Santana - PBS Soundstage, Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL, 2-19-1977

Here's another one of these great "PBS Soundstage" concerts I recently discovered. This one mostly features Santana in 1977. However, in the middle of the show, Carlos Santana and his band left the stage and was replaced by the Tower of Power for three songs. Santana and the Tower of Power finally joined together for the last song. On top of that, saxophonist Gato Barbieri also joined in for the last two songs.

This is an excellent sounding concert now, but boy oh boy did it need a lot of fixing. I downloaded a very large video file of the concert which sounded great. But I soon discovered a problem: there were little gaps of silence throughout the recording. Little batches of them would show up about every minute, all the way through. I don't know what caused that, but I discovered that if I carefully cut out of the gaps in the Audacity audio editing program, there was no loss of music. So, being a glutton for punishment, I tried to fix the microgaps. I may have missed a few. If you notice any annoying ones, let me know and I'll further fix it. But I got the vast majority of them at any rate.

There was an additional problem that I wasn't so successful in fixing. At the start of "Black Magic Woman," there was a voiceover for about the first thirty seconds. I used the UVR5 program to remove the talking while keeping the underlying music. However, the volume of the music had been turned down so much that there was a lot of distortion that just isn't fixable. So the first thirty seconds or so of that song is pretty rough. That's why it has "[Edit]" in its title.

This concert took place one month after the release of the Santana studio album "Festival." Four tracks are from that (1, 3, 10, and 11). It was the second and last album with Leon Patillo on lead vocals. 

This album is 56 minutes long.

01 Carnaval - Let the Children Play - Jugando (Santana)
02 Dance, Sister, Dance (Santana)
03 Revelations [Instrumental] (Santana)
04 Oakland Stroke (Tower of Power)
05 You Oughta Be Havin' Fun (Tower of Power)
06 What Is Hip (Tower of Power)
07 Black Magic Woman - Gypsy Queen [Edit] (Santana)
08 talk (Santana)
09 Europa [Earth's Cry, Heaven's Smile] [Instrumental] (Santana with Gato Barbieri)
10 Give Me Love (Santana with Gato Barbieri)
11 Maria Caracoles (Santana with Tower of Power)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/p58utecV

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/B74BVIbvGxulPD8/file

The cover photo shows Carlos Santana singing backing vocals into a microphone while lead singer Leon Patillo looks on.