All Our Colors Benefit, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, 10-10-1992 - Part 6: Santana

Here's the sixth and final album from the "All Our Colors" benefit concert in 1992. For an overview of the concert as a whole, check out my write-up for Part 1. This is a set by Santana. 

It's a bit unusual in that about half of the set prominently features guest stars Ry Cooder and Steve Miller. No doubt, lead guitarist Carlos Santana took advantage of the fact that these two other talented guitarists were at the venue, since they had performed in earlier sets. Mostly, Cooder and Miller jammed on guitars with Santana, but Miller also did the lead vocals on the blues classic "All Your Love (I Miss Loving)."

I'm guessing that John Lee Hooker, who played a set earlier in the evening, went to sleep already, since he was well over 70 years old by this time. Had he been awake, he probably would have wanted to join in on "The Healer," because it's a song from Hooker's 1989 album of the same name. Santana co-wrote it and performed on it. 

This album is an hour and 15 minutes long. 

01 talk (Santana)
02 Peace on Earth... Mother Earth... Third Stone from the Sun (Santana)
03 Somewhere in Heaven (Santana)
04 Viva La Vida [Life Is for Living] (Santana)
05 Savor [Instrumental] (Santana)
06 talk (Santana)
07 The Healer [Instrumental] (Santana with Ry Cooder)
08 talk (Santana with Ry Cooder)
09 All Your Love [I Miss Loving] (Santana with Ry Cooder & Steve Miller)
10 Sacred Fire [Instrumental] (Santana with Ry Cooder & Steve Miller)
11 Why Can't We Live Together (Santana with Ry Cooder & Steve Miller)
12 Exodus (Santana with Ry Cooder & Steve Miller)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/W1VeBVud

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/tvlzB8CYRYgsZ6o/file

The cover photo of Carlos Santana is from this exact concert.

All Our Colors Benefit, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, 10-10-1992 - Part 5: Jackson Browne

Here's the fifth album from the "All Our Colors" benefit concert in 1992. For an overview of the concert as a whole, check out my write-up for Part 1. This is a set by Jackson Browne.

In late 1993, a year after this concert, Browne would release the album "I'm Alive." But he already performed a three songs from it at this concert: "I'm Alive," "All Good Things," and "Miles Away." Many of the other songs played were from his 1980s albums.

This set includes a nice guest appearance by Bonnie Raitt on two songs, with her singing and playing slide guitar. Browne and Raitt were friends and usually played together when they were nearby. Raitt was scheduled to headline the similar themed benefit concert in the same venue one day later, so it made sense she was there watching this concert too. 

This album is an hour and three minutes long. 

01 talk (Jackson Browne)
02 Before the Deluge (Jackson Browne with David Lindley)
03 talk (Jackson Browne)
04 I'm Alive (Jackson Browne)
05 talk (Jackson Browne)
06 Miles Away (Jackson Browne)
07 talk (Jackson Browne)
08 Soldier of Plenty (Jackson Browne)
09 In the Shape of a Heart (Jackson Browne)
10 talk (Jackson Browne)
11 World in Motion (Jackson Browne with Bonnie Raitt)
12 talk (Jackson Browne with Bonnie Raitt)
13 Here Come Those Tears Again (Jackson Browne with Bonnie Raitt)
14 talk (Jackson Browne)
15 All Good Things (Jackson Browne)
16 talk (Jackson Browne)
17 Lawless Avenues (Jackson Browne)
18 talk (Jackson Browne)
19 The Pretender (Jackson Browne)
20 talk (Jackson Browne)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/55ERHawF

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/zyYdIN2dwvMuAK9/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

All Our Colors Benefit, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, 10-10-1992 - Part 4: The Steve Miller Band

Here's the fourth album from the "All Our Colors" benefit concert in 1992. For an overview of the concert as a whole, check out my write-up for Part 1. This is a set by the Steve Miller Band. 

This set was a little different from most Steve Miller Band concerts in that Miller and his band mates played on acoustic instruments. While most of his set was devoted to his big hits from the 1960s and 70s, he also played some blues covers. None of the songs played came from recent albums. (He would have a comeback album of sorts the next year with "Wide River.")

This album is 46 minutes long. 

01 talk (Steve Miller Band)
02 Fly like an Eagle (Steve Miller Band)
03 Seasons (Steve Miller Band)
04 Honey, Where You Going (Steve Miller Band)
05 talk (Steve Miller Band)
06 Mercury Blues (Steve Miller Band)
07 talk (Steve Miller Band)
08 I'm Tore Down (Steve Miller Band)
09 Gangster of Love (Steve Miller Band)
10 Living in the U.S.A. (Steve Miller Band)
11 talk (Steve Miller Band)
12 Dance, Dance, Dance (Steve Miller Band)
13 talk (Steve Miller Band)
14 Rock'n Me (Steve Miller Band)
15 Take the Money and Run (Steve Miller Band)
16 talk (Steve Miller Band)
17 Jet Airliner (Steve Miller Band)
18 talk (Steve Miller Band)
19 The Joker (Steve Miller Band)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/F6iCiLoJ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/BSLcAPbow7uvuFq/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

All Our Colors Benefit, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, 10-10-1992 - Part 3: John Lee Hooker with Ry Cooder

Here's the third album from the "All Our Colors" benefit concert in 1992. For an overview of the concert as a whole, check out my write-up for Part 1. This is a set by blues legend John Lee Hooker. For his entire set, he was backed on slide guitar by Ry Cooder.

If you're a fan of blues music, you should know John Lee Hooker, who is one of the biggest names in the genre. (He died in 2001 in his 80s, his exact age being uncertain.) He had a very long music career, starting with the classic hit single "Boogie Chillen," which was the best selling race record in 1949. By the 1980s, it seemed his best years were behind him. But in 1989, he had a career revival that started with the album "The Healer." It was a hit (for the blues genre), thanks in large part to many guest stars on it, such as Carlos Santana, Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray, and Los Lobos. He repeated the guest star formula with his 1991 album "Mr. Lucky."

However, his relatively short set was pretty different from those albums. He performed without any backing other than Cooder, and generally played songs from much earlier in his career. But it does seem worth mentioning that Cooder helped produce "Mr. Lucky," so I'd guess that's how they started musically collaborating. 

This album is 24 minutes long. 

01 talk (John Lee Hooker with Ry Cooder)
02 Lonely Man (John Lee Hooker with Ry Cooder)
03 talk (John Lee Hooker with Ry Cooder)
04 Serve Me Right to Suffer (John Lee Hooker with Ry Cooder)
05 Hobo Blues (John Lee Hooker with Ry Cooder)
06 Crawling King Snake (John Lee Hooker with Ry Cooder)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/pM3c2HEf 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/Y9DY1Rm1QRX0CmD/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. That's Hooker on the left (wearing a hat) and Cooder on the right. I used Photoshop to move them a few feet closer together.

All Our Colors Benefit, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, 10-10-1992 - Part 2: John Trudell

Here's the second album from the "All Our Colors" benefit concert in 1992. For an overview of the concert as a whole, check out my write-up for Part 1. This is a set by John Trudell.

This concert was designed to support groups promoting the welfare and rights of Native Americans, so it was very fitting that Trudell performed. As Wikipedia puts it, he was a Native American author, poet, actor, musician, and political activist. (He died in 2015 at the age of 69.) He was more of a poet than a typical singer. As you can hear on this album, he spoke his poetry with a musical backing. 

In 1986, he put out his second album, "aka Graffiti Man." It slowly gained acclaim and popularity as a cassette-only release that spread through Native American gatherings. He released other albums after that. But in 1992, he redid "aka Graffiti Man" in a more professional manner, and had it released on CD and other formats, giving it wider release. A Rolling Stone Magazine review of the album stated that "Trudell employs basic rock, blues, traditional indigenous music, street shuffles, and folk songs to craft a compelling hybrid that encompasses many viewpoints and visions of reality." Most of the songs performed here come from that album.

Here's Trudell's Wikipedia page if you want to know more:

John Trudell - Wikipedia 

This album is 39 minutes long.

01 talk (John Trudell)
02 Grafitti Man (John Trudell)
03 Rockin' the Res (John Trudell)
04 Fables and Other Realities (John Trudell)
05 Beauty in a Fade (John Trudell)
06 Johnny Damas and Me (John Trudell)
07 Crazy Horse (John Trudell)
08 talk (John Trudell)
09 Somebody's Kid (John Trudell)
10 Bombs Over Baghdad (John Trudell)
11 talk (John Trudell)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/QunU6hLK

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/laiIUHwlYvGU9JZ/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

All Our Colors Benefit, Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, 10-10-1992 - Part 1: Mickey Hart & Friends

Christopher Columbus reached the Americas on October 12, 1492, landing on an island in the Bahamas he named San Salvador. Almost exactly 500 years to the day after that, there was a series of concerts in the San Francisco Bay Area not celebrating Columbus, but instead celebrating Native American resistance to colonialism. This is the first set available from the first day of these concerts. I could only find the first day concert with high quality sound, so that's the only concert I'm posting.

This first day concert was called "All Our Colors: The Good Road Concert," held at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California. The main acts were Mickey Hart and Friends, John Trudell, John Lee Hooker with Ry Cooder, the Steve Miller Band, Jackson Browne, and Santana. I'll be posting all of that. White Boy and the Wagon Burners and Red Thunder also performed, but I don't have that music. There also were pow wow dance performances in the hours prior to the start of the formal music program.

The second day concert, which I won't be posting, was called "Healing the Sacred Loop: The Next 500 Years," and was also held at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California. The main acts were Cris Williamson, Todd Rundgren, Ry Cooder & David Lindley, Little Feat, Don Henley, and Bonnie Raitt. Then, on Monday October 12, 1992, a free concert was held at Crissy Field, in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, with many of the same performers. I don't know why only the first day's concert is available with excellent sound quality, but it is what it is. If anyone has a worthy version of the other two concerts, please let me know.

These concerts were promoter Bill Graham's last big event that he was working on before he died in 1991. They were sponsored by the IITC Council (International Indian Treaty Conference), and the profits went to associated non-profits. 

Now, let me address this specific performance. Mickey Hart was one of two drummers for the Grateful Dead for decades. He also had a solo career that explored world music genres, especially through rhythm. Hart played drums during this set. But he was joined by many other musicians. Those included vocalists and multi-instrumentalists Bean, Tina, Candice  and Janelle of D'Cuckoo', Kitaro on keyboards, Michael Shrieve on drums, Marco Minnemann, Baba Olatunji of Planet Drum on percussion, and Steve Miller on guitar. As mentioned above, Miller would get his own set later in the concert. 

I have no idea what the actual names of these songs are, if they had specific names. If anyone knows, please let me know and I'll update the song list. 

Like all the other albums from this concert, the music is unreleased but the sound quality is excellent.  

This album is 52 minutes long. 

01 talk (Mickey Hart & Friends)
02 Pow Wow Jam 1 (Mickey Hart & Friends)
03 Pow Wow Jam 2 (Mickey Hart & Friends)
04 Pow Wow Jam 3 (Mickey Hart & Friends)
05 Pow Wow Jam 4 (Mickey Hart & Friends)
06 Pow Wow Jam 5 (Mickey Hart & Friends)

 https://pixeldrain.com/u/1fC88dHS

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/B0rUk056QnViOn3/file 

The cover photo of Mickey Hart is from this exact concert. For the art framing the central photo, I used a promotional poster for the concert, and edited it to fit the space.