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Soul Sacrifice

posted 14 years ago by MisterWhiplash
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Does anyone else love the *beep* out of this song? It's not just one of the very best moments of the film, it's one of the best live rock songs ever played. If I were there though (time machine style) I would've started a moshpit, I mean, it sounds at times like the first Heavy Metal song (kinda the way, to me, Bob Dylan's electric 'Maggie's Farm' at the Newport Jazz Fest in 1965 sounds like the first 'punk' song).

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[–] delcater 13 years ago

Agreed...this is an amazing, iconic piece of music. I love the intensity from all involved in the band. Carlos plays like his life depends on it...

[–] goatboy420 13 years ago

And Michael Shrieve (sp?) was just blistering! Definately one of the more astonishing performances over a weekend filled with steller acts at, or very close to, their peak...

[–] corey (771) 2 years ago

Michael, having just turned 20 a month earlier, was the youngest performer at the festival

[–] Captain_Bob 13 years ago

I absolutely love Santana's performance at Woodstock (who doesn't?) especially Carlos Santana's (what I like to call the "fist face" expression) as he rips into amazing guitar riffs. As he has said in interviews there's no "doh-ray-mii" there it's more like "goddamitmuthafcka" when you make the guitar howl like an animal. He's as close to Hendrix as we've seen when it comes to spiritual dedication to the music. And of course the now legendary drumming performance from Michael Shrieve just blew everyone's mind. Still love to watch this performance. (message to today's young kids: this is what real musicians look like)

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[–] urgeking 8 years ago

For an interesting contrast, listen to the 1976 version on Santana's "Moonflower" album. Rock-concert audio, live-recording technology, and the sophistication of the Santana band's instrumentation and arrangements-- all would evolve quite a bit during the seven years since Woodstock. Picture the 1969 festival version as a stripped-down hot rod with a supercharged Hemi engine and a black 'patina' paint job; by comparison, the "Moonflower" version is a gigantic 18-wheeler that sports twin fire-belching chromed exhaust stacks and has the tractor and trailer covered in glittering, microchip-controlled LED light displays. Or to put it another way: The Woodstock performance is raw and gut-level; the 1976 edition is polished and thunderous. But they both get the job done.

[–] rex (2828) 3 years ago

Santana later admitted to being on Acid during the Set & thinking his guitar was a Snake

[–] [deleted] a year ago

I can't even imagine trying to perform under those conditions.

[–] mtxmind (3296) a year ago

As the story goes, they were originally scheduled to go on much later, so he figured he'd be coming down by then (various accounts attribute it as being LSD, but I've also seen peyote or mescaline mentioned as well), and then for some reason they were forced to go on much earlier, just as he was at the peak of his trip.

You can tell he's a little shakey at the start of his first solo, but he quickly gets ahold of himself.😎

[–] brux (14729) a year ago

Yeah ... I loved that song, and the energy in the performance. I had never heard Santana before seeing that movie in 1970. That was a beautiful movie and a beautiful vision. Also the Jimi Hendrix stuff blew my mind as well.