“He said, ‘Carlos, where I am, I don’t have any fingers’”: Carlos Santana says Stevie Ray Vaughan came to him in a dream and told him to borrow his brother Jimmie’s Dumble amp
Carlos Santana certainly has a spiritual side, and says he often gets “visitations” from other musicians both dead and alive.
One particular visit came from legendary guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan, who asked Santana to borrow his treasured Dumble Steel String Singer amplifier from his brother Jimmie, so he could play guitar through it once again through Santana’s physical body.
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In an interview for Guitar World’s latest print issue, he explains, “I call them visitations. I get visitations from Miles Davis sometimes, as well as B.B. King. You don’t have to be dead to visit me. Sometimes a dream is not a dream; someone has come back to communicate with you.”
He adds, “I feel very honoured that these people come to me. Sometimes I feel like I’m 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.”
This may all sound a little crazy to those who aren’t so spiritual, but according to Santana, he’s not the only one who has these dreams. Apparently, SRV’s guitar tech had the exact same dream Santana did regarding the revered boutique Dumble amp.
“With Stevie, he was saying, ‘Carlos, where I am, I don’t have any fingers; I am only spirit.’ 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 Dumble, and then play it with a Strat so he could feel it through me.
“You know that Ghost movie with Whoopi Goldberg? There’s a part where a ghost comes into her body so he can feel. That’s what Stevie was doing. He wanted to utilise my body and hands because he missed playing guitar.”
He continues, “Jimmie wasn’t sure at first. Fortunately, Stevie’s tech, René Martinez, had the same dream and called Jimmie, which is how we convinced him to lend me the amplifier. The last person to borrow it was John Mayer. Let’s just say Jimmie doesn’t loan that thing out very easily.”
After cancelling some shows earlier this year after contracting Covid, Carlos Santana is back healthy, and is touring across Europe this month. He then kicks off his House of Blues residency in Las Vegas in September.
View a full list of his upcoming dates via his official website.
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