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Re: Santana no longer influential?!?! HORSE CHIPS!!!!!!



<<ell duh. Santana is great, but he's old news. 
  Everybody who was going to be influenced by
Santana already got influenced 25 years ago. The
"nu metal jerk" probably reaches far more people
today than Santana has in years.>>

Yeah, I guess those of us who were 4 years old 
(namely, me!) 25 years ago don't count, eh? I
never heard of Santana before we got cable back
in 82. I first heard of Santana when I saw the
video for Hold On on MTV. What was funny was
during the vocal sections of the song, there was
this silly conceptual plotline involving Carlos
trying to find this beautiful woman in a sort of
Rio Carnaval type setting. The only time you
actually saw the band playing was during his
guitar solos. Thusly, imagine my surprise when I
saw a live clip on MTV of Santana doing some
other songs, and finding out that Carlos wasn't
the singer in his own band!!!!!! 

Anywho, what I heard there, though perhaps
insubstantial in some people's minds, was enough
to catch this 11 year old's attention.
Subsequently, I saw the Woodstock movie, saw
other video clips by Santana (including an old
clip from the German TV show Beat Club, showing
the Santana III era band-with a young, Afro-d,
pre-Journey Neal Schon playing a gold top Les
Paul-playing Black Magic Woman) and eventually I
bought a couple of his albums. Once I dug a
little deeper and got some of his older records
(specifically, Lotus and Moonflower, as well as
the Viva Santana compilation), I was struck by
his sense of melody, phrasing, and that tone!!!
And I still can't believe that one note during
the Viva Santana version of Europa, he holds it
for like A FULL MINUTE!!!!!! Maybe Carlos Santana
(or Jerry Garcia, or Frank Zappa or any of a
number of other musicians) don't have the same
kind of mass influence they had 25-30 years ago,
but don't tell me they didn't influence anyone
during the last 20 years!!! I can tell you're
flat out wrong, even if I'm the only guitarist
under the age of 30 to be influenced by these
guys, you're still wrong! 

=====
May you never thirst!
The Scuba Diver Presently Known As Chris

"What do you get when you give a yo-yo to a flock of flamingos?"-James 
Earl Jones

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