This Skyrocketed Santana! Soul Sacrifice (Woodstock 1969) | REACTION 

Michael Schrieve's drum solo on this is one of the greatest performances in live music history.

Peace, Pot and Microdot. These guys were tripping their balls off and still performed this unbelievably perfectly! I drop acid, all I can do is laugh and watch the pretty hieroglyphics on the walls. Wow!

Hard to believe 54 years later it still shocks people who hear it for the 1st time

The girl in the glasses grooving to Carlos's guitar solo is someone's granny now. I bet she's still as cool.

That young fella on the drums is Michael Shrieve, who was all of 20 at the time! On the keys was Greg Rolie who went on to co-found Journey. Santana and his band were BLAZIN' during this performance. Carlos said that they had eaten some peyote and then were called to the stage early, ooops! They kicked ass and no one ever forgot that performance

Many reactors view a shorter version, which leaves out that awesome drum solo!! Thanks for another great reaction!! One of the best live performances of all time in my humble opinion.

I remember an interview with Santana about this set and he said that he was SUPER high, and the neck of the guitar turned into a snake and he was wrestling with it the rest of the set.

they are just pure class, seen them 3 times, one concert started with the bongo player coming on stage with all the lights on and sat down on the edge and started to play a beat, house light dimmed people started to move to the beat and then without anyone seeing the whole group was on stage and went straight into this track. they didnt stop for 40 mins then carlos said hello :) great night was had by all.

Michael Schrieve was only 17 and Carlos was 21 years old!!! Incredible! Awesome and he’s still going strong!! Concerts like this are once in a lifetime!! Miss the early concerts of rock and roll!!❤️❤️❤️

Santana is a genre all by himself , still performing

This scene burst open the doors of Rock-n-Roll to Latins everywhere! Truly ground-breaking!

And this is still a cut version. They were killing it. The drummer was playing for his life

I think this is a great performance. Gives me goosebumps every time hearing and seeing this. 🎶🎶🎶👍

Carlos is unreal and there is no denying that he is always backed by one of the best rhythm sections!!

Great song from a great group, I was born in the 60’s but too young to go to Woodstock but I listened to Santana in the 70’s, this is what you call great music

Although he's mostly noted for his fantastic guitar work (rightfully so), Carlos Santana has also been able to assemble the very best rhythm sections throughout his career.

Santana is one of those groups that seeing them four times wasn't enough.

I was 13 when Woodstock happened. I know much more about it now thanks to RU-vid. I have watched this a number of times. This feels like a message to the people.

I saw an interview with Santana where he said that during that performance he was holding the neck of his guitar really tight because he thought it was a snake and he was scared to let go! The drum solo is my fav part of this video, so freaking good and such stamina cause THAT'S a workout!

So glad you chose the version with the full drum solo. Totally nuts! 😊

I've seen them 10 times over the many years of my journey. Absolute unfettered talent.

In case you weren't aware, the young keyboard player is Gregg Rollie (original keyboard and vocalist in Journey). He played keyboard and background vocals on the "Wheel in the Sky" video that you reacted to. A couple years after Woodstock, a 17 year old Neil Schon (Journey) joined Santana. Schon and Rollie left a few years later to form Journey.

Michael Schrieve on drums was 19 years old on this. This one broke Santana on a national scale and their next album Abraxis made them a household name. Carlos Santana, what can I say? Greg Rolie on organ became a key member of Journey and did some vocals with them when Steve Perry wasn't singing.

Back in the day, any rock concert worth the price of admission had a killer, extended drum solo. And this kid didn’t have the massive kit that was common later on. He had just the basics and rocked out hard! Loved the reaction, as always. Peace …

That's when concerts were concerts. I've seen so many great artists of my day and so many of the best concerts (original Alice Cooper Band, the original lineup Pink Floyd, the original lineup Black Sabbath, VanHalen, early Judas Priest, and so on...) and the tickets ranged in price from 5.50 to 7.50 for great seats on the floor within the first 12 rows. Nowadays it's not uncommon to drop at least $75 often for nosebleeds. Even then you're not guaranteed with a lot of acts will not be lip-syncing and playing to backing tracks (and NARAS made Milli Vanilli give back their Grammy). Bands like Santana in this video killed it. They were all live. No Backing tracks. No flames or flash pans or lasers. No choreographed moves or dancers. Just a really talented band just throwing down the gauntlet live without a net. I miss those days...

BEST WOODSTOCK PERFORMANCE BY FAR, ALTHOUGH THEY WERE "TRIPPIN"😁😁😁😁

Great to see the full version thanks

This is the condensed version. The drum solo was almost 10 minutes long on it's own.

My mom once told me one of my uncles was a roadie for him for a while in the 70s. I've never asked him about it but I have a feeling he would've been trippin balls and not remember anyway 😂 He's never strayed from his Latin roots, too. It's an interesting mix of rock jazz and Latino, I feel like he brought Latino music into the mainstream. Oye Como Va and Black Magic Woman next!

Yeah, it doesn't get much better than this. This was an EXPLOSIVE performance by a previously unknown band!

Holy smokes indeed!!! I was 11 yrs old during Woodstock and lived in West Texas where everything happens 20 yrs later! So thanks for sharing I absolutely loved this! The performers where high as a kite along with the crowd yet no violence. All about peace and love and expression unlike today! Thanks for sharing! Love from Texas🤠🤠🤠❤❤❤

Their first album was only 2 weeks out from this performance. Love this, thanks!!

Amazing that the band did this when they were high as a kite. Rumor has it that they weren't expecting to go on for quite some time and did a large dose of whatever drug was being passed around at the time... then they were called to the stage early. I recall a someone told me that Santana said that the neck of his guitar appeared to him like a snake the whole time they were performing.

Thank you for doing the full version. Michael's drum solo is usually cut short.

THANK YOU for pulling the long version to review. Great reaction - I've heard and watched this countless times, and it never gets old; especially when watching someone else encounter it for the first time. Take care.

Thanks for playing the unedited, long version of this amazing performance. Michael Shrieve was 19 & had only been with Santana for a short time! He found Santana when he was 17 - 18 & became a member of this band that mainly performed in San Fransisco area ☮️ Carlos was having a great time, playing the type of music he longed to play - World Music! Marcus The Magnificent Malone on the congas white vest & beautiful Afro an original member RIP he passed on in 2021, the entire band was mesmerizing! Check out Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, CCR, and many more who were part of Woodstock. I especially love Alvin Lee & Ten Years After playing Going Home, it will drive you crazy !❤️‍🔥🔥🎸🥁😵‍💫

I've seen quite a few reactions to this performance, but this is one of the very few that includes the entire drum solo. Most others react to versions that are edited down. The crowd at Woodstock was huge, but of course most of us couldn't get there. The next spring, though, my friends and I saw the Woodstock film (several times). The Soul Sacrifice performance was one of the highlights, and that fall we were all driving around listening to Santana's "Abraxas" album on 8-track. Enjoying your reactions, and, after Baba O'Reilly, can't wait to see you hit The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again".

It's hard to believe it's a real drum solo, that's how good it is.

I was fortunate to see them in concert in the early 70's in Tampa. One of the best concerts of my lifetime. The drummer killed it in the concert. Santana came out on stage and said something like we are Santana and we've come to play. They did so almost nonstop for the next two hours.

I've seen it many many times and it always brings an emotional response for me. Such power in the music. One of the greatest live performances of all time!

I've been fortunate enough to see Santana several times and have never been disappointed. With some artists you just can't go wrong.

Takes me right back to then - I was 13 at the time. How lucky have I been to have been that age at that time? Seen 'em all come and go, and just once in a while there is a wonderful surprise of something new to get into. Currently struggling to believe how good Leonid and Friends do Chicago tracks (among others). So good in fact that a founding member of Chicago gave them space on their web site to post a concert of theirs. Not many are going to be cool enough to recognise when a new tribute is simply picking up the baton from the original carriers, but they did see it as the good thing it is for the future of the music. Long live that timeless river that is good music. Be well. 😉

The band were working at Fillmore West in general maintenance/help positions in trade for using the space for practice. Bill Grahm moved them up to being the house band and was instrumental in getting them into Woodstock. The performers at Woodstock either paid or got paid $1 for the rights to have them in the movie. Best contract they ever signed.

Santana is my favorite artist! So glad you're checking him out. His longevity speaks for itself. Surrounds himself with great talent. Have seen him over a dozen times over the years. Always a great show with a very diverse crowd. Story behind his Woodstock appearance goes that when the organizers realized that they were in way over their heads they reached out to promoter Bill Graham (Fillmore east and west fame) for help. He agreed if he could bring a new group from San Francisco with him called Santana. Result was magical! There is a lifetime of awesome music out there from this living legend. One of the greatest guitarist of all time. The feeling he puts into every note sets him apart. ( EUROPA LIVE ). Sure hope you do more doses of Carlos'. (Transcendence)

They all played like their lives depended on it...but OMG 20 year old Michael Shrieve on drums is everything.

Music is, in fact, a language. It is the tower of Babel. A unifying, international language. The musicians know the speak of it and are so emotionally linked in the process, that an underlying telepathy occurs. "The all mighty groove". When all are in their lanes, the path seems clear on which direction to go, and they have fun, enjoying the ride.

To set the record straight, Michael Shrieve was the second youngest performer at Woodstock at 20 years, 1 month and 10 days. Jocko Marcellino of Sha Na Na was 19 years, 3 months and 4 days.

Probably my favorite song from the entire Woodstock album, and movie

I love when you react to the amazing music that we had in our youth! This was and still is epic!!❤

Salvo, you can still experience the experience of seeing a good concert today, you just have to go to a classic rock concert. The vibe has to be way different than you would get at a modern music concert. There are people of ALL ages there and you don't even think about violence or any of that BS. People are there to hear the music and hopefully see the artists on stage still doing their thing 50+ years later. I went to an Alice Cooper concert right before pandemic. At the time I think he was 72, and he killed it. It was one of the best shows I've ever seen. My 1st concert was Rush in '81 at the ripe old age of 13. That's a lot of shows and this one was incredible!! Santana is still out there. I guess he's been doing a residency in Vegas for the last 7 years, I believe they said. I was 1 when Woodstock went down , so I missed out on a lot too. But these folks will not be around much longer, Salvo. Get your a** to a classic rock concert pronto! ✌🏼❤ And vlog or blog it, whatever it's called. Let us know how much fun you had and the great people you met.

Thats a hell of a way to make a living I played guitar most of my life but never played on stage And to do it tripping with that many watching I could not imagine

Woodstock. Insta-stardom for Santana, who blew three days'-worth of famous bands off the stage. The first great rock and roll drum solo. Congrats on finding the version that's uncut musically, though I do see that the video had to be tampered with, probably to avoid copyright - this WAS from the movie, after all. (A MUST-WATCH, btw.) It doesn't get much better than this.

Michael Shrieve was 20 years old when he did that solo 😁

you are of the few reactors of this song they play the entire version. I wasn't at Woodstock but saw them do this a year later in Chicago-just fantastic!

Saw Santana in Chicago in college. Outdoor venue, pouring rain. Great time.

I swear i saw that drummer play for Bob Segar live on his 1968 Ramblin Gamblin man your. He broke all the heads of the local music store rented Drums. He was very young like this dude. I'm sure it was him.

The highlight performance at Woodstock !

We have every Santana album. One of many groups adored by us. We were young then 😘

They were tripping on acid and at one point Carlos thought his guitar was a snake!!🎵🎼🎶🥁🎤🎙🎸🎹🔥🔥🔥🔥

There are people who appreciate real music who happened to be at Woodstock and those that wish that they had been there... I was only a kid in 1969 unfortunately.

Santana was also at the Texas International Pop Festival, two weeks after Woodstock. I was there. They were great, but I don't remember a performance like this! (I would have remembered!)

That drummer, Michael Shrieve, was only 19 years old, and reportedly the youngest performer at Woodstock! Also, the conga player wearing the red vest was reportedly Sheila E's father!! I was at Woodstock via a slightly unauthorized trip (I was 14 that summer), and I returned home a very different young man than before!!! 😂🤣✌️☮️

I saw the movie when it came out. Imagine the huge movie screen with the split images great sound and the theaters were actually dark . Woodstock launched a lot of bands and artist. Great rock and roll folk and even Indian music. Nobody would have known Ravi Shankar without Woodstock, at least no young rock music fans. So many great performances and only a fraction on the original movie and album.

These kids from the SF mission district took the audience on a journey... and probably left them hungering for more. It really was a new sound.

Bill Graham was huge Santana supporter and was involved with Woodstock organization and got Santana booked for a couple of grand

Ten Years After-going home-woodstock

That band is so tight!!

superb performance, saw them a few times at U.K. festivals in the late 60's early 70's.

They're all tripping their brains out!! LOL So is the crowd.

"Soul Ssacritice" was an album cut on a very successful LP, before they played at Woodstock. This, an extended jam version. You might listen to the album cut sometime, to get the feeel of both. This wildly, wonderful long . The album cut while not as long is crazy wonderful too, but a tighter polish. They are both great ! I think "Evil Ways" and "Soul Sacrifice" were the best cuts on the original vinyl LP which I bought late 60s and sitll have. It's been awhile since I heard. Your reaction was incisvive and musically literary. Thank you.

Who needs words when you can play like this.😊

Another favorite from that Woodstock 1969 is "Going Home" by 10 years after!

You know they all got up at the end of that song and just collectively thought..... FOLLOW THAT....!!! Luckily i'm a very old git and I was around for that sort of music... and you are spot on SalvoG... We used to enjoy the bands that we went to see... not to chat to everyone of go and get drinks or film stuff on ours phones (what the hell were they) instead of enjoying what we had come to see.

I’ve been through lotta concerts in my life! But this is one I did not get to see,😞 I love this performance! No Auto tuning tuning, No cake too, raw what you see is what you get! Learn the background on how he went on, then you’ll figure it out! Phenomenal!

All of the Artists in Santana on stage at Woodstock 1969 were So Connected to Perfection with Each other Just "Mesmerizing and a Phenomenal Performance!!!!!!!!" "WOW !!!!!!!!!!"

One of their hits, Black Magic Woman, was written by Peter Green, and first performed by his band Fleetwood Mac. The early Mac, pre McVie, Nicks and Buckingham, is also worth a look. For my money, Green Manalishi is the one, but they had a string of hits. Green was a magical guitarist. His guitar, aka Greenie, passed from him to Gary Moore and is now owned by Kirk Hammett of Metallica, who paid over a million dollars for it.

Michael Schrieve was one of the youngest performers at Woodstock at only 19.

You're one of two people on RU-vid I've seen react to the unedited version of this--well done.

Miss the peace and love spirit of that time in our nation's history.

That drummer was only 18 and 3 weeks or so after his senior graduation from High school in Seattle. Carlos heard him play in a night club, and even though he was still an 18-year-old kid, he got the gig as Santana's drummer. The rest is history.

We're not going on til late tonight... Let's party. Hey guys, schedule change.

Magnificent, Brilliant and Entertaining. 🎵 🎶

6 months before Woodstock, Santana played at my high school in Fremont, CA in front of 500 students. Imagine suddenly playing front of 400,000.

they racing under acid😄 Legendary performance🔥🙌

Saw him in Tampa in 1973 with Chicago about a month after Zeppelin. Yeah... we had a great time. Capt.Bob...

and do not forget either that Gregg Rolie − organ, lead vocals (1966-1972) moved on be a foundering member of Journey

you must listen to everything santana has done...all pure perfection!

Still magic after many viewings. Sound brilliant - Carlos faultless.

LOVE DEVOTION SURRENDER by Santana & John McLaughlin is such an underrated album. Please consider a reaction to the track THE LIFE DIVINE

Absolutely unreal! Have you done I'm Goin' Home by 10 Years After, also at Woodstock? Equally mind-blowing!

Carlos and the other Band members weren't supposed to go on stage until about 10 hrs. later that evening. Thinking they would be back to normal by then, they all dropped acid. A couple of the Bands booked to perform ahead of them (Santana) were stuck on the New York Interstate, which was backed up for 20 miles because of the concert. Santana went on Stage, Stoned and hallucinating out of their minds. Carlos Santana in an interview said, his guitar was turning into a snake while he was playing it. You can see by looking at their faces, how stoned they all were. This turned out to be one of the most iconic live performances of any Rock Band ever. This is just really great video footage.

Another great Woodstock performance on video is Sly and the Family Stone singing Want To Take You Higher

- So much SOUL! And, TRIPPIN' BALLZ! :)

One of my favourites!! Thanks SalvoG!!!

They started here in SF and when they played Woodstock they were Bay Area gods -they still are.

Welcome to August 16, 1969, Bethel, NY. Woodstock. It was muggy as hell, rainy, muddy, hot and humid. And then Santana took the stage and all 500,000 of us lost our collective minds.

19 year old drummer. Real music in real time. By the way, you made some excellent observations about the whole event. Peace out.

you should watch this entire movie and the canadian movie festival express. i think you would be one of the ones who can see not just feel the music.

Glad I caught this! One of my favorite performances of all time. Carlos was playing like he was tripping, which, of course, he was. He said that the guitar neck suddenly became a serpent which he was desperately trying to hold on to the entire time. Michael Shrieve, the drummer, was 20. Met him when I was a kid in '84. Just the nicest guy. One of my favorite parts of this whole thing is seeing roadie John Villanueva digging it behind Shrieve during the drum solo (7:10). John left Santana with manager Herbie Herbert, guitarist Neal Schon, and keyboardist Gregg Rolie three-and-a-half years later to form the Golden Gate Rhythm Section (who would, in short order, change its name to Journey).

It’s tough to find a totally uncut version of this performance, but i believe you came very close. To see the entire version you’ll probably have to purchase the entire Woodstock movie. Or come by my place and we’ll have a movie night.