It reminds me of the recording of Love’s “Forever Changes.”
The band members were strung out, so Arthur Lee went into the studio with studio musicians (”even a female bassist,” the liner notes say, not mentioning Carol Kaye), which shocked the band members into pulling themselves together.
I’d say that was probably the “Distance” Malone mentioned.
Santana told him he had to get clean for this chance.
Addicts never see themselves at fault for anything.
I watched the documentary about “The Wrecking Crew” last week on NetFlix. Lots of interview time with Carol Kaye. She was (and is) really remarkable. I had no idea that they did the studio work for Santana.
The eponymous “Santana” album came out in Aug ‘69 just as this young freshman was heading off to college. Was my first exposure to Latin / Jazz / Rock fusion. Great memories of that first effort by Sr. Santana.
That happened often back then. Check out a film called “the Wrecking Crew” on Netflix. Carol Kane is featured.
Stage bands often weren’t good enough for studio work.
I used to know a guy who was a guitarist. He told me that he was with the Commodore’s for a while. The stage guitarist couldn’t play that well, so my friend sat backstage and played the actual audio.