Ej playing Pavilion live and another song which has the same chords as Venus Reprise. I'm not sure why he didn't put it on Venus Isle, I wish he would have.
The guitar is a 1965 strat it belonged to James Browns guitarist... I was in the shop when it was getting frets and played it. He also had a 65 dakota red which was found in Ft Worth he had just found the blue one and someone called while he was at Dallas show and he went to Ft Worth and snatched them both.. Love you Eric.. The amp here was the mighty Dumble Steel String Singer #5 know your gear ! The Flanger you hear I own I traded Eric my super trem 100 for another 100 and his flanger the one you are hearing live at this show.. I still own it..
The guitar came from Eric Ernest and was bought in Columbia South Carolina at Green Streets. www.abalonevintage.com/abalone_vintage_guitars_celebrity_clients_eric_johnson_1965_fender_stratocaster.htm
I've always thought the title is "We'll Get Over the Mountain Top" rather than "Reprise Jam," though I have no proof. He's been doing this song for a long time, long before Venus Isle came out. I remember him playing it at the Roxy in L.A. at the beginning of the Ah Via Musicom tour in 1990 (the single best concert I've ever seen, incidentally). If memory serves, he played it and then segue'd into an utterly incendiary version of Zap to close out the show. Amazing.
love this song!! i wish he plays it more. doesnt seem to include it in his setlist at all from other concerts ive seen on here and the one i've been to.
Agreed - all the vids from this show EJ is so much more animated and physically into it than normal - like he downed a couple of Red Bulls before he walked out on stage...
I had this on different audio's, and they're all entitled 'Mountains'. I even brought up the song to Tommy Taylor at the NAMM show years ago and he didn't correct me. He excitedly told me it would be on Venus Isle, then the other/instrumental version came out instead. Rats. This version is gorgeous.
Venus Isle is fucking amazing, but im not a huge fan of Pavillion, but the Venus Reprise is simply breathtaking, at first i thought was a continuation of the title song "Venus Isle" which is much better in my opinion, and i usually just play those two after the other because Pavillion and Venus Isle pretty much have identical endings which is lucky for me. But dam i wish he would've made a whole full length song for Venus Reprise, 1:30 just aint long enough, EJ is amazing
the screen title wasnt from a youtube member, it was actually on the broadcast of the tv show which aired many years ago. i have a copy of the show. he played mountain as an intro to zap and it said "mountain medley/zap". all of the other song titles were correct, so i dont have any reason to believe that was incorrect. many of EJs songs are titled with only one word. there used to be a version of that performance on youtube. i dont know if its still up.
Sure it makes sense if you know how he used this 'song' during that time: 1. He used it as a transition/segue piece; 2. Of the several different times I've seen him perform it live (both on video and in person), he's never told the audience what it's called; 3. He's never recorded & released it on any album or commercially available video; 4. Since most of Eric's vocal songs do typically have verse/chorus structure, it's unusual for him. It could easily have been an unfinished song.
did anyone hear him hold that note underneath the koto at 2:55?? awesome!! and he busted out the double flanger effect at 7:04...ive never heard him do that live. this is an awesome clip. is this ft lauderdale? where did you get this?
I've only seen Eric play one other rosewood strat, a 62 Sunburst that I think was later sold. This appears to be a 64/65 Lake Placid Blue model. Does anyone know more about this guitar? Edit: oops, answered below already years ago
I can't find that here. Is it on TH-cam? On-screen titles aren't always accurate -- for example, there's a video here on the Tube of Kansas' "Carry on Wayward Son" that is just called "Wayward Son" in the onscreen title. I'm not saying it's not called "Mountain," but that just seems kind of simplistic for EJ (even though the word is obviously used in the song). Kinda like if he called "Nothing Can Keep Me From You" just "Keep Me From You" or something -- it just seems 'incomplete.'
haha...im not arguing you man! its all good. im sorry if my post came across harsh. you might be right. either way, its a great song in my opinion...great chords.
2:55 is brilliant! He inserts a dramatic pinch harmonic breakdown and It's like a F1 pitstop lol Full lead > hits looper for a second > hits the clean > plays the pinch harmonic line over the loop > cancels the loop > hits the lead > shredz
Absolutely epic (the second song is called Mountain Medley btw, I have a tab for it if anyone wants it, there's also an instructional vid on my account to help those out who can't work it out (took me ages!)). Gotta love the white jacket to!
Okay, communication mixup here: I wasn't referring to a screen title by a TH-cam member -- I was referring to the on-screen title put there by whoever produced the video for broadcast on TV, in this case in Japan. Like I said, there's a vid on here for "Carry on Wayward Son" by Kansas (see my Favorites) that has an incorrect on-screen title (from the broadcast company, not TH-cam a member), so it's possible the foreign TV company got it wrong.
"wish i could hear the lyrics better" Here's what I've been able to discern: We'll get over the mountain top We'll find a way that we can get by Though it gets hard to know what to do We'll find a way that we can get through Anyone else notice that this song doesn't really have a defined chorus? This is speculation, but maybe he was never quite able to finish it as a complete song and thus used it as a 'passage' between other songs and then as the basis for the Venus Isle Reprise?
He has overly wound pickups. The bridge pickup is wired to the tone control so he has total control over the overall tone of his guitar. He also removed the tremelo cover from the back of the guitar. I know all this because I turned my reissue 57 stratocaster into an EJ strat. I bought pickups separately and had them installed with the exact wiring from one of his production guitars.
haha wow a true eric aficianado! so whats the purpose of the fulltone '69 if hes using a fuzz face already? are you saying the dl-4 was for loops/chords or whatever under the lead? like he would stomp the button and engage the loop? where did you get all this info...cracks me up haha. thanks alot!
Nah, you didn't come across harsh. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't coming across too harsh. And yeah, it's a good song no matter what it's called. BTW, if you don't mind me asking, where'd you get a copy of the show (the Japanese one we've been talking about)? Send me a message if you don't want to post the answer here. Later. :-)
its not too bad. looks more complicated than it is b/c eric chooses more difficult fingerings of easy chords (eg he likes to skip a string while playing roots and fifths)
That doesnt make a lot of sense. Not all songs have pop chorus. Look at bob dylan, paul simon, hendrix. In fact alot of bob dylan songs don't have "chorus" in them. Many paul simon songs don't have choruses either.
Gosh the 500-character limit for postings here is bloody annoying. Grrr .... :-( I was just gonna add that it's not my intention to argue here. Listening to the lyrics, it just seems odd to just call the song "Mountain" instead of "We'll Get Up Over the Mountain Top" or maybe "Over the Mountain Top," but hey, if that's what Eric called it, that's what he called it. Regardless of what the Japanese TV company calls it, I remain unconvinced until I see better proof. *laugh*
This was the first EJ tune I ever heard ! The man owns my ears. Love his music. I can listen to him all day!🎉🎉🎉
This is the best-spent 7 minutes and 47 seconds of your life. Trust me.
Indeed my friend, cheers
You must have really eventful life ;)
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Eric's playing is straight up from the heart, so uplifting.
My top ten EJ fave, esp this Live nugget which I recieved on VHS in '92
Cheers T
you can feel the soul
The guitar is a 1965 strat it belonged to James Browns guitarist...
I was in the shop when it was getting frets and played it.
He also had a 65 dakota red which was found in Ft Worth he had just found the blue one and someone called while he was at Dallas show and he went to Ft Worth and snatched them both.. Love you Eric.. The amp here was the mighty Dumble Steel String Singer #5 know your gear !
The Flanger you hear I own I traded Eric my super trem 100 for another 100 and his flanger the one you are hearing live at this show..
I still own it..
Cool shit...I have NO idea the tech stuff, but this guy can phucking kill it with THE best:Jeff Beck and Steve Morse...
The guitar came from Eric Ernest and was bought in Columbia South Carolina at Green Streets.
www.abalonevintage.com/abalone_vintage_guitars_celebrity_clients_eric_johnson_1965_fender_stratocaster.htm
Amazing story, appreciate you sharing :)
Does anyone know who he sold his beloved Virginia strat to? EJ never revealed that!
An absolute genius, an absolute original: immortal.
Keep watching this video and listening to this over and over. One of the most amazing performances ever.
pavilion is one of his best songs in my opinion..... it has so many feelings compressed in 4 minutes! i love listening to it while i'm driving
That's right man, i think is infravalored in the way more people should know it as one of is top, cheers bro
Hardly ever mentioned in conversations of great axe men.
It’s just made differently!
This is a masterpiece - it captures the mood of Venus Isle perfectly, I wish this was on the album.
You can't get a better lead guitar tone than Eric Johnson. And the soloing is so fast and clean!
mountain medley its a awesome song....a sublime tone
The Cliffs of Dover and High Landrons from this tape are incredible. The intro to Cliffs is like 6 minutes alone.........
Great performance, on top of all the feeling at 4:09 he does some crazy shit! Awesome!
Pavilion is excellent but the best part is "mountains" aka venus reprise, which is so touching.
Thank you EJ.
EJ is The Perfection of Guitar! Between 4:09 and 4:45 IS AWESOME!
another beautiful tones from EJ
I've always thought the title is "We'll Get Over the Mountain Top" rather than "Reprise Jam," though I have no proof. He's been doing this song for a long time, long before Venus Isle came out. I remember him playing it at the Roxy in L.A. at the beginning of the Ah Via Musicom tour in 1990 (the single best concert I've ever seen, incidentally). If memory serves, he played it and then segue'd into an utterly incendiary version of Zap to close out the show. Amazing.
on the "live from the bottom line show" it is called mountain
such fierce chops! yet such melody and phrasing. a lot of today's top guitarists could learn a thing or two from this man.
I can’t even believe how good these songs are! EJ is absolutely one of the all time greatest guitar players!
I like the feel of desperation in the song.
Yeah , Eric is on fire on this
love this song!! i wish he plays it more. doesnt seem to include it in his setlist at all from other concerts ive seen on here and the one i've been to.
love it
My favourite song from Venus Isle ❤
This show was the cats meow . The best ...Tommy and Kyle just bringing it.
what a experience...
Agreed - all the vids from this show EJ is so much more animated and physically into it than normal - like he downed a couple of Red Bulls before he walked out on stage...
CARROT JUICE AND DUMBLE AMPS THE SMALL ONE DRIVING THE BIG ONE TO CRACK THE SKY.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting this!!!!!
I had this on different audio's, and they're all entitled 'Mountains'. I even brought up the song to Tommy Taylor at the NAMM show years ago and he didn't correct me. He excitedly told me it would be on Venus Isle, then the other/instrumental version came out instead. Rats. This version is gorgeous.
Eric doesn’t just switch between effects, he switches between amps to get such a variety of tones. From pristine clean to super fuzzy. 🙌
Guitarrista espetacular!
first saw this vid a year ago. lovee it
Venus Isle is fucking amazing, but im not a huge fan of Pavillion, but the Venus Reprise is simply breathtaking, at first i thought was a continuation of the title song "Venus Isle" which is much better in my opinion, and i usually just play those two after the other because Pavillion and Venus Isle pretty much have identical endings which is lucky for me.
But dam i wish he would've made a whole full length song for Venus Reprise, 1:30 just aint long enough, EJ is amazing
greatest guitar in the world.
Indonesian love Eric Johnson
now this would be a concert to have on dvd release..
yup, i have that show. i still have to get you what i owe you :)
haha, wow, that was posted alot! this one is a FL show. "live from the bottom line" is an NYC show. i have both of them
the screen title wasnt from a youtube member, it was actually on the broadcast of the tv show which aired many years ago. i have a copy of the show. he played mountain as an intro to zap and it said "mountain medley/zap". all of the other song titles were correct, so i dont have any reason to believe that was incorrect. many of EJs songs are titled with only one word.
there used to be a version of that performance on youtube. i dont know if its still up.
wow, that was bad ass...I've never seen him play Pavilion live b4...It looks pretty damn complicated.
Sure it makes sense if you know how he used this 'song' during that time:
1. He used it as a transition/segue piece;
2. Of the several different times I've seen him perform it live (both on video and in person), he's never told the audience what it's called;
3. He's never recorded & released it on any album or commercially available video;
4. Since most of Eric's vocal songs do typically have verse/chorus structure, it's unusual for him.
It could easily have been an unfinished song.
i meant harp harmonics (lenny breau), not koto...oops
did anyone hear him hold that note underneath the koto at 2:55?? awesome!! and he busted out the double flanger effect at 7:04...ive never heard him do that live. this is an awesome clip. is this ft lauderdale? where did you get this?
the playing isnt world class, its other worldly.
They are........learning. Learning to put their guitar away for a while and wish they could play like this...
I've only seen Eric play one other rosewood strat, a 62 Sunburst that I think was later sold. This appears to be a 64/65 Lake Placid Blue model. Does anyone know more about this guitar? Edit: oops, answered below already years ago
I can't find that here. Is it on TH-cam?
On-screen titles aren't always accurate -- for example, there's a video here on the Tube of Kansas' "Carry on Wayward Son" that is just called "Wayward Son" in the onscreen title.
I'm not saying it's not called "Mountain," but that just seems kind of simplistic for EJ (even though the word is obviously used in the song). Kinda like if he called "Nothing Can Keep Me From You" just "Keep Me From You" or something -- it just seems 'incomplete.'
haha...im not arguing you man! its all good. im sorry if my post came across harsh. you might be right. either way, its a great song in my opinion...great chords.
2:55 is brilliant! He inserts a dramatic pinch harmonic breakdown and It's like a F1 pitstop lol
Full lead > hits looper for a second > hits the clean > plays the pinch harmonic line over the loop > cancels the loop > hits the lead > shredz
He's a master. One in a billion player.
He truly both played and composed, and that may be one of several traits that truly set him apart from everyone else, even Steve Vai and Satch
Absolutely epic (the second song is called Mountain Medley btw, I have a tab for it if anyone wants it, there's also an instructional vid on my account to help those out who can't work it out (took me ages!)). Gotta love the white jacket to!
Vocal version? wow!
Okay, communication mixup here: I wasn't referring to a screen title by a TH-cam member -- I was referring to the on-screen title put there by whoever produced the video for broadcast on TV, in this case in Japan. Like I said, there's a vid on here for "Carry on Wayward Son" by Kansas (see my Favorites) that has an incorrect on-screen title (from the broadcast company, not TH-cam a member), so it's possible the foreign TV company got it wrong.
perfeito...
Correction to my previous posts:
It should be "We'll Get Up Over the Mountain Top" (I mistakenly left out the word "up").
"wish i could hear the lyrics better"
Here's what I've been able to discern:
We'll get over the mountain top
We'll find a way that we can get by
Though it gets hard to know what to do
We'll find a way that we can get through
Anyone else notice that this song doesn't really have a defined chorus? This is speculation, but maybe he was never quite able to finish it as a complete song and thus used it as a 'passage' between other songs and then as the basis for the Venus Isle Reprise?
I have an old VHS copy of the concert.
Upload it bro 😃
proto dl-4 as is prototype line 6 dl-4? wow. what about his mxr 1500? when was this recorded? early 90s?
2nd song is called mountain medley
He has overly wound pickups. The bridge pickup is wired to the tone control so he has total control over the overall tone of his guitar. He also removed the tremelo cover from the back of the guitar. I know all this because I turned my reissue 57 stratocaster into an EJ strat. I bought pickups separately and had them installed with the exact wiring from one of his production guitars.
great bass player too,Kayle Broke
woah what happens at 6:27 hahaha
haha wow a true eric aficianado! so whats the purpose of the fulltone '69 if hes using a fuzz face already? are you saying the dl-4 was for loops/chords or whatever under the lead? like he would stomp the button and engage the loop? where did you get all this info...cracks me up haha. thanks alot!
thats in ny right? u got that show?
Nah, you didn't come across harsh. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't coming across too harsh.
And yeah, it's a good song no matter what it's called.
BTW, if you don't mind me asking, where'd you get a copy of the show (the Japanese one we've been talking about)? Send me a message if you don't want to post the answer here.
Later. :-)
what was the setlist for this whole concert?
Why are all his best technical performances in low quality?
Because its a vhs bootleg from the 90s that was uploaded to TH-cam
where have you seen it?
nice
Thats kyle brock and tommy taylor on bass and drumkit,uh huh
no way of seeing it here?
its not too bad. looks more complicated than it is b/c eric chooses more difficult fingerings of easy chords (eg he likes to skip a string while playing roots and fifths)
ya tritone. lol. u back home alright?
haha listen at 6:26
no rush bro. but i thought it was a florida show
I don't want to be without you & I'm aware that your difficult. I've always known.
could be...i hear him use the word mountain in there
Four people thumbed it down, lo!l
That doesnt make a lot of sense. Not all songs have pop chorus. Look at bob dylan, paul simon, hendrix. In fact alot of bob dylan songs don't have "chorus" in them. Many paul simon songs don't have choruses either.
wish i could hear the lyrics better
lol kinda
Is it only me that finds all of these comments freakin hilarious?
Gosh the 500-character limit for postings here is bloody annoying. Grrr .... :-(
I was just gonna add that it's not my intention to argue here. Listening to the lyrics, it just seems odd to just call the song "Mountain" instead of "We'll Get Up Over the Mountain Top" or maybe "Over the Mountain Top," but hey, if that's what Eric called it, that's what he called it. Regardless of what the Japanese TV company calls it, I remain unconvinced until I see better proof. *laugh*
thats some sloppy eric johnson
Hes great but all the songs sound the same.