@@MoonStone2626 It's a very difficult point. Some people call this guitar Santana at first and Neil at the second half. When I play it myself, I feel Santana's finger habit, so I think it's Santana from beginning to end. This is a guess. At this time, Neil is so influenced by Santana that he may have become like Santana even if he plays. If possible, I would have understood if it was a different guitar instead of a response.

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thanks. i recorded with Amplitube Apps of ipad.

I think Carlo's solo on Yours is the Light is one of the best studio solos he ever did. I love his tone from back then, with the original Mesa Boogie Mark 1 and his sunburst Gibson Les Paul. The tone he had on his Gibson L6-S right after that in 1974 and 75 was nice too. My take on Song With the Wind is that Carlos did the more melodic parts , such as the few lines he did from "Breezin" by Gbor Szabo. I don't think most of it was done by Neal Schon as I've heard others on You Tube say. A lot of those licks from Song of the Wind, Carlos managed to slip into live jams on other leads he did back then, such as Incident from Nesabur.

@@jimdep6542 Yes interesting. I find it impossible to decide who is playing what as their sound is so similar. But I did read that Neil Schon played most of it. He is also a fantastic player. Santana veers to a more jazzy style with stints with Mc Laughlin and jazz rock during that period.

@@MoonStone2626 I think it's closer to 1/2 and 1/2. There are spots I can tell it's Carlos and other's I can tell it's Schon. What makes it tough to separate too is that they are both playing the same guitars. They went out and bought matching new Les Pauls......same pickups. In a Guitar Player Magazine interview back in the late 70's......maybe early 80's, Neal himself said that he played "also" on Song of the Wind, but at that time , didn't claim to play most of it. Although Carlo's playing was getting more evolved after joining up with McLaughlin in 1973, this album was recorded in 1972, so Carlos was still using a lot of his pentatonic / blues style for more grit mixed in with the more melodic Dorian mode type notes. Great combination of styles.

@jimdep6542 oh very interesting, i m happy there is some record by Schon of their interaction. So the Mc Laughlin period came after... Very beautiful piece here that shows he was evolving toward that. thanks for the details 😀

@@MoonStone2626 You're very welcome. He started a friendship with McLaughlin in 1972 and they played together privately. They cut the Love Devotion & Surrender album in early 73 and then toured together that summer to promote the album. Carlos was incredibly busy during that period, both touring the world with Santana and also with John McLaughlin AND spending as much time as he could with guru Sri Chinmoy. I saw on Wikipedia that states that Santana & McLauglin toured together in 73 and 74 to promote the album, but that's not entirely true. They were done promoting the album live by the fall of 73 and not at all in 74. They did play together occasionally , but playing different material and doing all acoustic shows every now and then. McLaughlin had a whole new band in 74 and Santana went through a few member changes too, so they were spending almost all their time with their own bands in 74.

Thank you for listening. I think I used iPad's Amplitube set instead of Macbook Air apps-Amplitube5. The amplifier is Mesa Boogie.

No, i live in Yokohama city in japan.