Santana - 1988-05-11 - San Francisco, CA (SBD)

Santana
1988-05-11
Fillmore Auditorium
San Francisco, CA
Soundboard Recording
320 kbps
Artwork Included

01. In A Silent Way > Bailando
02. Aquatic Park                     
03. Bella                           
04. Smooth Criminal                     
05. The Healer                         
06. Super Boogie
07. Hong Kong Blues                       
08. Wonderful Combination                 
09. Kinesis                         
10. Savor                 
11. Goodness And Mercy                     
12. Black Magic Woman
13. Gypsy Queen                         
14. Oye Como Va   
15. Cloud Nine
16. Masacote
17. Mandela                           
18. Blues For Salvador                     
19. Deeper, Dig Deeper                     
20. Soul Sacrifice                   
21. Europa                       
22. Hannibal   

Santana - 1988-05-11 - San Francisco, CA (SBD)

The late 1980s were not kind to Santana.  Some 20 tears after they burst on the music scene, the band's albums barely made an impact on the Billboard charts.  Beyond Appearances, released in 1985, only went to #50, while  Freedom, rleeased in 1987, barely cracked the top 100, peaking at #95.  critical reviews of the 2 discs were just as bad.  Rolling Stone wrote that "Beyond Appearances hardly bears consideration on any level. " Allmusic wrote that "Freedom was a literal return to form, but, unfortunately, not to the quality of early Santana albums." Santana would endure another decade of commercial and critical disappointment, before the album Supernatural stunned everyone in 1999 by climbing to #1 on the charts. In the interim, unable to make any magic in the studi0, Carlos did what he did best - perform live, as evidenced in this soundboard recording from May 11, 1988, 2 dozen years ago today.