Santana - 1971-05-01 - Montreux, CH (DVDfull pro-shot)

(DVDfull pro-shot)

Broadcast on "Super Pop. Montreux" at various dates on TV.

SHOW DETAILS:
Date: May 1st, 1971
Location: Montreux, Switzerland
Event: Golden Rose Festival (Rose d'Or)
Venue: Casino de Montreux

DVD ATTRIBUTES:
Menus: No
Chapters: Yes
Artwork: No
DVD Size: 4.10 GB
DVD Length: 1 hour, 6 minutes, 55 seconds

VIDEO:
Format: NTSC
Resolution: 720 x 480
Aspect: 4:3
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Bitrate: 8584 kbps
Codec: MPEG-2

AUDIO:
Sample Rate: 48 kHz
Bitrate: 384 kbps
Codec: AC3 (Dolby Digital)
Channels: 2
Streams: 1

Carlos Santana - guitar
Gregg Rolie - keyboard, vocals
Neal Schon - guitar
Michael Shrieve - drums
David Brown - bass
Michael Carabello - congas
Coke Escovedo - timbales, percussion

01. Toussaint L'Overture
02. Evil Ways
03. Jungle Strut
04. Oye Como Va
05. Savor
06. Jingo
07. Gumbo
08. Waiting
09. Jungle Strut
10. Taboo
11. Soul Sacrifice

notes by the uploader
This is a very rare Santana concert from Montreux in Switzerland in 1971. I've only seen this video available once, and I grabbed it when I did. There was not much information on it but it has some very good video of three of Journey's original members in it. Neal Schon, who was 17 years old then, Gregg Rolie, and even Journey's manager, Herbie Herbet (through the Steve Perry years and before that) are in this video a lot. Personally, I like Neal Schon's guitar playing the best.

When I got the video it had no chapters. I believe I created chapters on this DVD at the beginning of songs correctly. But even that I cannot say with 100% certainty. So if one long song, with a stopping point in the middle, picks up again sounding differently; it might be broken into two DVD chapters. But it flows flawlessly.

This is a great video of the show too. It starts out with some tape tracking issues but cleans up very quickly. And the video even gets better very soon too. It almost looks as if there were two video sources but I doubt it. I wish I knew the lineage of this DVD, but unfortunately, I never got that. I'm not sure where it came from or where to find it again (other than here and on my hard drives). The sound is great and the video is great. It's not excellent or superb, but it is definitely very good and very watchable. I'm surprised at how good it is.

One other thing I find interesting in this show is how often members of the band, besides Carlos Santana, are shown. In other "Schon & Rolie era" Santana videos I have, they barely show other band members.