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Eric Johnson
« on: January 01, 2012, 10:14:24 AM »
How awesome is his guitar playing?  Ah Via Musicom and (especially) Venus Isle are both terrific albums.  I am not usually a fan of the guitar hero guys, but Johnson isn't a guy who writes instrumental after instrumental, all of which are intended to show off how great he is, for lack of a better term, at wanking.  And I actually enjoy his voice, which works really well for the type of songs he often writes; songs like Battle We Have Won and When the Sun Meets the Sky are good examples of this.  And if you want the guitar-crazy stuff, you can't go wrong with Cliffs of Dover, Pavilion and S.R..V.  And that tone...GODLY. :hefdaddy :hefdaddy

Who else is a fan?
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Re: Eric Johnson
« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2012, 10:36:20 AM »
Cliffs of Dover :heart
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Re: Eric Johnson
« Reply #2 on: January 01, 2012, 10:48:53 AM »
Mad love for Ah Via Musicom.  Such a great album.
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Re: Eric Johnson
« Reply #3 on: January 01, 2012, 11:12:08 AM »
I concur  :metal
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Re: Eric Johnson
« Reply #4 on: January 01, 2012, 03:42:43 PM »
I am a pretty big fan.  I actually really love the album Tones.  Great songs on that one and a really nice atmoshphere.  Trail of Tears is one of my favs from him.  Venus Isle also had Lonely in the Night which is also a favourite of mine.  Oh, and don't forget Manhattan.  I'd actually take Tones and Venus over Musicom to be honest.

Amazing, tasteful, underrated guitar player.
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Re: Eric Johnson
« Reply #5 on: January 01, 2012, 04:03:56 PM »
Quote from: Heretic on January 01, 2012, 10:36:20 AM
Cliffs of Dover :heart

Totally. Such a gorgeously-uplifting and carefree song.
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Re: Eric Johnson
« Reply #6 on: January 01, 2012, 05:10:37 PM »
I love Eric Johnson.  In particular, "Trademark" is a favorite of mine.
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Re: Eric Johnson
« Reply #7 on: January 01, 2012, 08:11:54 PM »
Quote from: Heretic on January 01, 2012, 10:36:20 AM
Cliffs of Dover :heart

I must confess, this is the only song I know of his. It's a great one though.
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Re: Eric Johnson
« Reply #8 on: January 01, 2012, 08:23:39 PM »
I love Battle We Have Won.  :heart
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Re: Eric Johnson
« Reply #9 on: January 01, 2012, 08:33:26 PM »
Quote from: Phoenix87x on January 01, 2012, 08:23:39 PM
I love Battle We Have Won.  :heart

Just listened to it. Damn! Gorgeous melodic mood it exudes indeed :)
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Re: Eric Johnson
« Reply #10 on: January 01, 2012, 09:41:18 PM »
All of Venus Isle is great! 
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Re: Eric Johnson
« Reply #11 on: January 02, 2012, 02:38:39 AM »
Quote from: KevShmev on January 01, 2012, 09:41:18 PM
All of Venus Isle is great!

Yeah, it's a fantastic album.
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Re: Eric Johnson
« Reply #12 on: January 03, 2012, 11:07:51 PM »
It's all good.   In addition to those mentioned above, Seven Worlds and Tones are great as well. So is Live and Beyond.

I wasn't that fond of his performance on the first G3 album though. Unfortunately, I haven't picked up anything after the Live and Beyond album.

I'd really like to see him live one day.  That Hendrix tribute project he was in a few years back must have been killer.

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Re: Eric Johnson
« Reply #13 on: January 05, 2012, 05:38:08 AM »
Funny I was listening to Tones just the other day and then saw this thread.
He really is an incredible player, for me its great to listen to a player who's not all about how many notes per second he can alternately pick.
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Re: Eric Johnson
« Reply #14 on: January 05, 2012, 09:18:30 AM »
my dad showed me ah via musicom when i was in second grade. ill always remember the backwards guitar from ah via musicom, cliffs of dover, and desert rose from how much he played them
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Re: Eric Johnson
« Reply #15 on: January 05, 2012, 12:58:17 PM »
Venus Isle is still one of my all time fav. albums. Great guitarist, flawless playing and such a great tone
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Re: Eric Johnson
« Reply #16 on: January 05, 2012, 01:10:01 PM »
All perfectly stated. I love EJ, aside from Satriani he's just about the only instrumental (for the most part) guitarist that I love. Speaking of, I really don't like any of Satriani's vocals, but as you said EJ has a really great voice that fits his type of guitar playing. Venus Isle is probably just ahead of Musicom for me but it's so tough to decide, each of them is beautifully crafted. Awesome man, godly guitarist. I saw him back in '06 with Satriani and that is still probably my favorite concert I've ever been to, musically. Sure, they didn't have the most fantastic stage presence or light show, it wasn't nearly as flashy and showy but the music they played captivated me for the entire show; it was beautiful on every level. I really do love EJ for the way he speaks to his fans too, he is so polite and soft spoken that you can't picture the man as anything but this godly monk who reigns over anything and everything guitar related.

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Re: Eric Johnson
« Reply #17 on: January 20, 2012, 09:51:20 AM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77PuXrU6H2Y   EJ covers Hendrix...how he pulls of the backwards guitar solo I haveno idea
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Re: Eric Johnson
« Reply #18 on: January 20, 2012, 11:16:31 AM »
See, this is where I get down on Eric Johnson.  I love A Via Musicom.  I love Venus Isle.  After that... meh.  I view him as a guitarist that really had it going for awhile but never put together a career of great music.  Granted, I stopped paying attention to him a few years back.
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Re: Eric Johnson
« Reply #19 on: January 20, 2012, 11:35:43 AM »
Quote from: yorost on January 20, 2012, 11:16:31 AM
See, this is where I get down on Eric Johnson.  I love A Via Musicom.  I love Venus Isle.  After that... meh.  I view him as a guitarist that really had it going for awhile but never put together a career of great music.  Granted, I stopped paying attention to him a few years back.

This. But that doesn't negate that those two albums just about crush anything else I've heard from big name instrumental guitarists. In fact I could also say the exact same for Steve Vai and Joe Satriani. Satch has put out a few good songs from his past couple albums, but Vai is all but dead to me and sadly Johnson is as well. I haven't the slightest clue what they're up to these days. All the same, their past catalog is more than enough to give me some great eargasms.

Although Alien Love Child will forever kick the shit out of anything aforementioned. Mmmm - soulful.
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Re: Eric Johnson
« Reply #20 on: January 20, 2012, 11:44:06 AM »
my interest in their work (collectively as solo'ists) comes and goes.
I'd lump Steve Stevens, and Luk into this group as well.
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Re: Eric Johnson
« Reply #21 on: January 20, 2012, 11:44:42 AM »
Quote from: TioJorge on January 20, 2012, 11:35:43 AM
Quote from: yorost on January 20, 2012, 11:16:31 AM
See, this is where I get down on Eric Johnson.  I love A Via Musicom.  I love Venus Isle.  After that... meh.  I view him as a guitarist that really had it going for awhile but never put together a career of great music.  Granted, I stopped paying attention to him a few years back.

This. But that doesn't negate that those two albums just about crush anything else I've heard from big name instrumental guitarists. In fact I could also say the exact same for Steve Vai and Joe Satriani. Satch has put out a few good songs from his past couple albums, but Vai is all but dead to me and sadly Johnson is as well. I haven't the slightest clue what they're up to these days. All the same, their past catalog is more than enough to give me some great eargasms.

Although Alien Love Child will forever kick the shit out of anything aforementioned. Mmmm - soulful.
Alien Love Child got off to a good start and was a cool sound, but sheesh, it just didn't work.  I tried to love it because I was really into Johnson at the time, but it bored me.

I agree with you on Vai, and he's probably a worse culprit than Johnson for what I said.  I greatly prefer Johnson over Vai.  Satriani I disagree with.  He does have a lot of mediocre albums, but he puts out gold often enough and they're spread out over his career.
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Re: Eric Johnson
« Reply #22 on: January 20, 2012, 07:07:49 PM »
EJ is pretty much a legend here in Austin, but like yorost I stopped paying attention.  Mine was after A Via--heard great things about Venus Isle, but never got around to picking it up.

You folks should really check out the Electromagnets CD--it is what first put him on the musical map, after all, and it's a great CD.
https://www.amazon.com/Electromagnets/dp/B000009NKK/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1327111612&sr=1-1

Apparently there's a 2nd disc too--I thought they'd only released the one.  Cool.
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Re: Eric Johnson
« Reply #23 on: January 21, 2012, 04:48:20 AM »
Quote from: kingshmegland on January 01, 2012, 10:48:53 AM
Mad love for Ah Via Musicom.  Such a great album.
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« Reply #24 on: January 23, 2012, 07:15:13 PM »
Quote from: DebraKadabra on January 20, 2012, 07:07:49 PM
EJ is pretty much a legend here in Austin, but like yorost I stopped paying attention.  Mine was after A Via--heard great things about Venus Isle, but never got around to picking it up.

You folks should really check out the Electromagnets CD--it is what first put him on the musical map, after all, and it's a great CD.
https://www.amazon.com/Electromagnets/dp/B000009NKK/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1327111612&sr=1-1

Apparently there's a 2nd disc too--I thought they'd only released the one.  Cool.

I gobble up whatever I can find. I love his style and especially his work with the Hendrix Experience. I think his style is perfect for that stuff. I really need to get something live from that...

I don't have either Electromagnets album yet, but I do have the Alien Love Child albu which I like a lot, more so than the first G3 live album he was on. I also have Seven Worlds which is also pretty cool.
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Re: Eric Johnson
« Reply #25 on: November 02, 2012, 08:40:25 AM »
Love Eric Johnson. Apart from the obviously gorgeous and accessible "Venus Isle", I was surprised how good Souvenir is, being an album of previously unreleased material.
Also his latest, Up Close is very good.
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Re: Eric Johnson
« Reply #26 on: November 02, 2012, 08:49:34 AM »
a couple months back, one of the guitarists at our church covered Cliffs of Dover as kind of an intro before the service began.  He did a pretty awesome job with it.


Manhattan is probably my favorite EJ song.
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Re: Eric Johnson
« Reply #27 on: November 02, 2012, 09:03:52 AM »
the entire "Austin City Limits" performance is one of the best performances I've ever heard.

And yes, that tone..... :hefdaddy 
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Re: Eric Johnson
« Reply #28 on: November 02, 2012, 01:22:02 PM »
Quote from: T-ski on November 02, 2012, 09:03:52 AM
the entire "Austin City Limits" performance is one of the best performances I've ever heard.

And yes, that tone..... :hefdaddy

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Re: Eric Johnson
« Reply #29 on: November 04, 2012, 07:36:23 PM »
Quote from: Sir GuitarCozmo on January 01, 2012, 05:10:37 PM
I love Eric Johnson.  In particular, "Trademark" is a favorite of mine.

Second this.  I actually prefer that one to Cliffs of Dover, even though the latter got more airplay and the Grammy nod.
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Re: Eric Johnson
« Reply #30 on: November 05, 2012, 02:21:05 AM »
This Chet Atkins tune feat. Eric Johnson is beautiful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SgiPwl-fQA

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« Reply #31 on: November 05, 2012, 08:52:43 AM »
Quote from: r0cken on November 05, 2012, 02:21:05 AM
This Chet Atkins tune feat. Eric Johnson is beautiful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SgiPwl-fQA

cool stuff.  Reminds me of Acoustic Alchemy a bit.
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Re: Eric Johnson
« Reply #32 on: November 05, 2012, 12:12:43 PM »
Quote from: nicmos on November 04, 2012, 07:36:23 PM
Quote from: Sir GuitarCozmo on January 01, 2012, 05:10:37 PM
I love Eric Johnson.  In particular, "Trademark" is a favorite of mine.

Second this.  I actually prefer that one to Cliffs of Dover, even though the latter got more airplay and the Grammy nod.

Agreed.  Don't get me wrong - I love on Cliffs of Dover like no one's business, but Trademark has a lot more "oomph" IMO.
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Re: Eric Johnson
« Reply #33 on: November 05, 2012, 04:58:42 PM »
An old recording of Cliffs of Dover.  LONG intro and almost album-exact tone.  Amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smwQafhNU6E
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« Reply #34 on: November 06, 2012, 07:22:02 AM »
Playing 'Manhattan' right now off of the G3 DVD. It's amazing, this DVD has my favorite tracks by all of 'em: 'For the Love of God' (Vai), 'Flying in a blue Dream' (Satriani) and 'Manhattan'.
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