This is an authentic jewell. Fania all Stars -the best salsa band ever- with all its line up playing in 1971 at the 'cheetaa' in New York City. This is an original footage from the movie 'our latin thing'. A selected group or musicians conformed in 1968 'fania all stars', Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Héctor Lavoe, Santos Colón, Willie Colón, Rubén Blades, Roberto Roena, Larry Harlow, Mongo Santamaría, Papo Lucca, Nicky Marrero, Bobby Valentín, Cheo Feliciano, Ismael Miranda, Justo Betancourt, Ismael Quintana, Pete "El Conde" Rodríguez, Bobby Cruz and of course the great Ray Barretto, the boy with the hard hands -el manos duras-, Just to mention few of them.
This is a picture of the envelope I received. On September the 29th I received a letter sent from London Metropolitan Police’s forensic department. The envelope contains Volan’s death report. I am still recovering from such a terrible moment. As Volan’s closest (and perhaps sole) friend I am in the obligation of publishing these lines on his own blog, as it was his last will. In strange circumstances my dearest friend Volan passed away in the dawn of the 23rd of September in Homerton Hospital in London. His body was carted off from the churchyard of Saint Paul’s Cathedral after a mad night out with Siobhan (Sweeny), -an Irish-Scottish blues singer whose Volan had just met few hours before in the surrounding areas of Anexo Bar, close to Farringdon Station. At the moment that the ambulance arrived at the place Volan showed a critical state and almost without vital signals dying a while after indoors, in the above mentioned hospital. The death certificated shows a very cryptic language ...
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Not my kind of music but I really enjoyed watching the vid!
Keep up the good work!