7/3/07 Moe's Alley (Santa Cruz Ca)

This was a special gig being that we were opening for Salvador Santana. If his name sounds familiar its because his dad is Carlos Santana. There were a lot of odd connections this night. Our producer Art Hodge won a Grammy for Santana's Supernatural album. Walter Miranda played keys on our album and used to play with Salvador Santana's Sax player who also used to play with Ozomatli. Walter and the sax player also used to play in Ozomatli with Alfredo Ortiz, who is now playing percussion for the Beastie Boys. Our producer Art Hodge used to share a studio with Money Mark who plays keys with the Beastie Boys and Walter fills in for him when he can't make a show.....whew. So the show was great after we connected all the dots. We had a good opening set, the crowd was primed and ready for some pre 4th of July fireworks. SSB came out blazing, drumming was killing and the sax player setting things off. We had to cut out before the end of their set, but it was great. I always thought it would be a double edged sword having a famous dad. On one hand if you become successful in music people will assume that it was because of your dad. If you don't become successful people will wonder why because of the huge advantage. Salvador seemed to be at ease with his situation, he plays keys and raps in the group.