Greg Errico

Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles - 1972 Sunshine Festival, Waikiki

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Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles Sunshine ‘72 Festival, Waikiki Diamond Head Crater, Oahu, Hawaii; January 1, 1972. Good to very good audience recording. 00:00 Intro/Gumbo (8.07) 08:05 Layla (6.34) 14:38 Little Wing (5.37) 20:15 unknown (10.12) 30:25 unknown (9.31) 39:54 Simple Song (4.24) 44:17 unknown (3.23) 47:30 unknown (4.47) 52:15 unknown (4.02) 56:16 Marbles (7.08) 1:03:22 unknown (6.04) 1:09:26 Evil Ways (7.49) 1:17:15 Faith Interlude (2.14) 1:19:29 Them Changes (7.25) Lineup: Carlos Santana: guitar, vocals Buddy Miles: drums, percussion, congas, vocals Neal Schon: guitar Ron Johnson: bass Bob Hogins: organ, electric piano Hadley Caliman: flute, Saxophone Luis Gasca: trumpet Greg Errico: drums Richard Clark: drums, percussion, congas Coke Escovedo: drums, percussion, timbales Mike Carabello: percussion, congas. Mingo Lewis: percussion Victor Pantoja: percussion, congas This may come as a surprise to some but the Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles! Live! (1972) album could have been recorded in the studio. Rolling Stone (Issue 101, February 3, 1972) reported: As for Santana, there were plans for a “Live in Diamond Head Crater” Santana-Miles LP - a 16-machine and a Columbia Records crew were flown in - but technical problems, including mysterious power cuts, spoiled all but maybe 15 minutes of tape, according to a technician. SIRMick posted this note: On New Year’s Day of 1972, Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles gave a concert at the Diamond Head Crater in Oahu Hawaii and later that year Columbia released a live album. But in yet another classic late ’60s/early ’70s live album deception, this album is recorded entirely in the studio. This time the argument is heavily one-sided with lots of proof including a rare bootleg, as well as testimonies. First off, the other guitar player Neil Schon has stated in an interview that it’s recorded in the studio because several of the musicians were tripping on LSD and the recordings were not acceptable to Columbia, so Santana and Miles were forced to replicate the show in the studio with fake or canned applause. Several crew members have backed up the story with one saying that because of the heat there were several power outages to the recording truck during the show and the other saying that FM radios used for security kept bleeding into the soundtrack, creating an editing nightmare. Lastly, if you listen to the bootleg below, it’s quite clear especially on “Marbles” that it’s nowhere near the same performance, and some songs on the Columbia album aren’t even on the bootleg, basically making this “case closed.” For those who wondered what the real story is, here is an audience recording of the show. Thanks to Daniel Brewer who shared the tracks with us’ Daniel also noted: “Many thanks to HermanLR for sharing this show with me.” HermanLR posted this comment: I got a mail from one of the biggest Santana experts in the USA. This is what he mailed: yes the santana miles 72 lp was re-recorded in the studio because there was several power failures during the concert i saw this in rolling stone magazine back in 72 if you have the show on tape you can hear the power going off..