Santana
Charlotte Coliseum
Charlotte, NC
March 7, 1973
(Soundboard Upgrade)

aka: Who Put The Aspirin In Santana's Acid? (see included newspaper review)

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 > Kyoto
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):
-Waiting: end cut
-Castillos De Arena, Part 1 (Sand Castle): start cut
-Toussaint L�Overture: end 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 late 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 24th release is another substantial upgrade to the previously circulating copy and one of the best quality 1973 boards available.

Setlist matches Philadelphia, our last release, it's hiss free and has an excellent frequency range.

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.

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.

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 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!

We've included artwork and newspapers clippings including a review of the show titled "Who Put the Aspirin In Santana's Acid?" (a good title for a bootleg of this show?) and a letter to the editor about how much pot there was at the show, according to the letter writer, "...90% of the kids there were strung out on something" and "I have never in my life seen so many dope addicts".

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)
Santana 1973-02-26 Philadelphia, PA (Upgrade)
Santana 1973-03-07 Charlotte, NC (Upgrade)

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