I saw Mike Doughty do a show the year before covid? for the Ruby Vroom 25 year anniversary, did the whole album plus a couple other Soul Coughing tunes. Great show.

The Song Remains the Same followed by The Rain Song is one of my favorite one, two punches on an album.

Those 3 were the like the triumvirate of female country artists for the 60s/70s/80s. And onwards.

Like even today you can catch Emmylou Harris perform for free if you go to the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco. She has played at every single one since it started as the Strictly Bluegrass Festival in 2001.

It wasn't just the guitar. Dude could play anything. Horns, drums, keys. He had a 5 octave vocal range. Like the only one hitting notes higher than him was Mariah Carey. Dude could dance like James Brown. And the guy just could not stop writing hits. And then you get into the albums he's produced. I mean it just goes on.

He was just a complete package. One of those kinda special prodigies that comes along only every once in a while.

But when talking about his guitar playing most people point to his solo during the tribute to George Harrison tribute in 2004 where he is 46 years old. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWRCooFKk3c skip to 3:28 if you wanna get to his solo.

Even when he was fighting the Italian mafia he was in bed with the Russian mob.

For me, Caravanserai is my Santana go-to. Pre Journey Neal Schon on there. Put your headphones on, put that album and then open your eyes after the album ends.

Even the first year, they had hip hop bands, but ones who also fit the ethos like Blackalicious or DJ Shadow. I kinda stopped paying attention to Bonnaroo after like, year 3 or 4 I wanna say. It just became the same corpo stuff you see at Coachella or Outside Lands.

It used to be good, now it's full corpo.

I heard that when the studios didn't see it that way and were planning on canceling it, he got pissed and then decided to end it the way he did.

Because you can see in the episodes before everything went sideways things were getting set up to be really expansive. You had the whole white lodge/black lodge thing, it was really starting to get its legs. And then they were like nope, show's over.