Here's the third set from the fifth day out of five days of concerts that closed the Fillmore West venue in San Francisco in 1971. (See my write-up on the Boz Scaggs set for general information about the closing.) This set features the band Santana.
I've already posted a lot of music by Santana, so I don't feel the need to introduce the band here. However, I will note a bit about what the band was doing at the time of this concert. They had just finished recording their third album, "Santana III," but it wouldn't be released until September, a couple of months away. Still, that didn't stop them from performing five songs from that album: "Batuka," "Gumbo," "No One to Depend On," "Taboo," and "Toussaint L'Ouverture." Neal Schon had recently joined the band as a second lead guitarist, so you can hear his playing here.
Right after this set ended, Carlos Santana and much of the band played more music with lead guitarist Mike Bloomfield and others. But I'll be posting a different album for that.
I believe this is the only set from the closing of the Fillmore West that has been officially released in full. But I'm posting it here anyway so one can get all of the sets. You can find it on the deluxe edition of "Santana III." It's very fortunate that this has been officially released, because it also happens to be the only set from these five days of concerts that wasn't broadcast on the radio at the time, and thus wasn't bootlegged. I found this explanation at the santanaamigos.com music blog:
"It is rumored that the band (afraid of being bootlegged heavily with this show), did not permit KSAN to broadcast the official band segment. Reportedly, KSAN was set up completely but the plug literally got pulled out at the very last moment by some Santana roadies! It wasn't until the final part of 'Soul Sacrifice' that the broadcast lines were re-opened."
For a long time, I only had two songs from this set, "Incident at Neshabur" and "In a Silent Way," because they had been officially released as part of the "Fillmore - The Last Days" album. Thank goodness somebody had recorded it after all.
This album is 58 minutes long.
01 Batuka [Instrumental] (Santana)
02 No One to Depend On (Santana)
03 Toussaint L'Overture [Instrumental] (Santana)
04 Taboo (Santana)
05 Jungle Strut [Instrumental] (Santana)
06 Black Magic Woman - Gypsy Queen (Santana)
07 Incident at Neshabur [Instrumental] (Santana)
08 In a Silent Way [Instrumental] (Santana)
09 Savor [Instrumental] (Santana)
10 Para los Rumberos [Instrumental] (Santana)
11 talk (Santana)
12 Gumbo [Instrumental] (Santana)
https://bestfile.io/en/hNNtLE3IuMcPEb2/file
The cover photo of Carlos Santana is from this exact concert.
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