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Carlos Santana recalls 1969 Woodstock show, being high due to Jerry Garcia: ‘Am I going to be able to play?’

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Carlos Santana's career-launching performance at the 1969 Woodstock festival almost didn't happen because he had a little too much fun before taking the stage.

The guitarist, 75, recently revealed that Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia offered him hallucinogens right before he took the stage on the second day of the festival. "It was a real test, and the test was, 'You are higher than an astronaut's butt right now with whatever Jerry Garcia shared with me,'" Santana told People magazine. "When I came out onstage, I was like, 'Oh my God, am I going to be able to play?

I can't even touch my nose.'" In 1969, Santana and his band had yet to release their debut album when Woodstock promoter Bill Graham helped get them on the festival lineup.

Santana told the outlet he took Garcia's "medicine," which the guitarist said was most likely peyote, mescaline, ayahuasca or mushrooms.

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