Yes or no?

If so, which albums should I get?

yesssss


Jin-Go-La-Ba

Black Magic Woman

Evil ways

Oye como va

Yes. But personally, I can only listen as far as 1977 or so.

Try 'Santana' (the lion's head cover) and 'Abraxas'.
All the tracks missmad recommended are on these albums.

I think 'Caravanserai' is Santana's best album, but it's a bit of a slow grower. 'Abraxas' will get you hooked first.

My favorites...




tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

theAudience said:

Great choices..especially Caravanserai...That album blows me away.

He makes some nice shoes that are just on the right side of tacky.

I have to be in the right mood for Santana, but there is no question they were phenomenal. My father was a HUGE Santana fan when I was a kid, and he had everything they did on vinyl. I think I still have most of them.

My faves:

Abraxas (of course)
Amigos
Welcome

I've always liked Marathon, although that's probably not high on the list for most Santana fans. It has some great latin-flavored pop/rock. "Lightning in the Sky" in particular is a very cool song.

Basically, like with Stevie Wonder, try anything from the seventies, and it should be good, as long as you like rock mixed with elements of latin, blues, jazz and funk music, to varying degrees.

You can't lose with the first three with the original line-up






This record with Buddy Miles is dope too

Yes...
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u mean his shoe line?

http://www.carlosshoes.com

Carlos is NICE.....but after a while it all starts sounding the SAME, at least 2 me.

Graycap23 said:

Carlos is good, but as a guitarist he is somewhat overrated IMO. Mostly pentatonics and aeolian modes...

theVelvetRoper said:

damn!

theVelvetRoper said:

:::has eyeballed some of his shoes, accepts her fate as "tacky":::

I don't know which album it's from as I only have it on a best of, but look out for "Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile). The most amazing guitar instrumental I know.
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calldapplwondery83 said:

o man yes, LOVE that song
samba pa ti off of abraxas is great aswell
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manthevan said:

I dig his tone, but I don't like the way he plays, at least on a lot of the stuff he's been doing lately. On all those tracks he's done with Rob Thomas, Michelle Branch, et al, he plays really badly actually.

I think his best stuff is the stuff he did in the 70's when he was pretending to be Miles Davis.

I just got in2 this album a year ago and I still love it! The live cuts are just unbelievable...

guitarslinger44 said:

Wow! Can't say I've seen it put in quite those terms. Nor can I say I disgree with the analysis, except to say it seemed more like he was trying to emulate Trane...


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and even borrowed his wife, compositions and transcendence

HamsterHuey said:

RAW ... this one is my favorite

PFunkjazz said:

Maybe more like Trane's vibe with Miles' sound. Some of those albums he put out sound like a dead cop of Bitches' Brew.

guitarslinger44 said:

Can't blame a guy for trying, but those fake-jazz albums, are unfortunately, unlistenable. Carlos must have realized it because he went back to his pop-rock formula.

Scrapluv said:

i too reccomend the first 3

HamsterHuey said:

how could i forget about this one. add this to my list.

calldapplwondery83 said:

'Aqua Marine' is a pretty beautiful instrumental by Santana as well, very atmospheric and mysterious.

manthevan said:

Agreed. There are times when his guitar playing is indeed beautiful, some recent examples being the instrumentals, 'El Farol' and Sunlight On Water', but often his solos sound too much alike on album after album and there is not much to look forward to in terms of different solos in his playing sounds.

He got the GROOVIEST album covers ever. I wonder if he had anything to do with making those albums' illustrations, or the process of their art direction.

Anybody know?
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