"Just a ghost," Carlos said.
On February 23, 2000, the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Supernatural was nominated in ten categories. Carlos borrowed a suit from his landlord and crashed the after-party. guitarist 8 grammy wins supernatural 2000
It wasn’t about revenge. It was about the ghost finally getting a name. "Just a ghost," Carlos said
Carlos walked into the session with a 1962 Fender Stratocaster he’d pawned his car to keep. The studio was tense. The singer, gray-faced and chain-smoking, didn’t look at him. The rhythm track was a sluggish blues-rock dirge. Carlos borrowed a suit from his landlord and
Carlos closed his eyes. He didn’t play notes. He played texture . He scraped the strings with a coin. He let feedback bloom into a harmonic shriek. He bent a single note—a B-flat—and held it until the room seemed to lean sideways. The singer’s head snapped up.
Over the next three months, Carlos became the secret weapon of Supernatural . He played on eleven of the album’s fifteen cuts, but his contract was a session player’s standard: flat fee, no royalties, no credit on the front cover. His name appeared in microscopic type under “Additional Musicians.”