Live under the Sky 1981
July 26, 1981

Denen Coliseum
Tokyo, Japan

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This is a seed with a story.. I had two sets of this, but they both seemed incomplete and had badly jumbled track lists .... so I called in the help of my hermano Herman, who was kind enough to snailmail me a copy of his complete disk set.

I am not sure of some tracks in the tracklist, I am not all that good in naming the songs that are not of Santana fame.. so you are all most welcome to help me out here.

Soundwise, even though this is an FM.. I wouldn't say more than VG, maybe VG+ at best. As a show.. it smokes. Personally, the incomplete sets sound better to my ears.. but I would rather offer this complete show here than two incomplete versions.

If anyone has a lot of time and wants to create something out of the three(?) sources I have here.. just pm me, I will gladly send you everything I have of this to do your magic on.

I have had to do some editing in this show, it had a few odd transfer issues where some seconds of music were transferred twice and some bad gaps. I have left a cut at the beginning of show 1/track 4 where Herbie introduces David Margen, no music is harmed by the cut, just Herbie's intro.. The track endings are still rough in one or two places, but this is the best reconstruction I can/dare to make.

Disk one/First show (69 mins)

01. unknown title (07:56)
02. unknown title (17:25)
03. Band introductions/Love theme from Spartacus (09:53) (1)(2)(3)
04. Swapan Tari (07:04) (3)(4)
05. Watermelon man/Armando Peraza/Raul Rekow/Orestes Vilato/How many more times (26:37) (3)(4)(5)(6)(7)

Musicians
Herbie Hancock
Tony Williams
Ron Carter (1)
Wynton Marsalis (2)
Carlos Santana (3)
David Margen (4)
Armando Peraza (5)
Raul Rekow (6)
Orestes Vilato (7)


Disk two/Second Show (67 mins)

01. unknown title (06:47)
02. Parade (11:05) (1)(2)(3)
03. Song For My Brother (07:38) (3)(4)(5)(6)(7) *
04. Europa (09:40) (3)(4)(5)(6)(7) *
05. Saturday Night (12:05) (3)(4)(5)(6)(7) *
06. Unknown title/Armando Peraza/Raul Rekow/Orestes Vilato (12:03) (3)(4)(5)(6)(7)
07. Armando Peraza/Raul Rekow/Orestes Vilato (cont'd)/Unknown title (08:16) (3)(4)(5)(6)(7)

Musicians:
Herbie Hancock,
Tony Williams,
Ron Carter (1)
Wynton Marsalis (2)
Carlos Santana (3)
David Margen (4)
Armando Peraza (5)
Raul Rekow (6)
Orestes Vilato (7)

Note: * 29-min. segment broadcast at an unknown date on Japanese TV NHK.

As usual, sample and graphs in the comments section.

This one goes out by request to lowellgeorge with a big thanks to the taper and my hermano Herman.

Share the gigs, support the artists and enjoy the goosebumps.

Namaste,
Alien.