Carlos Santana / Mahavishnu John McLaughlinSaratoga Performing Arts Center
Saratoga Springs, NY
August 26, 1973
(Low Generation SB)
Transfer: Low Generation SB > CDR > .wav > iZotope RX 8 / ozone 9 (mastered) > xACT 2.50 > FLAC
01 Meditation
02 Flame-Sky
03 A Love Supreme
04 I'm Aware Of You
05 Love, Devotion & Surrender
06 Taurian Matador
07 Let Us Go Into The House Of The Lord
Known Faults:
-Let Us Go Into The House Of The Lord: fade in - fade out
Mahavishnu John McLaughlin: guitar
Carlos Santana: guitar
Khalid Yasin (aka Larry Young): organ
Doug Rauch: bass
Billy Cobham: drums
Armando Peraza: congas
Earlier this year we kicked off series of releases from a long time West Coast taper/collector that recently passed away. He transferred his extensive archives to CDR years prior to his passing and then passed it to a close friend. His friend has been involved in the Bay area music scene for the last five plus decades and understands the importance of getting these historic shows out to the collector's community. We are working closely reviewing the shows and researching current circulation as well as possible upgrades.
In 1973, Santana and McLaughlin had both become disciples of spiritual teacher Sri Chinmoy, this spiritual journey affected both of their musical output and they teamed up to release "Love Devotion Surrender". Though the release was met with mixed reviews at the time there was no denying it generated blistering guitar work especially on the brief tour that followed. The album and shows were not for the casual listener with songs stretching to 30 minutes.
That brings to the next and last upgrade in our series, the opening night of the tour and apparently the only playing of "Love, Devotion & Surrender", Saratoga Springs.
Our source is from a brand new source and is the from the same source as the Chicago and Berkeley releases, though it's not as dramatic an upgrade as the previous releases, it has the same wide frequency field as the previous releases and is definitely from a VERY low gen tape transfer based on the source of these shows, it should be considered a solid upgrade.
All cuts, fade-ins, fade-outs are the same.
We hope you have enjoyed revisiting these amazing shows and though this is the last of the Santana / McLaughlin LIVE shows we will do have further upgrades from the 1973 tour with a surprise or two thrown in.
There are a number of folks we are indebted to for access to this exciting new archives, the anonymous West Coast collector, may he rest in peace, his friend that had the motivation and understands the need to get these historically important shows into circulation before they were lost forever and a huge thanks to dime member 'davmar77'. He did not currently have the bandwidth to facilitate such an undertaking at this time and put us in touch...this is how dime should work.````
Big thanks to Goody, our pitch master, for his continued to support of these historic releases, he does extra duty on this series of releases helping confirm the setlists and edits, extra thanks go out to him for this critical assistance!
Over the past year or so, we've unfortunately had a number of long time tapers/collectors pass on, leaving this mortal coil, fortunately many had the foresight to secure at least a portion of their archives with friends and collectors so they could be properly released and enjoyed by generations to come.
Don't wait until it's too late to get those archives out into circulation, please get in touch, there are plenty of us here that can help get those out...no tape left behind!
Artwork is included.
