Santana
The Arena
St. Louis, MO
February 14, 1973
(Previously Unreleased Low Generation Soundboard)

Transfer: Low Generation SB Tape > CDR > .wav > iZotope RX 8/ ozone 9 )(mastered) > 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:
-Incident At Neshabur: last few notes 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)

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.

Our 22nd release follows on the heels of the uncirculated Minneapolis show we released a number of weeks ago and features another previously unreleased show.

The 50th anniversary is fast approaching for Santana's St. Louis performance at The Arena.
We thought about holding this one until the anniversary but no time like the present.

It's the usual excellent performance in excellent quality, based on the source it's extremely low generation (likely 1st or a copy from a safety copy).

Included is an ad for the show and a fairly positive review that opens with the line "Santana presented last night the longest jam since Welch discovered the grape" referring to the jelly company Welch's....um ok...I wonder how long Dick Richmond held on to that line to use in a review. We also include an article about a 20 year old busted at the gate for possession sneaking in nine small bags of marijuana...shocking! The article mentions how an off-duty officer asked all "customers" at the show to open their coats...slow news day I guess.

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.

Dimers 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 and newspapers clippings (ad and show review) included...

mjk5510

Previous Releases
Weather Report 1973-09-27 Bellingham, WA
Tower Of Power 1977-02-12 San Francisco, CA
Weather Report 1983-04-14 San Francisco, CA (Master - Recorder 2)
Tower Of Power 1976-09-24 San Carlos, CA
Johnny Mathis 1988-09-09 Saratoga, CA (Master)
Santana 1972-12-03 (Early Show) Amsterdam SB (Upgrade)
Santana 1972-12-03 (Late Show) Amsterdam SB (New to Circulation)
Stomu Yamashta's Go 1977-09-26 San Francisco
Weather Report 1979-05-26 Berkeley, CA (Master)
Johnny Mathis 1989-09-21 Saratoga, CA (Master)
Pat Metheny 1998-02-14 San Francisco (Master)
Tower Of Power 1976-09-26 San Carlos, CA
Santana 1973-06-21 Anchorage, Alaska 1st Generation (Generation upgrade)
Santana 1972-12-01 Rotterdam, Netherlands (Upgrade)
Santana 1973-10-07 Caracas, Venezuela
Santana / Mahavishnu John McLaughlin 1973-09-05 Berkeley, CA (Upgrade)
Santana / Mahavishnu John McLaughlin 1973-09-01 Chicago, CA (Upgrade)
Santana / Mahavishnu John McLaughlin 1973-08-26 Saratoga Springs, NY (Upgrade)
Santana 1971-03-23 Los Angeles, CA (Upgrade-Goody Edition)
Santana 1973-07-05 Kyoto, Japan (New to Circulation)
Santana 1973-03-19 Minneapolis, MN (New to Circulation)
Santana 1973-02-14 St. Louis, MO (New to Circulation)

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