Carlos Santana has praise for musical legend, Jimi Hendrix.
During his recent appearance in the In service of Podcast, Carlos Santana admitted: “The best show I saw was Jimi Hendrix Live at the Santa Clara fairgrounds.”
“I’ve seen Jimi many times, but that day was more than supernatural. It was beyond superlative,” he said about the musician.
Carlos recalled: “His canvas that day, the way he painted that guitar, was so galactic. He was incredible. He had never heard him play better, and I heard him play many times after that day. But there was something extremely extreme that day.”
“Of course, we were all in the acid, the audience you know, and he was too. But he took us to this place, so they can take us in the universe, the galaxy, and returning from a single breath. You know, we think, ‘Who is this guy?'” He went to reflect on growing in San Francisco.
He, then, revealed details about his experience of attending several concerts in the Film and described the place in his “alma mater.”
Carlos even mentioned: “I have to see the cream, Arthur Brown … I used to say: ‘I don’t have money for you, but I have to learn and you have to let me in!’
“Was [going to] Fillmore likes a sponge: it carries everything from Who, to Howlin ‘Wolf, to Steve Miller, Chuck Berry. I am still a sponge, “he concluded.
