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Jim Walsh reports on Santana gig Jim Walsh has reviewed the Santana concert in which PRN and Larry Graham guested.
Excerpt: "At the halfway point of Santana's two-hour and 15-minute performance, guitar icon Carlos Santana invited two Twin Cities residents up on stage: Larry Graham, and the artist formerly known as Prince. The two musicians strapped on their bass and guitar, respectively, and launched into a nasty, ad-libbed funk-fusion number (whose chorus-chant went 'One Love'). In the context of the concert, the 10-minute jam didn't stand out especially as a musical highlight, but when you stepped back for a moment to consider just what was happening on stage, it was nothing short of extraordinary: There was Santana, the man who has been credited with launching Latin rock in the late '60s, and one of rock's most influential guitarists, firing off leads with the former Prince, the man who brought a nation's libido to its knees in the '80s, and who remains one of the few true musical iconoclasts of the '90s, bumping off the slap-bass of Graham, the man who acted as the midwife, if not inventor, of funk in the early '70s with Sly and the Family Stone. Time warp, baby." http://www.pioneerplanet....032907.htm | |
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