"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

Love it.

interesting. dont like santana, kinda even hate scott weiland.
but this version rocks! well, its a killer song...but well...i'm impressed!
where's that version from?
thanks for posting....

The original by the Stones was heavily influenced by Santana.
This version rocks..

"No dope smoking no beer sold after 12 o'clock"

Sounds like Alice Cooper singing. That's not a compliment.

Not bad, Carlos overplays it though and it never finds the groove.

This is one of my all time top favorite Stones song. And to be fair, it is hard for me to listen to this objectively. There are parts of it that are ok, but like was posted above it has no GROOVE. It lacks that soul punch of a groove that just hooks you into the trance of decadence. Could have, should have, and possibly would have been better with less of a "produced" arrangement with a more of a kick. I think the Crowes do a much better cover of this...

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The original by the Stones was heavily influenced by Santana.
This version rocks..

This time it's the other way around. He must be a Stones fan to play it like this.

Fantastic version! Really puts things in perspective, imo. Yeah, we are fans of the Stones, and we love "our" guitar players, but Carlos Santana is an incredible guitarist, no doubt about it, whether one likes his style or not.

I've never cared much for Weiland, but this time he did a good job, imo.

I'm gonna put on Santana's three first albums now

great version !

About a third of this album is tremendous including this track despite the whole effort being little more than guitar karoake.

A third is mediocre including Whole Lotta Love and a third of it is just plain awful including Smoke On The Water and Joe Cocker's 'Little Wing.'

Definitely a download title

The backup singers (on "Can´t you hear me knocking") seems quantized....so sterile...too on-beat.

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The backup singers (on "Can´t you hear me knocking") seems quantized....so sterile...too on-beat.

The whole album has a mechanized vibe like a band just played to the originals and then Carlos soloed over top without ever having interacted with other LIVE musicians. I'm guessing that's exactly how it was done.

I am a big fan of Weiland, appreciate some of Santana's work and I love the Stones original but this take just doesn't cut it for me. The first part of the song totally lacks the groove of the original. Overplayed, overproduced, superfluous. Then again, it's next to impossible to surpass the original.

I respect Santana, but this is disappointing . If this would be the original nobody would remember this one. The question comes to my mind: what is it what the Stones make so special ? At least they let their music breath (don`t play ten notes in every second) , the groove, room , dirt, and feel ! Santana has feel, but not on this one. By the way this was a choice of Weiland and as far as I remember Santana doesn`t really like the Stones..

There is no soul in this version.
Could be a machine playing together with Santana's guiatr.
The only somehow good thing on this song is Santana's guitar - the rest seems so mechanic /sterile. Stones guitar playing is much more sophisticated.

I'll just find a download. I'm not giving Carlos anymore money. He can he a real douche bag in person.

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I'll just find a download. I'm not giving Carlos anymore money. He can he a real douche bag in person.

we douche bags need money just as much as the next jackass.

how is santana a douche trainarollin?

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I'll just find a download. I'm not giving Carlos anymore money. He can he a real douche bag in person.

we douche bags need money just as much as the next jackass.

how do you like this song by carlos? to me carlos rocks and he could play anything he wants and put his own dna stamp on it and it's classic carlos!

It is a version. At least someone had the balls to give it a go.

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I'll just find a download. I'm not giving Carlos anymore money. He can he a real douche bag in person.

we douche bags need money just as much as the next jackass.

how do you like this song by carlos? to me carlos rocks and he could play anything he wants and put his own dna stamp on it and it's classic carlos!

haven't listened to it yet. will await my free illegal download and get back to you. but, i like douche bags like carlos alot, so i'm pre-inclined to like it.

Santana is a guitarist who can't shut up : he constantly adds little fills bits of riffs that make this version tirering... Plus the tempo is MUCH too fast.

This botched cover makes me realize how clever and tasty the Stones were in studio.

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The original by the Stones was heavily influenced by Santana.
This version rocks..

I read an interview with Keith a few years back and he said it was not influenced by Santana. I can't remember where I read it. Maybe when he was on the cover of Billboard magazine a few years back.

Rob

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The original by the Stones was heavily influenced by Santana.
This version rocks..

I read an interview with Keith a few years back and he said it was not influenced by Santana. I can't remember where I read it. Maybe when he was on the cover of Billboard magazine a few years back.

Rob

With all due respect, Keith can sometimes talk shit,not to start anything but in the original,the second part of that song is pure Santana groove,but many times the Stones have been known,not to give credit where credit is due....

Damn. I had high hopes for this, and really wanted to like it. I just read the interview with Santana in the new (3D!) issue of Guitar World and was all excited about it... (btw, if you're a Zep fan, the new issue of GW is great!)

In general, I like Santana lot, especially his early stuff. That said, I gotta agree with those that said Carlo didn't find the groove on this...it sorta has a 'paint by numbers' feel to it. Same goes for his version of Whole Lotta Love, unfortunately (just checked it out on youtube).

In the GW interview, Carlos talks about getting together top musicians for this album that he really liked to interact with, and that they kept him on top of his game...I'm surprised that the end product doesn't have more warmth to it.

the aim of a cover is NOT to sound exactly like the original.
i really like the drumin. it's a modern version but it rocks! and it has attitude....dig it!

Love it as I'm sure T&A will once he hits download button.

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Love it as I'm sure T&A will once he hits download button.

love it indeed. don't agree with the criticisms at all. santana in all his glory covering a fabulous song. brilliant.

(Keith and I) both played on (the intro) actually, it was one of the few, well not of the few Stones tracks because lots of tracks we recorded with the Stones in those days were actually by and large recorded live the way you would play them onstage, sometimes even in 1 or 2 takes. Very rarely were guitar solos overdubbed, I mean other things may have been overdubbed, but very rarely were guitar solos overdubbed, they were usually sort of done with the backing track so they were done live.

- Mick Taylor, 1995

On that song, my fingers just landed in the right place and I discovered a few things about that tuning (open G) that I'd never been aware of. I think I realized that even as I was cutting the track.

- Keith Richards, 2002

Can't You Hear Me Knocking... is one of my favorites... (The jam at the end) just happened by accident; that was never planned. Towards the end of the song I just felt like carrying on playing. Everybody was putting their instruments down, but the tape was still rolling and it sounded good, so everybody quickly picked up their instruments again and carried on playing. It just happened, and it was a one-take thing. A lot of people seem to really like that part.

- Mick Taylor, 1979

(The jam at the end wasn't inspired by Carlos Santana.) We didn't even know they were still taping. We thought we'd finished. We were just rambling and they kept the tape rolling. I figured we'd just fade it off. It was only when we heard the playback that we realized, Oh, they kept it going. Basically we realized we had two bits of music. There's the song and there's the jam.

- Keith Richards, 2002