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In a story that should warm your heart this holiday season, Stanley Roberts, a news
reporter for Bay Area station KRON recently reunited guitarist Carlos Santana
with former Santana Blues Band mate Marcus "The Magnificent" Malone. Roberts found Malone,
a percussionist in the Santana Blues Band, living on the streets of East Oakland picking
through trash and arranged the tear-jerking reunion.
Watch the meeting between Malone and Santana:
Santana has offered Malone an apartment and clothes and has also aimed to record with Malone and the entire original Santana Blues
Band. “I want to offer my brother Marcus Malone an opportunity to record on the next album
with the original band, with Greg Rolie,” Santana told KRON. ” We wrote a song for him
called ‘Magnificent Marcus Malone.’ We want him to play on it and we’re going to start,
Lord willing, in January or February. So I would like to get him some congas so he can get
his hands hard again because he hasn’t been playing the congas in a while.”
Listen to an outstanding version of "Soul Sacrifice" from the Santana Blues Band,
featuring Malone, in 1968:
[via KRON]
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[Published on: 12/23/13]
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