Santana - 1977-12-31 - San Francisco (FM)

Santana
1977-12-31
Cow Palace
San Francisco, CA
KSAN-FM Broadcast
224 kbps
Artwork Included

01. Dawn   
02. Zulu   
03. Let The Children Play   
04. Jugando   
05. Black Magic Woman>
06. Gypsy Queen   
07. Dance Sister Dance (Baila Mi Hermana)
08. Europa
09. Batuka
10. Savor
11. Toussaint LíOverture
12. Gitano   
13. I'll Be Waiting   
14. Soul Sacrifice   
15. She's Not There   
16. Transcendance

Santana - 1977-12-31 - San Francisco (FM)

Eddie Money’s New Year’s Eve concert at the Cow Palace, which we posted just a few hours ago, was simply the warm up for the main event. The featured attraction on December 31, 1977, 36 years ago today was the one and only Carlos Santana. In October 1977, Santana had released Moonflower, a double album that included both live tracks from their 1976 European tour and new studio material recorded in San Francisco. The disc also mixed musical styles, incorporating not only the Latin and blues-rock styles of the late 1960s and early 1970s, but also the experimental and spiritual jazz fusion sound that characterized the band's mid-1970s work. This dichotomy of styles and material, which could have resulted in an incoherent mess of an album, instead blended seamlessly to produce a critical and commercial success. The album went to # 10 on the charts and was eventually certified platinum. It would be 22 years until another Santana album accomplished both those feats, when Supernatural went to #1 on the charts and was certified as 15 times platinum in 1999. Moonflower’s studio tracks included a cover version of the Zombies' 1960s hit song, She's Not There, which was released as a single and peaked at number 27. The song was the first Santana recording to hit the Top 40 on the Billboard charts in 5 years, since No One to Depend On reached number 36 in 1972. Santana gave his cover of She’s Not There a prominent place in the set list on New Year’s Eve 1977, making it the penultimate tune of the show.