LAMEST Santana song ever

killer tone alright......

"Migra, migra
pinche migra
déjame en paz"

Really? They ran out of ideas when they wrote this song, I guess ...

 gshrieves wrote: 
For years he played a Gibson SG—almost to the exclusion of anything else. Now he plays custom built Paul Reed Smith guitars. His signature tone, honed with the SG, has gotten fatter and hotter with the PRS...and of course a significant pedal array.

ummmm ... OH!  So this is why people like Santana so much I never really got it before (probably just heard the pop-ish songs of his on hit radio), but this is incredible.

I haven't heard this one before - had to check to see which album it was from. Kinda surprised it's "Supernatural" since it's about 1000 times better than every other song I've heard off that album.

Santana has some killer guitar tone here, and he's one of those guitarists (as opposed to someone like Keith Richards) who actually gets better the more he plays. Same licks as always? Maybe, but they sure as hell are executed a lot better and are used in the right places now. Just listen to his debut album, then something like this - it shows his growth as a musician and guitarist. Sweet stuff. 

Now THAT is some good gee-tar playin !

Holy wow. No wonder this album is called "Supernatural"!  This is great. I'd never heard it before, but I love it. Guessing it'll be one of those songs I crank up loud and dance through the house to on a rainy day.  Yum.

 goatshow wrote: 
Contact your doctor if this goes on for more than four hours.

Can't understand a word but I sure love that drum roll!

 Jelani wrote: 
i know! it doesn't have that one riff he plays in every other song. this shreds! 

Not one of their better songs. 

Wow! Finally a Santana tune I can get behind!!!
I like this pretty much.
I'm going to have to check out the original that billybob referenced.

Check out the original of this song, by Rachid Taha, called Kelma from the album "Ole Ole".  I don't know what language it's sung in, but it's good!  I don't mind the Santana version so much, but I like Rachid's better.

 fissmoll wrote:  At least he's stopped reworking old Peter Green riffs....

Make it stop

 EssexTex wrote: 

WYLD Stallyon!

well, I finally found a Santana song I like.  Nice!

I'll take this any day over the Manu Chao that played before this. (I like some of Manu Chao's stuff, just not Desaparecidio.) This at least rocks, and yes, Carlos is still playing some of the same licks he always has. Why mess with a good thing?

 crazy wrote: 

Actually, Carlos is NOT trying to live off new blood. Almost 2 decades ago, Carlos began touring as a double bill with several fantastic artists that were VERY different from his style. He did this to celebrate the talent and variety of as many artists as possible, I saw Carlos tour with Bob Dylan, Jeff Beck, and Buddy Guy to name a few. He then began songwriting collaborations and duets. You need to check out "The Healer" with John Lee Hooker. Obviously the new spark with Rob Thomas, Sara Mclachlan, and other new blood has been a huge commercial success for the last 2 albums. But did you know Eric Clapton played on one of those?  All this to say that it is Carlos Santana's vision of diversity to drive these collaborations, not desparation.

And BTW, this song was the Santana band, no new blood at all. I thought the horns were fresh in comparison to most Santana instrumentation.

get a lil tired of people ragging the "old" dude, whole album had some great stuff on it and carlos can play the guitar, alot of people have done collaborations and this was a very succesfull one, as far as anybody wanting to leave their countries for a better life I don't blame them, I live in Texas and have allways understood why they want to leave poverty and come here, its our government that has been lax on illegal immigrants, allways has been against the law but companies like cheap labor , they are the ones that should be punished   rock on Carlos

 lwilkinson wrote: 
Flag alert! Flag alert! The flags are coming out! Duck!

 Otomi wrote: 
Unless I can't translate correctly the song roughly translates as migra (expletive) migra leave me alone.

You can likely take it more than one way, but you should clean up your own country before you comment on ours.

Have a nice revolution.  Juarez lives (or we wish he had).

 michaelgmitchell wrote: 
yeah, somebody press the wayback machine button?
sooooo old school
don't think he's played a new lick since.....????
you tell me
he's livin off new blood, tryin' to hang on......... 

keller1 wrote:

EssexTex wrote:

Hadn't considered him ... I was thinking Bo Diddley.

Gimme Eddie Van Halen any day

Oh, to be a big rock star so I could I could sing with impunity, "Illegal Immigrants Suck".