Santana (with special guest Pat Metheny)
Live Aid
John F. Kennedy Stadium
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
July 13, 1985 (20:21 - 20:40 GMT)

FM broadcast recording - Speed corrected revision
Lineage for edits: FLAC > MATLAB > TLH > FLAC (L8)

Setlist:
1. Brotherhood
2. Primera Invasion
3. Open Invitation
4. By the Pool / Right Now

Running Time: 18:22

Band composition:
Carlos Santana (Guitar, Vocals, percussions)
Alex Ligertwood (Guitar, Backing Vocals)
Serling Crew (Keyboards)
Chester Thompson (Keyboards)
Alphonso Johnson (Bass)
Graham Lear (Drums)
Greg Walker (Vocals, Percussions)
Raul Rekow (Percussions)
Orestes Vilat (Percussions)
Armando Peraza (Percussions)
Special guest: Pat Metheny (Guitar Synth)


Original notes (fdpfdp):

19 minutes of the most powerful Live Aid's set (in my opinion, of course). I seed this tape recording because I've bought the
four officials Live Aid DVDs and, with my disappointment, don't contain this wonderful set (probably for legal rights). In my
memory, this was the most beautiful Live Aid's performance (with some else... few, very few... still in my opinion, of course)
with a great Pat Metheny (he plays a powerful guitar synth solo on the final part of the set). It's a FM broadcast recording
with some problem on the FM source's signal quality. Not excellent but still enjoyable. Sorry for this, but the Sony tape has
twenty years... and many many listenings!

Revision notes:
As of 2023, this set still has never been officially released - one of the only Live Aid sets you can still say that for.
Considering Live Aid was globally broadcast, there were probably better recordings made of this set but only two versions have
ever appeared on dime and this was not very difficult to fix. This is better quality than the "Global Jukebox" bootleg. The
signal quality problems that fdpfdp mentions are fairly minimal: Track 1 at 2:38-2:40, Track 2 at 0:14-0:16 are the main
issues. There is some Italian radio commentary overlaid on the live audio from Philadelphia when Santana introduces Pat
Metheny and it extends for a few seconds at the start of By the Pool.

-notch filtered ~14.9 kHz tracking signal
-speed corrected because the original audio ran very slow, starting 4.25% and ending 4.5%
-balanced channels

Originally shared by fdpfdp on Jan. 29, 2005
Revised by Ross (ledwhofloyd), Nov. 2023