Carlos Santana has become a god - again - to a new generation hooked on Guitar Hero, but the notion of youngsters banging away at plastic slabs in time with his most famous solos isn't that meaningful to him.

"I probably wouldn't be very good at it," he says in a recent phone interview. "I'd say if you're going to spend that much time and energy, get yourself a real guitar. If you're going to make the jump - jump! I'm not into virtual anything, if it's not the real thing, man."