Won't rehash (unless someone asks) the "condition" of the band when they played this monster track...
Sometimes I NEED To hear this One!
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I'm asking! 
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Watching the video now I wonder if Carlos was the only one tripping...duke wrote:I'm asking!
From Rolling Stone:
Santana's Searing Set
Santana was up next, and I was really looking forward to their performance. I hoped they would boost the energy level of the day. Hardly anyone had seen them on the East Coast, though they'd been playing around the Bay Area for a couple of years.
CARLOS SANTANA: We got to Woodstock at eleven in the morning. We'd heard it was a disaster area. They flew us in on a helicopter. We hung around with Jerry Garcia and we found out that we didn't have to go on until eight at night. They told us just to cool out and take it easy.
One thing led to another. I wanted to take some mescaline. Just at the point that I was peaking, this guy came over and said, "Look, if you don't go on right now, you guys are not going to play." I went out there and I saw this ocean as far as I could see. An ocean of flesh and hair and teeth and hands. I just played. I prayed that the Lord would keep me in tune and in time. I had played loaded before, but not to that big of a crowd. Because it was like plugging into a whole bunch of hearts — and all those people at the same time. But we managed. It was incredible. I'll never forget the way the music sounded, bouncing up against a field of bodies. For the band as a whole, it was great.
GREGG ROLIE, SANTANA VOCALIST/ KEYBOARDIST: We played to each other. Carlos's back was usually to the audience because we played like jazz players. And 500,000 people happened to be there. You can see the first ten or twenty thousand; after that, it's all just hair and teeth. So there was nothing to be afraid of. If I had known what it was all about and what Woodstock ended up meaning, I probably would have been frightened to death.
With its monster rhythm section, Santana was the first group that really got everyone up and dancing. I flashed on my parents' nightclub where people did the mambo on Saturday nights. Carlos Santana had merged that Latin sound with rock and roll and it was phenomenal. On "Soul Sacrifice," Michael Shrieve played one of most amazing drum solos I have ever heard, with the percussionists joining in and Carlos's soaring guitar building everything to a crescendo. The audience went nuts — it was obvious another star was being born.
MICHAEL SHRIEVE, SANTANA DRUMMER: The size of the crowd was so big, it was like standing on the beach and looking at the ocean, and you see the water and the horizon and sky. It was a sea of people as far as you could see. We were like a little street gang there making music together and hoping that it went over. But when I look at the drum solo I took, it drives me crazy because of some choices that I made, in terms of stopping the groove and going really soft. But for the audience it worked. It was very tribal.
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Gene Krupa once said that when he smoked sideways cigarettes his sticks felt slippery and his timing was off. Man, I gotta tell ya, the way Krupa and Santana played ... it makes me rethink sobriety! 
Re: Sometimes I NEED To hear this One!
I don't know..hard to play with all those colors pouring out of the ampduke wrote:Gene Krupa once said that when he smoked sideways cigarettes his sticks felt slippery and his timing was off. Man, I gotta tell ya, the way Krupa and Santana played ... it makes me rethink sobriety!
