🎫 Jan 10 Fri: The TNT, Squaw Valley, CA

🎫 Jan 11 Sat: The TNT, Squaw Valley, CA

🎫 Jan 17 Fri: Robertson Gym, University Of California, Santa Barbara, CA

🎧 Jan 27 Mon: Recording Of Unreleased Album “Freeway Jam”. Columbia Studios, Hollywood, CA

Quote from Carlos Santana (The Universal Tone 2014): Santana signed with Columbia in October 1968, and our contract took effect in December. The first person we met was David Rubinson---at that time he was Columbia’s staff producer on the West Coast. (…) He was going to be our producer, and the nearest CBS studios were in Los Angeles. That’s where we got ready to go in February of 1969. (…) We just didn’t feel any authenticity with Rubinson that time. (…) The album was going to be called Freeway Jam, after the tune we used to end our shows with, but this was nothing we wanted to come out, and CBS felt the same way. Now it seems impossible, but somehow we persuaded the record company to let us go back into the studio and not impose a producer on us. We finally agreed in 2004 to let the music be released for historical purposes. (p202-203)

🎧 Jan 28 Tue: Recording Of Unreleased Album “Freeway Jam”. Columbia Studios, Hollywood, CA

🎧 Jan 29 Wed: Recording Of Unreleased Album “Freeway Jam”. Columbia Studios, Hollywood, CA

♥ Late Jan: Santana #2

(left to right) Bob “Doc” Livingston (ds), Gregg Rolie (kbd/vo), Michael Carabello (perc), David Brown (b), Carlos Santana (g/perc/vo)

Note: Michael Carabello is coming back to the band, replacing Marcus Malone.

Quote from Carlos Santana (The Universal Tone 2014): A few days before we left, Stan said he had to tell me something. Marcus was in jail---for murder. (…) We had to think fast---Carabello had stopped playing with the band, but he was still hanging out with us. He knew all the songs and the parts, so the decision was easy. (p202)

🎫 Feb 11 Tue: Gymnasium, Woodside High School, Woodside, CA

🎫 Feb 13 Thu: Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA

🎫 Feb 14 Fri: Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA

Incomplete: Waiting - Treat - Evil Ways - Shades Of Time - Savor/Jingo

🎫 Feb 15 Sat: Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA

🎫 Feb 16 Sun: Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA

Incomplete: Soul Sacrifice - Savor - Waiting - Evil Ways - You Just Don't Care - Treat - Chunk A Funk - Persuasion - Jingo - Jam - Conquistadore Rides Again

🎧 Feb: Release of "The Live Adventures Of Mike Bloomfield And Al Kooper"

Selected Formats:

"The Live Adventures Of Mike Bloomfield And Al Kooper" in 1968 on 2LP (gf) (CBS/Sony Japan SONP-50064)

"The Live Adventures Of Mike Bloomfield And Al Kooper" in Feb 1969 on 2LP (gf) (Columbia USA KGP 6)

"The Live Adventures Of Mike Bloomfield And Al Kooper" in 1969 on 2LP (gf) (CBS Europe S 66216)

"The Live Adventures Of Mike Bloomfield And Al Kooper" in 1974 on Best Rock Collection - 11 2LP (gf) (CBS/Sony Japan SOPJ 62-63)

"The Live Adventures Of Mike Bloomfield And Al Kooper" in 1977 on 2LP (CBS/Sony Japan 25AP 612~3)

"The Live Adventures Of Mike Bloomfield And Al Kooper" in 1978 on Rock Best 2LP (CBS/Sony Japan 40AP 1203~4)

"The Live Adventures Of Mike Bloomfield And Al Kooper" in 1988 on 2LP (Edsel Records UK DED 261)

"The Live Adventures Of Mike Bloomfield And Al Kooper" in 2009 on 2LP (Sundazed Music USA LP 5276)

"The Live Adventures Of Mike Bloomfield And Al Kooper" on Oct 17, 2016 on 2LP (180gram) (Music On Vinyl Netherlands MOVLP1620)

"The Live Adventures Of Mike Bloomfield And Al Kooper" in 1987 on CBS CD Rock Classics 100 2CD (CBS/Sony Japan 48DP 1092-3)

"The Live Adventures Of Mike Bloomfield And Al Kooper" in 1988 on 2CD (Edsel Records UK ED CD 261)

"The Live Adventures Of Mike Bloomfield And Al Kooper" on June 1, 1992 on Nice Price Line 2CD (Sony Japan SRCS 6193-4)

"The Live Adventures Of Mike Bloomfield And Al Kooper" in 1997 on Live From The Vaults 2CD (remastered) (Columbia/Legacy USA C2K 64670) (Columbia Europe 485151 2)

"The Live Adventures Of Mike Bloomfield And Al Kooper" on June 4, 2003 on Limited Edition 2CD (gf/remastered/papersleeve) (Sony Records Int'l Japan MHCP 11~12)

"The Live Adventures Of Mike Bloomfield And Al Kooper" on Dec 24, 2008 on Limited Edition 2BSCD (remastered) (Sony Records Int'l SICP 20026-7)

"The Live Adventures Of Mike Bloomfield And Al Kooper" on March 6, 2013 on Legacy Recordings 2BSCD2 (remastered) (Sony Records Int'l SICP 30064-5)

"The Live Adventures Of Mike Bloomfield And Al Kooper" on Jan 29, 2014 on Limited Edition 2BSCD2 (remastered/papersleeve) (Sony Records Int'l SICP 30454-5)

"The Live Adventures Of Mike Bloomfield And Al Kooper" on April 12, 2017 on Limited Edition Guitar Legend Series 2CD (Sony Records Int'l SICP 5368-9)

Track: Sonny Boy Williamson (6:04)

Musicians: Mike Bloomfield, John Kahn, Al Kooper, Skip Prokop, Carlos Santana

Recorded: Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA Sept 28, 1968

🎫 Feb 21 Fri: Earl Warren Showgrounds, Santa Barbara, CA

🎫 Feb 25 Tue: Audition Night. Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA

🎫 Feb 28 Fri: The Dream Bowl, Vallejo, CA

Note: Contrary to previous circulating ads and posters, Santana only appears on Feb 28, and not March 1. Instead on March 1, they appear at Earl Warren Arena, Santa Barbara, CA.

🎫 March 1 Sat: Earl Warren Arena, Santa Barbara, CA

Note: The band’s name is not printed on the concert handbill, only as a "guest act to be announced".

🎫 March 7 Fri: Basketball Court, James Lick High School, San Jose, CA

Quote from James Bettencourt (June 2, 2010): My friend Jamie called Bill Graham (promoter and Fillmore owner), and asked for Santana to play. Bill asked how much the student body had as a budget, and Jamie told him we had $2,500.00. Bill laughed and said “no way”, Jamie said “thank you, we will get someone else”. Bill called back within about 10 minutes, and said “OK, you can have them and the three other groups for that price”! Keep in mind Santana’s first album was not yet out or just released at that time, and they were not a major player on the U.S. scene, except for the West Coast. Anyway, the school barely broke even money wise on the event, and after the concert a single wine bottle was found on the basketball gymnasiun floor where it was held. The Dean of the school said they would never do this again! A major scandal for the school!

🎫 March 8 Sat: Washington High School, Fremont, CA

Quote from Tim Curley (Sonoma Index-Tribune May 6, 2021): They unloaded their gear into the old "Hoosiers"-like gymnasium, and the place was never the same. Social studies teacher Mark Mattingly, now 78, was one of the chaperones that night. "There were joints being passed around, drinking going on, sex in the bleachers," Mattingly recounted via a phone call from his home in Fremont, all factors that kept him busy that night. Rest assured this writer, although in attendance, knew nothing about such goings on. The action on the stage kept Mattingly busy, too. They were to stop at 11 p.m., but didn’t. They were told again to stop. They didn’t. Eventually, Mattingly dramatically cut the power to the stage. Carlos and the boys just grabbed all the percussion instruments they had and kept playing. "They kept going and going and going," Mattingly said.

🎫 March 12 Wed: Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA

🎫 March 14 Fri: Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, San Jose, CA

🎫 March 15 Sat: Diablo Valley College Gym, Pleasant Hill, CA

♥ Mid-March: Santana #3

Carlos Santana (g/perc/vo), David Brown (b), Johnny Rae (ds), Michael Carabello (perc), Gregg Rolie (kbd/vo)

Note: Bob “Doc” Livingston is replaced by Johnny Rae.

Quote from Carlos Santana (The Universal Tone 2014): We went in and started rehearsing some new tunes, but nothing was coming together at first. This was when we decided to let Doc Livingston go---he kind of fired himself, really. Gregg asked him to leave, then we had a jazz drummer, Johnny Rae, with us for a few gigs---he played often with Cal Tjader and Gabor Szabo. (p206)

Quote from Michael Shrieve (Facebook March 26, 2020): When I was in high school, I would take a train every morning from Redwood City to Mountain View. My Mom was a nurse and, while still dark, she would drop me off at the train station. I loved the train, and still do. But every once in awhile, after she would leave, I would take the train in the opposite direction, to San Francisco. There was a Drum Shop there that was called Drumland and for a high school kid into the drums, it was intoxicating. It was owned by a great guy named Kenny Williams. One of the people that worked at the shop was drummer John Rae, and he was super nice to me. I was in awe of the folks that would come in there because they wore working professional drummers, who would just hang out and shoot the shit. Johnny Rae played with Cal Trader and I thought that was just SO cool.

🎫 March 21 Fri: Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA

Incomplete: Waiting - Treat - Evil Ways - Shades Of Time - Savor/Jingo - Persuasion - Soul Sacrifice (1)

W/various artists (1)

Note: Broadcast at an unknown date on American radio KMPX. Set list might also be from March 22, 1969 or March 23, 1969.

🎫 March 22 Sat: Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA

🎫 March 23 Sun: Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA

🎫 March 26 Wed: Rockarama!!! 5 Days Of Music At The Avalon Ballroom. Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, CA

Incomplete: Waiting - Persuasion - Treat - Evil Ways - Soul Sacrifice

🎫 March 28 Fri: College Of San Mateo Gym, San Mateo, CA

🎫 March 29 Sat: International Ice Palace, Las Vegas, NV

🎫 April 1 Tue: Las Lomas High School, Walnut Creek, CA

🎫 April 3 Thu: Teen Expo. Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, San Jose, CA

🎫 April 4 Fri: Teen Expo. Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, San Jose, CA

🎫 April 5 Sat: Teen Expo. Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, San Jose, CA

♥ Early April: Santana #4

Carlos Santana (g/perc/vo), David Brown (b), Michael Shrieve (ds), Michael Carabello (perc), Gregg Rolie (kbd/vo)

Note: Johnny Rae is replaced by Michael Shrieve.

Quote from Carlos Santana (The Universal Tone 2014): One day I saw Michael Shrieve come into Pacific looking to get some studio time for his band. He was a drummer I knew who hung with some of the guys in Jefferson Airplane, so I invited him to jam with us. (…) We kept playing into the night. (…) We felt a chemistry right off the bat. We asked Michael to join the band almost immediately, and he said yes. (…) Santana had its first stable lineup together, the one the world would get to know from our first three albums---Gregg, David, Carabello, Michael, Chepito, me, and a few people we added later. (p207-208)

Michael Shrieve’s partial speech at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction. (Waldorf-Astoria, New York, NY January 12, 1998): (…) But, one night I was visiting a recording studio that I used to frequent to try to hustle free studio time for my own group. I’m walking in the front door and the drummer from Santana is walking out. I go inside and Santana was in the studio recording their first album for Columbia and Clive Davis, and they had just had a big falling out with their drummer! A couple of the guys recognized me from a year ago and asked me if I’d like to jam. Well, we jammed. We played all night long and at the end of the night we all gathered in a small room off to the side. Actually, I think it was just Carlos, Gregg, and I. Carlos asked me if I would like to join the band. I said, “You know, let me check my schedule.” Just kidding! That night they followed me home and I went into the house and woke my folks up and said, “See you later. This is where I get off.” I ran out to the street, jumped into the car and drove up to San Francisco’s Mission District where the band was living in a house together. I took my appropriate place on the couch and, despite the excitement and because of the late hour, fell asleep. I was in the band. And what a band it was! I soon saw this was no peace, love, hippie thing. This band was like a street gang and its weapon was music. (…)

🎫 April: California State University, Fresno, CA

Note: Michael Shrieve’s first show with Santana.

🎫 April 11 Fri: The Rose Palace, Pasadena, CA

🎫 April 12 Sat: The Rose Palace, Pasadena, CA

🎫 April 18 Fri: Contra Costa College Gym, San Pablo, CA

🎫 May 3 Sat: Spring Flush. Edmundson Pavilion, University Of Washington, Seattle, WA

♥ Early May: Santana #5

(left to right) Michael Shrieve (ds), Carlos Santana (g/perc/vo), Gregg Rolie (kbd/vo) (bottom), Jose “Chepito” Areas (perc), David Brown (b), Michael Carabello (perc)

Note: A second percussionist joins the band, Jose “Chepito” Areas. This is the first Santana lineup to have an album released.

Quote from Carlos Santana (The Universal Tone 2014): Carabello used to go to the beach and play there with whoever was hanging out. While we were waiting to find out what was happening with Marcus, Carabello met a guy who played percussion and was part of a group called the Aliens. (…) The guy, Jose Areas, played congas on one tune, then timbales on another---then soloed on trumpet, too! He was incredible. (…) He was from Nicaragua and kind of small, and they called him Chepito. (…) By the time Santana went back to the studio in May for a second try, Chepito was part of the band. (p204-205)

Quote from Michael Carabello (Interview by J. Rudy Ramirez 1996): Michael reported leaving the early Santana Blues Band due to a dispute with the other members, who wanted to continue to play while Carlos was in the hospital with tuberculosis. A flashy conga showman named Marcus Malone was brought in to replace Michael and continued with the band even after Carlos’ recovery. Marcus’ later arrest for manslaughter would open the door for Michael’s return, but he felt insecure and nervous trying to find a way to compensate for Marcus’ crowd-pleasing flair. The answer came to him at a percussion jam near San Francisco’s Ocean Beach. As Michael describes it, “One Sunday I was out at Playland at the Beach, on Great Highway, playing congas with two other guys. You know, somebody always comes along and wants to play your drum.” “So this guy comes up and asks me if his friend could play and I said ‘Sure,’ and this guy sits down and plays some shit I had never heard. That was Chepito.” Impressed by the new guy’s playing at the jam session, Michael went to see him perform at the Nite Life Night Club on San Bruno Avenue with The Aliens, a Top 40 band. There was “Chepito,” (José Areas, a recent immigrant from Nicaragua,) on stage, alternating between congas, timbales, and trumpet…Michael was further blown away, as were Carlos Santana and Gregg Rolie on a subsequent visit, and Chepito was invited to join Santana. The merging and blending of Michael and Chepito’s percussion styles proved to be very potent, and became a major strength of the Santana band, as did their input into the band’s arrangements and repertoire. One of Michael’s contributions was his insistence that Santana record Tito Puente’s song “Oye Como Va,” which became one of their biggest hits.

🎧 May 4 Sun-May 8 Thu: Pacific Recording, San Mateo, CA

Note: Recording of "Santana" (Santana’s 1st album).

Quote from Carlos Santana (The Universal Tone 2014): We decided to use Pacific Recording Studio---a new facility in San Mateo that also had rehearsal space. (…) Then it all seemed to come together. We figured out how to get the sound we wanted on each instrument. Day by day, each song sounded better. Gianquinto helped us eliminate wasted hours and figure out how to make the jams shorter---showing us how one section of a song went into the next and how to not lose the flow. (…) We recorded the first album in five days. It took a little longer to mix it---we didn’t get everything right, and we didn’t feel like it captured our sound perfectly yet---but it was close and was much better than the LA session. (…) I picked out the cover for the album---I wanted to use the poster for the show we played at the Fillmore West with the Grateful Dead and the Staple Singers, so the artist Lee Conklin designed it again, and it really worked. When our first album came out, my favorite thing on the cover was the line “Produced by Brent Dangerfield and Santana.” (p206-207-208)

🎫 May 9 Fri: The Rose Palace, Pasadena, CA

Note: The dates on the concert handbill are incorrectly printed as May 10 and 11, instead of May 9 and 10.

🎫 May 10 Sat: Pacific Pop Festival. Pacific Memorial Stadium, Stockton, CA

🎫 🎸 May 11 Sun: Aztec Bowl, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA

Note: In the same evening, Santana is guest of Grateful Dead for 26 min. on: Jam - Turn On Your Lovelight. Broadcast live on American radio KPRI 106.5 San Diego.

🎫 May 15 Thu: Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA

🎫 May 16 Fri: Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA

🎫 May 17 Sat: Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA

🎫 May 18 Sun: Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA

🎫 May 24 Sat: 2nd Annual Northern California Folk-Rock Festival. Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, San Jose, CA

🔔 May 25 Sun: 2nd Annual Northern California Folk-Rock Festival. Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, San Jose, CA

Note: Carlos Santana attends Jimi Hendrix’s show.

Quote from Carlos Santana (Straight Ahead June 1994): The first time I saw Jimi was at the Santa Clara Fairgrounds in San Jose. It was probably the most incredible concert I ever heard in my life. I have never heard him play better after that. The show was absolutely incredible. Jimi was at the peak of his art, at one moment he would get caught inside a proton or a neutron and the next minute he would throw you to the Milky Way. I've never been exposed to that drastic form of expression. Somebody actually recorded it that day. I listen to it and I'm still blown away. You can hear all these waves of spirits crying through his guitar. We were like - 'Oh my God! How can he do this?' It was scary, I had never heard anybody express electric music the way he did that day. It was incredible to be assaulted with all these screaming winds. He would really control that instrument like a jazz player or a blues player would. It was like controlling a demon and making it sing.

Quote from Carlos Santana (UniVibes No 17 Feb 1995): I saw him at Santa Clara Fairgrounds in San Jose in '69 but I didn't get to talk to him then - I still didn't know him. I think that was the best concert that I ever heard him play. He had supreme confidence that day. There was nothing in his mind about business of chicks or anything that I could tell because he just came out like Michael Tyson, when Michael Tyson would knock guys [out] in 3 seconds. There's a certain 'stance'. That's what Miles Davis said: 'I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands, you know.' He had a certain stance, man. He was all over that Strat and had supreme confidence, that's all I can say.

Quote from Carlos Santana (The Universal Tone 2014): I saw him around seven times total, and that night was great. But no Hendrix show topped the one I heard him do at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds in San Jose in ’69. I never heard him do better. (p260)

🎫 May 28 Wed: People's Park Bail Ball Benefit. Winterland, San Francisco, CA

🎫 May 29 Thu: Sounds Of The City. Exhibit Hall, Convention Center, Fresno, CA

🎫 🎫 May 30 Fri: Memorial Day Rock Festival. Merced County Fairgrounds, Merced, CA

Note: Two shows played in the same evening.

🎫 June 10 Tue: Graduation Dance. High School Gym, Palo Alto, CA

Quote from Corry Arnold (http://rockprosopography101.blogspot.com/2010/02/june-16-1967-cubberley-high-school.html): According to the June 5, 1969 Catamount, Cubberley High’s Newspaper, Cubberley and Gunn held a joint Graduation Dance at Frontier Village, featuring Cold Blood. The joint Grad Dance appears to be due to poor attendance, a very 60s phenomenon. This is worth noting, however, since it suggests that considerably fewer people saw Santana’s performance at Paly than have claimed to do so. Paly’s 1969 graduation had Santana, two months before Woodstock, but after they had begun recording their classic first album. This was the event in Paly’s history that no class could ever top. Paly had the oldest facility at the time, so its not surprising it was not widely used for public events, compared to the newer High Schools.

🎫 June 14 Sat: The Fun House, South Lake Tahoe, NV

Quote from Corry Arnold (http://rockprosopography101.blogspot.com/2010/10/sons-of-champlin-performance-list_29.html): The date has been approximated from the Santana timeline. Its not clear if the bill was for one or two nights. Based on the Santana timeline, the show (or shows) was somewhere between June 1 and June 14. Various eyewitnesses (including Charlie Kelly) remember a hot set by Santana, and then the Sons being shut down by the cops because of "suspicious activities". However, Jim Burgett, who promoted the show, recalls few problems with the police and suspects that any band who was shut down would simply have been running overtime.

🎫 June 20 Fri: Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA

Note from Dick Dixon (The Santanamigos Group on Facebook June 4, 2023): Handbills in the Fillmore West series came in two variations: show backs and mailers. Show backs are cards that have a listing of upcoming Bill Graham events on the reverse side. These cards were designed to be handed out at the shows or as promotional items in head shops, hip clothing stores, etc. in order to publicize upcoming gigs. Show backs are harder to find than mailers which were designed to have a handwritten message written on it, then addressed and mailed like any other postcard.

🎫 🎫 June 21 Sat: Terrace Ballroom, Salt Lake City, UT

Note: Two shows played in the same evening.

🎫 June 28 Sat: Sports Arena, San Diego, CA

🎫 July 3 Thu: The Fun House, South Lake Tahoe, NV

🎫 July 4 Fri: The Fun House, South Lake Tahoe, NV

🎫 July 5 Sat: The Fun House, South Lake Tahoe, NV

🎫 July 11 Fri: Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA

🎫 July 12 Sat: Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA

🎫 July 13 Sun: Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA

🎫 July 19 Sat: Monterey Peninsula College Gymnasium, Monterey, CA

🎫 July 20 Sun: Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA

Note: Unconfirmed show. Listed in the official Santana website database, but Country Joe & The Fish, Joe Cocker, Country Weather were scheduled on that day.

🎫 July 21 Mon: Concord Armory, Concord, MS

🎫 July 25 Fri: Seattle Pop Festival. Gold Creek Park, Woodinville, WA

🎫 July 26 Sat: Seattle Pop Festival. Gold Creek Park, Woodinville, WA

🔔 July: Bill Graham’s House. Mill Valley, CA

Note: Bill Graham informs Santana that they will go on the East Coast for their first national tour.

Quote from Carlos Santana (The Universal Tone 2014): Bill called a meeting for everyone in the band. It was sometime in July 1969. He was living in Mill Valley then. (…) We all went over, looking at the houses---he had put together a nice outdoor buffet for us. We were all impressed. Then he sat down and told us why we were there. (…) “I’m sending you guys to the East Coast, and when you come back everything will be different. (…) “The festival in Woodstock is going to change everything for Santana. After that, people are going to recognize you everywhere, and it will totally fuck up your head.” (p211-212)

🎫 July 30 Wed: CBS Convention. Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, CA

Quote from Carlos Santana (The Universal Tone 2014): Our first album was about to come out, and before we left California Columbia Records had one of their annual conventions in Los Angeles, and we went down there and played a special show for all the sales and marketing people and publicists and bigwigs like Clive Davis. I didn’t meet Clive that time, or at least I don’t remember meeting him then. (p212)

1st Tour: USA East-South-Midwest-West

🎫 Aug 1 Fri: Fillmore East, New York, NY

Quote from Carlos Santana (The Universal Tone 2014): We were back at the bottom of the bill---in fact we weren’t even on the marquee. (…) It was helpful to be in that kind of show so we could learn not to be afraid of competition or new audiences. (p213)

🎫 Aug 2 Sat: Fillmore East, New York, NY

🎫 Aug 3 Sun: Atlantic City Pop Festival. Racetrack, Atlantic City, NJ

Note: The dates on the ads, posters and handbills are wrong, the festival takes place on Saturday Aug 2, 1969 and Sunday Aug 3, 1969 only. Santana didn’t play on Friday Aug 1, 1969, but on Sunday Aug 3, 1969, from 1:45 p.m. to 2:25 p.m.

🎫 Aug 8 Fri: The Pavilion, World's Fairground, Flushing Meadow Park, NY

🎫 Aug 9 Sat: The Pavilion, World's Fairground, Flushing Meadow Park, NY

🎫 Aug 10 Sun: Sheep Meadow, Central Park, New York, NY

Exact: Persuasion - Jingo - Evil Ways - Soul Sacrifice - Waiting - Fried Neckbones And Some Home Fries - Jam (1)(2) - Uncle Sam Blues (1)(2) - Jam

W/Jack Casady (Jefferson Airplane) (1), Jorma Kaukonen (Jefferson Airplane) (2)

🎫 Aug 11 Mon: The Catskills, New York State University, New York, NY

🎫 Aug 16 Sat: Woodstock Music & Art Fair. Bethel, NY

🎫 Aug 18 Mon: Electric Factory, Philadelphia, PA

🎫 Aug 19 Tue: Electric Factory, Philadelphia, PA

🎫 Aug 21 Thu: Boston Tea Party, Boston, MA

🎫 Aug 22 Fri: Boston Tea Party, Boston, MA

🎫 Aug 23 Sat: Boston Tea Party, Boston, MA

🎫 Aug 29 Fri: Main Point, Philadelphia, PA

🎧 Aug 30 Sat: Release of Santana's 1st Official Album "Santana"

Selected Analog Formats:

"Santana" on Aug 30, 1969 on LP (CBS USA CS 9781) (CBS Europe S 63815)

"Santana" in 1970 on LP (CBS/Sony Japan SONP 50179)

"Santana" in 1971 on Club Edition LP (CBS Germany H 289/1)

"Santana" in 1973 on LP (CBS/Sony Japan SOPL 188)

"Santana" in 1974 on LP (CBS/Sony Japan SOPN-87)

"Santana" in 1974 on LP (quad) (CBS USA CQ 32964)

"Santana" in 1977 on Limited Edition CBS/Sony 10th Anniversary LP (CBS/Sony Japan 15AP 620)

"Santana" in 1978 on Rock Best 100 LP (CBS/Sony Japan 25AP 1220)

"Santana" in 1982 on LP (CBS Europe 32003)

"Santana" in 1983 on LP (CBS/Sony Japan 20AP 2601)

"Santana" in 1997 on LP (180gram) (ARS Joerg Kessler/CBS Germany 32003)

"Santana" in 1998 on Limited Edition Vinyl LP (180gram) (Columbia/Simply Vinyl UK SVLP 0043)

"Santana" in 2001 on S125 Series LP (125gram) (Simply Vinyl/Columbia Europe S125019)

"Santana" in 2007 on Limited Edition LP (remastered/numbered) (Columbia/MFSL USA MFSL 1-303)

"Santana" in 2008 on LP (180gram) (Columbia Europe 88697269511)

"Santana" in 2008 on LP (remastered) (Columbia/Sundazed Music USA LP 5263)

"Santana" in 2009 on LP (180gram) (Music On Vinyl Netherlands MOVLP040)

"Santana" in 2015 on Limited Edition Original Master Recording Ultra Analog 45RPM 180g Series 2LP (gf/180gram/numbered) (Columbia/MFSL USA MFSL 2-45012)

"Santana" in 2016 on LP (180gram) (Columbia Europe 88875194281)

Selected Digital Formats:

"Santana" on July 22, 1987 on CBS CD Rock Classics 100 CD (CBS/Sony Japan 28DP 1016)

"Santana" in 1987 on CD (CBS Europe CDCBS 63815)

"Santana" in 1992 on CD (Columbia Europe 467389 2)

"Santana" on June 21, 1993 on Nice Price Line CD (Sony Japan SRCS 6315)

"Santana" on June 28, 1994 on Collector's Edition. Master Sound CD (gold/remastered) (Columbia/Legacy USA CK 64212)

"Santana" on March 31, 1998 on 30th Anniversary Expanded Edition CD (24-bit/remastered) (Columbia/Legacy USA CK 65489) *

"Santana" in April 1998 on Nice Price CD (24-bit/remastered) (Columbia/Legacy Europe COL 489542 2)

"Santana" on July 18, 1998 on Nice Price CD (Sony Japan SRCS-9438)

"Santana" in April 2000 on Nice Price Limited Edition CD (dgpck/remastered) (Columbia/Legacy Europe 489542 9)

"Santana" on Oct 19, 2004 on Original Recording Remastered Legacy Edition 2CD (remastered) (Columbia/Legacy Europe COL 512912 2) **

"Santana" on Dec 22, 2004 on 2CD (dgpck/remastered) (Sony Records Int'l Japan MHCP 540~1)

"Santana" in 2004 on 2CD (remastered) (Columbia/Legacy Japan GSM-08761)

"Santana" on May 3, 2006 on Limited Edition CD (remastered/papersleeve) (Sony Records Int'l Japan MHCP 997)

"Santana" in 2007 on Limited Edition Original Master Recording CD (gold/remastered/numbered) (Columbia/MFSL USA UDCD 773)

"Santana" on Jan 22, 2008 on Original Master Recording CD (gold) (Mobile Fidelity Koch USA) *

"Santana" on March 6, 2013 on BSCD2 (remastered) (Sony Records Int'l Japan SICP 30050)

"Santana" in 2016 on Limited Edition Original Master Recording SACD (remastered/numbered) (Columbia/MFSL USA UDSACD 2151)

"Santana" on April 12, 2017 on Guitar Legend Series CD (Sony Records Int'l Japan SICP-5331)

"Santana" on Sept 23, 2020 on Limited Edition SACD (quad/remastered/papersleeve mini LP) (Sony Records Int’l Japan SICP 10134)

Side 1: 1. Waiting (4:02) - 2. Evil Ways (3:56) - 3. Shades Of Time (3:16) - 4. Savor (2:46) - 5. JinGoLoBa (4:18)

Side 2: 1. Persuasion (2.33) - 2. Treat (4:42) - 3. You Just Don't Care (4:35) - 4. Soul Sacrifice (6:37)

Musicians: Carlos Santana, Jose "Chepito" Areas, David Brown, Michael Carabello, Gregg Rolie, Michael Shrieve

Recorded: Pacific Recording, San Mateo, CA May 4-8, 1969

Note:

* features three extra tracks from Woodstock Music & Art Fair. Bethel, NY Aug 16, 1969: Savor (5:27) - Soul Sacrifice (11:39) - Fried Neckbones (7:13).

** features the following extra tracks: Disc 1: Savor (alternate take #2) (2:56) - Soul Sacrifice (alternate take #4) (8:48) - Studio Jam (7:09). Disc 2: 1. Fried Neckbones And Some Home Fries (7:40) - 2. Soul Sacrifice (9:04) - 3. Persuasion (3:50) - 4. Treat (6:48) - 5. Shades Of Times (2:26) - 6. Jingo (5:15) - 7. Waiting (4:44) (Woodstock Music & Art Fair. Bethel, NY Aug 16, 1969) - 8. You Just Don't Care (4:56) (Woodstock Music & Art Fair. Bethel, NY Aug 16, 1969) - 9. Savor (5:25) (Woodstock Music & Art Fair. Bethel, NY Aug 16, 1969) - 10. Jingo (5:14) (Woodstock Music & Art Fair. Bethel, NY Aug 16, 1969) - 11. Persuasion (3:05) (Woodstock Music & Art Fair. Bethel, NY Aug 16, 1969) - 12. Soul Sacrifice (11:49) (Woodstock Music & Art Fair. Bethel, NY Aug 16, 1969) - 13. Fried Neckbones And Some Home Fries (7:13) (Woodstock Music & Art Fair. Bethel, NY Aug 16, 1969).

Quote from Dick Dixon (Oct 8, 2023): Even though artist Lee Conklin has been creating poster art for over 50 years, he may be most known for the image used on the cover of Santana's first album. What many people don't realize is that the album cover was actually the second time he'd drawn that image, and it was slightly different from the first one which had been done a year earlier to promote shows at the Fillmore on Aug 27-28-29, 1968. It was shortly after these concerts that Lee got a visit from Carlos and David Brown, who both told him they wanted to use the picture for the first Lp, so he redrew it and changed it just slightly. He added more detail to the faces, figures and surrounding area and even found room to add an extra face into the design. The album version was later used for posters advertising shows in 1970. When I spoke with the artist in the 90s, he didn’t recall giving permission for that image to be used for any concert posters, but Bill Graham being Bill Graham, well you know...

🎫 Aug 31 Sun: Texas International Pop Festival. Dallas International Motor Speedway, Lewisville, TX

Incomplete: Evil Ways - You Just Don't Care - Savor - Jingo - Persuasion - Soul Sacrifice

🎫 Sept 1 Mon: New Orleans Pop-Festival. Louisiana International Speedway, Gonzales, LA

🎫 Sept 3 Wed: Welsh Auditorium, Grands Rapids, MI

🎫 Sept 4 Thu: Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA

Incomplete: Evil Ways - Treat - Shades Of Time - Savor/Jingo - Gumbo

Note: Set list might also be from Sept 5, 1969 or Sept 6, 1969 or Sept 7, 1969.

🎫 Sept 5 Fri: Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA

🎫 Sept 6 Sat: Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA

🎫 Sept 7 Sun: Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA

🎫 Sept 9 Tue: St. Louis, MO

🎫 Sept 10 Wed: Kansas City, MO

🎫 Sept 11 Thu: Omaha, NE

🎫 Sept 13 Sat: Memorial Auditorium, Sacramento, CA

🎫 Sept 20 Sat: Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, CA

🎫 Sept 26 Fri: Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, San Jose, CA

🎫 Sept 27 Sat: Santa Rosa Fairgrounds, Santa Rosa, CA

🎫 Oct 1 Wed: Oakland Auditorium Theatre, Oakland, CA

🎫 Oct 1 Wed: Grape Workers Strike Benefit. Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA

🎫 Oct 2 Thu: Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA

Note: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young were forced to postpone the show after Christine Hinton (Crosby's girlfriend) was tragically killed in a car accident, thereby opening the stage to Janis Joplin and Santana who stepped in to replace them along with the original billing of Blues Image and former Lovin’ Spoonful John Sebastian. The poster had already gone to print despite the scheduling change.

🎫 Oct 3 Fri: Winterland, San Francisco, CA

🎫 Oct 4 Sat: Winterland, San Francisco, CA

🎫 Oct 4 Sat: Gold Rush Festival. Lake Amador Meadows, Lake Amador, CA

🎫 Oct 9 Thu: California State University Gym, Hayward, CA

🎫 Oct 10 Fri: Exhibit Hall, Convention Center, Fresno, CA

🎫 Oct 11 Sat: Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH

🎫 Oct 16 Thu: New City Opera House, Minneapolis, MN

🎫 Oct 17 Fri: Kinetic Playground, Chicago, IL

🎫 Oct 18 Sat: Kinetic Playground, Chicago, IL

🎫 Oct 19 Sun: Kinetic Playground, Chicago, IL

🎫 Oct 21 Tue: Ludlow Garage, Cincinnati, OH

1st show

Exact: Waiting - Evil Ways - Treat - Shades Of Time - Savor/Jingo - Persuasion

2nd show

Exact: Conquistadore Rides Again - You Just Don’t Care - Fried Neckbones And Some Home Fries - Persuasion - Soul Sacrifice - Gumbo

Note: Two shows played in the same evening. Broadcast at an unknown date on American radio.

🎫 Oct 22 Wed: Ludlow Garage, Cincinnati, OH

🎫 Oct 24 Fri: Ed Sullivan Show. New York, NY

5 min.

Exact: Persuasion (1)/Jingo (2)

Selected Formats:

(1)(2) "Viva Santana! An Intimate Conversation With Carlos Santana" on Oct 18, 1988 on VHS-NTSC (CBS Music Video Enterprises USA 19V-49007)

(1)(2) "Viva Santana! An Intimate Conversation With Carlos Santana" in 1988 on VHS-PAL (CBS Music Video Enterprises UK 01-049007-81)

(1)(2) "Viva Santana! An Intimate Conversation With Carlos Santana" in 1988 on VHS-SECAM (CBS Music Video Enterprises France 01-049007-83)

(1)(2) "Viva Santana! An Intimate Conversation With Carlos Santana" in 1988 on LD-NTSC (CBS Music Video Enterprises Japan 42LP 115)

(1)(2) "Viva Santana! An Intimate Conversation With Carlos Santana" in 1989 on LD-NTSC (CBS Music Video Enterprises USA ID6333CB)

(1)(2) "Viva Santana! An Intimate Conversation With Carlos Santana" on Sept 12, 2006 on DVD-R1 (CBS Music Video Enterprises USA 82876 89534 9)

(1)(2) "Viva Santana! An Intimate Conversation With Carlos Santana" in 2006 on DVD-R2 (CBS Music Video Enterprises Europe 88697355669)

(1)(2) "Viva Santana!” on March 25, 2009 on 2CD + DVD-R2 (Sony Japan SICP 2192-4)

Note: TV show debuts. Complete performance broadcast on Oct 26, 1969 on American TV CBS.

🎫 Oct 24 Fri: East Bound Theatre, Detroit, MI

🎫 Oct 25 Sat: East Bound Theatre, Detroit, MI

🎫 Oct 31 Fri: 3rd Quaker City Jazz And Rock Festival. Convention Hall And Civic Center, Philadelphia, PA

🎫 Nov 1 Sat: 3rd Quaker City Jazz And Rock Festival. Convention Hall And Civic Center, Philadelphia, PA

🎫 Nov 2 Sun: Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, PA

🎫 Nov 5 Wed: High School Auditorium, Providence, RI

🎫 🎫 Nov 7 Fri: Fillmore East, New York, NY

Note: Two shows played in the same evening.

🎫 🎫 Nov 8 Sat: Fillmore East, New York, NY

Note: Two shows played in the same evening.

🎫 Nov 9 Sun: Some Beautiful People. Washington, DC

🎫 Nov 13 Thu: Boston Tea Party, Boston, MA

🎫 Nov 14 Fri: Boston Tea Party, Boston, MA

🎫 Nov 15 Sat: Boston Tea Party, Boston, MA

🎫 Nov 16 Sun: Franklin Pierce College, Rindge, NH

🎫 Nov 21 Fri: East Town Theatre, Romulus, MI

🎫 Nov 22 Sat: East Town Theatre, Romulus, MI

🎫 🎫 Nov 23 Sun: Pabst Theater, Milwaukee, WI

Note: Two shows played in the same evening.

🎫 Nov 26 Wed: Denver Coliseum, Denver, CO

🎫 Nov 27 Thu: Salt Palace, Salt Lake City, UT

🎫 Nov 28 Fri: Memorial Auditorium, Dallas, TX

🎫 Nov 29 Sat: Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Phoenix, AZ

🎫 Dec 6 Sat: Altamont Raceway Park, Livermore, CA

🎫 Dec 18 Thu: Winterland, San Francisco, CA

🎫 Dec 19 Fri: Winterland, San Francisco, CA

🎫 Dec 20 Sat: Winterland, San Francisco, CA

🎫 Dec 21 Sun: Winterland, San Francisco, CA

🎫 Dec 27 Sat: Miami Rock Festival. Miami-Hollywood Speedway, Pembroke Pines, FL

🎫 Dec 29 Mon: Miami Rock Festival. Miami-Hollywood Speedway, Pembroke Pines, FL

🎫 Dec 31 Wed: Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA

From San Francisco,

Please Welcome... SANTANA!

Bill Graham

© 1999 Santanamigos