Live At The Fillmore | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 615758
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 64860
UPC: 074646486023
EAN: 0074646486023
ASIN: B000002AD0
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Had this 2 CD set, recorded just prior to the band's Columbia debut in 1968, been released in the mid-'70s, it would have been a multi-platinum certainty. Today it's an object lesson in how time can turn white-hot acts into stone cold catalog filler. Pretty cool version of "Soul Sacrifice," though. --Jeff Bateman
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 Just listen to the music! February 18, 2004
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This review is as much for the sake of balance as my sheer love of the music on offer here. What is the point of comparing this to later, vastly different albums? This is a young, evolving, HUNGRY group of musicians, very much of their time and place (San Francisco '68), very relaxed with a receptive audience to play to (just read the liner notes). Songs such as Jingo, Treat and Soul Sacrifice were in their early stages, and have a really raw, very funky feel to them which is lost in later incarnations precisely because of the refinement and experimentation which engulfed the (much changed) group in the 70s and beyond. This never fails to get my foot tapping, or often just dancing, such is the outright grooviness and funkiness of these performances. This is Santana as you won't hear them after the 60s ended. Great stuff.
 Hugely disappointing double CD set April 30, 2001
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
Perhaps we expect too much of our heroes. Perhaps we envisage them rising from obscurity fully-formed in their brilliance with no need for an apprenticeship in honing their skills. This set focuses on 4 evenings at the Fillmore in 1968. I was expecting incandesence; I got an early incarnation of Santana learning their craft. Carlos Santana sounds like just what he was; a 20 year-old newcomer trying to find a sound of his own.The rest of the group go through the motions but there is little fire. Imagine early Beatles at the Cavern; 'Sgt. Pepper' sounds a long, long way away! Here, the live delights of 'Lotus' are yet to come. For completists and scholars of historical documents only.
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