Carlos Santana Comes To Aid Of Homeless Bandmate

In a flurry of news articles about all sorts of things going badly during the holiday season, via Crooks & Liars comes a headline to lift your spirits:

It began with a “People Behaving Badly” segment on illegal dumping in Oakland featuring Marcus Malone, fallen on hard times, homeless and rummaging through piles of trash. Malone told KRON 4′s Stanley Roberts that he used to play with the band Santana.

Malone was forced to quit the band in early 1969 when an arrest sent him to jail, before their big breakthrough at Woodstock.

The footage found its way back to Santana, and after 40 years, the two were reunited on camera, just days before Christmas.

You don’t know how hard I prayed to get to see you,” Marcus told Santana.

“God has a way,” he responds.

And now that they’ve found each other again, Santana doesn’t plan on letting Marcus get lost again.

“I want to offer him a place to stay in an apartment, get him some clothes, and just get him out of the street,” he told CNN.
– See more at: http://crooksandliars.com/2013/12/carlos-santana-reunites-homeless-former#sthash.Bkblpf8H.dpuf

By: dave-dr-gonzo

David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.