Before I stop lovin' you
You've got to change, baby
And every word that I say is true
You've got me runnin' and hidin' all over town
You've got me sneakin' and a-peepin' and runnin' you down
This can't go on
Lord knows you've got to change, baby
Baby
When I come home, baby
My house is dark and my thoughts are cold
You hang around, baby
With Jean and Joan and a-who knows who
I'm gettin' tired of waiting and fooling around
I'll find somebody that won't make me feel like a clown
This can't go on
Lord knows you've got to change
Hey
When I come home, baby
My house is dark and my thoughts are cold
You hang around, baby
With Jean and Joan and a-who knows who
I'm gettin' tired of waiting and fooling around
I'll find somebody that won't make me feel like a clown
This can't go on
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Santana is an American rock band formed in San Francisco in 1966 by Mexican-born guitarist Carlos Santana. The band has undergone various recording and performing line-ups in its history, with Santana being the only consistent member. After signing with Columbia Records, the band's appearance at the Woodstock Festival in 1969 increased their profile, and they went on to record the commercially successful and critically-acclaimed albums Santana (1969), Abraxas (1970), and Santana III (1971). These were recorded by the group's "classic" line-up, featuring Gregg Rolie, Michael Carabello, Michael Shrieve, David Brown, and José "Chepito" Areas. Hit songs of this period include "Evil Ways", "Black Magic Woman", "Oye Como Va", and the instrumental "Samba Pa Ti".
Following a change in line-up and musical direction in 1972, the band experimented with elements of jazz fusion on Caravanserai (1972), Welcome (1973), and Borboletta (1974). The band reached a new peak of critical and commercial success with their eighteenth album Supernatural (1999), which included the Billboard Hot 100-number one singles "Smooth" (featuring Rob Thomas) and "Maria Maria" (featuring The Product G&B). The album peaked atop the charts in eleven countries, and sold 12 million copies domestically. In 2014, the "classic" line-up reunited for Santana IV (2016) and the group continue to perform and record.
Santana is one of the best-selling groups of all time with over 47 million certified albums sold in the US, and an estimated 100 million sold worldwide. Its discography includes 25 studio albums, 14 of which reached the US top 10. In 1998, the line-up of Santana, Rolie, Carabello, Shrieve, Brown, and Areas was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2000, the band won eight Grammy Awards in one night, a record tied with Michael Jackson, and three Latin Grammy Awards.
coloradojohn...you and I are probably smoke buddies that never met! That stereo channel separation on this track (and album really) is one of the things I remember most from this, when listening to it on CD in my post HS graduation prior to starting college lets get F'd up phase...well that's when I started smoking for real and this music really seeped into my soul then. Great music and great memories = GODLIKE 10 rating from SEAtown!
Long Live RP!
PS - BillG - I think it's kinda funny that you have such a hard time playing those old "classic rock" songs from your former FM dj days....and I'm sure you spun this record a thousand times....glad to hear you "spin" it again! Thanks from big Joe!
It just me or does the mix sound off on this?
Mix sounds fine to me! I am listening in FLAC w/ high quality ( circumaural open back) studio phones, amp & DAC.
I was once asked to sit in on B3 for Gregg Rolie who was a no show at rehearsal for some reason. Drove from Boston to Buffalo (460 miles) for the gig and Gregg had showed up. Just as well, no way I could have covered the vocals. My 15 minutes of fame would have to wait.
When did it come? I would like to hear more of this story, please.
Have you heard all of them? Doubtful. I have. If you expand your Santana-logue, many tracks will sound very differently very quickly. There is a deep dive catalogue from the '70s, '80s and later that is quite different from those more commercially heard, on which he plays with stellar international musicians from jazz, world, and other rock titans.
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THIS is overplayed but Oye Como Va isn't? Both of the songs that you referenced are legendary Santana and, sadly, are played much more often than other songs in his catalog. I go for Soul Sacrifice but some of his later work (Somewhere In Heaven and Free All the People off of the Milagro album) is equally fantastic, if not Legendary.
Today may have been the first time it was played here.
Love the album cover too! Only had 20 ratings when the song began this play.
Didn't care for the "housewife" lyrics back then, now it is sooo dated.
THIS is overplayed but Oye Como Va isn't? Both of the songs that you referenced are legendary Santana and, sadly, are played much more often than other songs in his catalog. I go for Soul Sacrifice but some of his later work (Somewhere In Heaven and Free All the People off of the Milagro album) is equally fantastic, if not Legendary.
I seldom hear this on RP. This is simple compared to the astonishing breadth and tracks Carlos and his compadres were mastering just 3 - 4 years later. Song of the Wind, Every Step of the Way, Promise of a Fisherman. All of them way beyond Evil Ways, believe me.