Santana
Salt Palace
Salt Lake City, UT
February 2, 1973
(Soundboard Upgrade)
Transfer: 1st Generation Tape (possibly 2nd from safety copy) > CDR > iZotope RX / ozone 9 > xACT 2.50 > FLAC
01 Going Home > A-1 Funk > Every Step Of The Way
02 Samba Pa Ti
03 Look Up (To See What’s Coming Down)
04 Just In Time To See The Sun
05 Incident At Neshabur
06 Bambele
07 Stone Flower
08 Batucada
09 Xibaba (She-Ba-Ba)
10 Stone Flower (Reprise)
11 Waiting
12 Castillos De Arena, Part 1 (Sand Castle)
13 Free Angela
14 Promise Of A Fisherman
15 Aranjuez
16 Mantra
17 Castillos De Arena, Part 2 (Sand Castle)
18 Earth
19 Se A Cabo
20 Savor
21 Toussaint L’Overture
Known Faults (same as currently circulating versions):
-Savor: start slightly cut
Carlos Santana (guitar/percussion/vocals)
Douglas Rauch (bass/guitar)
Michael Shrieve (drums)
Jose “Chepito” Areas (percussion)
Armando Peraza (percussion/vocals)
Tom Coster (keyboard/vocals)
Richard Kermode (keyboard)
In 2023 we kicked off series of releases from a long time West Coast taper/collector that had passed away. He transferred his extensive archives to CDR years prior to his passing and passed them on to a close friend. His friend has been involved in the Bay area music scene for the last five plus decades and understood the importance of getting these historic shows out to the collector's community. We are working closely him reviewing the shows for both unreleased and upgrades.
Our 25th release once again features a substantial upgrade to the previously circulating version and takes the 1973 Salt Lake City show to a new listening experience...very similar in quality to our previous release, the March 7th Charlotte, NC show.
The one setlist difference is this show, coming a little over a month earlier, does not feature "Kyoto".
As will all previous releases, based on the source it's likely a 1st generation (or possibly transferred from a safety copy) and there should not be any lower generation copies circulating of any of these SB's.
We've once again included newspaper ads and a couple of reviews of the show, both mention that by the end of the show the audience was less than enthusiastic with the new music and the lack of a vocalist. It is interesting reading these reviews while looking back on a 50+ year career, one review mentions "...future concerts like this one could lead Santana to an early retirement".
There are a number of folks we are indebted to for access to this exciting 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.
As always 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 continuing critical assistance!
Over the past year or so, we've unfortunately had a number of long time tapers/collectors shuffle off this mortal coil, fortunately many had the foresight to secure their archives with friends and collectors so they could be properly released and enjoyed by generations to come.
Fellow tapers and collectors 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 your hard work into circulation...no tape left behind!
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