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In my LP library the most number of inches go to, roughly in order: Grateful Dead, Santana, and Miles Davis. Santana plays constantly in my cave going back to the first time I saw them in NY and walked out of the concert literally 'dumbstruck' - unable to speak for over an hour. What a show! Jeezis!! San Francisco was the birthplace of everything I hold sacred.
My favorite albums, beyond Santana and Abraxas, are Zebop and Caravanseri. Caravanserai is the last album with Rolie and Schon, making it a giant if for no other reason that that. I have the Japanese import and it is SWEET. Zebop! is just amazing- it incorporates everything he learned from Miles. Vastly underrated are Moonflower and Inner Secrets, if you get the whole spiritual phase he and McLaughlin were enjoying.
There are about a zillion live Santana albums from The Day- my choice is Live At The Fillmore 1968. Pretty good sound, considering the drugs everyone was taking! I just have an MP3 but that's OK.
Check the 3 pre-Steve-Perry Journey albums. They're jazz-influenced and relatively complex musically.
I really love Borboletta and Love Devotion Surrender with McLaughlin. I got those in 1975. It was via those two that I worked my way through the others in his catalogue.
I have the MoFi pressings of Santana and Abraxas(older MoFi and newer MoFi). I have the US The Mastering Lab and Japanese pressings of Borboletta. The US The Mastering Lab and Japanese pressings of Love Devotion Surrender. The British pressing of III. The Japanese pressing of Moonflower. The Japanese pressing of Lotus. The US pressing of Illuminations. The US pressing of Inner Secrets. The Quad Japanese pressings of Santana Buddy Miles Live and Caravanserai plus the US pressing of Caravanserai.
I kinda like Carlos' work. 8 ^)
Just bought Santana S/T 1st LP & Abraxas from some record stores in Toledo Ohio after attending a local record show. Have not played them yet ... excellent looking condition copies.Liked the first two ... played them on Spotify ...
Played Santana III & Caravanserai as well but did not like them as much as the first two. They had an excellent condition copy of Santana III at the record show but I took a pass on it. Did not run across any copies of I & Abraxas at the record show.
I see copies of Abraxas at record stores ... but they are usually not in very good condition and always missing the Poster. Recent copy I bought has the Poster.
Power is always dangerous. It attracts the worst and corrupts the best ... Ragnar Lothbrok
Edits: 11/28/15
I still have my original Columbias in decent shape.
Opus 33 1/3
I picked up a NM 2-eyed Columbia of S/T and the sound is excellent to my ears. It has a very live sound like the just walked in and cut the album. I don't know how they actually recorded it, but that is what it sounds like to me. It is one of my favorite records.
Dave
I prefer the earlier MOFI of Abraxas to the later one. I own both.
Two of my favorite Santana's are
Viva Santana
and Guitar both are great just differant styles. Viva so much great percussion and Guitar the blend of all guitar solo's is great but got to be ready for it.
My mistake Viva Santana yes, but Guitar was Zappa duh. Just a mistake but two differant worlds of music.
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