Left my apartment with my close friend at 6:20pm for the 8:30pm concert at Impact Muang Thon Thani. It took almost 2 hours to get there because of the terrible traffic. It was almost at a standstill between the 2 toll booths going out.

Got to the Arena at 8:10pm, and picked up our tickets, then made our way through the security checks, and up up up to our seats. We had a very good view of the whole arena, and all the crowd. Supprisingly it was not a sell out. There were about 9000 people there though.

The concert was supposed to start at 8:30pm, but didn't get going until about 8:45pm. This was good because there were allot of other people that got stuck in traffic getting there.

The lights went down, and the band started warming up with their new song apollo. I say warming up because the first few minutes were getting into the rythmn, and getting in tune. Through the 20 minutes of this song the band got into it very well. Santana started to rock, and only got better as the night went on.

Through a series of old classics, combined new tunes, and a guest from New Orliens sitting in for one song, 2 hours slipped away, it was a superb concert. Then the enchore started with a video of Santana's performance from Woodstock, with the band slowly flowed into the rythmn of that performance making for one excellent ending to a wonderful night of music from a legend in the rock world.

Carlos never missed a beat the whole night, with his dialog promoting peace, and love, and his superb guitar playing, he had the crowd in his hand the whole night. 30 minutes later the concert ended with Carlos slowly making his way around the stage to exit down the stairs with a standing ovation from the crowd.

It's always a treat to be able to enjoy such a fantastic performer, and legend it rock & roll. It's just a shame more of you couldn't make it though.

Pity I could not be there. I saw him play here at the monsters concert in Karlsruhe, Germany in July 1978, when I was 14 years old..he was followed by Chicago and Rory Gallagher as well as Thin Lizzy, who were openers. That was a treat..

Jealous to the extreme. I wanted to see Santana even more than Clapton, but had to go to work in France. I had the same 2 hrs in traffic 2 weeks ago for Clapton, we left Sukvt at 6.30 and arrived just before kick off. Glad to read it was a good performance, makes me more determined to see him if he comes back.

and thanks for sharing pics....

Really jealous as well...

I know the traffic at those areas, and it's horrible trying to get through. Then once you get into the Impact vicinity, it's another nightmare if you don't want to walk.

Anyway, glad you got to see Santana.

really jealous also. maybe he might come to saudi. is he a muslim?

No, he's Catholic.....hehehehe.

I saw Santana in concert in Munich in 1988 - and they were already old timers then! It's great that they are still at it 23 year later!

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