Santana - 1983-05-08 - Zurich, CH (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

Santana

Hallenstadion

Zurich, Switzerland

May 8, 1983

Source: The drummer's tape

Copy: Unknown playback deck > Nakamichi Dragon w Dolby B (JL) - this cassette (gen 2) (Flex Hamilton)

Transfer: Nakamichi CR7-A w Dolby B (azimuth aligned, bias @ 70usec) > Korg MR2000-S @ 1 bit 5.6 MHz DSD

Mastering: AudioGate (24-96) > iZotope RX6 advanced > CD Wave > Korg Aqua (16-44) > TLH

Greg Walker – vocals

Carlos Santana – guitar, backing vocals, percussion

Tom Coster – Yamaha & Hammond organs, electric piano, Minimoog & string synthesizers, backing vocals

Chester D. Thompson – keyboards

Keith Jones – bass

Graham Lear – drums

Armando Peraza – congas, bongos, percussion, backing vocals

Raul Rekow – congas, bongos, percussion, backing vocals

Orestes Vilató – timbales, percussion

Disc One:

01. Rain Chant - Introduction

02. Watch Your Step

03. Nowhere to Run

04. Tales of Kilimanjaro

05. Black Magic Woman (Fleetwood Mac) / Gypsy Queen (Gábor Szabó)

06. Oye Como Va (Tito Puente)

07. Hold On (Ian Thomas)

08. Incident at Neshabur

09. Aqua Marine

[48:02]

Disc Two:

01. Reggae Jam

02. Right Now (I Know How You Feel)

03. Savor - includes conga solo

04. Jin-go-lo-ba (Babatunde Olatunji)

05. Havana Moon (Chuck Berry)

06. Soul Sacrifice - includes Drum Solo

07. Concierto de Aranjuez (Joaquín Rodrigo)

08. The World Is a Ghetto (War)

09. Soul Sacrifice - reprise

10. Open Invitation

11. She’s Not There (The Zombies)

[57:19]

Disc Three:

01. Toussaint L’overture

02. Europa (Earth's Cry, Heaven's Smile)

03. Shango

04. Mudbone Jam - with Lightning and Rain intro

05. Super Boogie

06. Hong Kong Blues (Hoagy Carmichael)

07. Shake Your Moneymaker (Elmore James)

08. People Get Ready Jam (The Impressions)

[52:05]

Total Running Time: 2 hours 37 minutes and 26 seconds

A friend of a friend lived next door to the drummer and borrowed these tapes in the 1980's and made 2 copies. Figuring that the soundman made a set for each of the band members this would be a second generation tape. The 1st generation tape supplied to the drummer looks as though it was duplicated at Automatt Studios (J card scan included). Possibly a high speed duplicator could explain where the tape artifacts mentioned below came from.

There was a continuous tone around 15.7 KHz and this was attenuated even though you can't hear up there. Small dropouts were repaired and I might have missed a few but fixed most of them.

Tape flip during "Aqua Marine" lost an unknown amount and was spliced together. Another tape flip during "Super Boogie" lost an unknown amount and was spliced together.

The same tape flips were also found on the "FM" sourced copy which traces it back to these band tapes. A bootleg CD "Swiss Chocolate" is missing the jams at the end of the show.

That boot was sourced from an analog copy given out by JL to the guys in Italy back in the 1990's.

Although those copies have been around for a while this is the first time these cassettes have been digitized.