Talk:Carlos Santana

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1 Recommendation
2 Needs source
3 Article expansion
4 Ethnic Backround
5 ALBUMS
6 Hats and partial baldness
7 Brothers
8 The Essential Santana
9 Recent vandalism
10 Greatest guitarists

[edit] Recommendation

Something that isn't on the article is that Santana was violated by a man when he was living alone in Tijuana (his family was in San Francisco at the time) and that really affected him psychologically making him the man he is nowdays. For he has had many problems hes gone to therapies etc. to repair the damage that part of his life did to him.

Unless you have a reliable source, this rumor cannot be included in a bio article. Ronbo76 15:03, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Needs source

Either a source for this should be given, or it should be replaced in the article when the album appears:

Santana plans to release his latest album All That I Am on September 13, 2005, which will include guest artists Big Boi (of Outkast), Mary J. Blige, Black Eyed Peas, Los Lonely Boys, Sean Paul, Kirk Hammett (of Metallica), Khaled and Robert Randolph.

--Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 9 July 2005 09:10 (UTC)

[edit] Article expansion

I've expanded the article significantly, including pulling over material that WikiDon wrote in the Journey article that was more relevant here. But the long stretch between Love Devotion Surrender and Supernatural is still very open; somebody else with more knowledge of that period needs to fill it in. Wasted Time R 18:09, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ethnic Backround

Can someone expand on Carlos's ethnic backround, from what i've heard he has some eastern european lineage in him.

Time permitting, I am going to post new pages for all the albums & link this page into them. I've got all the main albums and a few of the compilations. I'm not going to write much of a review or notes for each album, just post the cover & track listings, if you want to write up the albums in more detail please help out ! Gungho 21:01, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Many of the albums have their own articles; I'm not keen on adding articles for every album — just for the important ones (as per the albums WikiProject). --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 10:43, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Another random note; it reads here that Santana's father was a musician. I am 90% confident that his father played the trumpet. If someone could help out with sources, or believes this to be correct, please help. Meanwhile I'm adding it anyway, so feel free to delete if you feel this isn't appropriate.

>>>>>>>according to http://www.sfmission.com/santana/earlyears.htm his father was a professional mariachi violinist--Pz

A citation is needed, really. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 10:43, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

I've taken out "bongos" from the "Percussion" heading. It's unnecessary, and besides, the bongos are secondary to any percussionist's gear. It's also worth noting that in "The Best of Santana" in the liner notes, they only refer to these musicians as playing "percussion", not "bongos". I think whoever put this in the title did so because of the common error of referring to "congas" as "bongos". Derekwriter 04:10, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

There really needs to be some mention of Graham Lear, Santana's drummer who was with him at least through Moonflower, and can be seen as a very young kid in the Woodstock footage.

Micheal Shrieve was the bands drummer at Woodstock. Lear didn't join the band until around 1977.

[edit] ALBUMS

where would Magic Rhythms (2003)& Love Songs [Holland CD](2004) go?

[edit] Hats and partial baldness

What is with the hats in the last ten years (late 90s, early 00s)? He has never appeared without a hat, even when performing indoors. Has he developed pattern baldness?

[edit] Brothers

i didn't see any refrence to the "Brothers" album. didn't he cross paths with jimmy hendrix ?

69.231.231.114 05:56, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Essential Santana

I have a compilation album that doesn't seem to be listed here. Its called _The Essential Santana_ Published in 2002 by Sony.

67.176.25.87 22:07, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Recent vandalism

wtf? musical farts?! i smell vandalism. I dont know what should be there. Someone plz get on it.

Good catch. There has been some recent vandalism on this article. Like many of 828 articles I watch, I try to protect this article as best I can. Sometimes stuff slips through and the vandals get a momentary win. I cannot read thoroughly each article but depend on readers like you who can point out errors to me that can be fixed. Thank you! Ronbo76 15:03, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Greatest guitarists

The paragraph about his placing on Rolling Stone's greatest guitarists is very confusing. On one list by Rolling Stone, he was #15, but a year later, he placed 90th on the same list? Im.a.lumberjack 16:06, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

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