John McLaughlin, Carlos Santana
Love Devotion Surrender Sessions
Unknown Studio (supposedly in California)
1973-??-??

Source-Liberated bootleg cd "Love Devotion Surrender Sessions"> CD-DA extractor WAV files> TLH WAV to Flac conversion>TLH torrent creation> TTD

John Mclaughlin-Guitars
Carlos Santana-guitars
Doug Rauch-bass
Larry Young-organ
Armando Peraza-congas
Billy Cobham-drums
Jan Hammer-drums
Mike Shrieve-drums
Don Alias-drums

D1 Trk 1- The Life Divine Instrumental Jam
D1 Trk 2- A Love Supreme (not included-seemed same as official release on LDS)
D1 Trk 3 (2)- Naima
D1 Trk 4 (3)-The Life Divine #1
D1 Trk 5 (4)-The Life Divine #2
D1 Trk 6 (5)- Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord
D2 Trk 1- Mantra
D2 Trk 2- Flame Sky
D2 Trk 3- Unknown Song #1
D2 Trk 4- Unknown Song #2
D2 Trk 5- Acoustic Jam #1
D2 Trk 6- Acoustic Jam #2
D2 Trk 7- Acoustic Jam #3
D2 Trk 8- Samba de Sausalito #1
D2 Trk 9- Samba de Sausalito #2
D2 Trk 10- Samba de Sausalito #3
D2 Trk 11- Samba de Sausalito #4


Many of the live shows that McLaughlin and Santana performed in the summer of 1973 to support the release of their Love Devotion Surrender album that year have been circulated recently. I don't know if this has ever been uploaded here, but it doesn't seem to have been here in a while.
I purchased this many years ago in a record store (remember them??) in New York's East Village. It purports to be outtakes from the sessions that produced the LDS album, and indeed there are different versions and works in progress from that project here. The version of A Love Supreme on this was virtually identical to the one on the official release, so I didn't include that for the sake of not having this banned.
What you'll hear doesn't sound pristine, but it is pretty good quality, give the time period that this emerged from. My guess is that this was dubbed a couple of times from the original studio tapes. Very little documentation on this boot, so I guessed at the personnel as being the same people that were on the official release. Some of these songs also appeared on the Santana Welcome album of the same time period, so not sure if these tracks were really being considered for LDS, or if the original bootlegger had access to some of the Welcome outtakes too.
Hope this proves to be an interesting listen. Remarkable to think that there was a time about 40 years ago when a project like this would have been awarded a Gold Record for sales, which the original Love Devotion Surrender did actually receive.
I did A/B the tracks here against the officially released LDS and, except for the unincluded A Love Supreme, all had significantly different enough lengths to make me feel they were not the officially released takes and to allow for a potentially turntable or tape deck running at too fast or slow.
Please support all of these great artists (many of whom are still with us) by purchasing their commercially released music and by going to see them live.