Have you ever seen your son on television? The poor guy used to wash dishes — you know, the kind of jobs they give to youths. As for the Woodstock pay: “I think we made $7,500 … or maybe it was $750.”, “What he says and what went down is a bunch of shit.”.
Remember that, Stan?’ And I said, ‘You signed for $750.’ The deal was, Santana was getting $1,500 — I didn’t care. He introduced me to a lot of beautiful people. Live Updates: Who Will Win Control of the Senate? Santana — they’d cut the name short by now — began to live together and played up and down the California coast and all over the city — at the Matrix, in Golden Gate Park, atop a Peace and Freedom Party bus with the Mime Troupe that went from trans-love San Francisco into Orange County, with Marcus Malone passing the hat at every stop. Now, after having listened to it many more times, I like it.”. “I don’t know of any.
In San Francisco he finds time to go to clubs in North Beach — Andre’s on Broadway, Caesar’s Latin Club on Green. Santana is an American rock band formed in San Francisco in 1966 by Mexican-American guitarist and songwriter Carlos Santana.The band has undergone multiple recording and performing line-ups in its history, with Carlos Santana the only consistent member.
He told us one day he was going to make an album ‘so I can help you out.’ He invited us to go see him. Even without any experience doing interviews, Marcum seems to have mastered the art of forgetting things in front of the press. Michael Bloomfield was kind enough to let me sit in for this jam, and this cat in the audience saw us playing, and he tried to track me down. Three gigs before that, the whole band was there except for Carlos. So I don’t feel that confined, really.”, As for Carlos: “Going to the Fillmore and stuff like that, I developed sort of a thing for LSD and mescaline, mushrooms, stuff like that, because they were expanding my consciousness, expanding my goals. That, now, is his only indulgence. Mike Carabello Percussion. On a medallion around his neck he wears the likeness of Sri Chinmoy. “Through meditating I’m beginning to be a little more confident in knowing which way to channel my energy and what to think of those brothers and sisters who put me in that place — in reality I’m just exactly what they are. As the original drummer for Santana, Michael was the youngest performer at Woodstock at age 19. It was just balls-out music, and that’s what people wanted to hear.”, While others heard Santana as one neck-wrenching guitar run flying out now and again over a jungular rumble of noise, Rubinson — who earlier produced Malo — heard innovation: “Guitar was unknown,” he said, “voiced the way it was on Santana. “Check out the attorney they went to.” said Graham. How do you do that?’ And I said, ‘Why couldn’t you be man enough to tell me when you get back here for the meeting? “Fourteen inches!” Chepito Areas yells over Koster’s right shoulder.
hile others heard Santana as one neck-wrenching guitar run flying out now and again over a jungular rumble of noise, Rubinson — who earlier produced Malo — heard innovation: “Guitar was unknown,” he said, “voiced the way it was on Santana. So, in the last two weeks, sad, funny, and sordid tales have been spilled out to me, from inside a hotel room, a lawyer’s office, an attorney’s visiting room at county jail, a recording studio, a courtroom hallway, a manager’s office in a castle-like Marin County house, and Bill Graham’s office overlooking the remains of the Fillmore West, the succeeding promoter’s “To Be Announced” marquee broken up by missing letters. (Carlos, you see, never meant for Santana to be known as a Mission district or street band. He wants to show pictures of his baby boy. Carlos Santana has hired this band; pays the new members a salary; exacts supreme discipline. “It should always be the same six cats.” I wanted to teach them all I could, and from that, people thought I was speaking into Carlos’ ear. Michael Shrieve also composes music for film and television.
Stan Marcum had said Brown was busted in another person’s house, where police found drugs. A wide range of Rolie’s illustrious musician friends contributed to Sonic Ranch – among them are his onetime Santana mate Michael Shrieve on drums, as well as bass extraordinaire Alphonso Johnson.
I went back the next day. Even a system of fines, a la James Brown and Ray Charles, it is said.
Woodstock, they got $1,500 to play, and what you’re saying is that I should only be paid $150.’ He didn’t think I should get paid a percentage from the movie, from the $7,500, or from record royalties. It got to the point where no one knew what was happening. He helped create the first eight albums of this seminal group, and was on the forefront of shaping a new musical era. Also, early on in the studios, after a frustrating attempt to record live in L.A., it is decided that new percussion is needed; Mike Shrieve was found by David Brown at the Fillmore, in another jam, and invited. The way they use the keyboard was completely different, almost like a Latin horn section. People were influencing him to say that they introduced him to the band so he owed them this and that, you know. [7] Joining these "core" members were later Santana members Karl Perazzo (percussion) and Benny Rietveld (bass), with vocalist Ronald Isley guesting on two cuts. He did feel he deserved compensation for the jobs he’d booked for Santana up to the day of his dismissal, and he felt he should’ve gotten a few percent of the band’s earnings after August 1970.