WEBVTT - Carlos Santana: Supernatural 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:06.040 In nineteen eighty five, Carlos Sanbana played live Aid the 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:09.119 historic benefit concert that was organized to raise aid money 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:11.160 for the tragic Ethiopian famine. 0:00:11.600 --> 0:00:14.160 Dubbed the Day rock and Roll Changed the World, the 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:17.919 benefit raised over one hundred million for famine belief across 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:21.160 the pond. Acts like Queen U two and David Bowie 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:24.280 played legendary sets at Wembley Stadium. 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:28.000 On the American leg of the benefit in Philadelphia, Carlos 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:31.200 Santana played the same stage as contemporaries from his heyday 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:34.560 such as Joan Bias, Crosby Stills, Nash and Young, and 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:38.000 Eric Clapton, as well as younger artists of the day 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:40.440 like Duran, Duran and Madonna. 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:44.120 Close to ninety thousand people attended the concert, and lively 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:48.360 telecasts drew an estimated TV viewership of one point nine 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:50.120 billion worldwide. 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:54.160 This is the second era defining live show Carlos Santana 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:57.080 has played in his lifetime, and the organizer of the 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:59.480 American leg of the tour is the same promoter who 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:02.440 gave Carlo his start, Bill Graham. 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:06.480 Carlos is once again taking part in rock and roll history, 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:10.080 but while Woodstock launched him to start him, Live Aid 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:12.600 found him approaching the low point in his career. 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:16.480 I'll be honest, I didn't even know that he played 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:18.680 Live Aid, Like it just skipped my mind because I 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:19.600 only go to Queen. 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:23.920 I mean, honestly same. But I will say maybe we 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:27.640 were just not listening to the sound, just more the words. 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:31.000 I think I was just distracted by Queen all times. 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:32.520 Like if Queen's in the building, I'm not paying attention 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:36.640 to anything else. It's just what's happening. But back to Santana. 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:40.679 Santana's latest studio album at that point, nineteen eighty five 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:44.280 is Beyond Appearances, was his worst performer yet, and his 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:48.040 next three studio albums would only continue his slide down 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:48.600 the charts. 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:52.880 With Live Aid, Carlos Santana was helping heal the world 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:56.000 with his music, but the world, for the most part, 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:57.680 wasn't hearing his music. 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:01.720 But little does he know that that will all change 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:08.520 with patience and a bit of spiritual guidance. I'm your 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.240 host Lilianavoscaz. 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:15.280 And I'm Joseph Carrio and this is Becoming an Icon a. 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:17.799 Weekly podcast where we give you the rundown on how 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:21.960 today's most famous latinv stars have shaped pop culture. 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:24.040 And given the world some extra. 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.920 Leuble Sit back and get comfortable. 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:30.640 Because we are going in the only way we know how, 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:36.840 with Whenas, Buenasriesas and a lot of opinions as we 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:40.200 relive their greatest achievements on our journey to find out 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:41.959 what makes them so iconic. 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:55.200 Carlos Santana's work during the eighties may not have left 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:58.600 much of an impression on audiences, but the projects that 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.160 kept him busy were often personal to him. 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:05.079 Starting in nineteen seventy nine, Carlos worked on solo albums 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:09.440 i e. Under the name Carlos Santana rather than simply Santana. 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:13.440 Working solo allowed him to freely collaborate with artists like 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:17.680 Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Wayne Shorter. These albums saw 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:20.600 Carlos delve even further into jazz fusion. 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:24.680 He also made an excursion into text mix with nineteen 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:28.480 eighty three's Havannah Moon. The album even concludes with collaboration 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:30.800 between Carlos and his father, Jose. 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:36.800 The song Veede Tropical is a lushly orchestrated serenade from 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:39.600 an old Mexican film that Jose used to sing to 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:40.800 Carlos's mother. 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:46.720 And in nineteen eighty seven, Carlos would record Blues Versalvabod, 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:49.840 an album dedicated to his son, which would win him 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:54.120 his first ever Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.720 So while it's easy to write off the eighties as 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:01.640 a wash for Santana the band, for Carlos Santana, you 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:04.880 could say it was a decade of healing and growth. 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:07.880 He became a father and continued to engage with his 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:12.320 spirituality on his own terms, i e. Sans Guru, thank God. 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:14.560 But when it came to the band that had been 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:18.200 the vessel for Carlos's fame, Carlos was frustrated. 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:21.200 He felt that he had spent the decade trying to 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:25.400 appease his label, Columbia Records, by pursuing whichever artistic direction 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:26.680 they deemed best. 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:30.320 The synth driven, feel good pop rock of beyond Appearances, 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.720 the classic rock course correction on nineteen eighty seven's Freedom, 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:37.279 It's an era of flailing and flops. 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:40.160 So he parted ways with his record label of more 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:43.839 than twenty years and signed to Pollodor in nineteen ninety two. 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.120 But Carlos would have to say some more difficult goodbyes 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:48.400 in the early nineties. 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:51.960 His first record for the new label, Milagro, features a 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:53.840 number of tributes to the deceased. 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.960 The album features Bob Marley and Marvin Gay covers, both 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:01.320 of whom had passed away the previous day, but. 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:04.520 The most strongly felt tributes came at the very beginning 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.800 and the very end of the album. 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:11.440 Milago's first track opens with an early recording of Bill Graham, 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:15.000 Santana's long time off and on manager, introducing the band 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:18.000 on stage in the nineteen seventies. Graham had died the 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:21.760 year before Milago's release in a tragic helicopter accident on 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:23.680 the way back home from a concert. 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.359 The tracks that closes the album, Avios, is just a 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:30.720 minute and twenty seconds long, closing out an otherwise lively album. 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:32.520 It's some sad ass shit. 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:38.760 The lyrics are simply Avios, Misa, Milos, Avios Astamaniana, Goodbye, 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:42.520 my friends, Goodbye until Tomorrow. It closes with the sample 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:46.919 of Miles Davis playing the saxophone. Davis, another hero of Carlos's, 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:49.719 had passed away within a month of Bill Graham. 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:52.200 I mean it was really sad. I felt like it 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:54.720 just opens up very emotional and to take it all 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:56.120 the way to the end. It's just kind of like 0:05:56.520 --> 0:06:00.120 turbulent or something. I don't know, it's it can speak 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:03.280 to you if you're there mentally, and especially if you've 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:10.200 had a little microdoser too. I love you. Unfortunately, Mila 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:13.359 gru was Santana's first album to fail to crack the 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:16.760 top one hundred on Billboard. After that blow, the band 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:18.240 took a break from recording. 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:21.880 The next release, Sacred Fire, was a live album compiled 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:25.119 from the group's live performances in Mexico. Released in nineteen 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:28.520 ninety three. The album is dedicated to another hero of Carlos's, 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:32.039 says IV Chavis, the agriculture workers rights leader who died 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:33.039 earlier that year. 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:36.359 With his heroes falling all around him, Carlos looked for 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:50.760 inspiration within and then the great beyond. Okay, Leana, question 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:55.279 for the ask away, if you could pick one deceased, 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:58.720 famous person, artist, whoever to have a conversation with for 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:03.440 two hours, who would it be? Oh God, I know, 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:07.360 Oh god, you're gonna be still, thought Jerry. I thought. 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:07.719 I'm not. 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:08.080 I'm not. 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:08.480 I'm not. 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:08.880 I'm not. 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:11.280 I'm not, I'm not. I'm really not. I actually would 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:18.400 really love to speak with Carl Lagerfeld, whoa only because 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:22.720 it's interesting how the people that have run Chanelle have 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:29.520 so much controversy around them, including Coco herself. There's a 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:33.160 lot of fodder and and rumor, and I just find 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:35.640 him so fascinating And he was always on my bucket 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:37.840 list of people that I thought I would interview in 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.040 my lifetime, just because I've had the opportunity to interview 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:42.840 so many incredible designers and I never got a chance 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:45.840 to interview Karl. And I think that if I got 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.320 two hours with Carl, I'd probably never forget the two 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:49.480 hours of the rest of my life. 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:51.560 For the rest of your life. 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:55.160 So that's just like a famous designer, less of like 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:58.400 a you know, global icon luminary, but just somebody very 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:01.800 niche to me, who I think is just fascinating and 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:05.239 also quite scary. So it would be a really interesting 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:07.600 challenge on a personal level as well. What about you? 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.920 I love that answer so much. Mine is just because 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:12.920 this is the very first person that I you know, 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.320 I never wanted to be a celebrity makeup artist. It 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.559 just kind of happened. But someone that I really wanted 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:19.920 to work with my whole life just because it's who 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:21.920 I looked up to. It was Brittany Murphy. 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:23.120 Oh my god. 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:27.200 I wanted to be a celebrity makeup artist just so 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:31.280 I can fucking do Brittany Murphy's makeup. That's all. That's 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:34.319 all I wanted. I moved to New York and boom wow. 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:36.480 I just want to chat with her. I just want 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:39.240 to chat with her about her life, like I want 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:40.680 to get to know her. And I have no idea, 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:42.760 you know why. I was so so so drawn to her, 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:46.319 And everyone's like, out of anyone, I've just what happened 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:47.280 to Brittany Murphy? 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.320 Well, ansoy energetically, you're just attracted to who you were 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:50.920 attracted to. 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:54.679 I mean, yeah, okay, Well, Leleana, what if I told 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:58.720 you that on Carlos Santana's fifty second birthday he was 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:03.280 visited by the coast of Miles Davis for two hours? 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:08.960 I would say, can ghosts actually play instruments? Like did 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:12.640 Miles Davis have a little trumpet? Was there trumpet in 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:14.880 the room? Like why is he showing up if there's 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:15.520 not a trumpet? 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:18.800 But I think he was celebrating his fifty second birthday 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:21.080 as Santana. Would you know what I'm saying. 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:23.560 I'm saying true, true, true. 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:26.200 Well, according to Carlos, the two of them just hung 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:27.320 out and chatted. 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:32.360 Okay, gotcha. Yes, I believe in a way that Carlos 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:35.840 could have spoken to Miles Davis for two hours on 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:36.400 his birthday. 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:40.040 But do you believe it was actually Miles Davis? 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:46.640 I think that you know what, Let's just leave the 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:49.480 dead bee and get back to telling the rest of 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:50.719 the story with Santana. 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:55.600 Okay, good call. According to Carlos, Miles Davis isn't the 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:57.720 only spirit from Beyond to have paid him a visit. 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:01.160 He's also stated that spirits have win on offers he's 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:04.000 received to play for popes and presidents. 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:07.439 For all we know, he asked John Lennon and Jimmy 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:10.960 Hendrix whether he should play Live Aid. It's to say 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:15.000 Carlos takes a ton of stock in his heroes, living 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:15.800 or Dot. 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:19.360 And by the nineteen nineties, many of Carlos's biggest heroes 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:23.800 had passed on, making the spirits his most trusted advisors. 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:28.040 At his home in San Rafael, California, Carlos Santana had 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:31.840 developed a regular meditation practice and the little annex separate 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:32.720 from the main house. 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:36.760 This annex, which he dubs the church, is where Carlos 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:39.520 retreats to commune with the beyond and to play the 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:41.439 guitar without disturbing the family. 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.760 And it's where on a quiet night in nineteen ninety four, 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:49.160 Carlos enters a deep meditation and is visited by the 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:50.439 angel Metatron. 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:54.800 Medatron is an angel mentioned in Jewish and Islamic scriptures, 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:58.440 as well as in mystical practices such as Kabbala and Stuphism. 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:02.240 There's even obscure text that named Metatron as an angel 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:03.600 that led the Jews out of the. 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:07.200 Desert, and Metatron would just so happen to be the 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:11.559 figure to lead Carlos Santana out of his own creative desert. 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:16.280 As Carlos tells it, the angel delivered him a message quote, 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.480 you will be inside the radio frequency for the purpose 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:21.480 of connecting the molecules with light. 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:27.360 With this news, the angel also instructed Carlos to be patient, gracious, 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:28.600 and grateful. 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:33.160 To Carlos, Metatron's message is a clear one. He will 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.880 record a new album that will once again bring his 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:39.120 music to the radio for the purpose of connecting the 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:43.640 masses to the spiritual message he had now received and invigorated. 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:46.760 Carlos shares the news with his wife, Deborah, whom Carlos 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:49.800 credits as his most trusted business advisor at the time. 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:52.640 She encourages him to meet with the president of aris 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:54.280 To Records, Clive Davis. 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:57.600 Clive Davis just so happens to be the same executive 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.640 who signed Santana to Columbia Records back in the sas seventies. 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:05.040 Carlos feels pregnant with a masterpiece of joy in his belly. 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.360 That is a direct quote. I did not make that up. 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:09.440 I was like, wait, I know right. 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:13.600 Anyway, he cuts ties with Polydor Records and sets up 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:14.720 that meeting with Davis. 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.800 Each night leading up to the meeting, during his nightly meditation, 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:22.320 Carlos chance for Davis twenty seven times. 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:25.880 When they finally meet in a Los Angeles hotel room, 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:29.480 Clive Davis gets very close to Carlos's face and asks, 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:32.600 what does Carlos Santana want to do? 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:36.880 Carlos repeats the words of the Angel Metatron quote, I'd 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.880 like to reconnect the molecules with light and instead of 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:44.000 slamming the door in Carlos's face. Davis continues to talk 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:44.640 to Carlos. 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:48.960 Carlos convinces Davis that he isn't stuck in the sixties, 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:52.120 and Davis resolves to find hit songs that will put 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:54.080 Santana back on the radio. 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:58.000 It's a little less cut and dry than that. There's 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:02.000 competing interests from other labels and the always spandy Emi, 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:05.760 But in the end, Santana signs with Arista Records, with 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:08.480 Carlos feeling that he's in a safe hands with. 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:12.360 Davis and he's kind of right with Davis at the helm. 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:15.520 On the label side, Carlos has access to Grammy winning 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:19.120 hit makers like Casey Porter, The Dust Brothers, Dante Ross, 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:20.600 and John Gamble. 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:23.400 The approach to this new album will be a bit 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:26.560 similar to the hit making formula of the first Santana record, 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.880 half instrumentals and half radio ready pop. 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:33.520 Sings, but the radio environment of the late nineties means 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:37.479 that these songs need recognizable vocals to become hits. 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:49.480 Enter Matchbuck twenties, Rob Thomas, do you remember, first of all, 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:51.600 I know you had it. Do you remember how big 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:56.080 of a hit this was at the time? Smooth hit. 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:58.480 It's like there's lots of hits, you know what I mean, 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:03.040 Like this thing not leave the airways. It was like 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:07.280 a complete and total earworm, Like you couldn't stop singing it, 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.640 you couldn't stop hearing it. Everyone was playing it. It's 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:13.960 also timing wise, like for me, it was like what 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:18.000 we needed at the time, like that fusion between rock 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:19.880 and la. I don't know it was. It had been 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:20.600 missing for me. 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.320 You know, it's funny you say that because I would 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:25.360 hear it and I would change it just because I 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.520 you know, I know, hold On, don't get kind of Santana. 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:31.280 I love you, but I just didn't like how it started, 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:35.040 Like I don't like the very loud, long beginnings of 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:38.160 those songs. But while that was going on, do you 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:42.400 remember the timeframe I was listening to like No Scrubs, 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:46.960 I was listening to the Heartbreak Hotel, Like I remember 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:49.000 those songs being on at the same time that this 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:50.880 song was on, and every time I would hear it, 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:51.720 I would change it. 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.720 I mean, the late nineties for music were like such 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:57.160 a mood like these kids today. I don't know what 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:58.760 you call what you listen to, but like it was 0:14:58.800 --> 0:15:02.760 such it was such a vibes like we had no scrubs, 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:07.000 we had like Janet Jackson, like OI match, but I 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:09.440 don't know, it was just but yes, I very much 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:12.360 remember hearing this song. I remember like driving. I think 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:15.120 I graduated maybe the year before the song came out, 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:17.440 so it was like a very transitional emotional year for me, 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:20.560 and I loved it. It's like it's I considered this 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:23.760 song to be one of the songs of like the 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:25.120 soundtrack to My Life. 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:29.640 Whoa whoa fuck Okay, whoa? 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:33.040 And not only was it everywhere, but it topped the 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:36.160 charge for twelve consecutive weeks after being leaked on the 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:40.120 radio on June first, nineteen ninety nine. This was Santana's 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:45.680 very first number one single, and smooth. 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:49.360 Kicked off a parade of hit singles put Your Lights On, Maria, 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:53.720 Maria Guarason, Espinavo, Love of My Life, and Prima Venna. 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.280 And While this collection of singles featured a revolving door 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:00.040 of vocalists from Dave Matthews to White Club Show On, 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:05.040 Carlos Santana's guitar was the instantly recognizable constant. 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:08.080 Santana had been one of the defining artists of the 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:11.560 seventies and now he was helping to define the pop 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:13.880 music that closed out the nights. 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:17.600 Carlos had come of age during the Summer of Love, 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:21.120 but nineteen ninety nine was the Summer of Santana. And 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:24.400 side note, nearly two decades later, we would flash back 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:27.400 to the Summer of Santana with DJ Khaled and Rihanna's 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:31.560 Wild Thoughts, which heavily sample Santana's Madia Maria. 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:35.200 All in all, Supernatural, the album we've been talking about 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:39.400 this whole time, would reach number one in eleven countries. 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:42.680 In the US, it was number one for twelve weeks 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:46.960 straight and as of today, is fifteen times platinum and. 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:50.240 Nat the Grammy's Santana broke a record held by Michael 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:53.400 Jackson's Thriller for most awards won in a single night. 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:58.840 Supernatural one nine honors, including Album of the. 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:02.600 Year, which Carlos Santana was the first Latino to ever win. 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:06.680 Supernatural is one of the best selling albums of all 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:11.000 time worldwide full stop, at an estimated thirty million copies 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:15.440 as of today. So, if Carlos's mission was to reconnect 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:18.800 molecules with the light, and there are several trillion molecules 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:22.159 in each human body, and Santana sold thirty million copies 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:23.480 of super Natural. 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:27.119 That means that means wait, wait, wait, wait, what does 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:27.680 it mean. 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:30.080 That our boy is eating honey? 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:35.320 I think what you're trying to say is that Santana 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:38.840 had not only returned to stardom, but had multiplied his 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:42.680 stardom several times over. If Woodstock brought him to the mountaintop, 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:46.680 Supernatural sent him soaring over the Milky Way. 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:50.439 It's not for us to say whether these unfathomable heights 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:52.880 were part of the vision that was beamed to him 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:56.840 by the angel Metatron, but sufficed to say this renaissance 0:17:56.920 --> 0:18:00.359 had cemented Carlos Santana's icon status for good. 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:13.000 Santana had rocketed back to stardom off the back of 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:17.879 Savvi production and collaborations with chart topping vocalists. Carlos went 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:19.919 on to repeat this formula with his follow up to 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:22.200 Supernatural two thousand and two's Chaman. 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:26.159 Santana again topped the charts with the singles Game of 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:29.520 Love featuring Michelle Branch, We Love Her and why Don't You? 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:31.480 And I featuring Chad Kroger. 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:34.080 In fact, the majority of the track lists on the 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:37.960 album featured artists from Macy Gray to Palasi do Domingo. 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:41.840 This approach would be the defining feature for Santana's catalog 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:44.680 throughout the two thousands. 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:47.560 Ending with twenty fourteens Guarason, which features a more Latin 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:51.160 pop oriented cast of featured artists such as Lories Stefan, 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:54.720 Miguel Pipo, Romeo Santos and more. 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:58.919 As singles like Game of Love became radio mainstays, so 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:03.360 too did Carlo says unmistakable guitar sound. True to his word, 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:06.680 he had proven that he was not stuck in the sixties. 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:12.760 Instead, his guitar became one of the most characteristically distinctive 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:14.960 aspects of pop in the yants. 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:19.240 That said, if you were a longtime Santana fan, this 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:22.959 new iteration of the band may not have scratched a 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:23.840 certain itch for you. 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:27.600 Right. Michelle Branch and Chad Kroeger are great and all, 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:30.560 But think of the sweaty crowd of half a million 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:34.639 half naked music fans during Woodstock and Carlos on stage 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:36.280 with this electric snake. 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:40.359 Well, the longtimers would soon be in for a treat. 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:43.679 In twenty sixteen, Carlos would reunite with the bandmates he 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:47.359 had both Soared and Tumbled with Neil Sean, Greg Rowley, 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:50.040 Michael Schreb and Michael Carabello. 0:19:50.640 --> 0:19:53.760 The band had reunited once before, in nineteen ninety eight 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:56.040 for their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, the 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:57.880 year before Supernatural was released. 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:03.359 The band played Black Magic Woman, and in his induction speech, 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:08.200 Carlos thanked his family, his bandmates Bill Graham and Clive Davis, 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:12.040 and he gave props to his Latino musical forebears, starting 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:13.080 with Richie Vallens. 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:16.840 The band played well together, but they didn't entertain the 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:20.359 idea of recording another album. However, in the following years, 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:23.080 Neil Shown, the guitarist who joined the band as a 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:26.080 teenager and then soon left to form a Journey, repeatedly 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:27.879 ran into Carlos in the Bay Area. 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:31.080 Sean was keen on the idea of getting the band 0:20:31.160 --> 0:20:34.080 back together, and he mentioned it to Carlos each and 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:35.560 every time he saw him. 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:38.879 Carlos said that everywhere he went, Shown was there, and 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:42.960 that quote his eyes became very vulnerable, very egoists, every 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:44.080 time he mentioned the reunion. 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:50.480 One day, perhaps moved by shown sincerity, Carlos invited Sewn 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:52.480 to his rehearsal space in Las Vegas. 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:55.760 Shown thought he and Carlos were having a meeting to 0:20:55.800 --> 0:20:59.840 discuss the possible reunion, but instead he arrived to find 0:20:59.880 --> 0:21:03.160 the whole band warming up. Carlos said to him, this 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:05.320 is the meeting the reunion was on. 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:10.280 Carlos says quote. It was magical. We didn't have to 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:13.200 try to force the vibe. It was immense. The band 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:16.600 essentially picked up right where they left off, as indicated 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:19.640 by the title of the resulting album, Santana four. 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:24.040 The cover of Santana four features a psychedelic depiction of 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:27.439 a growling tiger's face, a psyched out throwback to the 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:30.840 band's debut album cover, which featured a snarling line. 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:35.200 The opening track puts us firmly in classic Santana territory 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:38.879 with the pounding drum and a call to Yamaya, the 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:40.280 mother of all Rishas. 0:21:40.880 --> 0:21:43.800 The album even features a track named after the venue 0:21:43.840 --> 0:21:47.080 where these musicians found each other, Fillmore East. 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:50.919 In a review for All Music, Tom Jurek writes, there 0:21:50.960 --> 0:21:54.320 remains a real musical connection and share joy between these players. 0:21:54.600 --> 0:21:57.840 They may not sound young, radical, or reckless, but they 0:21:57.840 --> 0:22:00.159 do come off as if they've never stopped playing and 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:09.080 discovering together. Here's the deal with going back to I 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:11.879 hate to say an ex but it's effectively an X 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:15.399 right with a band. I do think that despite whatever 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:18.520