Coming out of the Miles Davis quintet, guitarist and legend Jon McLaughlin started The Mahavishnu Orchestra, and created the jazz-rock fusion genre. I wouldn't say they're unknown but they're definitely lost to the times by now. The song lengths, the instrumentation, even the simple persistence of the drums are pretty much imitated and mirrored by the entire psychedelic rock genre at this point– see Tame Impala, Pond, and my other unknown suggestion: the epic Causa Sui.
Yes I have! You recommended it last time Mahavishnu came up, haha:D I agree it's amazing, but like I told tng I think Abraxas was Santana's best-- it was raw carlos imo.
When he hit the scene he was a phenom. A teenager playing the same stages as the biggest acts in San Fran in the late 60's. He's mentioned a good deal in Bill Graham Presents, a must read for any fan of rock and roll.Santana used to be awesome long, long ago, before he did collaborations with Rob Thomas and women's shoe designers
-this is so hard to believe, given the absolutely awful songs he put out with Rob Thomas.
I read his biography in like 6th grade. It gave me a much better image of him as, like you said, a young phenom. The passion coming out of Abraxas was awesome, dude was a prodigy. I think he's just old now. Eh.