Santana @ South Yarmouth, MA 1981-07-04 (FM)

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Santana (edition #30)
Carlos Santana: lead guitar, percussion, vocals
Alex Ligertwood: lead vocals, rhythm guitar
Armando Peraza: percussion, vocals
Richard Baker: keyboards
Orestos Vilato: percussion, vocals
Raul Rekow: percussion, vocals
David Margen: bass
Graham Lear: drums

Cape Cod Coliseum
South Yarmouth, Mass. USA
(northern Cape Cod,
just south of the Cape Cod canal)
July 4, 1981
national live radio broadcast
performance quality: A even for Santana, this is a nice concert
recording quality: A
source: FM master broadcast tape
runtime: 106:05 (minutes/ seconds)

setlist:
1: Scott Munie radio introduction :31
2: Oedipus stage introduction > all I ever wanted 5:08
3: primera invasion > 2:14
4: searchin' 5:39 (with radio outro)
5: takes of the Kiliminjaro > 2:32
6: black magic woman > 2:56
7: gypsy queen 3:14
8: well all right 3:45
9: Europa (dedicated to John McEnroe) 7:21
10: e papa re 5:10 (with radio outro)
11: savor > 4:56
12: jingo 5:24
13: winning 4:37
14: incident at Neshabur 12:29
15: radio intro > bass jam 4:28 (the broadcast fades in after a commercial break here)
16: soul sacrifice (with drum solo) 10:59
17: radio intro > open invitation 5:26
18: she's not there > 3:29
19: dragon song (John McLaughlin) 3:54
20: the sensitive kind (dedicated to Chris Evert) 4:38
21: American gypsy (with radio outro) 7:15

if burning to disc and disc 1 is tracks 1-14
disc 1: 65:56 disc 2: 40:09
if disc 1 is tracks 1-13
disc 1: 53:27 disc 2: 52:37
either option works pretty well

lineage:
Sansui 8 reciever with wire FM antenna >
unknown cassette recorder (possibly a cheap Technics? dolby off) >
very rarely played Maxell XLII 90 min. master cassettes >
played on tascam 112 into soundforge (wav) >
flac (sb's aligned) > torrentially yours.
do not sell this national birthday party Santana recording.
share freely, losslessly and gaplessly.
And may the ZEBOP!
be with you.
(It's a nice thing to have with you.)

comments:
This is from a master recording of the original broadcast of this great show on WBCN.
I have the rebroadcast one too which has been circulated previously,
this one has not (yet), and it's not missing anything not in the original broadcast,
which had several commercial interruptions. This is not the whole show,
but it is all they broadcasted this July 4th, and it is most of the show. I think
they didn't stick till the end, that can take awhile at a Santana show, and this was
a nice tour (Zebop). Lots of songs I like in here, and not a weak song in the show
(is there ever with Santana? Sometimes yes, but I haven't heard much of that
considering how much Santana I've heard.) Santana never gets old and tired in concert.
The whole country heard this concert in 1981. It's about time the world hear it,
because this was a nice performance with alot of great songs that have fallen out of
Santana's very thick bible he calls a playlist (one of the thickest in rock related music history).
Must have been just after Wimbledon tennis tournament, since
2 of America's finest tennis players get song dedication honors from Santana here.
Not surprised to hear them do "the sensitive kind" for Evert, she's a very popular
American hero of tennis, good person and a great player, kinda thought they'd save
"winning" for McEnroe because he did alot of that around this time, and I don't think
anyone in Santana is from Europe. But it's the thought that counts,
and Santana's perpetual good intentions are in abundance yet again in this show.