🕊♥️🕊 Grew Up with Malo The Santana’s Carlos and Jorge what great memories they bring me when ever I hear them play I can just close my Eyes and am there their Bands were Fabulous I can listen to them over and over Malo omg much love 🕊💙🙏🏼💙🕊. 🕊♥️🌹♥️🌹🕊God Bless them
"No Matter" from the album "Ascension'" is Jorge Santana's tour de force on guitar. It's up there as one of the most melodic guitar solos l've ever heard, not withstanding the overall arrangement of the tune. The vocal harmonies are superb. The horn arrangements, the muted trumpet solo excellent!!! It was fitting that it was the tune chosen to close out this series 👌
Thank you Daniel Meza for this true labor of love. That was an amazing time for music, especially for a kid growing up in San Francisco. My three favorite groups were Santana, Malo, and Tower of Power, in no particular order, they were always spinning on my record player and shaking the walls of my house. If I had to pick only one record from those days it's Malo's 1st, no question. It, and they, had it all.
Excellent documentary, I had all Santana's records both Carlos and Jorge because they gave me with their music pride on been latino, may the Lord bless you all.
excelente documento !! historico !!!! tiene escenas increibles !! creo ser experto y no habia visto muchas tomas y el manejo de las entrevistas el bajo perfil y al final resaltó muchisimo la música - estoy realmente muy congratulado de haber visto este trabajo... sin duda calificacion excelente !!!!!!!!! estoy muy emocionado
Reat easy Jorge and Arcelio. I truly understand what David and Abel are saying about lack of direction and continuity. I definitely noticed the major change fron "Malo" to "Dos". Then another major change to "Evolution" and then "Ascension". Despite all of that---l love all of these albums Now l'll say this---Pablo Tellez remains sort of vague when he makes his comments about the band whereas Arcelio and Abel are more direct in their opinions. It seems that in the end Willie Garcia just got tossed into the mire
Gracias Daniel and kudos to you for an excellent piece of work which certainly filled in many gaps in my understanding of this group and its surroundings...and I grew up in the middle of it [but in a little ag town 4.5 hours south]...and began playing percussion at age 14 largely due to these influences...a few years behind the group but inspired by the music. The good news is that we have recordings, video and documentaries to archive this splendid era whose epicenter was the SF Mission District...looking forward to your next project.
Money 💴 tends to mess things up for most artists, bands musicians etc… I wonder what would have happened if they all were compensated and money was never an issue would the original band cut more great albums? Guess we’ll never know but what they did put out is still played that speaks volumes!! I’m so glad this Documentary was made
This was excellent. Interesting that Jorge declined to participate in this. I love his guitar playing. One gets the impression that he and Pablo Tellez outvoted Arcelio on crucial business matters regarding the band. David Rubinson has some great insights into the band as well in this episode. Yes, the original Malo did not realize their full potential. Too many personnel changes. Yet all four albums do have outstanding tunes.
Bombing DOES NOT MEAN artistic failure; as a matter of fact, bombing may imply and reveal great artistic success. The music is what matters in the end. Money is only ego, but the music is forever. The fourth album is fucking beautiful.
A Group With An Amazing Sound…Loved Them Who Knows How Far This Latino Band Could Have Gone….BUT At The End It Self Destructed Because…Of 2 Much Pride /Machoism/ Ego ! & CO’s Who Couldn’t Call The Shots….2 Bad MAN 2 Bad !!
The fact that Jorge Santana would not go on camera, takes a away a huge part of what is really the True story Facts, there were obviously some very bad decisions Mistakes made and another major factor that is never discussed is who owned the rights to the name Malo, my understanding is that Jorge owned the name and Arcelio's name is second on the registration according to Jorge's mother who told me the story on how this happened ! I walk away from this, thinking that there was never Really a Malo, just an oasis of Different Musicians at different times, the other factor here is after Richard Bean was Fired, it was Leo Rosales who became the lead singer of the hit single Suavecito, not Arcelio Garcia, which I think he thought he would be, but the Record company Warner Bros did not think he sang well enough to sing this song !
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I appreciate so much Malo, and the Latin music they produced. Pana, Nena, Latin Boogaloo, so many wonderful songs! My youth was graced with the sounds of this wonderful group of musicians.
Just finished watching the whole series and I am left feeling what could've been but it is what it is.
Thanks very much Daniel for trying so hard to explain & to tell some sides of the whole story. I feel there are many musicians who did not participate & whose take would have added more depth to the story.
MALO remains the soundtrack of my youth,at 68 I keep playing Latin Rock.
Malo,Azteca,Sapo,Santana
The Latin sound of SF forever.
Grow up Listening to malo l became a big fan of Malo after there were broken up .l Was 9 years old my Mother Record Collection was my Libery to music Santana Azteca el Chicano the Doors Chicago the Beatles and so many more .l love all 4 of Malo Albums but my favorite is still by fare Accession Jorge Santana guitar playing is magical. MALO is For ever and Ever!! Loved the video great interview and stores hope a new generation discovers this Great Band and there music to thank its been 51 years since Malo made Music History!!
Daniel, a heartfelt thank you to you and everyone associated with the production of this film. I am also forever thankful and grateful to the founding members of MALO and their incredible much beloved music. 1972 seems like a long time ago; however, I continue to be emotionally connected to the sound of that first album. Wishing you and everyone all the best throughout this journey called life.
🕊♥️🕊 Grew Up with Malo The Santana’s Carlos and Jorge what great memories they bring me when ever I hear them play I can just close my Eyes and am there their Bands were Fabulous I can listen to them over and over Malo omg much love 🕊💙🙏🏼💙🕊. 🕊♥️🌹♥️🌹🕊God Bless them
"No Matter" from the album "Ascension'" is Jorge Santana's tour de force on guitar. It's up there as one of the most melodic guitar solos l've ever heard, not withstanding the overall arrangement of the tune. The vocal harmonies are superb. The horn arrangements, the muted trumpet solo excellent!!!
It was fitting that it was the tune chosen to close out this series 👌
Thank you Daniel Meza for this true labor of love. That was an amazing time for music, especially for a kid growing up in San Francisco. My three favorite groups were Santana, Malo, and Tower of Power, in no particular order, they were always spinning on my record player and shaking the walls of my house.
If I had to pick only one record from those days it's Malo's 1st, no question. It, and they, had it all.
I saw all 5 parts- this was very well put together and entertaining. Thank you
Excellent documentary, I had all Santana's records both Carlos and Jorge because they gave me with their music pride on been latino, may the Lord bless you all.
Thanks Daniel! Much appreciation to you for putting this video history of Malo together!
Great work Mr. Meza. My respect to you on your work.
excelente documento !! historico !!!! tiene escenas increibles !! creo ser experto y no habia visto muchas tomas y el manejo de las entrevistas el bajo perfil y al final resaltó muchisimo la música - estoy realmente muy congratulado de haber visto este trabajo... sin duda calificacion excelente !!!!!!!!! estoy muy emocionado
Reat easy Jorge and Arcelio. I truly understand what David and Abel are saying about lack of direction and continuity. I definitely noticed the major change fron "Malo" to "Dos". Then another major change to "Evolution" and then "Ascension". Despite all of that---l love all of these albums
Now l'll say this---Pablo Tellez remains sort of vague when he makes his comments about the band whereas Arcelio and Abel are more direct in their opinions. It seems that in the end Willie Garcia just got tossed into the mire
Gracias Daniel and kudos to you for an excellent piece of work which certainly filled in many gaps in my understanding of this group and its surroundings...and I grew up in the middle of it [but in a little ag town 4.5 hours south]...and began playing percussion at age 14 largely due to these influences...a few years behind the group but inspired by the music. The good news is that we have recordings, video and documentaries to archive this splendid era whose epicenter was the SF Mission District...looking forward to your next project.
Money 💴 tends to mess things up for most artists, bands musicians etc… I wonder what would have happened if they all were compensated and money was never an issue would the original band cut more great albums? Guess we’ll never know but what they did put out is still played that speaks volumes!! I’m so glad this Documentary was made
This was excellent. Interesting that Jorge declined to participate in this. I love his guitar playing. One gets the impression that he and Pablo Tellez outvoted Arcelio on crucial business matters regarding the band. David Rubinson has some great insights into the band as well in this episode. Yes, the original Malo did not realize their full potential. Too many personnel changes. Yet all four albums do have outstanding tunes.
Bombing DOES NOT MEAN artistic failure; as a matter of fact, bombing may imply and reveal great artistic success. The music is what matters in the end. Money is only ego, but the music is forever. The fourth album is fucking beautiful.
FULL FILM DANIEL THANKS.
A Group With An Amazing Sound…Loved Them Who Knows How Far This Latino Band Could Have Gone….BUT At The End It Self Destructed Because…Of 2 Much Pride /Machoism/ Ego ! & CO’s Who Couldn’t Call The Shots….2 Bad MAN 2 Bad !!
The fact that Jorge Santana would not go on camera, takes a away a huge part of what is really the True story Facts, there were obviously some very bad decisions Mistakes made and another major factor that is never discussed is who owned the rights to the name Malo, my understanding is that Jorge owned the name and Arcelio's name is second on the registration according to Jorge's mother who told me the story on how this happened ! I walk away from this, thinking that there was never Really a Malo, just an oasis of Different Musicians at different times, the other factor here is after Richard Bean was Fired, it was Leo Rosales who became the lead singer of the hit single Suavecito, not Arcelio Garcia, which I think he thought he would be, but the Record company Warner Bros did not think he sang well enough to sing this song !
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