It was not necessary, the public who attended the concert already knew that Woodstock existed and that Santana played there, but from the beginning Carlos Santana wanted to remember him with images of the time when he was a melenudo. Yes, a piece of the same that still squeezes its guitar with an agility that has not succumbed to the years, those same years that have left it as a reference of other times and lighthouse of instrumentalists. He returned to Spain after long years of absence, but it seemed that time had not passed, stopping in a figure with a hat that in the midst of a stage without any way, also without scenographic imagination, focused all the interest on what was used before in a concert: music and endless instrumentalists to give it fuse and presence. Slo lacked that before starting his first performance in Spain on this tour, in the Sant Jordi of Barcelona with about 12,000 people, he mentioned the “as we said yesterday”.
To further highlight the old strands of the fabric, the concert began at the beginning, when Santana was an adalid of a nascent Latin rock related to Africa and his band, dismembered like him, it was pure outburst. Soul SacrificeJin-go-lobaand Evil Ways less furious than in its live shot with Buddy thousands and more adjusted to the study recording and a thunderous applause of the respectable with the entry of keyboards of Black Magic Womanwhich was repeated just after with the beginning, also with keyboard, Hey how it goes. and another of Tito Puente in the hands of Santana and a trio of percussionists, two batteries and congas already demanded and metronomic in the rhythm changes. There would be more versions, the natural in his repertoire, in which even in Evil Waysanother foreign issue, a fragment of Do It Again From Steely Dan. But then the concert turned to the Santana del Supernatural con MARIA, MARIA And there the weight of the mythical memory went down and the guitarist who triumphed in the way in which Herb Alpert seduced the markets as a cat without nails entered.
In this section of the concert, it shone purityin one of whose laps it seemed to recover the rhythmic plot of Evil Ways And very adult couples took hand smiling at mutual memories. It also sounded Hope Your Feeling Betterrecovering again. To all this the plot of the concert showed some instrumentalists to whom the pattern made the salary based on solos, who showed that, has a Corsican patent marking, with permission of the bassist, the longest, one of them in the bises, and that even someone of such limited exhibition and prominence as the rhythmic guitar of Carlos Santana, the closest to the anonymity and the invisibility issue, Put Your Lights On. Yes, the public paid attention to him and lit his mobiles in flashlight mode.
Carlos Santana spoke little, and when he did, to suggest that this world in which “Korea, China and Russia speak of nuclear war”, What we have to do is pray a lot to change things and achieve peace, harmony and compassion. It did not seem a call to direct action. Meanwhile, and although it is something consolidated, Carlos did not stop chewing, he assumed gum, which in a musician on stage always seems somewhat extemporaneous, how to look at the time or pour his nose. who took advantage of his absences of the scene to replace the chesting rubber.
Based on two singers, three if we count on the rhythmic guitar, Santana, very expressive with his guitar, constant punctures, left hand at the base of the mast, solid accompaniment to the voices, silences the least, he showed himself in a way despite remembering at times that venerable lord who always tells us the same story in the same way. It is yours, it cannot refuse. The final stretch stood up to the enclosure, in which only the first two blocks of plates were held regularly – because they are the most faithful followers and because if you pay more you have to have a good time because of the investment – and topics such as Subinate heart and the final Smooth They left the spirits very high, climbing in that elevator in which they can sound without shocks.
