lucky enough to have seen them back then in Fillmore East.”
Hm and let me guess you went straight and scoffed at the people next to you that were high.
I saw them in Fresno must have been about 1966 at a place called MAG.
Santana was 4th on the bill. The “Grass Roots “ were the head liner. Then a band called “Tarantula” then someone else then Sanatana.
I was playing in another band and the stage manager came up to me to say the organ player for Sanatana didn’t show and he could probably get them to let me sit in. .. Told them I didn’t know their songs so they probably wouldn’t go for it .
So watched them w out their organ player and was still blown away.... By the socialist. Ha-ha
hell no i never went straight.Lived within walking distance of the Fillmore and later CBGB’s. Lower East side was a good place to grow up back then no matter how rough it was.