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Review by Mick Brown, Sounds, 15 October 1977
THIS IS THE album that should have been called 'A Period of Transition'. Not that it has anything to do with Van Morrison, but it ...
Santana at The Tabernacle, London
Live Review by Andy Gill, MOJO, March 2000
WHEN THE ENTRANCE to the gig is bathed in the harsh glare of high wattage floodlights like the Academy Awards walkway, and you have to ...
Audio interviews
Interview by Steven Rosen, Rock's Backpages audio, 1977
Carlos Santana talks to Steven Rosen about his musical background. (1977)
File format: MP3 File size: 427kb Interview length: 36 seconds Sound quality: **
Santana's Michael Shrieve (2009)
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, June 2009
The Santana drummer remembers the glory days — Abraxas, Woodstock etc. — and the coke, Coke Escovedo and the crumbling of the band.
File format: mp3; file size: 42.1mb, interview length: 45' 56" sound quality: * (phoner)
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Santana: Matrix, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 14 November 1968
Santana Band Up Close ...
Report by Michael Lydon, The New York Times, 24 November 1968
SAN FRANCISCO — In the heady first days of the "San Francisco Sound," someone dubbed the city the "Liverpool of the USA." The title, though ...
Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 17 April 1969
Spirit, Procol Play Concerts ...
Santana: Fillmore East, New York NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 11 November 1969
SANTANA'S RHYTHMS HEARD IN 2 CONCERTS ...
Santana: Santana (Columbia CS 9781)
Review by Lenny Kaye, Fusion, 28 November 1969
THERE ARE guitar bands. There are vocal bands. There are organ bands, horn bands, sometimes stray combinations of all of the above. ...
Report by uncredited writer, The Berkeley Barb, 12 December 1969
AS IF IT were an ancient pilgrimage to Jerusalem they relentlessly pressed on in the cold grey morning to Altamont Speedway. The sheer numbers were ...
Santana, Elvin Bishop: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA
Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 3 March 1970
Santana Plays Two Rock 'n' Roll Shows ...
Santana, the Allman Brothers Band, the Insect Trust: A War On Rock
Report by Miller Francis Jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 30 March 1970
SANTANA AND the Allman Brothers Band flew right into a hornet's nest last week when they showed up to play at the Municipal Auditorium: there ...
Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 25 April 1970
ROCKERS TAKE OVER FOR A NIGHT ...
Santana, It's A Beautiful Day, Taj Mahal: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 25 April 1970
Beautiful Day a beautiful band ...
Elusive Santana phone from California
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 30 January 1971
WE DON'T WANT TO BECOME A BAND OF GRINNING STARS ...
Santana, the Fourth Way: Winterland, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 27 March 1971
'Black Sheep' Band Simple, Funky, Loose ...
Santana, Terry Reid: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Mark Plummer, Melody Maker, 15 May 1971
Slick, smooth Santana ...
Buddy Miles: Big black hunk of funk
Interview by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 3 June 1972
BUDDY MILES ON SANTANA, HENDRIX ...
Review by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 21 October 1972
I'M STILL TRYING to unscrew my head after listening to Santana's new album, Caravanserai (CBS). One side features sheer technical brilliance. The other side, wow... ...
Various artists: Fillmore: The Last Days (Fillmore Z3X 31390)
Review by Tom Nolan, Rolling Stone, 9 November 1972
HIS SPIRIT is omnipresent in this elaborate package. He has written extensive program notes to the handsome booklet. He is there suddenly at the beginning ...
Comment by Vernon Gibbs, Crawdaddy!, February 1973
CARLOS SANTANA laid his gleamingly new Gibson double electric white lead carefully on the stage of The Academy of Music and the M.C. reverently requested ...
Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu John McLaughlin: Love Devotion Surrender
Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 30 June 1973
Jamming in the spirit of Coltrane ...
Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin: A Pair Of White Pants Will Never Let You Down
Report and Interview by Andrew Tyler, New Musical Express, 15 September 1973
THIS PIECE might easily be subtitled "How to operate with ice-cool expediency without ruffling your cosmique mantle." But that would definitely be rushing things. ...
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 17 November 1973
Carlos Santana is in Britain this week with a new vocalist, a new name and a new energy – thanks to the divine intervention of ...
Review by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 19 January 1974
SANTANA WERE always a good group, even though debs and deadheads liked them and played 'Soul Sacrifice' endlessly at boring Friday night Strand-ups. ...
John McLaughlin and Carlos Santana: Cruisin' With The Guru
Interview by David Rensin, Creem, March 1974
The backseat revelations of Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu John McLaughlin ...
Santana, Bad Company: Robertson Gymnasium, University of California at Santa Barbara
Live Review by David Rensin, Rolling Stone, 12 September 1974
Carlos in a Cavern: Jazz, Sort of ...
Carlos Santana & Alice Coltrane: Illuminations (CBS)
Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 19 October 1974
SO WHAT did you expect he'd do next? Open a macrobiotic restaurant in Marin County? ...
Santana: Latin Limbo Dancing Over Hot Coals
Retrospective by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 28 December 1974
OF ALL the really big American bands perhaps Santana remain the most enigmatic, the least publicised – yet, ironically, enduring the test of time and ...
Eric Clapton, Santana: Nassau Coliseum, Long Island
Live Review by Ian Dove, Cash Box, 12 July 1975
ERIC CLAPTON, kicking off his new American tour, provided the perfect program for his fans — a total recycling of his old hits. Initial baying ...
Santana, Earth Wind and Fire: Hippodrome, Birmingham
Live Review by Bob Fisher, New Musical Express, 13 September 1975
Lift-off on schedule for Santana tour ...
Carlos Santana: I Can Almost Materialize... If I Think Real Hard…
Interview by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 20 September 1975
...be still for I bring peace, love, and a new Santana line-up. ...
Santana and Earth Wind and Fire at Hammersmith Odeon
Live Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 20 September 1975
ONE OF THE ironic features of Columbia's prestigious double billing, Earth Wind And Fire/Santana is that in America right now the kudos for star spot ...
Santana: Guitarists Bore Me To Tears
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 20 September 1975
OF ALL the great groups to have emerged out of San Francisco since the mid-sixties, Santana have retained a musical credibility that surpasses their home ...
Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 20 December 1975
OVER ONE HUNDRED Santana fans coughed up the full twenty pounds for this triple live album when it first appeared on import. ...
Santana: The Ice Cream Man Cometh
Interview by John Swenson, Crawdaddy!, July 1976
LACROSSE, WISC – "Everything OK with the Dip?" ...
Grateful Dead: Dead Slay Wembley
Live Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 14 August 1976
JUST LIKE Woodstock. Even before the New Riders of the Purple Sage kicked off Bill Graham's imported California Jam, bad acid circulated the main stand ...
Carlos Santana: T-Shirts And Sympathy
Report and Interview by Mick Brown, Sounds, 20 November 1976
What you been doing with yourself? How come you only got one guy left from last year's band? What's it like working with the third ...
Review by Mick Brown, Sounds, 4 December 1976
THIS ONE'S difficult. From the material previewed on Santana's recent UK tour and from the excitement on the part of the band and particularly Carlos ...
Santana: God Flows from Every Mouth
Interview by Miles, New Musical Express, 18 December 1976
AND THAT DON'T MEAN GOBBIN' ON PEOPLE, WARNS SANTANA ...
Review by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 29 October 1977
YOU HAVE to hand it to him. Carlos Santana may only know a handful of licks, but at least they're attractive — like the moment ...
Overview by Vernon Gibbs, Penthouse, January 1978
"YOU KNOW why salsa is so popular in New York?" asks Izzy Sanabria, publisher of Latin New York. "Because the rhythms of salsa are the ...
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 8 April 1978
THERE WEREN'T even traffic jams. ...
Santana: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by David Hancock, Evening News, London, 31 October 1978
Soaring sound of Santana ...
Review by Max Bell, New Musical Express, 11 November 1978
HOLY KRISHNA! His beneficence returns to the fold of lesser mortals for the annual Santana lesson, that quest whose purpose is boundless, ineffable. Wondrous Santana, ...
Santana: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 11 November 1978
A THREE-NIGHT sell out for sluggish pop group Santana is apparently natural and predictable but seems entirely ludicrous. They function, they churn, they exist – ...
Carlos Santana: Oneness: Silver Dreams/Golden Reality (CBS)
Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 3 March 1979
AS THE sleeve makes abundantly clear, this is Carlos Santana's equivalent of Pete Townshend's Meher Baba solo album: a dedication to Sri Chinmoy, the guru ...
Carlos Santana’s Journey Toward Perfection
Report and Interview by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 21 February 1980
"I’VE WANTED SOME Roy Rogers boots ever since I was a kid." Seated in his manager’s office, Devadip Carlos Santana pulls on a glistening red ...
Interview by J.D. Considine, Musician, July 1981
Unable to slake his thirst for new music, Santana swings from jazzy solo outings to rock-based group projects. ...
Book Excerpt by John Tobler, Stuart Grundy, 'The Guitar Greats' (BBC Books), 1983
CARLOS SANTANA has continuously led the band that bears his name for nearly fifteen years, and maintained a substantial worldwide popularity, something which requires an ...
Paul Reed Smith's High-Class Hybrid
Interview by J.D. Considine, Musician, July 1984
Bridging the Age-old Gap Between Strat and Paul ...
Santana: Cooling Into The Norm
Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Musician, June 1985
A BRISK BREEZE cools the crisp San Francisco afternoon but the glaring lights and cumulative body heat of 50-odd crew members, band friends and label ...
Profile and Interview by Len Brown, unpublished, 1989
This article appeared in edited form in New Musical Express"This is a good time to replenish, to renourish and drink silence." ...
Interview by David Sinclair, Q, October 1990
Carlos Santana's fortuitous appearance at the bottom end of the Woodstock bill completely changed his life. From that moment, he was swept up into an ...
Interview by Rob Steen, MOJO, January 1994
THE VERY LEAST YOU CAN SAY ABOUT CARLOS Santana is that he has always been a pleasant plucker. Surely no-one has ever coaxed as much ...
Review by Andy Gill, MOJO, March 1995
SUCCESS SWEPT OVER SANTANA WITH A suddenness which might have destroyed a less durable group. ...
Profile and Interview by Andy Gill, MOJO, September 1999
FOR OVER A YEAR, Santana had built a reputation the hardest but most reliable way, by word of mouth. In their home town of San ...
Jack of All Trades: Carlos Santana
Interview by Andy Gill, The Independent, 14 January 2000
AROUND THIS TIME every year, the American music industry holds its collective breath as the Grammy awards nominations are announced, eager to see which of ...
Carlos Santana: Divine Light — Reconstruction And Mix Translation: Bill Laswell (Sony Jazz)****
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, November 2001
AMBIENT, HINDU-influenced, mystical jazz-rock spectacular. ...
Interview by Joe Matera, Mixdown, March 2002
WHILE HE MIGHT not be a household name on his own, Gregg Rolie is responsible for co-founding two phenomenally popular, multi-platinum many times over super ...
Retrospective and Interview by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, February 2003
IN 2003 CARLOS SANTANA IS A GLOBAL SUPERSTAR ONCE AGAIN. BUT FOR OVER 20 YEARS, THE GUITARIST WAS CONDEMNED TO THE ARTIST’S WILDERNESS. DAVE DIMARTINO ...
Carlos Santana: Many hippie returns
Interview by Robert Sandall, The Sunday Times, 6 November 2005
He played at Woodstock while out of his brain on LSD. But at 58, Carlos Santana isn't just a 1960s relic: stars like Beyoncé and ...
All That He Is: Santana at Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Richard English, Rock's Backpages, May 2006
IN A PANAMA HAT, Hawaiian shirt, baggy jeans, trainers, shades, pallid complexion, and bristly moustache that he was careful not to get his chewing gum ...
School of Rock: Monterey to Altamont
Guide by Barney Hoskyns, iTunes, 2008
BETWEEN 1966 and 1970, there was a seismic change in British and American pop. Within a few short years "pop" became "rock", and teenagers who'd ...
Retrospective and Interview by Alan Light, MSN.com, August 2009
Woodstock was a beginning, and it was an end. ...
Frisco, Where Art Thou: Reassessing the Musical Legacy of the '60s Psychedelic Capital
Retrospective by Gene Sculatti, Rock's Backpages, September 2010
LAST SATURDAY, paging through an article on Robert Plant in the September issue of MOJO, I learned that, upon their initial meeting in a Dublin ...
see also Automatic Man
see also Journey
see also Jorge Santana
see also Azteca
see also Carlos Santana
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