Most underated albums......

What is underrated? Some obscure band you heard and liked
but nobody else did? Or some band that was popular but the
album did not get airtime or nobody liked except you???
Everything in life might be "rated", but not necessarily rated the way you like. Why under or over rate everything? Why put things or ideas in a hierarchy? Just enjoy the things you like and forget about under or over anything!

To clarify, Santana's third album, titled "Santana", features the original band plus Neal Schon. "Welcome" features a completely different lineup (except for Jose Areas). The Santana/Rolie guitar/organ combo were great, but Carlos and Tom Coster click even better. "Welcome" also features Doug Rauch on bass. I'm not familiar with anything else he did, but he's a phenom on this album.

Since you're asking, I love "Welcome". The Organ playing is simply ethereal. But, to me, it doesn't comprise a whole the way that "Caravanserai" does. "Barboletto" falls somewhere in the middle. What makes Caravanserai unique is that it is the sound of a rock band of the greatest musical facility discovering jazz for the first time and looking backward to the traditions of jazz while looking foreward to hybrid jazz-rock forms. For my money Greg Rollie is the best keyboard player to have played with Santana and Shreve the best drummer. A quick look at "Soul Sacrifice" from the film "Woodstock" tells the whole story. I also believe that Cuban phenom Conga player Armando Pereza played on all of these albums in addition to Chepito Areas on timbales but memory may fail me. I really think that Edgar Winter's "Entance" that I recommended above falls into much the same magical category, and yet the two sound nothing alike.

Thanks, I'll look Welcome up , if still in print??? Yes Shrive was great on percussion, but not as good as Billy Cobham with John Mc Laughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra Live in New York's Central Park. The cd is stll avaliable Between Nothingness and Eternity. 3 songs. Man! really "trancen"adental music. For those who missed this most underrated albums" may want to consider this one. This maybe more looked over than Caravanseri.

Mahavishnu Orchestra Live from Central Park 1973?, cd still in print called Between Nothingness And Eternity. huumm, nice playing here, but this was about the only things I like by John Mc Laughlin, ...except his work with Santana on Love Devotion Surrender. Another underrated album. At least no one talked much about it in the 'hood at the time it came out.