Duende, circa 1969 (Santana w/19 yr old Mickael Shrieve on drums).
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Jean … thanks for posting this video. This is one of the great performances ever, especially Michael Shrieve’s tremendous solo here. As you said Mike was only 19 at Woodstock, and he went on to an amazing career as both a drummer and electronic-music composer. Carlos, in an interview somewhere, said (if I remember this correctly) that he was high on something (acid, maybe) during the Woodstock performance and before he came on stage, he prayed to God that he could stay in tempo and in tune (something like that). While Carlos was playing, it seemed to him that the guitar was neck was moving all over like a snake, and that’s why he was making the very strange expressions you can see in the film. Ah, the 60s! Hope you’re well, Jean. –Vince
When I was a kid I could not stand Santana. I have gradually come to appreciate his importance and contribution. Now I feel a weird, unexplainable kind of kinship. Thanks for posting this.
July 4, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Happy birthday, America!
July 5, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Indeed!
July 7, 2009 at 6:37 am
Jean … thanks for posting this video. This is one of the great performances ever, especially Michael Shrieve’s tremendous solo here. As you said Mike was only 19 at Woodstock, and he went on to an amazing career as both a drummer and electronic-music composer. Carlos, in an interview somewhere, said (if I remember this correctly) that he was high on something (acid, maybe) during the Woodstock performance and before he came on stage, he prayed to God that he could stay in tempo and in tune (something like that). While Carlos was playing, it seemed to him that the guitar was neck was moving all over like a snake, and that’s why he was making the very strange expressions you can see in the film. Ah, the 60s! Hope you’re well, Jean. –Vince
July 7, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Vince
Yeah – seems to be one of the original “guitar-face” moments. Funny that it’s all because the guitar had turned into a writhing snake!
July 15, 2009 at 11:02 am
When I was a kid I could not stand Santana. I have gradually come to appreciate his importance and contribution. Now I feel a weird, unexplainable kind of kinship. Thanks for posting this.
July 16, 2009 at 1:27 am
Interesting, Ernesto! His guitar riffs were always in the air here (in California) in the 70s.–and still are. We just sort of breathed it in.