“‘Where's Carlos?’ ‘He's in that room.’So my parents and I, we knock on the door, and he's, ‘Oh, you're the kid I heard about… do you want to play tonight?’”: How a 9-year-old guitar prodigy ended up jamming with Carlos Santana

Carlos Santana and a 9 year-old Julian Lage in 1997.

In a new interview with Broken Records podcast, jazz guitarist Julian Lage tells the story of how, at the age of nine, he ended up jamming with Carlos Santana in front of an audience of 20,000.

It happened in 1997, when Santana was touring the US with another guitar legend, Jeff Beck. The young Julian joined Carlos on stage for a performance of the Funkadelic classic Maggot Brain.