Carlos Santana: Don’t Play Music, Play Life!
Wong Notes
Premier Guitar
4.9 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The legend shares insights on the guitar as a lead voice, the power of a single note, the instrument’s role in society, creating musical Mona Lisas, shooting for a higher goal, and his long, loving history with Miles Davis, B.B. King, Jerry Garcia, Pharoah Sanders, John McLaughlin and other all-time-greats.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening? |
| 0:03.9 | Welcome to Wong Notes podcast. |
| 0:05.6 | I'm your host, Corey Wong. |
| 0:06.7 | I'm stoked today. |
| 0:08.0 | Why? |
| 0:08.6 | Because I have one of my absolute favorite guitar players of all time on the show. |
| 0:14.8 | Carlos Santana. |
| 0:17.2 | Oh my gosh. |
| 0:19.5 | Feels pretty freaking good. |
| 0:22.1 | Carlos is somebody who's had, what, several decade career, impact, and legacy. |
| 0:31.5 | Talking multi-generations, multi-genres, not many guitar players can say that. Not many guitar players have had the cultural |
| 0:40.2 | or social impact that Carlos Santana has had. Huge, huge, huge. Very stoked to have Carlos on the show |
| 0:48.2 | today. I'm also stoked because I'm on tour right now. I'm actually recording this intro from my |
| 0:53.8 | tour bus. |
| 0:55.2 | Tour has been going great. |
| 0:57.3 | After this week, we have a little break, |
| 0:59.2 | and then I go back East Coast Midwest in January. |
| 1:03.3 | Then I go to Europe in the spring. |
| 1:05.4 | I'm pretty stoked about that. |
| 1:06.9 | I've been getting some emails and questions, though, through this podcast, |
| 1:10.3 | some little inquiries, |
| 1:11.8 | some messages, DMs about rhythm guitar, because that's kind of my expertise. A lot of people |
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