Soul Sacrifice

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Soul Sacrifice, the final song of, of Santana's set

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No, they, Santana did something, Chicken Bone or something.

Yeah, Neck Bone, yeah, yeah.

Um, I was, you know, it didn't matter.

He could have played, um, you know, a fairy tale or something [laughs] or a, you know, a rhyme, uh, and everyone was still thinking about Soul Sacrifice, you know?

Yeah, uh, you know, it's sort of like where the Allman Brothers, right, always learned to close with Whipping Post.

I just used that as an intro.

No, Soul Sacrifice.

Soul Sacrifice.

Thank you.

And he played like, uh, uh...

Yeah.

Well, you know.

Yeah, Soul Sacrifice.

The band performed at the Woodstock Music and Art Festival in 1969, just before its debut album was released.

Their set, particularly the extended performance of Soul Sacrifice, introduced millions of people to Santana's combination of blistering guitar and Latin percussion.

And the timing was extraordinary.

The self-titled Santana album appeared the same month as the Woodstock performance.

The film features legendary sets from Jimi Hendrix performing his rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner, which became an iconic anti-war sentiment.

Santana performed their breakthrough performance of Soul Sacrifice.

The Who delivered Pinball Wizard, and Crosby, Stills & Nash in one of their earliest performances together.

What made Wadleigh and his team did brilliantly was use split-screen techniques to show multiple perspectives simultaneously.

To this day, Carlos says he remembers little of that legendary performance.

Six days after Woodstock on August 22, 1969, Santana released its self-titled debut album featuring Jingo, Soul Sacrifice, and Evil Ways.

You've got

to change your evil ways

But the concert itself isn't what truly launched Santana.

A documentary about Woodstock arrived in March 1970, and movie audiences were stunned by Santana's performance of Soul Sacrifice.

Suddenly, millions could see the band's furious percussion driving the performance.

The film sent listeners back to Santana's debut album.

Thank you.

From their self-titled debut album, that is Santana's Soul Sacrifice.

Before that, Cool and the Gang from the album Wild and Peaceful came out in 1973.

And life is what you make it.