{"id":23758,"date":"2025-08-07T09:31:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T09:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/?p=23758"},"modified":"2025-08-07T09:31:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T09:31:46","slug":"stevie-told-me-to-call-his-brother-jimmie-and-ask-him-to-lend-me-his-amp-and-then-play-it-with-a-strat-so-he-could-feel-it-through-me-carlos-santana-on-his","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/2025\/08\/07\/stevie-told-me-to-call-his-brother-jimmie-and-ask-him-to-lend-me-his-amp-and-then-play-it-with-a-strat-so-he-could-feel-it-through-me-carlos-santana-on-his\/","title":{"rendered":"\u200b\u200b\u201dStevie told me to call his brother Jimmie and ask him to lend me his amp and then play it with a Strat so he could feel it through me\u201d: Carlos Santana on his \u201cvisitation\u201d from Stevie Ray Vaughan, who implored him to borrow his Dumble amp"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/tag\/carlos-santana\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/tag\/carlos-santana\">Carlos Santana<\/a> may have transcended guitar music and permeated pop culture, yet in his latest interview with <em>Guitar World<\/em>, the veteran musician reveals multiple brushes with the supernatural \u2013 including a \u201cvisitation\u201d from Stevie Ray Vaughan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI get visitations from Miles Davis sometimes, as well as <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/tag\/bb-king\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/tag\/bb-king\">B.B. King<\/a>. You don\u2019t have to be dead to visit me. Sometimes a dream is not a dream; someone has come back to communicate with you,\u201d he says matter-of-factly.<\/p>\n<aside data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" class=\"hawk-base\" \/>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like that with Stevie Ray and <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/tag\/jaco-pastorius\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/tag\/jaco-pastorius\">Jaco Pastorius<\/a>. I feel very honored that these people come to me. Sometimes I feel like I\u2019m like [John F. Kennedy International Airport] and all these musicians are landing on me and sharing things. I have to figure out what it all means.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"clear-both pt-3 pb-4 mb-4 border-solid border-y border-neutral-300\"><span class=\"font-article-heading block pb-3 !text-base font-bold uppercase sm:text-sm text-[#333]\">You may like<\/span><\/aside>\n<p>As for what his dream with SRV meant, Santana is keen to elaborate. \u201cHe was saying, \u2018Carlos, where I am, I don\u2019t have any fingers; I am only spirit.\u2019 He missed putting his fingers on a guitar and making the speakers push air. He told me to call his brother Jimmie [Vaughan] and ask him to lend me his amp, the #007 <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/features\/alexander-dumble-amps-legacy\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/features\/alexander-dumble-amps-legacy\">Dumble<\/a>, and then play it with a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/features\/best-stratocasters-top-fender-stratocasters-for-every-budget\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/features\/best-stratocasters-top-fender-stratocasters-for-every-budget\">Strat<\/a> so he could feel it through me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know that <em>Ghost<\/em> movie with Whoopi Goldberg? There\u2019s a part where a ghost comes into her body so he can feel. That\u2019s what Stevie was doing. He wanted to utilize my body and hands because he missed playing guitar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Safe to say that SRV&#8217;s brother, Jimmie, wasn&#8217;t sure at first, and it took some persuasion from Stevie\u2019s tech, Ren\u00e9 Martinez, who also had the same dream and told him about it, for Santana to borrow the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/features\/best-guitar-amps\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/features\/best-guitar-amps\">amplifier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last person to borrow it was <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/tag\/john-mayer\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/tag\/john-mayer\">John Mayer<\/a>. Let\u2019s just say Jimmie doesn\u2019t loan that thing out very easily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> {        window.reliablePageLoad.then(() =&gt; {            var componentContainer = document.querySelector(&#8220;#slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-ULZBbTsyhPBhpiKAHg6C7F&#8221;);            if (componentContainer) {                var data = {&#8220;layout&#8221;:&#8221;inbodyContent&#8221;,&#8221;header&#8221;:&#8221;Get The Pick Newsletter&#8221;,&#8221;tagline&#8221;:&#8221;All the latest guitar news, interviews, lessons, reviews, deals and more, direct to your inbox!&#8221;,&#8221;formFooterText&#8221;:&#8221;By submitting your information you agree to the <a href=\"https:\/\/futureplc.com\/terms-conditions\/\" target=\"_blank\">Terms &amp; Conditions<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/futureplc.com\/privacy-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy<\/a> and are aged 16 or over.&#8221;,&#8221;successMessage&#8221;:{&#8220;body&#8221;:&#8221;Thank you for signing up. 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According to Santana, it \u201csounded like everything I love about Peter Green when he played a certain kind of heavenly <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/tag\/blues\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/tag\/blues\">blues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mom once asked me, \u2018Mijo, do you like Whitney Houston?\u2019 and I said, \u2018Of course,\u2019\u201d he recounts. \u201cShe then told me that when Whitney sang, her voice would become a legion of angels. I think my mom knew what she was talking about. Sometimes when you play, you channel things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Santana has just released <em>Sentient<\/em>, a pared-down, 11-track retrospective of his career, featuring recordings unearthed from archives stored in his house.<\/p>\n<p>For more from Santana, plus new interviews with <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/tag\/billy-corgan\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/tag\/billy-corgan\">Billy Corgan<\/a> and Kiki Wong, and Al Jardine, pick up issue 595 of<em> Guitar World <\/em>from <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.awin1.com\/awclick.php?awinmid=2961&amp;awinaffid=103504&amp;clickref=guitarworld-gb-5945008601464791852&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.magazinesdirect.com%2Fuk%2Fguitar-world-subscription%2Fdp%2Fa3cb6acc\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.magazinesdirect.com\/uk\/guitar-world-subscription\/dp\/a3cb6acc\" rel=\"sponsored noopener\" data-hl-processed=\"hawklinks\" data-placeholder-url=\"https:\/\/www.awin1.com\/awclick.php?awinmid=2961&amp;awinaffid=103504&amp;clickref=hawk-custom-tracking&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.magazinesdirect.com%2Fuk%2Fguitar-world-subscription%2Fdp%2Fa3cb6acc\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" data-merchant-name=\"Magazines Direct\" data-merchant-id=\"6539\" data-merchant-network=\"AW\" data-merchant-url=\"magazinesdirect.com\">Magazines Direct<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Santana may have transcended guitar music and permeated pop culture, yet in his latest interview with Guitar World, the veteran musician reveals multiple brushes with the supernatural \u2013 including a \u201cvisitation\u201d from Stevie Ray Vaughan. \u201cI get visitations from Miles Davis sometimes, as well as B.B. 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