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Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time (2010)

Where the lyrics of Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time take you, and where it was really made.

Santana's covers album of rock classics brings singers from many different bands together on one record.

Key places

Bay 7 Studios: recording location (2010)

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Sunset Sound: recording location (2010)

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The Village: recording location (2010)

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Sweatshop Studios: recording location (2010)

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Studio at the Palms: recording location (2010)

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Tarpan Studios: recording location (2010)

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Album story

Overview

• Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time, called simply Guitar Heaven
• Twenty-first studio album by Santana
• Released September 21, 2010
• A classic rock covers album
• Guest vocalists include India.Arie, Joe Cocker, Chris Cornell, Scott Stapp, Scott Weiland, Chris Daughtry, Jacoby Shaddix, Chester Bennington, Rob Thomas, Pat Monahan and rapper Nas
• Released on Arista Records in 2010

Background

• Chris Cornell is named as a member of Soundgarden and Audioslave
• Scott Stapp is named as a member of Creed and Art of Anarchy
• Scott Weiland is named as a member of Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver and Art of Anarchy
• Chester Bennington is named as a member of Linkin Park, Dead By Sunrise and Stone Temple Pilots
• Chris Daughtry is named as a member of Daughtry
• Jacoby Shaddix is named as a member of Papa Roach
• Rob Thomas is named as a member of Matchbox Twenty
• Pat Monahan is named as a member of Train
• The album was certified gold by the Federation of the Italian Music Industry

Recording

• Produced by Carlos Santana and Clive Davis
• Tracks produced by Matt Serletic and Howard Benson
• Mixed by Chris Lord-Alge at Mix LA
• Mastered by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound
• Personnel include Tommy Anthony, Benny Rietveld, Freddie Ravel, Bill Ortiz, Jeff Cressman, Dennis Chambers, Karl Perazzo, Raul Rekow, Andy Vargas and Marc VanGool

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com · fr.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Formed in San Francisco, California, in 1966 by Mexican-American guitarist Carlos Santana.
• Named the Santana Blues Band at a January 1967 Fillmore audition; shortened to Santana by the end of 1967.
• Signed with Columbia Records in late 1968.
• The "classic" line-up stabilised in May 1969: Carlos Santana, Gregg Rolie, Michael Carabello, David Brown, Michael Shrieve and Jose "Chepito" Areas.

Members

• Carlos Santana is the only consistent member across the band's history.
• Classic line-up: Santana, Gregg Rolie (organ, lead vocals), Michael Carabello and Jose "Chepito" Areas (percussion), Michael Shrieve (drums), David Brown (bass).
• Brown died in 2000; Areas was not invited to the 2014 reunion.
• Classic line-up members were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.

Career

• Breakthrough at the 1969 Woodstock Festival; the debut album Santana peaked at No. 4 on the US Billboard 200.
• Abraxas (1970) and Santana III (1971) both reached No. 1 on the US Billboard 200.
• Early 1970s experiments with jazz fusion on Caravanserai (1972), Welcome (1973) and Borboletta (1974).
• Amigos (1976) returned the band to commercial success; Moonflower (1977) was its most successful album since Santana III.
• Commercial decline in the 1980s, followed by a seven-year recording hiatus.
• Supernatural (1999) won eight Grammy Awards and sold an estimated 30 million copies worldwide.
• Santana IV (2016) reunited the classic line-up, the first recording together in 45 years.
• Estimated 100 million records sold worldwide.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Debuted at number 5 on the US Billboard 200
• Sold 66,000 copies in its first week in the United States
• 'Photograph', a Def Leppard cover featuring Chris Daughtry, peaked at number 14 on the US Bubbling Under Hot 100
• The Beatles cover 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' was released as a single with India.Arie and Yo-Yo Ma
• 'Fortunate Son' with Scott Stapp was released as a promotional single
• 'Under the Bridge' with Andy Vargas was released as a promotional single
• 'Dance the Night Away' with Pat Monahan was released as a promotional single
• 'Sunshine of Your Love' with Rob Thomas was released as a promotional single
• 'Smoke On the Water' with Jacoby Shaddix was released as a promotional single

Records

• Certified gold by the Federation of the Italian Music Industry
• Singles and promotional singles extended the album's guest-vocalist format across the track list

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The cover of 'Photograph' by Def Leppard featured Chris Daughtry and reached number 14 on the US Bubbling Under Hot 100.
• The track 'Bang A Gong' was recorded with Gavin Rossdale as a guest.
• The album's mastering was done at Sterling Sound.
• The track list pairs 'Little Wing' with Joe Cocker and 'Whole Lotta Love' with Chris Cornell.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com · es.wikipedia.org

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