Let me say that I met Joe at a post Woodstock thing and we never really met each other prior to that. It was kind of surreal. When I lived in New York in the ‘80s, we used to hang out a lot, going to clubs and stuff like that. I just wanted to play blues until Michael came. Was it a challenge to form Go with Yamashta, Schulze and Winwood after a very successful career with Santana? It was frightening. He has also played with Mick Jagger, The Rolling Stones, George Harrison, Pete Townshend, Todd Rundgren, John McLaughlin , Jaco Pastorius, Ringo Starr, Pat Travers and Roger Hodgson. I think we played an amazing show that night. As a 20-year-old drummer, he played a mind-blowing drum solo in “Soul Sacriface” during Santana’s performance at the Woodstock Festival in 1969. I didn’t know him intimately like my friend Mickey Hart (ed: Grateful Dead –drums) or other people. Back in those days it was too difficult to do that without Pro-Tools, without computers. He was the man. He is best known as the drummer in Santana, playing on their first eight albums from 1969 through 1974. I was very impressed with him. I was able to perform that song with what they had worked on after the basic track is done. Carlos Santana, David Brown and Michael Shrieve of Sntana. So, yes I had a great time being there. So, he had Winwood, he had Klaus Schulze … So, that’s what I did. Of course, I was a huge Miles Davis fan and so was Carlos. They both played beautifully and they were very happy putting their parts. There is one track that I am on. So, the music can get into your body and moves you like it used to do when you were a kid. Seriously. The only thing I wanted to do, was get out of there. And do you know an interesting thing about that? What I want to do and why I am excited about the vinyl and the re-releases, is that all are of such a high quality level. He can do a lot, a lot of things. For a year, I looked for him, because I loved what he was doing in the world of percussion. They were one of the most important bands of the San Francisco music scene, of course. We are recording together for the first time since the early ‘70s. (laughs) Yes, he’s amazing. - Carlos Santana 50 Years Later, Santana's 'Abraxas' Still Changes The Game . He is best known as the drummer of the rock band Santana. You just don’t know what life is gonna present you. I appreciate all the time that I spent with Stomu Yamashta. He was always very joyful and generous person. Michael Shrieve Official Website: www.michaelshrieve.com, Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Michael-Shrieves-Spellbinder/16840285790. They were a big band and I was a boy at high school. “Surreal” is the correct word. I was thrilled. I wanted to get out of there and Gregg Rolie (ed: Santana –keyboards, vocals) too. Two Doors - Michael Shrieve (1996) … Why you decided to re-record the drum parts in “Song of The Wind” (from the “Caravanserai” album -1972) after Carlos Santana and Neal Schon recorded their guitar parts? About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us … Those three are available to public, there are all much better than Woodstock. You know, I was never great friends with Jerry Garcia but we definitely knew each other and we were around and saw each other. I need to buy myself a turntable. He used to come and see the band that I had called Novo Combo. I wanted to do a record with him. He has a lust for life that I very much admire. That’s one record that I am excited to finish up and get out. I have heard interviews with him where he says people come up to him all the time to tell him how their uncle’s best friend’s mother was there or how they were stuck in traffic for days to get there and Michael just politely listens until he mentions that he has … One night I came home, some years ago after listening to bands. We called up Gregg Rolie, Michael Shrieve and Michael Carabello. You play with a lot of people, but when you are in a room with Pete, you realize that there was a real power emitted from him. How did you feel when you played “With A Little Help From My Friends” on Ringo Starr’s drum kit during a Ringo show in Seattle? On the last day of the tour, I found out that Stomu Yamashta was staying at the same hotel as me, in Rome. The group achieves an unlikely mix of propulsive rock with cool jazz. If you mess up the basic tracks, if you re-record the drums and mess it up, you can ruin the whole track and keep doing it over and over on the drum set. I appreciate this. We used to play at The Fillmore and Miles would just come down and see us as well. Michael Shrieve and his outstanding performance is the TRADEMARK of Woodstock! I owe Michael a lot; He's the one who turned me onto John Coltrane and Miles Davis. I did stay there for two weeks because I interviewed Elvin for a book I was working on about his life at that time. Oh yes. We knew each other in New York and London and we were friends. So, he called me up. So, those are the projects that I’m working on right now. But I have drum solos better than my Woodstock solo. I didn’t tell any in the band. He liked the band and we enjoyed each other’s company. Who’s your band? Some drummers only have chops, but Michael Shrieve has vision. And then, of course, I got to know Eric better, his jamming with Santana and stuff and then I met him over the years. It was really surreal. A had a very good friend of mine, Brian Siskind, do a remix of all the tracks on Trilon and I’m very happy with the way it came out. When you get to work with different people like Roger Hodgson from Supertramp is something special. We’ve had a weekly residency at a club for 4 years. It is with Seattle-based musicians. I play 16 drums set up in a semi-circle. No one did. ... Interview American Music. Oh, yeah! It’s a pleasure for me to hear his kind words. How important was the contribution of Bill Graham (legendary promoter) to Santana? It’s difficult for to me to put a meter on who is the most talented, because everybody brings such a different feeling. We are recording downstairs”. He says, "Everybody thought it was Michael Shrieve, who played with Santana because he looked like he was about 10 years old at that … Michael Shrieve says that ultimately, the key to his contribution to the Santana sound was a 'less is more' kind of thing. I couldn’t find one. It’s the biggest classic rock staples to appear in … It was Mick’s first solo record. Yes, I do. I mean, Carlos is a person that I respect in so many ways. Were you shocked by what happened at the 1969 Altamont Free Concert (during the performance by the Rolling Stones, Meredith Hunter, an 18-year-old African-American, was stabbed to death by a Hells Angels member)? Was it an interesting experience to record Mick Jagger’s “She’s the Boss” album (1985) with Mick and Jeff Beck? And then I went to an island and when I arrived there, I had no place to stay and I was walking and looking for a place to stay. A huge “THANK YOU” to Michael Shrieve for his time. And at the end of the evening, in the studio they recorded such beautiful stuff that I thought: “Wow, I should have played with them”. It was completely improvised. But I left for 3-4 days, got on a bus in the mountains with chickens and everything on the bus (laughs). I thought: “What kind of record would be good for me as a drummer that I would love to listen to at 2 in the morning?” And so this is what the record sounds like. We played a double bill: Miles Davis and Santana. He’s truly hard-working. MICHAEL SHRIEVE Music prompts us to respond with open-heartedness instead of judgment. You just know it from the sound and the way he played during the jam. That’s what happened to me. I have another record that I put out two months ago: a project called Trilon and it is with a very interesting group of musicians. I was just a kid. Firstly, because he endured and got on so long with quality music and also with his choices of notes. Really, he was fascinated with sound and color and how each, separate and … That changed the game there. They couldn’t believe that the Hells Angels were beating everybody up, as you can see in the film. And now I am here and I watch Ringo play a song that I recorded originally. He did all that stuff during my solo. The movie (ed: “Woodstock”) shows the way I looked, and the way everybody in the band and the audience looked and it was a powerful moment. Michael Shrieve is an American drummer, percussionist, and later, an electronic music composer. Yes, absolutely. Were you flattered when Neil Peart told you that you are one of his influences as a drummer? Yeah, I was getting out of there as they were coming in. When I saw myself on the screen, split up in six pieces, I had two reactions: 1) I wanted to stand up and say: “That’s me! You are very busy. Oh, no. For instance, if I had worked with someone like Prince, I might say Prince because he can do everything. Todd Rundgren is your hero? That was before Jim Morrison’s name become mythical. We got on very well, although we haven’t been in touch since. How do you know about that? Everybody is unique. Santana- Abraxas 50th- Carlos Santana, Gregg Rolie, Michael Shrieve In more than 1600 documentary episodes spanning over thirty years, I can honestly say that we never featured a more influential, important, essential album than Santana ‘s second effort, Abraxas released in October 1970. Actually, I think we should put that record out. I met Jim Morrison and then Eric Clapton. Afterward people asked Carlos why he was making such funny faces on stage, and he told them: Because my guitar had turned to rubber. But the guitar players or the singer or somebody could punch in and keep making their solo better. Of course, the promoter had no idea just how big Woodstock would be. That’s me!” And the other one, I wanted to just sit down in my seat and kind of hide. So, I said to the engineer that after everybody left: “I am going to work on this all night long. When he started playing the piano I said: “Wow, what a sound!”That Wurlitzer sound! Well, you know, it was incredible to play with him. He was just a singer in another band. in 2007. And it turned out great. After a killer set at 1969’s Woodstock, Santana exploded from unknown band to superstardom. Never heard of them, the caller said, but he agreed; he had no other choice. We set up a meeting. Your drum solo in “Soul Sacrifice” at Tanglewood is even better than Woodstock. Obviously, he had his own problems going on, but he was always very generous, very joyful and very open. Only the finest musicianship could allow the sound to coalesce so beautifully into flowing experimentation that is altogether distinctive. I’m the one that pursued Stomu Yamashta. I’d come home at 2 in the morning and I’m thinking: “What kind of music would I like to listen to at this time?”And it’s usually not heavy music. Carlos Santana was looking for the same mood to start his album, but had an … Michael Shrieve, Seattle-based drummer of Santana/Woodstock fame, interviewed Neil Peart as part of his Jet City Stream show Notes from the Field.The interview took place on Nov 13 when Rush played Seattle and will air on Sunday, Dec 2, @ 9 a.m. Pacific (12 p.m. Eastern). I heard one of my favorite Woodstock stories during a filmed oral history interview with Santana’s original conga player, Michael Carabello, who explained how the then little-known band got the gig, despite the fact that they’d never played outside the Bay Area and their debut album wasn’t scheduled to be released until after the three-day festival. You spent two weeks with your hero Elvin Jones (John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis –drums) on holiday in Greece. We play once a week. Look at him in concerts, still. I started it with a synthesist by the name of Jeff Greinke and then I added other performers like Jack De Johnette (ed: Miles Davis -drums), Airto Moreira (ed: Miles Davis –Percussions), Zakir Hussein (ed: Shakti –tabla), Trey Gunn (ed: King Crimson –Chapman stick) and Amon Tobin (ed: Brazilian composer). For us, it was very important that we were playing on the same bill. And I said: “Wow, this is music that I have never heard but it’s so perfect”. Martin Scorsese edited that. Are you happy with the reunion of the classic Santana line-up after 40 years? Transfer Station Blue - Michael Shrieve (1984) Big Picture - Michael Shrieve, David Beal (1989) with Klaus Schulze and Kevin Shrieve. I wanted to do an avant-garde percussion thing. The only problem right now is that life takes over and I don’t listen to music like I used to listen to music. We have recorded 9 tracks and we are getting together in April for a couple of weeks and we will be able to finish that up as well. Who else? What was your reaction when you watched the “Woodstock” film for the first time? King, Ike & Tina Tuner, CSN&Y, Santana A feature from WRTC-FM in Hartford, Conn., on the Rolling Stones 1969 North American Tour with an emphasis on the Altamont Concert on … But it was also interesting to play with the other members of his band. This story was adapted from a longer interview with Carlos Santana and Michael Shrieve. However, Shrieve was the second youngest musician to perform at Woodstock. Oh, I had a great time doing that. He loved to play the guitar, he loved to make music. Stiletto - Michael Shrieve (1989) with Mark Isham, David Torn, Andy Summers and Terje Gevelt. We had the great honour to talk with one of the greatest drummers of all time: Michael Shrieve. He loved Carlos and he loved the band. The next time I saw Ringo was because my friend Gregg Rolie from Santana was playing with him and Todd Rundgren who I worked with, as well- I am sitting in the audience and I see Ringo playing “Evil Ways” and “Oye Como Va” or something like that and I flashed back in time to me, being with my parents watching “The Ed Sullivan Show”, watching Ringo. I enjoyed it very much. Traditionally, the way it works, is that you get what they call the basic tracks, which is always the drums and the bass and that’s that. He claimed he came up with his first mantra during the set: Dear God, let me play in time and on key. He was always a music fan of the band. He got us at Woodstock and he always loved the band. I want to get back into it myself. How did it happen to record some demos with Pete Townshend (The Who)? It was just a hotel with a bunch of Germans on vacation. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. We were big fans of Miles and Miles was a big fan of the band, which was incredible. On Saturday, August 16th, 1969, when the band went on stage in front of 400,000 people, between John Sebastian and Canned Heat, Carlos Santana was flying high on LSD or mescaline (his accounts vary, understandably); he’d thought they were performing later in the day and planned to be coming down as they started their set, not taking flight. But I know that that it doesn’t matter! HIT CHANNEL EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: January 2015. I think there wasn’t anybody else, just the two of us. There are so many of them that I got to know. I played on a lot of tracks but I only ended up on one track. It ushers us to a higher place from where we can see beyond distractions to what is true and good and lasting. That night I was there after Mick Jagger’s recording in The Bahamas and we were mixing the record at The Power Station in New York City with Nile Rodgers, Mick and me. He is best known as a member of Santana and played on their first eight albums. He was very knowledgeable, very open, curious and very intelligent. We had something to deliver and we did. To prepare Santana for Woodstock, Graham booked them in successively larger venues. It was special. At the time, promoter Bill Graham, who was a mambo dancer and lover of Latin music, was acting as the band’s manager. Required fields are marked *. You have entered an incorrect email address! Both of these are instrumental records. We played a show at Tanglewood together. Do you still have the drum kit you used at Woodstock? There are so many people that I admire and I respect for their particular skills. If it wasn’t for him, we wouldn’t have been at Woodstock and many other things. That was better, too. Seattle drummer Michael Shrieve and his band Spellbinder are a regular fixture at the Fremont bar ToST. That was a dark night. Carlos Santana, David Brown and Michael Shrieve of Sntana I heard one of my favorite Woodstock stories during a filmed oral history interview with Santana’s original conga player, Michael Carabello, who explained how the then little-known band got the gig, despite the fact that they’d never played outside … (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) This story was adapted from a longer interview with Carlos Santana and Michael Shrieve. It was kind of weird. And it was this singer, Cesaria Evora. It wasn’t my idea of Greece. And I was determined to do that. He just had an idea and he wanted to put down some songs in the studio. Every place I went into, every café to ask about a place to stay was playing different music. That was good too. We had three days in the studio and we put a lot of music together. I never heard it. Yes. I had fun playing with these guys. On … Do you remember the crazy after midnight session you did with Jaco Pastorius? Did you meet Jim Morrison and Eric Clapton when you stayed at a hotel with Jefferson Airplane? Of all of the drummers I interviewed, Mike Shrieve was immersed in the most varied aspects of drumming. Do you have clear memories of the Woodstock Festival? But you can’t do that. I can’t say what it was. We even chose not to be in the movie (ed: “Gimme Shelter”). He was very inspiring to me. He’s not like people think he is. The band’s searing performance of “Soul Sacrifice,” featuring an extended drum solo by Michael Shrieve, who at 20 was the youngest musician to perform at the festival, became one of the highlights of the festival and the documentary, Woodstock. Nothing was planned. Who is the most talented musician you’ve seen in your life? Did you have a good time there? That was my band. Oh, wow!! SKF NOTE: I have fond memories of the time I spent with Michael Shrieve putting together his Modern Drummer interview. But it wasn’t so Greece. So, be here tomorrow early and let’s do it”. But, I know this: It doesn’t matter. I think this one is one of our best shows ever. You are in the movie talking to Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh (of the Grateful Dead). He was like a brother or like a father to us. Justin Bieber: Θα τραγουδήσει το «Journals» στην πρώτη μεγάλη συναυλία του... Τα 15 τραγούδια που διεκδικούν υποψηφιότητα για Όσκαρ, Οι BTS θα τραγουδήσουν για πρώτη φορά στο «MTV Unplugged», Ο Γιώργος Μαζωνάκης κυκλοφορεί ένα «Mega Live Album» αποκλειστικά στο Spotify, Interview: Kenney Jones (The Small Faces, Faces, The Who), Interview: John Lodge (solo, The Moody Blues). I loved being on the beach. And then of course we are continuing with the original Santana band. I like to go out and hear music. I definitely want to get myself back and listen to music like I used to. Anyway, thank you. Henry Gross was just 18 and a member of Sha Na Na when the retro band played at Yasgur's Farm in August 1969. I am going to practice the way I want to play it with what they have done now Carlos Santana and Neal Schon. I went down there and I did record. Of course, I was thrilled and proud to be there. As a 20-year-old drummer, he played a mind-blowing drum solo in “Soul … Correct. I must say that in the week we played together, it never worked out. Altamont, Rolling Stones, Joel Selvin, Robert Altman, Michael Carabello, Michael Shrieve, Binky Philips, Jefferson Airplane, B.B. You got an offer to join Jefferson Airplane. Shrieve was one of the youngest musicians to perform at Woodstock in 1969, being aged 20. It wasn’t set up well. Not just a few things. And then Jaco Pastorius come up with war paint on and says: “Michael Shrieve, I’m calling all the guys! And Ringo turns around and say: “Don’t break my drums”. He is best known as the drummer of the rock band Santana, playing on the band's first seven albums from 1969 to 1974. Michael Shrieve’s Spellbinder is a majestic instrumental band of the first order. Ακολουθήστε το Hit Channel στο Google News για να μαθαίνετε πρώτοι τα τελευταία νέα από την Ελληνική και Ξένη μουσική. It was a real pleasure and a big honour to be with Todd, Mick Ronson, Ian Hunter and Stephen Dees from my band Novo Combo. After Santana, he was a member of Go (with Stomu Yamashta, Steve Winwood, Klaus Schulze and Al Di Meola), Novo Combo, Hagar Schon Aaronson Shrieve (with Sammy Hagar, Neal Schon and Kenny Aaronson) and Abraxas Pool. But we always remained friends, and I am so glad that it work out with Santana, we played at Woodstock and we created some great music together. Well, I could. He is current active with his band, Spellbinder. By the time Santana’s first album came out later that month, they were already stars.Â, Your email address will not be published. In fact I was very surprised. Read below the very interesting things he told us: What are the current projects you are involved in? He was trying a lot of things and we recorded that in Nassau, Bahamas. He said: “Please Michael, don’t do this”. You can see the Hells Angels on stage, their dark souls and stuff like this. It was a big touring year for Santana, we had over 250 dates to do. I think you are right. HIT CHANNEL EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: January 2015.We had the great honour to talk with one of the greatest drummers of all time: Michael Shrieve.He is best known as a member of Santana and played on their first eight albums.
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