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song: Bella
artist: Santana
album: Blues for Salvador
released: 1987length: 4:20
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Santana

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.

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Comments ( 42 )
Posted 14 years ago by LowPhreak:
hamer12string wrote:
I like this... but it's an instant reminder of that cliched e-piano sound that dates so much stuff from this period!

 
Name a "period" of pop music that didn't have its own instruments or "cliche'd" sound. So what should we do - throw everything out that you can tell came from a certain time period?

I'll toss you a clue: music generally reflects the times it's written for and played in. That's kinda what it's for. Also, musicians use what instruments and techniques they have available at the time to produce it, not what they don't yet have from some point in the future.

Duh.


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Posted 13 years ago by Andy_B:
Cliched and dated or not, this IS Carlos Santana at the top of his game.  Absolute classic, post "Black Magic Woman" era. .
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Posted 13 years ago by tlew:
Hasan wrote:
What a delicious sound.

I'd suggest RP play it back-to-back with Stevie Ray Vaughn's  Riviera Paradise.
 
What a great idea!  
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Posted 14 years ago by tiefsnow:
borkborkbork wrote:
For those moments when you want to feel like you're in an elevator.  Next up? Yanni. 
 
there are times when hearing  song in a closed room does not do the song justice

i.e.: an elevator

try hearing this on the north rim looking southeast or on the coast north of port alberni during a good storm

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Posted 13 years ago by Hasan:
What a delicious sound.

I'd suggest RP play it back-to-back with Stevie Ray Vaughn's  Riviera Paradise.

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Posted 14 years ago by old_shep:
I would bet that if this tune was not identified as Santana, but by some unknown new indie group, the rating would double.

Beautiful song.

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Posted 1 year ago by idiot_wind:
ahhhh

hear the pat methany influence

pat was tearing it up in late 1970s and early 80s
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Posted 2 years ago by laserace:
why is it that no matter if I'm in an airport , or my office lunch room, and this song comes up ..... I miss my thought train. 
Sooo... awesome
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Posted 13 years ago by Xstar:
old_shep wrote:
I would bet that if this tune was not identified as Santana, but by some unknown new indie group, the rating would double.

Beautiful song.

 
Yep


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Posted 15 years ago by mr_toad:
the man has tigers in his hands, and the feathers of birds as wings, and the voice of ?? maybe angels
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Posted 1 year ago by laserace:
11.5 
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Posted 1 year ago by Pilsenaaa:
 anabel wrote:

you nailed it-



thats the ultimate original sound of that music period
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Posted 2 years ago by laserace:
...and, It is God like.
listen closely and you'll find yourself.
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Posted 3 years ago by darnit2:
This was the love song in the Desperado soundtrack. I’ve always liked it but never connected the dots. That soundtrack has so many amazing musicians
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Posted 15 years ago by On_The_Beach:
Carlos' guitar is nice, but the rest of the band is too cheesy, especially that 80s keyboard sound.
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Posted 1 month ago by kurtlightner1:
Feels like this could have been in a latter season of Miami Vice. 
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Posted 3 months ago by ncollingridge:
Ruined for me by the synth stabs which keep rearing their ugly 1980s heads! Give me Caravanerai any day of the week - much more musical and bautiful, even if it is less "virtuoso".
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Posted 3 months ago by kgb:
erinnert mich an Vollenweider
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Posted 1 year ago by jkelly7680:
Please add Graham Lear on drums with the original group.  His drumming was spectacular, just watch the Woodstock performance.  As for you all that think this is cheesy, you have no clue what makes a virtuoso musician. Stick to your EDM crap.
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Posted 13 years ago by anabel:
On_The_Beach wrote:
Carlos' guitar is nice, but the rest of the band is too cheesy, especially that 80s keyboard sound.
 
you nailed it-

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