My father did not like some of my musical choices, except for Caravanserai. When he was dying and in a coma in 1989 the MD said he could still hear. We put headphones on him and played the whole tape. He was able to squeeze my hand in rhythm. He died peacefully listening to Eternal Caravan of Reincarnation. I can see and hear my dad whenever I hear this album.
@@paulconvery680 im over emotional- but your comment made me cry thinking about a similar moment with my Dad- God Bless the Music and our Sacred Family~! Thank You, Santana for helping people celebrate Life
When Caravanserai was released on October 11,1972, I just began attending San Fernando High School in San Fernando, California. Us Chicanos were extremely proud of Carlos Santana's accomplishments and when Caravanserai was released, we were blown away! Hands down! Caravanserai is Santana"s greatest album and accomplishment.
I'm 71 now, and Caravanserai remains my eternal, transformative, magical, and beautiful lover. For those who don't know, a caravanserai is a roadside inn where travelers may rest and recover from a long day's journey. Thank you Carlos and Michael.
As good as it gets, so excited to hear that Carlos and Michael are hooking up to try new explorations in music. I know it probably won’t happen, but I hope that somehow Carlos records with his Yamaha again
It IS the best Santana album - no doubt: The cricket, the acoustic bass the howling saxophone, Jobims Stone Flower and the absloute sublime Song of the wind!
@@sorendippel It's very difficult for me to pick a favorite Santana Album, song or performance. They recorded so many amazing songs. Song of the Wind is definitely in my top 10.
Thank you Michael Shrieve for briefly mentioning Doug Rauch and his brilliance.......my all time favorite bass player who died so young in 1979. May God rest his soul.
Just have to ask you then Manuel. What are those 9 other gems you would bring to that desert island. Because if Caravanserai is one of them I sure would like to know. Thank you and greetings from Knut in Norway
I became a devoted Santana fan with the Woodstock performance and the release of the first album. My love grew with Abraxas and III. When Caravanserai was released, I was completely blown away. I still am. For me, the album still sounds fresh and revelatory.
If I may I, would like to add the Barboletta album as another Spiritual journey. Promise of a fisherman also remains one of the greatest albums. Thank you Carlos, thank you Michael and all members who have contributed this wonderful and inspirational journey. Thank you from the heart.
When I was 15, I saw Santana in concert on October or November 1973. He started with the "crickets" and the first 2 pieces of Caravanserai. I went to the store the next time I had money to buy the LP and made a tape of the sequence of songs of the concert. This album is amazing. One can just thank the universe for the inspiration of the group of musicians and technicians who made it possible.. I had a stereo with 2 speakers, one on each side of my bed and used to fall asleep at night listening to this album, alternating sides every night. Now 51 years later, I still enjoy this Masterpiece (digitally) as I did it back in those days. We were waiting for something like this to come, we were ready!
There is a story here ............I came from Dublin and I attend The Bath MusicFestival in 1970.........to be honest to see Led Zeppelin and amongst the plethora of bands are Santana ........never heard of them .........but they were amazing ..........and I am am floored , amazed by Michael Shrieve ...........THANK YOU .........
My favorite Santana album, brilliant from start to finish, incredible atmosphere, creativity, musical surprises and passion throughout, a masterpiece I will always treasure!
Way ahead of it's time. It still is. If you want to hear the real Santana in terms of his guitar playing (song of the wind). You also have the outgoing Santana band and the new band. Peraza, Rauch etc. My favorite album
Incredible album. I went to a Santana concert after the Caravanserai album came out. They played the complete album. As a guitar player it was a life changing night.
Amen Tim. I never saw them play Caravanserai live, but as a guitarist of 50-years I go back to it every so often and am just as in awe as ever, or perhaps more than ever! Every one on that album played as great as ever in their life! Carlos Santana and Neal Schon play Les Paul guitars through Mesa Boogie amps. That is why I use the same combination (1979 Les Paul Custom + 1979 Mesa Boogie Mark IIB) and I feel I have by far the most beautiful tone of anyone wherever I play! Caravanserai makes the world stand still. I close my eyes. I smile. I fall in love. I get angry - why can't life be this beautiful every second for all of us! I connect to infinity. Like countless guitarists, I've covered dozens of Santana songs. At paid gigs we play the usuals - Europa, Oye Como Va, Black Magic Woman, Evil Ways, Soul Sacrifice. At jams where I have stage-mates who can groove, sometimes I lead them through "Song of the Wind." The audience LOVES it every time!
@@freeversejams Nice. I always wanted a Boogie. I have a 59 Les Paul and a 71 50 Watt Marshall through 4 x 12. Also a Schroeder hand built amp that play with tons of sustain. I live in Chicago. The band Chicago had a club in Schaumburg, IL called Beginnings. Once a moth they had a surprise guest. On one of those nights in the mid 70's we went. Standing only, no seating. I stood about 2 feet from the stage. Santana band walks out and opens with "Well Alright." They played for 3 hours without a break. Santana finally spoke to the crowd of about 200 people and said he loved small clubs, felt like he was jamming at home. They played another 90 minutes. INCREDIBLE! Been to several Santana shows. 3 times up close. My wife said seeing him close was like watching God play for her, and only her...
@@timcoughlin4107 Marshalls kill of course! Shroeder - congrats! Les Paul - magnifico!!!! You saw them play at Beginnings! What I would have given! Your wife's words - I've heard other women say that about Carlos. And - I'm not making it up - I personally know a woman that Carlos pulled from backstage and sat her in a chair on stage and played Europa to her. As you might imagine she is magnificent - refined, kind, beautiful. Great stories! Take care! My name is Albert "Al" Mora by the way.
@@timcoughlin4107 And... I was born in East Chicago, Indiana. Free Verse was founded in 1972 by players from E.C. and Gary. During the eighties and nineties FV played full-time in dozens of Chicago area clubs, nearly all in the suburbs, from Airport Lounge near O'Hare down to clubs in NW Indiana like Smugglers in Merrillville. Great times! Wonderful memories. Santana tunes were always great crowd-pleasers! Be well!
Last thing: Have you played a vintage Boogie? If you're not used to them you might not like them. They have a different touch from any other amp. For many guitar players they're way too clean even when overdrive is maxed-out. You have infinite sustain yet every infinitesimal thing you do to the string is heard. If you're not used to it, it will probably make you sound extremely-sloppy. When you're used to it, it's Heaven. Other amps sound and feel bland and generic. The Boogie retains the distinct tone of each guitar. For those reasons I don't recommend Boogies for everyone.
Carlos you are my hero, your music enriches my life. I seen you forty times and no two shows are the same. I heard you say that you played Black Magic woman a thousand and it's always new like it's the first time you ever played it. I saw you and the House of Blues in Las Vegas. It was one of the best times my life. It was like you playing in my living room. I loved you last album it introduced me to Chris Stapleton the song Joy was Spiritual. I just got tickets to the Jones Beach show on July 21st I can't believe that The Counting Crows are opening for you. God Bless You and Thanking for all you do.
Caravanserai, for me, was and is the ultimate Santana album. Don’t get me wrong, Santana has recorded some amazing albums but in my opinion this was the pinnacle. Yes, it was painted through and through with so much feeling and emotion. All the members were certainly firing on all cylinders and were bringing something new and unique to the table that we hadn’t heard before. Influences we would have never thought possible within the Santana band. Personally the warmth, feeling, emotion and energy were at their most powerful on Caravanserai. If there are to be newer projects involving Carlos and Michael, I welcome them with open arms.
Actually it was the door opening to his SPIRITUAL AWAKENING path. Barbolleta, Welcome, Oneness and several others that followed were consequences of Carvanseri taking them on the higher road..............
Outstanding interview. Caravanserai to me is the finest most delicious Latino Afro progressive rock/jazz fusion musical creation ever made. For me it's a musical journey where you embark to find your own beauty, worth and happiness. The first leg of the trilogy. Can't wait to hear what's next from Carlos and Mike. Sounds wonderful.
Totally and yes as far as the band itself goes, that exploratory journey that includes Welcome and Borboletta but even further for Carlos himself at that time there was LDS with John McLaughlin and of course Illuminations with Alice Coltrane.
I'm a old drummer and musician ! Michael Shrieve's out of body performance at WOODSTOCK to this day gives me shivers to watch ! He drove the whole song giving it the Soul Sacrifice it totally needed to cross the Finnish line and then stopped on a dime ! What a piece of work ! Thank-you so much for your dedication and sharing your other wordly talent ! ❤👍
As a brazilian and a Latin-american I'm very proud to have Jobim and Santana on a masterpiece!! Looking forward the next musical and espiritual journey....
I have been listening to Caravanserai since it came out, when I was 15, and is probably the most played LP I have, The thought of you two gentlemen bringing new music to the world is the best news I have heard in a long, long time.
Me too. It is an atmospheric album. I absolutely never get tired of it. The album version of Song of the Wind has never been bettered. Stoneflower the same.. that intro is sublime.
Michael and Carlos were brilliant on that record, Michael is such a fine musician and he has a positive effect on other musos, loved his band Spellbinder.
I will never forget the day I listened to Caravanserai for the first time. Mind opening and life changing experience! It felt like a warm hug that took me to a deeper level of consciousness.
I loved this album so much from the first time I heard it. Caravanserai was so far off the path they were on that it just pleasantly blew me away! Very hypnotic.
My favorite album of all time. I was 18 when Caravanserai came out and and I bought it. Still remember playing it first time in my upstairs room at home. From the album I discovered Antonio Carlos Jobim, Bossa Nova, Brazilian, & Latin jazz. Still playing the album 50+ years later. What a journey.
Man this album changed my life in high school and keeps me grounded somewhat. Every time i feel down i come back to this album and play guitar along with it and it lifts me. My favorite album of Santana and one of my favorites of all time.
Song of The Wind…and every tune….so much fire and energy….waves within! Gonna have to download to the ole pod….disc buried on the shelf…needs to framed while still around ..
It's funny that they brought up Antonio Carlos Jobim here in this conversation! The first thing I said to myself when I saw this interview was "Caravanserai" is to American musical history as "Wave" is to South American musical history! My two favorite all time records!
Great interview. I've been a musician my entire life and Santana has always been a huge inspiration to me - he's one of the few popular musicians that has brought a spiritual dimension to his music and by extension to the masses. He's one of the all-time great guitarists and underrated IMO. Just like no one was able to truly copy Jeff Beck, no one can copy Santana.
WOW!!! This is GREAT!!! Caravanserai is without a doubt one of THEE ALL TIME MASTERPIECES, this album is such an inspiration!!! You don't just listen to it, you experience it, as a guitarist, my guitar Brothers & I drew so much creativity from that it lasts a lifetime, thank Carlos & Michael for your gift of music from Almighty God!!! May God continue to Bless you!!!
So glad Carlos said 'World Music' and 'Divine Energy'. I'm 64 now, got the album when I was 14 in Ireland, and it infused my Being right to my Soul. There is a radio show in the UK called Desert Island Discs, where guests select 8 pieces of music to have if they were marooned. At the end of the show, they are asked if a catastrophe happened, and they could save only one piece, what would it be? My choice, if ever asked, was always Caravanserai. Love to Carlos, Michael and everybody involved in it's creation. Love to all of you too.
I got the album right away when it came out. So I’ve known this since 1972 when I was just 19 and searching for a deeper connection with God. At my departure from earth Song of the Wind will be 1 song of many played at my memorial. Thank you Santana for Caravanseri and letting me soar without wings.
I was a ninth grade student at American International School of Kabul Afghanistan in 1972 when I first heard this album. This album takes me back to that time, pre-war Afghanistan, my friends, my adolescence, when I became of age. I listened to this album while hiking the retreat trail of the English retreat from Kabul of 1842. It is transcendent. I am forever grateful for this album. Each track follows the next with increasing meaning and beauty. I listen to it weekly I am haunted by it. The best album ever produced. Thank you!
So great seeing Mike and Carlos sharing they’re deep musical philosophy,So glad to see these two reconnect. Years ago as a kid I had this crazy Idea of healing through music. I never told anyone because it was such a wired idea. Shortly after thinking that I read an interview of Carlos and saw he thinks along those lines on a stratospheric level. So he will always be like a guiding light to me.Not that I have achieved anything special.But music can obviously be healing not to necessarily grow a new leg but as small as putting you in a better mood for the night.
I feel ya! In 1977 I majored in "Music Therapy " after awhile I thought I was going nuts, especially when I thought of using guitar feedback. I dunno. Perhaps a gimmick only. But hey! It doesn't take proof that music does heal a certain way. Keep it up. Maybe you'll be the first.
I was 13 yrs old and the album blew me away. The whole album was amazing. At 13 I found some plastic buckets and flipped them upside down to create some drums to play along with the caravanserai album. I loved it
As a non-musician who can only enjoy music emotionally, this is my go-to album whenever I need to "transcend" daily life and all of its stressors. I just listened to it yesterday and re-visited Soul Sacrifice at Woodstock and then found this interview. Caravanserai brought me here and listening to the Jazz influences behind their inspirations clarifies the spirituality of their creativity. We are all blessed to have these artists in our lives!
At school as a 16 year old somebody brought Caravanserai in and put it on the hifi record player whilst we had a task to do in the vast school Hall. It went on to replay and stayed on all day. What a fabulous day that was. Exquisite, atmospheric, powerful and a wonderful departure from their excellent back catalogue at the time. I have always loved it. I am off to play it again.
After six decades of listening to music, this has been my #1 album for the past 50 years. Not for the "spiritual" orientation - which I don't subscribe to - but for the musicianship and the quality of the music.
i have worked many santana tours as a venue stage hand and as a venue stage manager. the set up for the Marathon tour with the mylar 40x40 mirror was spectacular. I loved the first albums the music, gettin stoned and figuring out the cover art but the big c really made me sit up and go ahhh. keep it up
@@jimdep6542 hey jimmy, yeah great times worked from 1970 till bout 1984 in the business .great period for real music. one of my top 5 was going to the anchor bar in buffalo for wings and then on to their war memorial to work as promotional security[ie dressing room,back stage entrance and i was lucky enough to score the sound board that night.the album they[Pink Floyd ] was touring in support of was Dark Side OF The Moon,played in quadraphonic. the first beginning of surround sound .my lungs were full of Columbian gold and my head and jaw was on the ground.great night
Listening to this album back to back with Love Devotion Surrender with Carlos and John Mclaughlin, is just a spiritual journey.... Of which none are played on a radio.... Thanks Santana for being true to your energy...
This was amoung a handful of cassettes I had on a bicycle trip with two buddies. We started in Central California and rode up the coast all the way to the Canadian border. It's the sound track of my young life and is the memory of the time of my life. To be young, free and hopefull
Caravanserai è un capolavoro assoluto, lo ascolto da 40 anni, è un magnifico viaggio, è suonato dagli dei, è un eccezionale affresco sonoro, è uno degli album più importanti della storia della musica. Pio da Genova
So happy to see this. I was on the European leg of the Caravanserai tour and NEVER since heard such wonderful music every night. Wonderful people too. Xxx
So I stumbled on caravanserai in 76 at a house in Boulder Colorado and my ears perked right up. I still listen to it regularly I never tire of it. If I had to pic one album yea it would be caravanserai Thanks !
I have an original 1972 cherished vinyl pressing from Columbia Records , it is just pure magic. Thank you Carlos and Michael and all who have contribted to this eternal masterpiece of music.
Thank you for this. I had the album back then and I revered it as a one-off experience that I could replay over and over. It is true beauty that is not appreciated by the masses, but by special lovers of musical highs.
I love driving to "Song Of The Wind" I feel like I'm flying in the wind. Great album. I've had the extreme pleasure to have seen Carlos LIVE 4 times... in 4 different decades. A True Legend. Too Cool
Me too and it is my all time favorite Santana lineup. I saw Santana several times after with different players and they never got to that level of brilliance that the "Lotus" band had.
My aunt sent me this album for Christmas when I was in college and it was a blessing out of the blue. I've always felt that music was the most direct access to the 'mystery' most people have access to. This album was a journey into that mystery that was my first real exposure to latin jazz and jazz/fusion and I will be always grateful. Thank you to all of the wonderful musicians involved. I'll send this interview to my aunt and thank her again 50 years later.
I was at the Bath Festival in 1970 to watch their great showstopping performance. Superb. All the others were good but Santana kicked ass! Michael is killer.🇬🇧🏴
Wow! Amazing... This made my day. Caravanseri is my favorite Santana record. And this program about Carlos and Mike is so magnificent. My high compliments to the Santana band. Please program's about this type of music is a must!! Thank you again. Truly from the soul and heat!!!
So glad to hear these 2 together. I first fell in love with Abraxas and Santana.. Then went out and bought the 1st 2 albums. Loved the rythme and beat and percussions as well as his guitar , and what a guitar. When Caravanserai came out I bought it..hadn't heard ! Took the album back 3 times 'cos I thought each copy was faulty !! Finally played the whole album. Still play it today.. beautiful , sensual and so so inspirational . Up there with the best of the best.. Thank you Santana
From Caravanseri, Welcome, Barboletta, and even Oneness....the spiritual fusion into the music was irresistible.....I evolved w/Carlo's music right along in SF as a dance student of similar age.....
Caravanserai - a ground breaking album and one of Santanas BEST ever albums !! Followed shortly after with 2 more career best albums - Welcome and Love Devotion & Surrender
Now that Carlos put it that way, now I can understand the religious visuals of the "Lotus Album." In 1967-1977 I was living in the Army Street Projects below San Franciscos PRECITA PARK. The Santana Band made Latin Rock (not music) basically "born there." In the projects we didn't like the term Acid Rock involving Santana. I also understand Mike Shrieve "Street Gang" because Latinos and Filipinos started to dress like you guys in the poster Inside Abraxas and Santana 3. We strut with a certain pride because of you guys. Not to mention the Mission District. I wonder if Mike and Carlos know that. Thank You Jazziz Magazine.
