While musically Santana admits, “Altamont was better,” the festival at Woodstock represented so much more to those who made the trip, often hundreds of miles, to be there. It saw Santana reach new heights both internally and externally as he channelled the experimental creativity of a new generation. Soul Sacrifice/Dont Try This at Home Lyrics: Soul Sacrifice / A love supreme / A love supreme / A love supreme / Supreme, supreme / Dont Try This at Home. A paint-by-numbers of hypnotic rock ‘n’ roll, heavy drug use, conga drums, organs and swirling guitar solos. Before its release on their album, Santana, then a largely unknown band, performed Soul Sacrifice as their closing number at Woodstock. What transpired is straight out of the swinging sixties counter-culture picture book. So I said, ‘Hey, I think I’ll take some psychedelics, and by the time I’m coming down, it’ll be time to go on stage and I’ll feel fine.’ But when I was peaking around 2 o’clock, somebody said, ‘If you don’t go on right now, you’re not gonna go on.'” He explained the situation: “When we first got there, around 11 in the morning, they told us that we weren’t going on until 8 o’clock. It wasn’t a planned experience though, the guitarist usually preferring to avoid the cerebral abyss before setting foot on stage. This is the full unedited sequence of Carlos Santana's 'Soul Sacrifice' from the Woodstock editor's cut 4hrs long movie, featuring young.
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