Supernatural Santana: A Trip Through the Hits Tickets
Overall Rating
4.7
By 1BlackDahlia
Santana
Supernatural Santana - Las Vegas
I was not happy with the music ... Carlos Santana hardly played...he showcased his band and mostly his girl/wife?? I'm not interested in any of them..not that they didn't play well...I'm just not interested...I/We were interested in hearing him play his new and Old music...
By jubuls
Supernatural Santana: A Trip Through the Hits - Las Vegas
Truly one of the best shows I have seen in a long time
By Anonymous
The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas - Las Vegas
Great show! Carlos is 67 years old and still rocking it out with the best of them.
By Baldy52
Santana rocks today just like he did in '69
The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas - Las Vegas
I've seen Santana about a dozen times over the years, and this was the second time I saw him at The Joint. Close your eyes and you won't be able to tell the difference between 1969 and 2011...Carlos is simply amazing. His old songs still generate more energy than any other band I've ever heard (including Led Zepplin, the Rolling Stones, The Who, the Allman Bros., Eric Clapton, and many, many more)...Black Magic Woman, Jingo, and Soul Sacrifice were outstanding. The only part of the show I didn't really care for was his opening (AC/DC's "Back In Black") - why he chose that to open, who knows? But it brought immediate calls for "Play the old stuff!" from the crowd. He also played a few numbers from "Supernatural" which were ok, but without the original accompanying artists from that album, the songs fell a bit flat (although Carlos's guitar work still soared). Overall, I will see him every time I can. He is one of the best ever, and if you haven't seen Carlos Santana yet, there is no better place than The Joint to catch him.
By Noelekal
Unabashed, Undiminished Santana!
The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas - Las Vegas
Never occurred to me all these years that Carlos wasn't lead singer on all his hits. He did sing a bit and sounded OK. His guitar playing hasn't suffered and he executed his trademark style of lead guitar perfectly along with some additional searing and rough sounding licks on some tunes with which I was not familiar. I was amused that he led off with a totally "Santana-ized" version of AC/DC's "Back in Black" that sounded much better than the original in my view. Don't know who the backing musicians were but they were all first rate. Each got a feature of his talents in the show. This included the heavy percussion section with percussionist, drummer, and well-tuned bongos player. The trumpet and trombone were a nice touch and the two brass instruments gave a big sound and a fine performance. The backing band also featured an excellent bassist who didn't plod like so many do and who turned in a feature performance on his bass that rivaled Santana's lead work. Most importantly, everyone stayed in time. What I liked about Santana was the fact that he didn't embellish his hit songs until they were unrecognizable as so many artists do when live in concert. He played some of his early hits and they sounded much the same as they do when I crank them on our stereo at home. Saw Elvis at the Tarrant County Convention Center in 1976 and he butchered his songs horribly in my opinion. Never was an Elvis fan anyway so nothing's worse than hearing his hit tunes mangled. I've seen several rock acts live through the years and many fade badly without studio gimmickry but Santana was the real deal. Enjoy this show for its musicianship and its attention to detail in rendering your favorite Santana hits.
By Anonymous
The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas - Las Vegas
Nothing but PURE talent graced the stage, from Mr. Santana to every other musician up there. Great show, great sound, great lighting - everything about it rocked!
By sparkdogg
Santana last gig it was great
The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas - Las Vegas
Carlos jammed 2 half hours of hits from jingo to maria maria , what a night.
By Anonymous
The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas - Las Vegas
Real jam session - Santana played for almost 3 hours!
By Newyorkfans
Top 5 concert ever!
The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas - Las Vegas
My husband and I happened to be in Vegas the night of Santanas final night at the HardRock. Neither of us had ever seen Santana in concert. It was our final night in Vegas and we thought, we have spent enough money gambling and eating, let's do something different. I can not say enough good things about this concert. We are children of the 70's and have seen at least a hundred concerts between us through out our lives. Stones, Dead, Allmans, Foreigner, you name it! This Santana concert at The Joint in the Hard Rock is easily one of the top five concert experiences ever! Carlos and his band have aged to perfection. Over three hours of the best music and fun ever. Nonstop fun and dancing by the entire venue. Including a surprise comedy break with George Lopez. Just and awesome experience and could not stopping talking about the show for days.
By kauaigirl1
Santana rocked the Hard Rock!
The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas - Las Vegas
Loved it...the venue was awesome and Carlos did not disappoint! My husband was in 7th heaven...he had been wanting to see Santana for a very long time. He was very impressed by the set up there at The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. A nice surprise was George Lopez doing a little routine...hysterical!
Bio
Long before the category now known as "world music" was named, Santana's ever-evolving sound has always been ahead of its time in its universal appeal, and today registers as ideally in sync with the 21st century's pan-cultural landscape. And, with a dedication to humanitarian outreach and social activism that parallels his lifelong relationship with music, Carlos Santana is as much an exemplary world citizen as a global music icon.
Carlos Santana's current project is Supernatural Santana: A Trip Through The Hits, a musical retrospective created exclusively for the new Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Santana will be the first act to hold a residency at the spectacular, newly-expanded venue, and the band will perform 72 times at the Joint over the course of 2009 and 2010. The show, produced by AEG live and debuting in May '09, includes Santana numbers ranging from "Jingo"—the group's first-ever charting single—and early classics including "Black Magic Woman" and "Oye Como Va" through the Supernatural "Smooth" years and the group's most recent hit, 2008's "Into the Night."
Carlos' influence and idealism is also felt in the groundbreaking new project Architects of a New Dawn, a multi-platform media enterprise and social network designed to empower like-minded people from all walks of life to create positive change in the global community. The project grew out of a vision Carlos has been developing for almost 20 years to engage his worldwide audience with extraordinary music, progressive media content and transformational ideas. It is all in the service of building—architecting—a new reality for the planet based on inspiration, creativity, love and forgiveness.
Santana's star arrived in the era-defining late '60s San Francisco Bay area music scene with historic shows at the Fillmore and other venues. They emerged onto the global stage with an epic set at Woodstock '69, the same year that their self-titled debut LP came out. Introducing Santana's first Top 10 hit, "Evil Ways," the disc stayed on Billboard's album chart for 2 years, and was soon followed by two more classics - and Billboard #1 albums - Abraxas and Santana III.
Forty years and as many albums later, Santana has sold more than 90 million records and reached over 100 million fans at concerts around the globe. To date, Santana has won ten GRAMMY® Awards and two Latin GRAMMYs. Among them are a bevy for 1999's Supernatural—which has sold more than 26 million copies worldwide—including GRAMMYs for Album of the Year and Record of the Year for "Smooth." In 1998, the group was ushered into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, whose web page on their induction notes, "Guitarist Carlos Santana is one of rock's true virtuosos and guiding lights." Among many other honors, Carlos Santana has also been cited by Rolling Stone as #15 on their list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time," and #90 on their 2005 survey of the "100 Greatest Artists Of All Time."
Most recently, Carlos Santana is the recipient of the Billboard Latin Music Awards' 2009 Lifetime Achievement honor (he also received Billboard's Century Award in 1996), and the music of Santana has been celebrated with two album retrospectives. Multi-Dimensional Warrior (Columbia/Arista/Legacy, 2008) is a career-spanning 2-CD anthology presenting 28 selections hand-picked by Carlos, who calls the project, "a love letter to the fans." Divided between tracks with vocals and instrumental compositions, it emphasizes album cuts and personal favorites that evoke the band's hypnotic musical power and give deeper insight into its complex creative journey. The set follows up 2007's Ultimate Santana, the only single-disc collection uniting hits from the group's recent albums for Arista and classics from their Columbia years.
As profound as his artistic legacy is Carlos' dedication to humanitarian work. His Milagro Foundation, originally established by Carlos and Deborah Santana in 1998, has granted more than three million dollars to non-profit programs supporting underserved children and youth in the areas of arts, education and health. Milagro means "miracle," and the image of children as divine miracles of light and hope - as gifts to our lives - is the inspiration behind its name.