Santana Tour Report #7
another day off… i rent a car and drive to San Fran… i look for the CD “White Rabbit” by George Benson, since my copy of it is in my car in Santa Fe… can’t find it at Tower or Virgin…
Santana Tour Report #6
driving from Eugene, Oregon to San Francisco…
Santana Tour Report #5
Eugene: a wonderful hippy crowd in Eugene, dancing to our music… when we play the songs with Santana a guy in the crowd raises a Jerry Garcia photo over his head… Santana’s audience probably includes a lot of the Grateful Dead crowd…
Santana Tour Report #4
we are driving almost 900 miles to Eugene/Oregon…
Santana Tour Report #3
Santa Barbara… 2nd day… good bike ride into the hills with Stefan in the morning… nice Illy Cafe espresso at the Montecito Coffee Company… then Stefan talks me into buying a bicycle helmet… i tell him that i never wore a helmet when i was a bicycle messenger in Boston from 1983 until 1986, but he makes me get one anyway… again we don’t get a soundcheck at the County Bowl in Santa Barbara, but we get to join the Santana band and run through a tune Carlos wants us to join him on: “El Mar”, which is on George Benson’s wonderful CTI album “White Rabbit”… hard-to-find, but still in print on Epic records and worth ordering… after we perform “El Mar”, Carlos starts up “Samba Pa Ti”, which i haven’t played in years… and i am onstage with one of the guitarists that inspired me to choose this instrument years and years ago… amazing…
