"‘You’ve received to tell Carlos that this song is successful, or else he won't file it.’" Davis dictated a be aware to Santana, which Ganbarg hurried off to fax. He would document the track-as long as Rob Thomas did it with him, stay. Thomas changed the key of "Room 17" and added a chorus. Lamberg introduced Ganbarg to a younger musician named Itaal Shur, who was growing a salsa observe referred to as "Room 17" about an illicit resort rendezvous. They recorded live, ran by the observe just a few times, liked what they heard. A couple of days later, Santana relented. Despite the 12 months being 1977 and the Queen’s Silver Jubilee, the band have always denied that they wrote the music - a observe clearly aimed at the establishment, even likening the Queen to a "fascist regime" only some a long time on from World War II - to intentionally coincide with the event. "This massive fucking guy, simply fully tatted, this loopy dude, comes running over to me and he’s like, ‘That fucking Carlos observe is on fireplace, man! "Which, if you already know anything about Carlos Santana, is 180 levels reverse of who he's." (Shur, for his part, maintains the tune was simply about two long-estranged lovers dishonest on their vital others.) After some negotiations, Shur agreed to shine the monitor with Rob Thomas, who had simply wrapped a tour with Matchbox Twenty and, in Ganbarg’s recollection, "was residing in an condo downtown in Manhattan together with his girlfriend, and he was smoking pot and he was playing Playstation." In other phrases: having fun with the trappings of a blossoming semi-stardom.
