Word: congas
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...paradoxes which Christ produces--like a magician running through his patter--are really just excuses for songs and jokes and snappy impersonations. And so, the father of the prodigal son is made to speak like Jimmy Cagney and when he announces the homecoming celebration somebody shouts, "Let's Conga!" After all, no one's going to listen to that old story again if you don't spruce it up just a little...
...skull here, the tinkling of a mystical bell there, the rhythmic beat of the conga drum, and the calling voices in the background all weave a pattern that leaves the listener spell-bound. Dr. John didn't learn to play the guitar in a bar on the South Side of Chicago but from Sister Eunice at The Temple of Innocent Blood. And he didn't get his "soul" in Memphis, but from the bayous of Louisiana. Strange, very strange...
...electric piano and organ, and writes songs about what it is like to be a woman ("Time goes, and the baby keeps growin', and I can't help knowin', baby I love you"). The girls -backed by three males, Fritz Kasten, 27, drums, Ron Wilson, 37, congas, and Jeff Neighbor, 28, bass-produce a reasonably rich mixture of blues, wailing gospel and riffs of pure country, folk and hard rock, all curiously overlaid with Latin conga rhythms...
...included Pianist-Organist Gregg Rolie, Guitarist Carlos Santana, Bass Guitarist Dave Brown and two others now departed. At first they called themselves the Santana Blues Band and were the idol of San Francisco's heavily Spanish Mission District. In early 1969, they were joined by Jose Areas (conga drums, trumpet, timbales), Mike Carrabello (conga drums) and Mike Shrieve (drums). From the beginning, the group has been managed by a music-struck local barber named Stan Marcum...
Empty streets filled with honking processions of cars, samba bands and conga dancers who happily chanted "Bra-sit! Bra-sil! Bra-sil!" In Rio, fireworks exploded in the evening sky, while air-force jets trailing plumes of smoke swooped low over Copacabana Beach. The only untoward aspect of the celebration was the toll of dead and injured. Brazilian doctors had publicly warned heart patients not to watch the match on TV, but many did anyhow and died of overexcitement. Some celebrators blew off hands with firecrackers or were trampled underfoot in the streets...