Search - Santana :: Fillmore Performance: San Francisco 1968

A disappointment

11/12/2002

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Don't be fooled....This disc sounds NOWHERE NEAR as good as the Live at the Fillmore '68 double disc set - sounds like someone used a muffled cassette recorder, AFTER they had driven over it.
Too bad, because some of the cuts are good in spite of this (and would have been great on a better recording).
There are fade-outs and fade-ins; one cut is barely 1+1/2 minutes long; the voices are sometimes very faint; and the sound on much of the disc is alternately muffled and struggling with its ?swishing? quality.
Might have given 1/2, zero, or negative stars if it were possible.
Sure sounds like a bootleg-type recording."

Repackaged boot

woasdlf | Seattle, WA USA | 12/19/2003

(1 out of 5 stars)

"This recording reminds me of the white label bootleg records that were popular in the old days. I'd wager $20 that's exactly what it is - gussied up and put in a pretty package.
At least when we bought those boots we expected the sound quality to be substandard. The fildelity on this one is really horrible.
There are fade in & fade outs at unexpected places. There are bits out of the middle of songs presented as full tracks.
Tracks 1,2,3,& 4 are for completeists only.
Tracks 5, 6, & 7 are pretty clearly NOT SantanaDon't pay more than $0.50 for this disk"