Wednesday, May 8, 2024

SNACK Benefit, Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, CA, 3-23-1975, Part 4: Santana

The fourth major musical act at the 1975 SNACK benefit in San Francisco was Santana.

There's not much to say about this set. Santana did their usual Latin soul music thing with lots of tasty lead guitar from Carlos Santana. Most of the songs were better known songs from earlier albums, with the exception of one new one, "Let the Children Play."

During their set, a large group of people tried to scale a 70-foot high wall in the stadium in order to get in free, but they were foiled by the stadium security forces.

After the set, there were speeches by baseball hero Willie Mays and football hero Gene Washington.

This album is 36 minutes long.

25 talk by Bill Graham (Santana)
26 Incident at Neshabur [Instrumental] (Santana)
27 Let the Children Play (Santana)
28 Oye Como Va (Santana)
29 talk (Santana)
30 Toussaint L'Overture [Instrumental] (Santana)
31 talk (Santana)
32 Soul Sacrifice [Instrumental] (Santana)
33 Black Magic Woman - Gypsy Queen (Santana)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16604655/VA-SNCKBnefitKzarStdumSnFrncscoCA__3-23-1975_04Sntna_atse.zip.html

Once again, I could only find one photo of Santana from this exact concert, so I used it. Once again, it was in black and white. So I colorized it with the help of the Palette program. I did find a mention that lead guitarist Carlos Santana wore "a knee-length white sweater trimmed in blue, with a photo of guru Sri Chinmoy pinned at his throat," so I made sure the colors reflected that.

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