One of the greatest and most unheralded rock drummers of all time.... Complete musician and one of the most pleasant, modest and genuine people I had the opportunity to meet and interview.... Nothing more precision-like than an early Santana live performance and Shrieve was always at the center of it...He also turned on Carlos to Miles Davis, John Coltrane and other supremely sophisticated musicians....
Saw Michael Shrieve at both Tanglewood and Fillmore East. Santana was mind blowing in every sense. Shrieve was beyond human during those shows. Interesting how he acknowledges the use, and I think it was Mescaline, since watching him at Woodstock it was obvious that the outer space music was what many during that time were using. As a Fillmore resident, 100 plus shows, it was common knowledge that the late shows, 11:30, were made for those who tripped and in fact the peak time of the performance and main group coincided with the psychedelic substances. It all came tumbling down when the hard drugs came in, soon after, and congrats to Mr. Shrieve for surviving and still thriving. I place him, humbly, as one of the top sixties musicians of its time.
wish he didn't dis his ingestion of psychedelics....that's so disloyal to himself...semper fi man ...to SELF first!love this Tanglewood solo best though
@Julie Marino Tanglewood, that year, had some amazing artists- Jetro Tull was equally awesome. The locals weren't too fond of having massive amounts of kids seeing rock concerts at their cherished venue so sadly it came to tumbling down. Sixties was a tragic time with Vietnam horrific war, lost many friends, but the music was extraordinary. Congrats to both for seeing Santana at there best!
Great Video Thanks !! Me being a new drummer in 1969 at age 15 & hearing Michael also being young & playing with Santana, blew me away, it did then & it still do...Thank You Michael for inspiring our generation with drumming, you were Bad Ass !!
I have studied Santana for years, Shrieve is probably my favorite of all the drummers, he was really playing these rhythm from the other side of the earth, I wonder if he realizes that, way ahead of the time.
@@midyearguru Interesting....in the above interview, done in 2013, Michael said he still has that kit. After so long, wonder why he decided to sell it.
Without question, Santana's Woodstock performance of the song Soul Sacrifice is one of the greatest live performances of a song ever at any time in rock history. It was shockingly fantastic & transcendent! They were an unknown band at the time playing b4 a half million people, and they brought the house down...they pretty much stole the show!
Another worldly moment in time where all the stars lined up. When my son was 17 years old I had him watch Michael's solo from Woodstock. He immediately signed up for drumming classes and shortly thereafter got schizophrenia. Drumming saved his life! Even to this day (48 yrs old) he still drums in a band and was a full time kj for 6 years. Now he has MS and drumming still is the savior. Some day I would love to meet Michael and thank him personally.
It still puts a lump in my throat every time I see the Soul Sacrifice Woodstock performance. It's like the adrenaline surge gradually increases as the song goes on. It's not just the amazing drum solo, it's the amazing drum solo to an amazing song! It's funny, I just assumed he was with Santana his entire career. Just another one of those great musical artists that kind of slipped through the cracks later on, somehow. There is also footage from a live 1971 show featuring Soul Sacrifice, which is every bit as good as the Woodstock performance. Check it out!
Santana and the Beatles got me to playing drums early i was born in 1949 also and i was going to Woodstock and all my friends backed out on me so instead i hitchedhiked out west with only a quarter in my pocket and was gone a year but later i did meet Carlos and shook hands with him and got his and most of the bands autograph's on one of his concert programs. I'm a chicano from New Mexico but grew up in the south but never lost my roots also my aunt says when she was young and dating my uncle they used to go to bars in Albuquerque and see Carlos playing, he would sneak over the border to go make money playing in the bars at 16 and then go back to Mexico.
Like so many others, I became a Santana fan after seeing Woodstock and their first two albums were great. But I agree with Michael, Caravanseria was a fabulous spiritual work of rock & soul. It is timeless and so underappreciated.
Love Shrieve’s drumming on his other projects: Stomu Yamashta’s “Go”, HSAS, his projects with Bill Frisell, Shawn Lane and Jonas Hellborg, and his solo records on CMP. spellbinder. Massive discography of varied musics.
Man 1969, a year that stood on its own. It was the right time , right space, right location and the right people and bands that placed their stamp on a generation. It was a coming together of many different forces that together did the unthinkable and for three days showed the world that they might just know what they are fighting for and that it could just possibly work. Three days of love and peace lots of rain and an all you can eat buffet of some of the best bands and music the world has ever seen. The groups were the best of the best. There was Hendrix , The Who, Alvin Lee and so many more. There were no bad performances during the festival. There were good performances as well as truely great performances. However the Woodstock festival also treated the world to some bands that rose above all others. There performances were the things that memories are made of. These select few bands had the jam of their lives and carriers. They played a set that left the audience and world in awe. A moment when time stopped and the band and the music burned an image and memory of they way they played that is forever stamped into the cosmic space time continuum. For a band that got the invite to perform really through a stroke of luck, for a band that had no national exposure, had no album, had never done anything close to this scale, a band who's guitarist was an unknown, a drummer that had only 4 drums and band members that played instrument's not normally associated with a rock band and a band with a rocking latin twist, they were just there to play fill a spot on the first day while everyone waited for the big boys. This band of brothers did not just play on that fateful day, instead they put on the show of their lives, and according to the vast majority of people who were there and those that saw the movie will swear to this day that Santana had the festivals best performance and the last number played soul sacrifice was by far the single best performance that came out if the festival. While every one now knows who Santana is what he can musically create and how he can make a guitar sing, it was the band and the drummer in particular that felt an image that will never be forgotten. They were truely a band of brothers jamming together and having fun. No one member was greater than the other and together they created a very special moment. Weather your thing was Santana's guitar playing, the base conga or the organ solos, or maybe it was the iconic drum solo that set a standard by probably the most under rated and overlooked drummer in all of rock, Santana on that day set a standard that only a few ever duplicated. While I was not there on that fateful day in that summer of such a special year, I have seen Santana twice and all I can say is WOW. Thank you guys it will never be forgotten
I was born four years after Woodstock, but Shrieve's - along with Santana's - performance on that film is as much a part of my DNA as a drummer, musician, and music lover in general as is Bonham and Peart and so many other of my favorite drummers and bands! Thanks so much or sharing this podcast. And THANK YOU Mr. Shrieve:)
Its amazing to me that what was said about "Caravansery". That was my Favorite Santana Album. There was authenticity in that album,and creativity and power.
You really hear him perk up when he begins talking about the music he's done and still doing! I love that sense of passion no matter how big or small. Thanks for the video!! 25 in tx
David Phipps - Current rock legend has changed Santana’s drug from originally being mescaline to LSD. He gets Shrieve to say it wasn’t LSD, but that’s as far as he goes. Most people probably assume it’s like wine or liquor: psychedelics! -all the same!
So many different kinds, how can you have a favorite. Although I don't remember brown? But am thinking it's what we called chocolate, and how can you not mention acid, windowpane, blotter just too name a few aww the good o'l days...
Not to pile on Mr. Shrieve but this is one of the four or five performances I remember after living many decades. I promise to listen to some of your other music. Peace.
thanks Mr Shrieve for sharing this story! what an amazing time in history - ya live and learn - AND you made it through it all !!! (thanks for posting)
The entire Santana band was electric at Woodstock. Michael Shrieve I'll never forget. I was seventeen living in the Caribbean when I saw the film. Today I'm sixty nine that film and the era stuck with me my entire life. That whole era says something about "drugs".
This is the guy the young man That changed my life when I heard Santana for the 1st time at Woodstock All I knew was the guitar the Drums We're exceptional I was hooked I love Santana. There is a new band called the warning band3 sisters from MexicoThey are all exceptional The drummer's nameIt's Paulina Pau It's her nickname What love for her to hear you play Bless you wonderful musicians Of my timeGod speed baby boomers
At the time i hated that direction.and i ameteurishly tried to meditate off that and the Mahavishnu album.I always felt so scattered from that music.i always waited for the dependable percussion & even that felt to fusion like.
Who cares about the awesome Music , (lol) Michael is so handsome. Had the biggest crush on Michael from first sight. So Hot and still is!! Watch the Woodstock clip over and over. Thank you for sharing your experience that still means so much us. KEEP THAT GOING ☮
Yeah i always noticed how they always set up on stage..the organist facing this way, Mr. Santana pacing his path, the percusion sometimes lined up in sync arms banging together, other times in front of Mr.Shrieve, other times in a circle.yeah.
esta alineacion fue la que hizo el estilo , despues han pasado muy buenos musicos por el grupo pero nunca mas sonaron igual , la dupla Jose chepiito y Michael Shrieve rock -latin IRREMPLASABLE hasta el dia de hoy
Funny, I felt exactly the same. I'm a little shocked that it was received poorly, it's such a stunning album and my favorite as well. Rollie really has some moments on there.
Some of the old band members didn't dig it, but Doug Rauch the new bass player did - in fact, he helped create that sound. The album sold well and was well received critics. Thumbs up from Rolling Stone, and Melody Maker raved about it.
+Michael Perez And I guess my point is...the world back then was so much more responsive to (and accepting of) music that was adventurous and ambitious like that.
For a moment in time those guys on that stage, playing Soul Sacrifice were engulfed by the power and magnitude of the music that was pouring from their souls. They were high on drugs and intoxicated by the sheer explosion of the moment which would catapult them into a raging culmination of the 1960's.
I've always felt rather sorry for Michael Shrieve. Imagine.........you're about nineteen years old, playing with a band that are absolutely on fire, you're tripping and you play to half a million people who are absolutely knocked out by the wonder of your performance. Where do you go from there? You have a whole lifetime in front of you - what is ever going to top that?
I'm the same Sorry Michael Shrieve! Love the Santana Woodstock performance! Nobody knew you?? I was only 10 at the time so I never knew that! Thought you were already a bit established!
Michael, my name is Mike. My Girlfriend was once at a Santana concert backstage, where one of the bandmember gave her a vynal LP. It was 1974 in San Diego California. The LP is a Reference Recording by Columbia Records and CBS. it has 3 songs on the A side and 2 on the B. It is in a white original sleeve. One of the songs on the B side is Illumination.It not a public release album. Santana was touring with Chicago at the time, she still has the backstage pass. can you give us some background on this LP, if not point us in the rignt direction? Thank you for your time.
That record was publicly released as Devadip Carlos Santana and Alice Coltrane (John’s wife) Illuminations. It was Santana and some members of his band and Alice on keyboards and Phil Brown on tamboura. If you visit a used record store it’s worth seeing for the pictures in the inner sleeve. It’s Carlos first foray into what I’d call really out there jazz. I’m pretty sure the label thought it was commercial suicide because it made Caravanserai sound downright accessible by comparison. Cool she got a test pressing! There was a string section, a full band with jazz legends Dave Holland and Jack deJohnette, Alice on organ and just a really eclectic record. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminations_(Alice_Coltrane_and_Carlos_Santana_album) for more info.
Michael seems embarassed about his forays into psychedelics. A shame, they helped him produce a legendary drum solo with an amazing band, during an epic event such as Woodstock. Fly the Freak Flag Michael! It's an honour all artists have a responsibility to do.
I'm with ya!!! We all did stupid sh#t back in the day... I know I did!!!!!Shame NO!!! it was my generation. I am not proud of all the drugs we did as teenagers!!! Was an experience of a life time. Truth!!! some of us made it... And some did not!!!! Music helps me remember all the friends during the good old days, that maybe had way to much fun. Rest in peace all of us who have loved n lost. Peace n Love
I haven't laughed so hard in months! Earlier tonight I was telling my fellas my own story of my experience with kidney stones. Nearly word for word here! Had no clue what in the hell was going on but I too thought for sure I had minutes left to live! Don't get kidney stones kids!
I'm surprised that he got so uncomfortable talking about using psychedelics. It's not like everybody already didn't know that. I guess he doesn't want his grandkids to know.
pardyhardly What it is, and I say this from experience, when you grow out of your youth, 18-30, things begin to matter, Legacy matters and having the past brought up when you are now an adult, makes all those mistakes coming back and you're left with saying, that was then, I am different now. Family knows the story because they are family. For me, I never thought I would survive the 60's but because life became more important than anything else, here I am at 68.
@@craigjgomez You are right, most things we do change as we get older but I still love that music and to some extent I like some of todays. Also instead of smoking weed 5 times a day, 7 days a week, now it is once a day, twice a week. Some things never grow old.
He said it wasn't Acid... I wonder if it was STPLSD what Jimi wrote Stars that Play with Laughing Sams Dice as a play of words on... it's more of an Amphetamine LSD type Mix apparently a really speedy Trip... I read Mitch Mitchells bio and he said that was what him and Jimi took at Woodstock Santana probably did the same
Santana were unique....and they gave it up because they were influenced by generic fusion music.....the musical equivalent of complicated wallpaper. Tragic.
I have often tried to vocalize what happened to ruin Santana after he hitched up with McGloughlin but you , plantagenant, sum it up perfectly. Tragic , complicated wallpaper that is no substitute for real music.
Charles M Actually I can play the guitar quite well....pretty good at copying santana. My point was that he started playing music that was generic and beneath him...of course that's just a matter of taste. Nothing to do with "inane stupidities "..you stupid tosser.
@@Unsung_Earth Performances by Jefferson Airplane, Canned Heat, and Janis Joplin weren't in the original movie released in 1970; their performances were added in the rereleased version of the film.
Santana se deshizo de todos sus buenos músicos que eran la base principal de sus temas..el mas limitado creo que fue el bajista..LUEGO con el cambio radical en su conjunto fue deteriorándose más y más y al punto de solo hacer vanas repeticiones de sus temas mas conocidos...una nefasta presencia en sus conciertos salvo uno que otro chispaso de TALENTO...una pérdida para los que conocemos sus inicios...
Carlos durante su evolucion personal, tuvo que enfrentar a otros musicos tan geniales como él,pero él siguió, y grabó santana ZEBOP...un excelente album, que esta llamado a ser el abraxas en siglo XXI
I watched and listened to your drumming performance at Woodstock and it immediately struck me how well you played at such a young age. When my son was thinking of playing, I saved the video and played it. His jaw just dropped, in amazement.
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Shrieve is one of rock music's most versatile and underrated drummers. His ability to compose, especially on Caravanserai, was also outstanding.
And one of the nicest guys on the planet
Couldn’t agree more 😎
I have always loved the Santana performance at Woodstock, particulatily the epic drum solo of Michael Shrieve.
Soul Sacrifice rocked the place!
Charles Leeuwenburg Agreed - it's probably the most captivating woodstock footage watching them all just jam.
Charles Leeuwenburg it was good
@@Batboy_idiot
" it's probably the most captivating woodstock footage"
That, and 10 Years After's "I'm Going Home".
@@jimpalmer792 for sure
That solo changed my life when I was 15.I'll never forget it.
Court Beall cool
same here
So you drums
Back in the day pal !!!!!! Before all the people came .🥲
One of the greatest and most unheralded rock drummers of all time.... Complete musician and one of the most pleasant, modest and genuine people I had the opportunity to meet and interview.... Nothing more precision-like than an early Santana live performance and Shrieve was always at the center of it...He also turned on Carlos to Miles Davis, John Coltrane and other supremely sophisticated musicians....
Saw Michael Shrieve at both Tanglewood and Fillmore East. Santana was mind blowing in every sense. Shrieve was beyond human during those shows. Interesting how he acknowledges the use,
and I think it was Mescaline, since watching him at Woodstock it was obvious that the outer space music was what many during that time were using. As a Fillmore resident, 100 plus shows,
it was common knowledge that the late shows, 11:30, were made for those who tripped and in fact the peak time of the performance and main group coincided with the psychedelic substances.
It all came tumbling down when the hard drugs came in, soon after, and congrats to Mr. Shrieve for surviving and still thriving. I place him, humbly, as one of the top sixties musicians of its time.
wish he didn't dis his ingestion of psychedelics....that's so disloyal to himself...semper fi man ...to SELF first!love this Tanglewood solo best though
Wow,wow,wow...Mike was an excelent music during 70´s,80´s,90´s decades.
Wow ! I think I’d give my left nut to have seen them at tanglewood or Monterey or anywhere during that period. You’re a lucky man
@Julie Marino Tanglewood, that year, had some amazing artists- Jetro Tull was equally awesome. The locals weren't too fond of having massive amounts of kids seeing rock concerts at their cherished venue so sadly it came to tumbling down. Sixties was a tragic time with Vietnam horrific war, lost many friends, but the music was extraordinary. Congrats to both for seeing Santana at there best!
It may have been the drug STP. I think I heard that.
Santana was my favorite performance at Woodstock with out a doubt!
This guy was killer in that Woodstock performance great drummer
Great Video Thanks !! Me being a new drummer in 1969 at age 15 & hearing Michael also being young & playing with Santana, blew me away, it did then & it still do...Thank You Michael for inspiring our generation with drumming, you were Bad Ass !!
Michael, I admire you bro, an amazing drummer and a very humble person you are. Sincerely, Rick Ferrusi
Soul sacrifice...Time stood still in perfect harmony...
Dr LECTER You Nailed It ! so acurate Stay All Safe
I have studied Santana for years, Shrieve is probably my favorite of all the drummers, he was really playing these rhythm from the other side of the earth, I wonder if he realizes that, way ahead of the time.
Id love to hear him talk in detail of what the 72 and 73 years were like with Santana's great " Lotus band" lineup.
My fave drummer of all time! amazing! young drummers should note his kit around the early years!.... minimal! incredible talent!!! love him!
Nelly Boltram thanks
A few years ago, a friend was brokering the sale of Michael Shrieve's silver sparkle Ludwig drums that he used at Woodstock. Sold for $60K.
@@midyearguru Interesting....in the above interview, done in 2013, Michael said he still has that kit. After so long, wonder why he decided to sell it.
@@CocoPalmsResortKauai after this video
Of course, that is the classic original set-up in modern druming. 22" 12" rack tom and a 14" or a 16"
Michael was and is a beast in the drums, a huge influence to all the latin jazz rock drummers in the world, im glad he´s alive
Thank you Michael you’re one of the reasons I love Santana music and I play the drums
Without question, Santana's Woodstock performance of the song Soul Sacrifice is one of the greatest live performances of a song ever at any time in rock history. It was shockingly fantastic & transcendent! They were an unknown band at the time playing b4 a half million people, and they brought the house down...they pretty much stole the show!
Tom I absolutely AGREE!
Another worldly moment in time where all the stars lined up. When my son was 17 years old I had him watch Michael's solo from Woodstock. He immediately signed up for drumming classes and shortly thereafter got schizophrenia. Drumming saved his life! Even to this day (48 yrs old) he still drums in a band and was a full time kj for 6 years. Now he has MS and drumming still is the savior. Some day I would love to meet Michael and thank him personally.
It still puts a lump in my throat every time I see the Soul Sacrifice Woodstock performance. It's like the adrenaline surge gradually increases as the song goes on. It's not just the amazing drum solo, it's the amazing drum solo to an amazing song! It's funny, I just assumed he was with Santana his entire career. Just another one of those great musical artists that kind of slipped through the cracks later on, somehow. There is also footage from a live 1971 show featuring Soul Sacrifice, which is every bit as good as the Woodstock performance. Check it out!
Santana and the Beatles got me to playing drums early i was born in 1949 also and i was going to Woodstock and all my friends backed out on me so instead i hitchedhiked out west with only a quarter in my pocket and was gone a year but later i did meet Carlos and shook hands with him and got his and most of the bands autograph's on one of his concert programs. I'm a chicano from New Mexico but grew up in the south but never lost my roots also my aunt says when she was young and dating my uncle they used to go to bars in Albuquerque and see Carlos playing, he would sneak over the border to go make money playing in the bars at 16 and then go back to Mexico.
Hey Chicano power ;) I haven't heard that in a long time.
Like so many others, I became a Santana fan after seeing Woodstock and their first two albums were great. But I agree with Michael, Caravanseria was a fabulous spiritual work of rock & soul. It is timeless and so underappreciated.
I can't get enough of YOUR Fantastic Drumming at Woodstock Michael; too HIGH for Life 😘
Hey i was there 50 years ago mikes solo was just awesome 👏
wow! respect man. ;)
so pleased to hear, that he still has that ludwig kit
Love Shrieve’s drumming on his other projects: Stomu Yamashta’s “Go”, HSAS, his projects with Bill Frisell, Shawn Lane and Jonas Hellborg, and his solo records on CMP. spellbinder. Massive discography of varied musics.
He's an incredibly talented musician...
Man 1969, a year that stood on its own. It was the right time , right space, right location and the right people and bands that placed their stamp on a generation. It was a coming together of many different forces that together did the unthinkable and for three days showed the world that they might just know what they are fighting for and that it could just possibly work.
Three days of love and peace lots of rain and an all you can eat buffet of some of the best bands and music the world has ever seen. The groups were the best of the best. There was Hendrix , The Who, Alvin Lee and so many more. There were no bad performances during the festival. There were good performances as well as truely great performances. However the Woodstock festival also treated the world to some bands that rose above all others. There performances were the things that memories are made of. These select few bands had the jam of their lives and carriers. They played a set that left the audience and world in awe. A moment when time stopped and the band and the music burned an image and memory of they way they played that is forever stamped into the cosmic space time continuum.
For a band that got the invite to perform really through a stroke of luck, for a band that had no national exposure, had no album, had never done anything close to this scale, a band who's guitarist was an unknown, a drummer that had only 4 drums and band members that played instrument's not normally associated with a rock band and a band with a rocking latin twist, they were just there to play fill a spot on the first day while everyone waited for the big boys.
This band of brothers did not just play on that fateful day, instead they put on the show of their lives, and according to the vast majority of people who were there and those that saw the movie will swear to this day that Santana had the festivals best performance and the last number played soul sacrifice was by far the single best performance that came out if the festival.
While every one now knows who Santana is what he can musically create and how he can make a guitar sing, it was the band and the drummer in particular that felt an image that will never be forgotten.
They were truely a band of brothers jamming together and having fun. No one member was greater than the other and together they created a very special moment. Weather your thing was Santana's guitar playing, the base conga or the organ solos, or maybe it was the iconic drum solo that set a standard by probably the most under rated and overlooked drummer in all of rock, Santana on that day set a standard that only a few ever duplicated.
While I was not there on that fateful day in that summer of such a special year, I have seen Santana twice and all I can say is WOW. Thank you guys it will never be forgotten
Caravanserai is an awesome album. I've never heard anything else like it. It's unique!
Smoked my first bowl listening to it in 86. What a ride.
I agree. Caravansari is a gem. Totally hypnotic.
Another one in this vein is Borboletta.
“Song of the Wind”….I’m having it played at my Funeral/Memorial to introduce to people who have never heard it. It’s Amazing!…SanJoséBob
I was born four years after Woodstock, but Shrieve's - along with Santana's - performance on that film is as much a part of my DNA as a drummer, musician, and music lover in general as is Bonham and Peart and so many other of my favorite drummers and bands! Thanks so much or sharing this podcast. And THANK YOU Mr. Shrieve:)
Its amazing to me that what was said about "Caravansery". That was my Favorite Santana Album. There was authenticity in that album,and creativity and power.
Yasein Brat "WavesWwithin" and "Stone Flower" both rock.
You really hear him perk up when he begins talking about the music he's done and still doing! I love that sense of passion no matter how big or small.
Thanks for the video!!
25 in tx
An amazing Woodstock video. Mike sure made that the most memorable Woodstock event.
Topspeed325 yup
Looking forward to exploring Mike Shrieve's discography post Santana now!
Even though I,m a 62 yr. old recovering addict/drummer,I dont regret tripping on mescaline in the 70s.
I don't get why one would regret it?
Court Beal my favorite was the brown mescaline!!
David Phipps - Current rock legend has changed Santana’s drug from originally being mescaline to LSD.
He gets Shrieve to say it wasn’t LSD, but that’s as far as he goes. Most people probably assume it’s like wine or liquor: psychedelics! -all the same!
So many different kinds, how can you have a favorite. Although I don't remember brown? But am thinking it's what we called chocolate, and how can you not mention acid, windowpane, blotter just too name a few aww the good o'l days...
Court Beall I remember tripping my ass off...so many times...but on this one trip I took green goddess acid ...It was superb
Unique talent once in a century. Mike was greatest talent.
Saw the movie at the theater back then. They won the crowd with that wonderful primal pulse.
Seriously, no one bested them!
Not to pile on Mr. Shrieve but this is one of the four or five performances I remember after living many decades. I promise to listen to some of your other music. Peace.
Cool !!!! Thank You !!!!
thanks Mr Shrieve for sharing this story!
what an amazing time in history - ya live and learn -
AND you made it through it all !!!
(thanks for posting)
The entire Santana band was electric at Woodstock. Michael Shrieve I'll never forget. I was seventeen living in the Caribbean when I saw the film. Today I'm sixty nine that film and the era stuck with me my entire life. That whole era says something about "drugs".
A fine record by Santana with Michael is the Welcome lp!!! A monster record!!
Such an incredible musician and a great band. One of the best ever!
Phenomenal drummer. Love his technique.
Amazing, thanks for an amazing performance!
This is the guy the young man That changed my life when I heard Santana for the 1st time at Woodstock All I knew was the guitar the Drums We're exceptional I was hooked I love Santana. There is a new band called the warning band3 sisters from MexicoThey are all exceptional The drummer's nameIt's Paulina Pau It's her nickname What love for her to hear you play Bless you wonderful musicians Of my timeGod speed baby boomers
Saw Shrieve live with Santana in Birmingham 1974. What a night
Saw them in Baltimore-'71 or '72-Michael Shrieve was amazing! Soul Sacrifice at Woodstock is the greatest performance of all time-FUHGEDABOUDIT!
Check out the same song by Santana at Tanglewood. You might change your mind
@@HamiltonRb it sure changed mine. Much better sound quality.
@@HamiltonRb I like the drum solo at the Family Dog, check that out.
The best music Santana ever made, caravanseria...:-)
Totally agree :)
Steve Saferat ,
At the time i hated that direction.and i ameteurishly tried to meditate off that and the Mahavishnu album.I always felt so scattered from that music.i always waited for the dependable percussion & even that felt to fusion like.
Good album
Steve Saferat I so agree!!! It’s my favourite recording of Santana band.
I just going to talk about your knowledge about music, but some things happen and suddenly fade away. Only to say Good bless your beautiful soul
The band that introduced "World Music" to the USA!
Yeah, Carlos Santana was inspire by the sounds of the Market (mercado) all the noise is what he was looking for his Band
don't think you have a clue how brilliant and spectacular and beautiful that performance is but there must have been so many !
Felll in love with Michael and Gregg. Jingo savor and soul are the last songs on my power walking list.
Who cares about the awesome Music , (lol) Michael is so handsome. Had the biggest crush on Michael from first sight. So Hot and still is!! Watch the Woodstock clip over and over. Thank you for sharing your experience that still means so much us. KEEP THAT GOING ☮
Yeah i always noticed how they always set up on stage..the organist facing this way, Mr. Santana pacing his path, the percusion sometimes lined up in sync arms banging together, other times in front of Mr.Shrieve, other times in a circle.yeah.
esta alineacion fue la que hizo el estilo , despues han pasado muy buenos musicos por el grupo pero nunca mas sonaron igual , la dupla Jose chepiito y Michael Shrieve rock -latin IRREMPLASABLE hasta el dia de hoy
Orestes Vilato fue tan grande como chepito...Walfredo Reyes era mas ritmico, mas adaptable al latin rock, que Michael
4:18 -- so glad to hear that he still has that kit
Love it!!!
CARLOS IS MY SOUL!!!!!!
As a drummer i also freaked out in the theater when he stopped the groove...LOL
Funny, I felt exactly the same. I'm a little shocked that it was received poorly, it's such a stunning album and my favorite as well. Rollie really has some moments on there.
Some of the old band members didn't dig it, but Doug Rauch the new bass player did - in fact, he helped create that sound. The album sold well and was well received critics. Thumbs up from Rolling Stone, and Melody Maker raved about it.
+Michael Perez And I guess my point is...the world back then was so much more responsive to (and accepting of) music that was adventurous and ambitious like that.
Truly a great show on stage, what an introduction!
you played best on acid in woodstock!!!
I saw you open for Greatful Dead at skating rink in Napa valley
The Best Drum Solo I've heard Michael play is in the Mooflower album. Recorded live in Japan.
Was no michael...the drumer was Graham Lear
@@carlosaliaga9718 Graham Lear was another first class drummer. Incredible in his own right.
For a moment in time those guys on that stage, playing Soul Sacrifice were engulfed by the power and magnitude of the music that was pouring from their souls. They were high on drugs and intoxicated by the sheer explosion of the moment which would catapult them into a raging culmination of the 1960's.
The rolling stones fueron mas toxicos que Santana band
I've always felt rather sorry for Michael Shrieve.
Imagine.........you're about nineteen years old, playing with a band that are absolutely on fire, you're tripping and you play to half a million people who are absolutely knocked out by the wonder of your performance.
Where do you go from there?
You have a whole lifetime in front of you - what is ever going to top that?
I'm the same Sorry Michael Shrieve! Love the Santana Woodstock performance! Nobody knew you?? I was only 10 at the time so I never knew that! Thought you were already a bit established!
Michael, my name is Mike. My Girlfriend was once at a Santana concert backstage, where one of the bandmember gave her a vynal LP. It was 1974 in San Diego California. The LP is a Reference Recording by Columbia Records and CBS. it has 3 songs on the A side and 2 on the B. It is in a white original sleeve. One of the songs on the B side is Illumination.It not a public release album. Santana was touring with Chicago at the time, she still has the backstage pass. can you give us some background on this LP, if not point us in the rignt direction? Thank you for your time.
That record was publicly released as Devadip Carlos Santana and Alice Coltrane (John’s wife) Illuminations. It was Santana and some members of his band and Alice on keyboards and Phil Brown on tamboura. If you visit a used record store it’s worth seeing for the pictures in the inner sleeve. It’s Carlos first foray into what I’d call really out there jazz. I’m pretty sure the label thought it was commercial suicide because it made Caravanserai sound downright accessible by comparison. Cool she got a test pressing! There was a string section, a full band with jazz legends Dave Holland and Jack deJohnette, Alice on organ and just a really eclectic record. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminations_(Alice_Coltrane_and_Carlos_Santana_album) for more info.
This guy had real game ..... ..........and on a small kit too. Still has game
Santana, Woodstock: absolute best drum solo of all time
It must be difficult to "peak" at 19 yeas old and then continually have to remember...
@@atwaterpub and the gigs at the time weren't paying much.
Michael seems embarassed about his forays into psychedelics. A shame, they helped him produce a legendary drum solo with an amazing band, during an epic event such as Woodstock. Fly the Freak Flag Michael! It's an honour all artists have a responsibility to do.
I'm with ya!!! We all did stupid sh#t back in the day... I know I did!!!!!Shame NO!!! it was my generation. I am not proud of all the drugs we did as teenagers!!! Was an experience of a life time. Truth!!! some of us made it... And some did not!!!! Music helps me remember all the friends during the good old days, that maybe had way to much fun. Rest in peace all of us who have loved n lost. Peace n Love
Still enjoy shrooms at 62.
At this point it's medicine....
@@slofootcrofoot daaaamn
Utter nonsense
@@PetraKann virgo?
Look at the tanglewood drum solo. It's about 6 minutes long.
Woodstock put them on the map !!!!♥️🙏absolutely unbelievable !!!!!! Back in the day .....................before all the people came .🥺
Mike is the best
All these comments but chepito areas made this group
I still in love with Santana 03/24/2021
He was all that on those drums
I thought Caravanserai was one of their best albums, and it had a nasty response? I need to do a little searching on this.
My VHS tape is worn thin over Michael's solo
what year was this? Olatunji was still alive!
A great drummer
El mejor baterista de santana
Cabal !!
I haven't laughed so hard in months! Earlier tonight I was telling my fellas my own story of my experience with kidney stones. Nearly word for word here! Had no clue what in the hell was going on but I too thought for sure I had minutes left to live!
Don't get kidney stones kids!
El mejor batería,,,a mí me gusta 👍
I'm surprised that he got so uncomfortable talking about using psychedelics. It's not like everybody already didn't know that. I guess he doesn't want his grandkids to know.
pardyhardly he's not a grandpa yet lol
pardyhardly What it is, and I say this from experience, when you grow out of your youth, 18-30, things begin to matter, Legacy matters and having the past brought up when you are now an adult, makes all those mistakes coming back and you're left with saying, that was then, I am different now. Family knows the story because they are family. For me, I never thought I would survive the 60's but because life became more important than anything else, here I am at 68.
@@craigjgomez You are right, most things we do change as we get older but I still love that music and to some extent I like some of todays. Also instead of smoking weed 5 times a day, 7 days a week, now it is once a day, twice a week. Some things never grow old.
He said it wasn't Acid... I wonder if it was STPLSD what Jimi wrote Stars that Play with Laughing Sams Dice as a play of words on... it's more of an Amphetamine LSD type Mix apparently a really speedy Trip... I read Mitch Mitchells bio and he said that was what him and Jimi took at Woodstock Santana probably did the same
@@xblood1978 : Heard from a reliable source it was Mescaline
A lesson for aspiring drummers: highly skilled drummers can even make SMALL kits sing !!
Was the other drummer
And the famely to Micheal
Santana were unique....and they gave it up because they were influenced by generic fusion music.....the musical equivalent of complicated wallpaper. Tragic.
I have often tried to vocalize what happened to ruin Santana after he hitched up with McGloughlin but you , plantagenant, sum it up perfectly. Tragic , complicated wallpaper that is no substitute for real music.
Charles M Actually I can play the guitar quite well....pretty good at copying santana. My point was that he started playing music that was generic and beneath him...of course that's just a matter of taste. Nothing to do with "inane stupidities "..you stupid tosser.
Great!!!
Oh my short hair. Look better with long hair bro! You are so underrated! As a drummer myself i'm imbarrassed to say i am when i watch you solo lol.
He doesn’t move very much.
I really liked this guy until I heard this interview. Wish I would’ve passed this one.
I thought I saw Grace Slick playing at Woodstock, (the movie). With her big afro. She looked hot. He said they weren't in the film.
Same
@@Unsung_Earth Performances by Jefferson Airplane, Canned Heat, and Janis Joplin weren't in the original movie released in 1970; their performances were added in the rereleased version of the film.
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Breek
Santana se deshizo de todos sus buenos músicos que eran la base principal de sus temas..el mas limitado creo que fue el bajista..LUEGO con el cambio radical en su conjunto fue deteriorándose más y más y al punto de solo hacer vanas repeticiones de sus temas mas conocidos...una nefasta presencia en sus conciertos salvo uno que otro chispaso de TALENTO...una pérdida para los que conocemos sus inicios...
Carlos durante su evolucion personal, tuvo que enfrentar a otros musicos tan geniales como él,pero él siguió, y grabó santana ZEBOP...un excelente album, que esta llamado a ser el abraxas en siglo XXI
I watched and listened to your drumming performance at Woodstock and it immediately struck me how well you played at such a young age. When my son was thinking of playing, I saved the video and played it. His jaw just dropped, in amazement.
Man it bums me out to hear all that back ground noise!!! Can’t listen. Too annoying