Santana - I

Carlos Santana is one of those 'legends' who it is politically correct to like. So, everytime the man (who took hard rock, tinged with jazz, sprinkled it with blues and threw it into the Latino pot of beats), took off on one of his scorching licks at a concert last Friday, I turned around to scan faces from among the 10,000-odd fans who had turned up to see the man in the flesh. More often than not I saw political correctness rather than true appreciation of a guitarist who could make anybody's top 10 list of all-time guitar greats.