Background information & track listing for 1971 San Francisco "3rd Album" Studio  Outtakes Part 1 & 2 

Tracks - Everybody's Everything / Ballin' / ? (Folsom Street One) / Fried Neckbones / Guajira / Batuka / ? A la cala / 

General info
This tape started to circulate during the early 80s often refered to as 'NYC Apartment Jams Jan. 24, 1971'. Rumoured to be a stolen copy of a personal Gregg Rolie tape and passed along the way to unknown band friends. Most tracks are in remarkably good condition, all are of soundboard quality and seem to be mixed more or less for a few times for 'band & recording label' demonstrational purposes. Most likely handed over (by the mixer) to get insights over the recording sessions for their upcoming  post new Abraxas album. 
The * denotes tracks that appear in a finished and added version on 'Santana 3'.

Side A

- Everybody's Everything (instrumental early version, no vocal, no horns)(*)
The earliest version available. Different overdubbed guitar solo's by Neal Schon and a more prominently upfront bass by Carlos can be heard. This is the version without the Tower of Power horn section parts. Smoking gun!!

- Ballin'
Same version as released on 1988 Viva!Santana! Liner notes state that it was recorded at Coast Recorders Fall 1967 which is highly unlikely as the signature sound of Neal Schon is heard! FYI, Neal did NOt start to play with the group before Fall 1970.
The location in 1967 has to be the Pacific (Coast) recording studios  as the group held there its first demo sessions produced by Paul Curcio

- unknown title (later to be called 'Folsom Street One')
A totally unknown instrumental song recorded along the lines of a haunting latin-soft samba- shuffle guitar riff  (which was later used on the 1977 Moonflower track 'Bahia').
During the track the  spellbinding guitar and piano parts (Neal vs Gregg -or even Alberto Gianquinto?-) alternate and move towards the end of the song to the opening syncopatic rhythm pattern of 'Batuka' which is then cut. A lengthier version exists and popped up on an editied version of this cassette digitised to cdr in the 90s.
Prior to the release of 1988 Viva Santana Columbia records release a promotional only CD  featuring this track tentatively called 'Folsom Street One', a hommage (?) to the original street name address of Columbia recording studios in San Francisco. A place  heavily used by the 1971 Santana band to record their new album. A second version (not the one here!) features  a free form contribution  of a flute section soloing all the way through the track played by (band manager) Stan Marcum. At one point it became a big thing for him to be recognised as a band member as well hence this contribution. So far it is the only known musical contribution of Stan Marcum for the band!

- Fried Neckbones (instrumental early version, no vocal, no trumpet, no vibraphone)
A classic band cover version song of a Willie Bobo song the early Santana Blues Band fooled around with ever since 1968. The version here remains unreleased till today although a similar version appeared on the 1978 Giants album, a session album instigated by Michael Carabello and Gregg Errico with a working title called 'Attitude' recorded simular to the Santana 3 sessions and during the first part of 1972. 'Attitude' got shelved and was released eventually in 1978. This version is without vocals, no trumpet soloing (by Chepito) and does not include the vibraphone section as is on Giants. Definitely Carlos in the lead over a echoing Hammond section. Santana 3 at their very best! A version that is dying to get a proper release. I can not imagine a more distintive 'drug ridden feel' that was laid down by that specific band. A 10+!

- Guajira (different vocal version, alternate piano) (*)
Guajira is here sung differently by Rico Reyes with some more chanting; the piano parts are also alternating. Neal and Carlos' guiter parts are as on the original album. Carabello adds a few loose conga rolls omiing from the definite version. This 1st version is more rough and differs from the original version and from the quadraphonic lp version as well.

- ?  (Batuka - Sly Stone inspired jam cut)

A rare longer track in the jam vein that follows two paths: it opens with the main theme which became Batuka and a more Sly Stone kinda groove. Features an unknown psychedelic kinda guitar part before Neal takes over. A version with a coro also exists making it more of an anti-protest piece. Fragments of Luis Gasca's 1971 For Those Who Chant album can be heard as well; an album that inspired the Santana band at the time heavily!)