Chepito and Dave Brown aren't here but otherwise this sounds like the great old school Santana of the late 1960s... in fact, Greg Rolie's "Anywhere You Want To Go" has the same vibe as "Evil Ways". It's a great record. Pretty slick yet somehow it just doesn't grab me by the balls as vintage Santana did when I first heard them, but then again, I'm quite a bit older now and...well.. as Thom Wolfe said, "You can't go home again". Still a terrific double album set and the best way to listen to it is via vinyl, one side at a time. The pressing is outstanding, and the cover art is gorgeous, embossed gloss with the tiger's eyes, teeth and a few top whiskers raised. A joy to hold, peruse, and to listen to. The whole presentation is a work of art.
I have this album, and I downloaded the digital format too, I have not bothered looking in to my digital folder since downloading it and it has just sat there in my folder waiting for the day I extract it.
Well that day came today a few years later, aaand, I have 32 files instead of 16 like on the album, ok, I have two sets of each song, one in MP3 and another in WAV, but I cannot understand why my MP3 files all have the same track numbers as the album while the WAV files are all randomly numbered, I can't even find any references online to find out why, well it certainly ain't a life and death situation but it really does confuse the hell outta me.