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Zebop! (1981)

Where the lyrics of Zebop! take you, and where it was really made.

Six of this album's songs were filmed for video as a mock concert on the A&M Records stage in Los Angeles, a stage now owned by the Jim Henson Company.

Key places

Recording at The Automatt (1981)

Recording site The Automatt — The album was recorded at The Automatt in San Francisco. The place is listed as the recording location for this album. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Mock concert video stage at A&M Records (1981)

Live show Motown Recording Studios — Six videos from this album were shot in a mock concert setting on the A&M Stage at A&M Records on La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles. The stage is now owned by the Jim Henson Company. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Zebop!: 12th studio album by the American rock band Santana
• Released 29 April 1981 on CBS Records in Europe and Columbia Records in North America
• Produced by Carlos Santana, Bill Graham and Keith Olsen
• Twelve tracks in total, six on each side
• Several releases with different cover background colors, including pink and red
• Followed by the album Shangó

Background

• The album featured the song 'Winning'
• The album and the single were among Santana's last top 40 hits until 1999, when Supernatural was released
• Santana's 12th studio album, released in the early 1980s

Recording

• Recorded at The Automatt in San Francisco
• Fred Catero credited as associate producer and engineer
• Keith Olsen credited as engineer and producer
• Lineup: Alex Ligertwood on vocals, Carlos Santana on guitar, Richard Baker on keyboards, David Margen on bass, Graham Lear on drums
• Percussion by Armando Peraza, Raul Rekow and Orestes Vilató
• Alan Pasqua and Chris Solberg credited under special thanks for tracks 3, 4 and 6

Cover

• Cover backgrounds appeared in several colors, pink and red among them

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · fr.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Formed in San Francisco, California, in 1966 by Mexican-American guitarist Carlos Santana.
• Named the Santana Blues Band at a January 1967 Fillmore audition; shortened to Santana by the end of 1967.
• Signed with Columbia Records in late 1968.
• The "classic" line-up stabilised in May 1969: Carlos Santana, Gregg Rolie, Michael Carabello, David Brown, Michael Shrieve and Jose "Chepito" Areas.

Members

• Carlos Santana is the only consistent member across the band's history.
• Classic line-up: Santana, Gregg Rolie (organ, lead vocals), Michael Carabello and Jose "Chepito" Areas (percussion), Michael Shrieve (drums), David Brown (bass).
• Brown died in 2000; Areas was not invited to the 2014 reunion.
• Classic line-up members were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.

Career

• Breakthrough at the 1969 Woodstock Festival; the debut album Santana peaked at No. 4 on the US Billboard 200.
• Abraxas (1970) and Santana III (1971) both reached No. 1 on the US Billboard 200.
• Early 1970s experiments with jazz fusion on Caravanserai (1972), Welcome (1973) and Borboletta (1974).
• Amigos (1976) returned the band to commercial success; Moonflower (1977) was its most successful album since Santana III.
• Commercial decline in the 1980s, followed by a seven-year recording hiatus.
• Supernatural (1999) won eight Grammy Awards and sold an estimated 30 million copies worldwide.
• Santana IV (2016) reunited the classic line-up, the first recording together in 45 years.
• Estimated 100 million records sold worldwide.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Billboard said there was nothing new or revolutionary on Zebop!, which carried the band's usual professional treatment
• Cashbox wrote that the album stands as a voyage into the hypnotic Latino style of yesteryear
• Cashbox believed some material harkened back to the Abraxas era and concluded that the salsa style rock Santana pioneered is still as infectious as ever
• Record World thought the album carried imaginative interpretations of great songs, citing "Changes" and "Winning" as examples

Records

• Billboard chart peak: 9th place
• Some singles from the album charted on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart and the Billboard Hot 100
• The album and the single 'Winning' were among Santana's last top 40 hits until 1999

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The original vinyl has a transcription error in the lyrics of the fifth track on side A, 'Over and Over', in which the second and third stanzas were swapped
• Six music videos were shot in a mock concert setting on the A&M Stage at A&M Records on La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles, directed by Bruce Gowers and produced by Paul Flattery
• The A&M Stage used for the videos is now owned by the Jim Henson Company
• Discogs lists Fred Catero as mixing engineer, and notes a release with obi, insert and original inner sleeve
• Cashbox linked the album's material to the Abraxas era

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · fr.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com

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