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PG's On Location in Stevensville, MD, where we drop in on Experience PRS. In this video segment, we get to see legends Buddy Guy and Carlos Santana performParliment-Funkadelic's "Maggot Brain." Both guitar masters are PRS guitars. Buddy Guy is using a Srat-style PRS guitar that has three single-coil pickups. Carlos Santana is using his to-be-released 25th Anniversay Signature guitar.

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BluesFan on 11/29/2009	I think these whiners are just used to the mastabutory soloing that seems to dominate modern rock/metal where one is expected to show dominance over the fret board and mastery of every technique developed since Johnny B Good was shocking people. What they(the whiners) are missing is whats lacking in most newer musicians and bands now. Is the skill at which these two are able to interact and riff off each other with complementery phrases. "less is more" is something few modern shredders have seamed to learn. While if you go back into both of these guys HUGE catalog of music you will find that both Carlos and Buddy now use far less notes in their solos than 20 years ago but still convey so much feeling...True mastery of the insrument.
ETphonehome on 11/01/2009	Ugh. Let me recant my blathering nonsense. Must be residual negativity from a couple of his semi-phoned-in-feeling cameos on some pop crap of the last five years...Carlos is a one-of-a-kind superstar. My deepest apologies. I'll go learn a Santana tune as penance...
ETphonehome on 10/30/2009	Eh, I'm a tool for hatin' on Carlos. I guess I just have found it a let down that Santana hasn't refined or expanded his kind of choppy semi-stiff technique in all these years of playing constantly. any Carlos fans, accept my apologies.
ETphonehome on 10/30/2009	wow, not to get into a pissing match with Frank Spero, but what can he possibly mean by '...haven't you ah*s heard of improvisation, listen and enjoy..." enjoy? --- um, really? Gee, Improv? What's that? I'm guessing that Frank doesn't play guitar -- because defending really super-iffy hacking improv not worthy of your very average 17 year old self-taught jammer is kind of like defending Sarah Palin as being a world-class intellectual solely because words come out of her mouth...
J.J. on 10/12/2009	When it comes to "Maggot Brain" Eddie Hazell closed the book!
Frank Spero on 10/10/2009	did you a.....h...s ever hear of improvisation thats is what this is listen and appreciate
Tom on 10/10/2009	I for one appreciated every single note!!! Good, bad, or indifferent, these gentlemen impress me every time they take the stage. I am grateful just to hear them play! I don't care what it is. Like BB King, they may not be what they once were. Who cares. Neither am I. Just listen. You just may learn something.
loopee39 on 10/10/2009	When this song came up, back in the day, I was in my first band as rythm guitar. Now my lead guitarist was only 18 and I was 19. We'd only been playing 1 year and we played that song note for note. Now I give props to Carlos and most definitely to Buddy, but I expected more, that's all I'm saying
ol goob on 10/09/2009	Gary Grainger (from Scofield's 80's thing with Chambers) on bass.
PhilVis on 10/09/2009	Santana is playing what he plays-from his heart,it's a jam for crimany sakes maybe Carlos has rehearsed it or even knows the tune. Buddy, I don't know, although he was hanging from rafters by the knees upside down cuttin heads wherever he played before Carlos was in long pants! Muddy Waters slapped him when he was feeling blue and talkin bout movin back south, Buddy's reply he was hungry and needed money. Muddy in the front seat of his Caddy made him a sandwich and told him to stay put! He was on his way to greatness. I met Buddy and asked him what kind of sandwich was it and he cocked his head to one side and asked me where I had heard this. I replied I has read it in quite a few publications, he just shook his head and admitted it was salami! He then proceded to tear up this shed show with more intensity of a man half his age. Say what you will but they are both Statesmen of the Blues! We are lucky they are still alive to give us jams even if they're a little rough around the edges. Its what I live for! Oh yeah I didn't cry at E.T. Mr Phonehome!

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