The Captain Meets Carlos Santana

[Music] hey everybody thank you very much for tuning in to another episode of anderson's tv and my special guest today all the way from hawaii is uh multi grammy winning her rock and roll hall of fame inductee mr carlos santana um thank you so much uh tell me how is hawaii as beautiful as uh it always seems on the postcards much better how long have you lived in hawaii for uh i've been living up and down here since uh probably the 90s oh wow but back to the mainland and then this time we moved in about two years ago to kauai this time not not maui not honolulu to kauai and it's very different in here right a slower pace of life yeah this is so people used to say everybody wants to go to heaven nobody wants to die and now i say i'm in heaven and i didn't die oh that's beautiful and is your are you in your recording studio there no no it is the living room that's great can i see just over your shoulder is is that a dumbbell just over your shoulder oh yeah oh man is amazing well look we're here to talk a little bit about guitars and um music and new music and maybe some old music as well um but i i guess i want to start with um your most of your playing career you've used guitars that have um a two humbucker uh kind of set up um i know early days it was maybe two p 90s when about during you know your your playing playing life did you realize that that that kind of guitar was going to allow you to express your your tone in the way you want it to uh it pretty much started like around the 60s because um that people always looking for a tone you know i think that as a musician you always are looking for that tone your uniqueness your individuality your authenticity the main thing about music is that people should people should recognize you in one note you know and by the grace of god i have accomplished being recognizable in one note no matter what amplifier or guitar i play right you know i choose i choose at the beginning gibson's and then i and then i went to paul reed uh and i never looked back because paul makes his guitars that which he can send them across the world and when they when they arrive they always arrive in tune and you can play right out box yeah so you know the the main thing about paul reed is is two words uh impeccable integrity and when you have those things put together with consistency then you can pretty much don't think about the guitar just think about uh your emotions your feelings and your passion that's what's really important when it comes to the music that i play those three things and i know everybody um you're very famous for talking about uh how spirituality affects music and music affects your spirituality um i suppose you're you're right it's a you're part of a fairly select club of guitar players who are instantly recognizable from as you say one note was that you know again during the 60s when you were cutting your teeth as a professional guitar player was that something that you consciously wanted to achieve or do you just think that's some greater power has just given you that kind of gift it's the second one you know when i was when i was very young i didn't know better so i wanted to sound like bb king and then i wanted to sound like artist rush and then i wanted to sound like eric lapton and then i wanted to sound like peter green i wanted to sound like everybody that i love albert king freddie king bb king and i used to actually lock myself into a closet in the dark and try to get the notes to sound and feel just like otis rush and after a while i realized that the more i tried the less i sounded like them and it just i just sounded like me and then i said well maybe that's not so bad i mean and it certainly worked out i i i kind of find your there's there's i've heard paul paul reed smith talk about um how he tracked you down and you know like a private detective trying to get his guitar to you um and that first break for him was probably uh you know who knows what would have happened to him and his guitar brand had you not decided to play his guitar but what were your what's your recollection of that um that sort of mid-80s time when when paul was trying to to get you the guitar i was really impressed and inspired that a person would have that kind of diligence uh focus and tenacity to uh you know because at that time it was basically gibson and fender gretch was a guitar but at least for me with all respect to gretch it's not something that i ever wanted to sound like i just wanted to sound more like uh because it's very difficult to play blues on a grech guitar you can play country and you can play beatles songs but you can't play the blues or at least when you when you try to play the blues it sounds a little nasally yeah you know kind of like that and i didn't want to sound like that i didn't want sound country so i liked the telecaster and i liked the stratocaster but i basically felt that because i started off as a violin player i felt that the gibson guitars or now the paul reed guitars it allows me to uh play like a violin or like a voice which is the greatest compliment that anybody can give you as a guitar player that you sound like aretha or very holiday or or dion warwick you sound like a voice you know that's because a lot of people play a lot of notes a lot of chords and play really fast i always felt that the most important thing for me would be to uh create a note that four corners of the world would love it like like a miles davis uh melody you know so melodies in the in the right tone for me uh it's much easier to articulate the music that i want to play it's it's interesting you you talked about vocalists and and i think that's i've heard you talk about that before and and personally i will always um enjoy listening to a guitar player that is trying to connect with their instrument in a vocal way rather than you know i'll always go for feel over pure technique um but you you you mentioned three female vocalists i didn't you didn't mention a male vocalist do you do you do you maybe sort of i don't know do you are you inspired more by the female voice than the male voice or is that just um was that just a coincidence that you happen to mention those three i'm drawn more towards women to the female vocalist because my sound is more like a female vocalist like a mouse is a female coltrane is more uh i do love marvin gaye a lot i do love uh michael jackson a lot uh but i still lean more towards aretha and um and billy holiday is or maheli jackson's you know uh singing uh there's something very haunting about the the the frequency of of the vibration uh frequency vibration energy that they emanate uh it's easier for my heart to to articulate with my fingers that that kind of direction yeah so going back to this this time when paul met you uh i'd i probably didn't meet paul until maybe 10 or 15 years after that but i've seen pictures of him and he and he's quite a you know he's a sort of quirky young guy um he's very intense and very passionate about what he does um but what was it literally like he was just following you around and knocking on backstage doors and just trying to get you a guitar or was it did it did somebody did your roadie kind of hook you up with him you know it happened very very naturally very normal he was not imposing or pushing the way he presented himself again uh i it was impressive and inspiring because i could see in his eyes that he was going to be right up there with those top three with gibson fender and paul reed and that's not easy to do you know i mean you have now other guitar guitars ibanez or yamaha however to after all this long run because it is a marathon run you know sometimes people they sell to pepsi cola or coca-cola because they can't whatever you know but paul has been able to maintain a great position when when mtv started in the 80s a big percent of the guitar players in those bands started to play uh paul reed's guitars you can see it you know so you can tell that he was uh entering into arena that it was made very selective which is deeply fender and i am so proud of him because uh his tenacity and his his focus you know to stay with something has been very rewarding for me as well yeah well i think the the guitar he made for you with the the little detail going down the the middle of the body where the two pieces of maple book match it's a it's such a beautiful beautiful looking guitar um and it does i think there's a there's a certain symbiotic uh i think the way paul voices his guitars and the way you try to sound really complement each other in a way that i can't think of many other artists whose natural sound is so in tune with the the instrument maker in terms of what they're trying to do um but your relationship with paul and with prs kind of went to a whole other level um because weren't you one of the driving uh forces behind paul's decision to to do the se range yeah uh the as he basically i i'm the one that became like paul i started like seeking him out and and being constantly persistent and on on his case and i said look because i kept hearing you know that like anything in life sometimes i kept hearing that his company was in trouble and was it was you know sometimes it was difficult to maintain all of that and i said well paul look when i started they used to have the gibson junior which was they called it our student model i said why don't you make stupid models man you know a lot of people cannot afford people in junior high school in high school they can't afford the guitars that you make for me you know so make one for kids who go to junior high school in high school and you kept looking at me like i was crazy you know and and so after about literally almost like 20 to 25 years if i listened to me when he didn't listen to me i'm not exaggerating i would pretty much believe his savings company you know because the youngsters and for me i thank you from the center of my heart because they try to in invite into the navy army marines and uh all the all of that recruit people i'm trying to recruit new guitar players you know because it's important to get kids away from the guitar hero you know a technical electronic ugly sound i call it an ugly sound you know and when you get the real sound from i mean talking about a real sound i discovered yesterday after 50 years i discovered that the doors travel with albert king right they did a tour with albert king and they play together a whole lot like like four or five so well i'm like a half a concert in vancouver so i seeked it out and i found it and it was like oh my god albert king went albert king went totally bananas you know a little red rooster and all these other songs i got so excited i actually emailed and started bugging my brother eric clapton and he never heard it so we both we both going crazy discovering albuquerque with the doors our two one of our two favorite bands but again i'm coming back to to to it's important to follow like paul he follow his uh inner voice i follow my inner voice i finally did convince them to create the student model i think he has 22 different versions of student models now you know so obviously i knew what i was talking about and uh they are some of the best uh guitars in their price range of anything i i even remember for many many years there was uh there was some ambiguity as to what the se stood for and was it the santana edition or was it the student edition or the special edition or whatever like that even now i'm not sure there's an official line so maybe maybe we should leave it like that ambiguous maybe it is the santana edition who knows um there are two uh two you've updated your se models recently haven't you i think just before we started rolling did you have a gold one with you yes yes it just got said to me it's pretty they smell good too is it true can you smell a good guitar do you know if it's going to be right just from its smell oh yeah absolutely yeah so that one obviously is the single cut and traditionally you've maybe played a double cup kind of style so what are you what are you loving about that the difference between the two i'm finding that the double cut it looks really nice uh and and it sounds great the single cut for some reason i don't know if it's psychological it seems to have a dif a more warmer thicker tone and it tends to stay in tune a little better kind of like a log kind of thing so uh i like staying in tune because i don't want to think about it i just want to like be able to play music that i don't think about it yeah just as an extension absolutely um and what about what is it about the color do you like are you do you find uh is there some importance around the gold or is is that just visually you like it well i think gold represents victory it represents triumph it represents royal uh you know i don't look at gold like money or or any like that i always thought of gold something like something imperial and royal and majestic yeah so when he made this guitar you know uh and i and i grabbed it and it resonated jumping out of the speakers uh it it was easier for me to uh uh get get the three tones that i like head tones chest stones belly tones yeah you know and this guitar uh gives you that right out of the box i i heard you talk about those three tones in a in another article i think you referenced to almost um uh vocal registers you know like tenor baritone that those kind of sounds that different singers will have um and is that is that a sort of a search for you are you are you always looking for for guitars and amplifiers that will give you those three tones and do you have certain setups or certain songs where you go you know what this this would suit this register of tone or thank you for asking once i found the tone i can i can um i can do what i want to do in any song right because uh for example uh a a friend of mine was doing a roadie for me and he he worked with uh robin ford and larry carlton and when he was with me for about two weeks he says oh you know i said thank you thank you for helping me out because my main person was not around he was doing something else so he says listen before i go man i want to know why do you play three amplifiers with three amplifiers i go well it's not because of volume assistance because the boogies as i've been playing since 72 is there they're the they're the head tones you know like head tones and then dumbbell is the chest stones and i use this other amplifier named pluto from denver colorado for because they have more bass for the for the pavarotti kind of belly you know and once i get those three going on at any stage it's easier for me to play in any song with any singer or any artist i become the chameleon what what i become you know then i don't need to do this or do that i'm the one that has to adopt uh my sensitivity sensibility sensibility and sensitivity to match what get whatever gets in front of me because what i learned after playing with so many uh musicians women and men i have learned the art of knowing when to come in and not to step on anybody's lines you know and play it in such a way that if you play with eric clapton or johnny hooker robotic guy play in such a way that they look at you and by the way they're looking at you you know they're going to invite you back you know because it's never been with eric and i and all of us it's never been about competition man or comparing it's always been about complementing so again with with the paul reed guitar it's easy est to complement to just close your eyes and your your spirit your soul and your heart immediately become one uh the analogy that i give is like it's like a piece of glass that you put next to the sun at the right angle and then the whole rainbow up here yes that's not just green and not just yellow but the whole rainbow and and see once i have those tones uh this is why i do a sound check it's just to just crystallize uh and so that it's not fussy or weird so it's like pristine with definition then i love that about this cat johnson eric johnson he's like that too some people are really sticklers for tone you know they spend they spend a lot of time getting the tone right before they record or play live i think if you're if you're the if you're in that kind of virtuoso guitarist camp then you're right it's your voice isn't it it's not just the notes it's the um it's the timer and the and the the sustain and the and it's the emotion that it evokes in the person that's listening to it it's um so it's so important um i'm i'm keen to know just because i'm a sort of a nerdy gear guy you've got what's the blue guitar that you've got just behind you okay the blue guitar is another model that he made for me it's called the santana wow that's amazing that's so cool yeah yeah how long have you had that one for uh since since march okay cool and then he said and then you make me another one oh i like that too that's great what's the uh where did you get the idea for the for the angel on the on the body it's from uh our album called abraxas right we made uh this is gabriel that angel was called gabriel and he's the one that announced to mary that she was going to have jesus yeah that's that angel that's beautiful um it must be great having a friend like paul reed smith so that every few months just a new guitar turns up and it's got some beautiful custom artwork on it does he tell you about this stuff or does he just send it to you as a surprise i works the other way i'm the one that comes up with a concept of what it looks like then i said to him and then he puts it out with with his company to see if it's feasible pos the possibilities of doing it but a lot of it uh you know i if i didn't play the guitar i could make a living just with my imagination alone you know because i i god gave me imagination to though i don't paint anymore like i used to when i was in high school but i still have a a very very vivid uh imagery when i close my eyes about hearing music scene music and and the same thing with guitars so i think that there's a way to uh recruit new guitar players woman and men you know i'm happy to tell you that there's more and more youngsters that are coming out that are very very impressive and very inspiring i i i'm always encouraged to see a bright future when i see a young 11 or 10 year old or like that you know where where you know they're not shocking and jiving and posing they're not they're not doing that they ain't doing that man you know you know when a musician is is is in it because they're going to start drooling when they're playing when they're playing a solo saliva god comes out of their mouth into the chest they don't even know that it's happening and you see their eyes getting like white you know and you go yeah that's the kind of musician that's going to make the music of the future because because you have to be all lost inside the node you got to get it you know it's not to don't get lost in the panels and don't get lost into this get get inside that note because that note is what gives you the keys to the hall of eternity like stevie ray you know and and jimi hendrix you i you know if i was a musician i i want to hang out with in the hall of eternity you know i i i i so i love everything that you you say about music i mean it it's as you say don't compete compliment feel it you know it's not it's not about how many notes you play it's it's a it's in it it's inspiring i think and and as you say it's still when you when you see in a when you see a young guitar player and i i mean really young as you say someone who's maybe 10 or 12 or 13 years old and they get it they they just you know they just they pl maybe they just play smoke on the water they've just worked it out smoke on the water but you can see inside their brain it's just triggered something and it's so powerful and they just get it and it's such a joy to see that happen in another person because you know now that their life is just going to be richer for being able to to play a musical instrument they're going to be able to touch other people's hearts and invite them to look at the bigger picture because the best thing that i ever learned you know at the fillmore are going to see bb king and eric clapton and jimi hendrix and michael blew of you and you know play with mac with peter green when i heard this music somehow i could see the big picture in my life you know i i knew that i fit i fit in there you know i i belong in there i belong with you know with lonnie mack and i belong with you know that kind of uh crowd uh and and and i can see myself on stage and hearing myself with them and i also want to believe that the notes that come out of my fingers in my heart can actually touch people's hearts and give them the hope and courage to be better people that's really what what a real guitar player can do but when i first heard manitos de plata or jungle reinhardt i i was like oh wait a minute you know orbola cete or segovia you know i was like oh okay you know all of a sudden because i started basically with just three people john lee hooker lightning hopkins and jimmy reid it was as basic as you can get but it's basic as it is it's very difficult to play you know uh uh because you got to play just right otherwise you sound corny you know because it's so simple if you don't play it right you sound corny uh later on i did discover you know bibi freddie albert and you know like that uh and i'm still searching i'm still searching for uh things to play in the guitar from john coltrane uh my main guy right now is sonisha rock and i'm happy to tell you i want to do a whole thing on sunny shark i want to invite the best musicians that i know the play guitar to play about 10 12 songs from sonic shirak because to me sanesha rock john mclaughlin and jimi hendrix are the most important guys wow at that level and yet that that uh sunny sunny shark i'm i'm not familiar with so he's i mean obviously john mcglock and jimi hendrix most well hopefully all guitarists all know those guys but um tell me a little more about sonny sharok okay sunny shirak is the kind of person that plays really beautiful and then all of a sudden he turns into like a living freaking tornado in front of you and it's like wow you know like the tasmanian devil and a tornado and chase chainsaw massacre and it's so crazy like cold train galactic in in universal going nuclear but there's beauty in there it will be my joy to send you some sanitary music i've been talking to his musicians because he passed around 94.95 and i i'm going to do by the grace of god i'm going to see if i can do a book a cd in a in a video documentary of him because when you see him you know he he he was like a linebacker like a big almost like a big dude from his ch from his chest had kind of skinny legs he kind of moved like freddie mercury you know but when he played the guitar it was it was like it was you know like this his nose went like this like like a gypsy player and you and you hear this nose gushing out gus gushing out you like a saint bernard bernard shaking out water at you like and it sounds so beautiful you go oh my god there's melodies in the middle of all that chaos and crazy it's not noise it's like a nuclear melodies gala okay so john mclaughlin jimi hendrix son and sharok they're the closest to john coltrane right that's why i love them that's amazing and was he an american guy off this i mean he sounds like an american guy yeah yeah oh well there we go i mean hopefully i'll i will go and check him out that sounds cool um we should talk a little bit about uh the music you've been trying to do uh recently um i'm not sure that i'm not sure if if you've been working on any of your own projects this year but i know uh your wife has got a new album coming out and you've been working you're on some of the tracks on there but um how much did you have to do with cindy's new album as much as she invited me to uh we played with uh i played with vernon reed uh kirk hammondis in diamond wow and and uh vernon reed kirk hammett uh john mcclock only plays in two songs and he's unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable uh yeah herrera was called give the drummer some she's singing also uh uh it's it's a even though she's you know she's incredible drunk drummer uh it's it's a guitar player's album because there's a lot of guitar in it uh and uh i'm gonna work on uh i'm completing some things that i did with rick rubin uh african music um and i'm also gonna direct my energy towards just a ballot album just ballots you know uh so i'm excited to just uh wake up every morning with innocence thirst for adventure and this two words thirst for the unknown and unpredictability you know that there's your album there's the album name first for the unknown just so first with the unknown you know you can have that one yeah what was it like um when you're uh when you've got uh obviously cindy is very talented and super successful in her own right i i think i saw her with lenny kravitz maybe 15 years ago i'm not sure something like that amazing drama but when when you've got two very successful musicians in the same household and and one is doing an album and she asks you to be a part of it is that is it a little bit like when you're driving in the car and you know your wife is sitting next to you and she keeps telling you slow down take this left take that right and you're going leave me alone i know what i'm doing like that is it is it kind of like do you have to be careful about what you suggest and what you know are you just there look if you want me to play some guitar play some guitar or is it more of a cooperative thing you know uh thank you for asking that i i believe the reason we got together is because we both have graduated in in her life and in my life and we have become spiritual adults so everything about being with each other is never an imposition it's never about uh whose ego or anything about that always with her she's she is literally like somebody described uh i think elvin jones described ice cream cake and pie when she plays drums she's absolutely ferocious like bruce lee and you know a lot of men who get scared when they see her they go oh because they gotta go practice as soon as they see her uh but when she's next to me and i'm next to her we both pay attention to the sensibility of like for like like for example if i come to your house and we're friends and there's some children running around i would make sure that the children's little fingers don't get caught in a door you know so for me cindy is that child that i don't want her fingers to get hurt in the door all over her so i'm very very vigilant that however i say something in the tone or the presentation everything has to be presented to her from my heart to her it's an invitation to expand not to impose or i know better than you or it ain't about that you know because i respect her she grew up with art blakey and tony williams and real real incredible musicians and i thank god and i think eric lenny kravitz because they both bless me with cindy you know cynthia's a real musician partner you know besides being my wife and my lover and all that and a friend but she's a real musician partner that we can talk about we never get predictable or boring ever because we're always talking about miles davis and and then wayne shorter and herbie and ron and tony you know and farrell sanders and so for cindy and i is we're like eternally kids in a candy store you know it is because music for us is not a job or or you know is it's such a vibrant blessing that's the best way to put it our lives together it's a vibrant blessing and we constantly discover new new things about miles and tony williams and john mclaughlin we both love the same thing i love john mclaughlin can't get enough of him you know there's a i think there are two tracks from uh two tracks from that album that have been released on uh apple music as like a like a teaser for the for when the main album comes out and one one of them has john mclaughlin on it and and it's mind-blowing you know it's just like it's you know cindy's powerful drumming and some crazy guitar parts from john it's just it's a very cool track so hopefully people will check that out as well um i'm kind of i don't want to keep you too much longer i i i think most of the people watching this would love to see what that amplifier is over your right hand shoulder because uh we don't see many dumbbells in the world and i'm guessing that's what it is let me see if i can turn around can you see it yeah absolutely so is this one that is this one that um was built for you or that you've just bought over the years all of the above [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] um [Music] [Applause] [Music] that sounds amazing absolutely almost all that kind of haunting reverb and um all right that sounded that sounded great did you ever do you ever look back now you know you've had a incredibly successful career uh you've you've got you know signature guitars a house in hawaii do you look back sometimes to i never sort of think that first woodstock thing it's like it's isn't that just it's like crazy that you know like a you were pretty young at the time relatively unknown and then it's like it's just a crazy life right i mean it's just some somebody up there is making sure you know things are going good somebody in here too yeah somebody out there somebody in here too you know that when you put them both together the holy ghost and the inner spirit and and you're in the middle uh honoring both you know uh to this day some sometimes people and usually people who are insecure they go oh you know you know about lsd or masculine or acid or whatever and i go well one thing that i know is that i learned about expan i know why jimmy hendrix created that kind of music because he took some acid because if he hadn't taken some acid it wouldn't sound the same you know and those who taken it like from the like the beetles and sargent pepper uh you know i can tell you who took it and who has yet to take it because those who who taken it they sound a lot more galactic and otherwise it sounds beautiful but it sounds like the neighborhood you know in the neighborhood is beautiful but it's not galactic you know one once you go galactic is is is something different uh miles brew the the doors there's something i'm not promoting i i am saying it that there's a television this size and then there's ultra surround around multi-dimensional you know and and i i thank god because some people who took it never came back they got a you know something happened to them but for me it gave me it gave me even more clarity and a better a better somehow i can dance with insanity and sanity and make it work and make it fun you know so i tell the people who try to make fun of me like well you took too much and i go well you haven't taken that you know and and when you haven't taken none you don't have the right to insult me and make fun of me because you don't know what it's like to go into this other portal yeah in dimension because it is a portal in the dimension this is why shamans american indians before the white people came from europe they you know it was a way to uh it's kind of like a it's kind of like a meditation i'm going to send you the album from from sunny shirak uh high life it's called high life and next time you listen to brew or of the tree albums from jimi hendrix the first three albums you know what i'm talking about about um consciousness explosion expansion like that it's a it i've touched on this in other videos in the past we we've talked we've talked quite a lot about you know what music would have been created had it not been for the uh for the sort of the the sort of the mind-enhancing uh or expanding effect that some drugs have but it's always a difficult topic really that one because you're sitting there going as you rightly say some people experiment with it and it has a it has a very a powerful creative impact on them and they're able to make something amazing and they're also able to get their control it and lead a normal life and for other people it takes over and and in the most extreme cases people will die or have long lasting mental illness as a result of it so i always feel a sense of slight trepidation talking to an artist like you to sort of go look i do understand where you're coming from in the sense of going you you are right you know some of that music would never have been made had it not been for for the for the the drugs that those artists were taking uh you see there's not no it's not a drug for example drugs drugs are made in a laboratory man-made drugs mother nature makes medicine it's a medicine to extend expand your consciousness and and i you know i do invite people if they want to try it take a guide with you take a person who you know is like learning how to body surf everybody serve with somebody who can guide you so you don't drown yeah you know and also if you're not a nice person if you're really really a nice you're not a nice person don't take it because there's no place to hide and all you're going to see is your ugliness your scary ugliness you know but if you're a nice person basically you have kindness you have compassion you have like the innocence of a child that you want to discover what's it like to play one note and give people chills what's it like to play one note and make people cry and laugh and dance and and and just feel like they're seeing the complete picture in one note then then you're okay with that but i still invite you to if you are gonna take it take it under with supervision you know and cary grant the actor did you know a lot of people did it because and there's there's actually tours you go to places in south america where you can go and you can be the shaman and you have two or three days the result is the result is that you it's very beneficial to you because it's like taking skin off you like a snake perceptions illusions and indoctrinations that are there that they are set to make you feel like a victim or a villain you know that stuff is not good for you so it's actually good to get rid of that and then the real person comes out and when that person comes out you can actually sense and feel with more than just the five senses this is why jimmy hendrix you know and those who um experimented with it you know they sound so different quite frank i i i think you've talked about hendrix you can you can hear it in i don't i don't there's you know what whether it's whether it's uh sort of whatever kind of substance it is could be alcohol whatever even in someone like eric clapton you know his music was different during that era and probably as you say more um adventurous is that the right word just more just just different isn't it and and it's not uh as you say it just i guess it opens up parts of the mind that perhaps you know are naturally more those the clue is that it puts the mind aside right there's more it's no more mind because mind is very limited it allows your spirit and your soul in your heart the three most important the three most important parts of you as a musician or any kind of artist your spirit your soul and your heart your spirit and your soul they're immutable first of all they cannot be messed with you know as your ego it gets your feelings hurt you know you broke my heart or you didn't do this man it's been 50 years get over it you know uh but your spirit and your soul this is why i love musicians who i can just immediately hear the spirit and the soul taking over the heart then the heart tells the mind shh don't think get out of the way and allow it to flow through you that is the best kind of music that i heard from the doors anyone that i love because uh called train because it's not them anymore it's the universe being channeled to them and there is such a thing you know i wish that you and i had time to actually do a seminar uh and invite people to ask the questions like for example uh in 30 seconds before we leave in 30 seconds i would ask somebody in 30 seconds here's a watch 30 seconds man show me how many times you can give yourself chills i mean real bona fide chills if you can't give chills to yourself then i'm not going to get him either because that's a little music if i don't feel it why should you but if you learn to to give yourself like like chills so in one note the audience are never gonna forget that note they're never gonna i've seen people say that to eric eric the way you play tonight i never been touched like that before you know and eric probably go home and already remember what you're talking about because he wasn't there he was going through him you know and so there has to be in the future seminars about guitars and strings and pedals and amplifiers but how to access the unknown tone the the other side of the unknown because that's the one that people are going to remember when they go you you are a gold mine of how to access the unknown it's another great uh access the unknown it's another great video title or an album title but i would love uh if ever i know at the moment travel is a is a problem but if you're if you're ever touring in the uk or if i'm in los angeles at one of the guitar shows or something and you happen to be around i'd love to talk about that in in more depth and and let's see let's see if we can do the 30 second chill challenge you know you've got 30 seconds and let's see how many times we can get it to go i'd love that that would be awesome well look man yeah i i've i've enjoyed this so much um and uh i i hope uh i know 2020 has been a super challenging time for for all musicians there's been no gigs and nightmare uh but like hopefully you're back on the road in 2021 are you and people be able to come and see a show somewhere absolutely uh for for us cindy and i this is the time to uh crystallize intentions modus and purpose really really hone in on your priorities you know uh and so i i promise you well lord willing when we are when we are allowed to play as a group in front of people people are going to back out you know they're going to go crazy because we are so marinated with the ocean and the sky and the notes and what we're playing that people people are going to uh you know the most important thing that a musician can do is manifest the father son and holy ghost in front of the molecules because the molecules go even if you're atheist you go oh my god you know be because you're you're sensing something that is outside of the realm of even superlatives and that's what we want to get to you know a child can understand it but angel skin can dance behind it and everything else in between it's a joy to talk to you and thank you for your devotion to sound resonance vibration that's what god is according to tesla god is sound resonant vibration oh man you are so cool i've really really enjoyed this look i i hope you keep doing what you're doing men and spreading the word and uh i hope every guitar player or every everybody who's watched this video has has enjoyed it and got something out of it and yeah i really really hope our paths cross at some point in the future i'd love to meet you face to face um carlos santana make sure you give us your name and all the information i have to send you some signage primo i will i will i'll get your email address from one of the people at prs and i'll send it to you but uh it's been an absolute pleasure and thank you so much and have a wonderful time in hawaii uh and yes thank you so much see you soon stay safe take care carlos thank you very much all right bye-bye you

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Id: QsdLhbNxs94

Length: 52min 52sec (3172 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 06 2020