Guitar hero or not, Carlos Santana readily admitted to finding his 2010 project something of a challenge. Guitar Heaven: Greatest Guitar Classics Of All Time consisted of a dozen covers of some of the most revered rock songs ever, from Led Zeppelin and the Stones to Deep
Purple, Cream, AC/DC and beyond. It was the brainchild of record mogul Clive Davis, CCO at Sony and co-producer of Santana’s last three studio albums.
“Clive went out of his way to convince me to do it,” the 10-times Grammy winner told us, relaxing at his home in LA. “Three times he called me before I deferred to him. I was like: ‘Man, I don’t wanna touch them ten songs. Those songs are scary; they’re already done. I don’t wanna touch any Jimi Hendrix or Eric Clapton thing.’ But Clive said: ‘Yeah, but only you can do it, man. C’mon, you can do it. You can do it!’”
