Ex-Santana aide claims he was fired for "not being closer to God"

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Fired Santana aide blames guru's 'test'
Suit claims job lost over 'consciousness level'

Wednesday, April 27, 2005 Posted: 5:20 PM EDT (2120 GMT)

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/27/santana.firing.reut/index.html



LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- A former employee of the New Santana Band has accused musician Carlos Santana and his wife of firing him for not being "closer to God," according to a wrongful termination lawsuit filed in California.

Bruce Kuhlman, 59, said Santana's wife, Deborah, went on a campaign to terminate him after her spiritual guru, "Dr. Dan," determined through "calibration" tests that Kuhlman was too old to become enlightened, the lawsuit, filed on April 13, said.

Kuhlman, who began working with Carlos Santana as a personal assistant in 1988, was running the band's licensing operation, River of Colors, when he was fired in 2004.

Kuhlman seeks more than $100,000 and punitive damages against the couple and their businesses, and his lawsuit asks a judge to stop them from using Dr. Dan's Neuro-Emotional Technique to "test" or "calibrate" employees.

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1. Nothing better than old fashion gossip!!

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[sam sarrha]

2. for Santana, that means he didnt smoke enough Weed..

[11cents]

3. When hippies go bad ....

It's such a thin line.

[gmoney]

4. Never cared much for Santana...

Apart from the "Gypsy Queen"(?) end part of "Black Magic Woman" he's always been way overrated in my opinion. Now it turns out he's a religious crackpot? I'd say the guy's probably better off... hope he gets a big cash settlement.

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5. I'm with you there

But I've got to give him props for his attitude toward Woodstock '94. When they first contacted him about playing, he asked who else they'd invited. They read him the list, and there were a couple other veterans of the original fest, and then a whole carload of modern rock bands.

He said, "Call me back when you've got more people of color."

He's been a devotee of some guru or other since the '70s. He and John McLaughlin once made a record together when they were both devotees of Sri Chinmoy. It was abundantly clear who was the better guitarist.