Guitar Player Magazine May 1986 issue, "Who is Eric Johnson and why is he on our cover?" with Flexi-Disc insert of Cliff's of Dover was my introduction to Eric Johnson. Never looked back, this guy is amazing and when I first heard him sing it was different and refreshing. Like others have said when you see him play why do I even try, lol. Hope you guys continue down the Eric Johnson rabbit hole and come out saying that's why he was on that cover!
Always love watching an initial reaction EJ video! Truly one of my favorite guitarists and guitar/vocal arrangements by Eric Johnson. Trademark is another Gem from that album and is, to this day, my most favorite Eric Johnson song of all time.
Great to see Eric Johnson get some love! he always plays with such great tone and fluidity. Do yourselves a favor and buy Ah Via Musicom as there are many other gems on this album that I know you guys will love.
Thanks for giving Eric some much needed attention. Being from Austin, TX, I grew up with this Album which had heavy airplay on Austin radio. I actually had my CD sighed by him at an in store appearance and he’s such a great, humble guy for being such a virtuoso. His first Album, Tones, along with Ah via M., are two of my favorite albums of all time. Criminally overlooked and underrated for many years, believe it or not, but of course a lot of guitarists know who he is now with some help from G3. He really should have been much bigger. I guess many people know Cliffs Of Dover which I think was grammy nominated, but all his songs are unbelievably good. I remember he toured with Rush back in the day., but yeah every song on Ah Via is great, not one weak song and it’s just a masterwork of different soundscapes, styles, and textures. I hear a lot of Hendrix influence in his playing as well, most obviously with the feed back stuff he had going on.
Great reaction to a great song by very talented musicians. I would recommend checking out Eric Johnson's Live At Austin City Limits '88...one of my favorite concerts in my dvd collection 🤘
Great that you reacted to EJ!! Being from Austin, Eric's home, we have the fortune of seeing him live every year as well as occasional record store appearances. Cliffs of Dover is his most popular composition, but if I were to introduce someone to Eric's music I would start with this as the two guitar solos are amazing and the scales are phenomenal!!! Eric has over 35 years of music, and has appeared on the cover of Guitar Player magazine several times and more importantly has had several special series of Fender Stratocasters issued in his name! And he's extremely appreciative to his fans, really nice person!!
I loved this album 30 years ago and it's still one of my favorites, very impressive from beginning to end. Thanks for the reactions to out of the ordinary stuff!
The Desert Rose solo sections are amazing pieces of music on their own. Cliffs of Dover is great also, don’t get me wrong…but Desert Rose is the real masterpiece on that album, imho
That tour was amazing, I caught it in Albany, a million notes blazing in tribute to Hendrix. Please react to Voodoo Child or Voodoo Chile (Slight Return), both on Electric Ladyland. The best ever, at his best. 🎸
Ah Via Musicom was my intro to Eric and it introduced a lot of folks to his music style/ability. Liked "40 Mile Town" off that album and especially the live version as it is such a peaceful, easy going tune for those days where a smooth, care free song is required to put one at ease.
Well, well, well. I see you guys are raiding my cd/album collection...again. ;) I mean ELP, PMG and now Eric Johnson. 'Tones' and this album are personal favs from EJ (too many great tunes to list...really). Thanks for checkin' him out!
You and I probably have a similar record collection, lol!! Eric, PMG, and ELP are in my top 10 of favorite artists. Living in Austin have had the fortune of seeing EJ live many times over the last 30 years, and meeting him on several occasions. (Also got to meet Keith Emerson and Carl Palmer once and hang out on the tour bus with them during the Three tour, and then meet ELP again at a meet and greet on the reunion tour)
@@michaelescareno7048 Wow! Cool! My first concert was ELP. I was nine. lolol (questionable parenting? It was scary and fascinating). Carl Palmer was my ultimate inspiration to play the drums. Now, I'm seriously considering jumping back behind a set because of an entirely different drummer named Akane Hirose (BAND-MAID = A...MAZING!). Austin? There's a world class guitar player, like, every hundred feet or so down there! Hahaha!
@@TheJerm It's been great being able to see a lot of musicians here over the years. Was that ELP concert on the Brain Salad Surgery tour by any chance? 😊
Hi, I love Eric Johnson. This is such a brilliant track. His style and tone is wonderful and yes the guy can sing. If you like this track as you obviously do then checkout his album " Venus Isle" - Should you play from track 1 which is the title track, there will be little point in you doing a reaction to it - because you will not be able to stop. I don't mean pause during a reaction. I mean you wont be able to stop playing the entire album. It's simply majestically wonderful music and his singing fits perfectly with that soaring guitar sound. Track 1 Venus Isle and that's it - I promise you wont stop. Just enjoy it for yourselves. Thankyou for this. I really enjoyed that....Now if you will excuse me - I need to find that album I mentioned. You put me right in the mood for it. Lol
@@lucaanf - It's is indeed. Breathtaking music that touches the soul as well as the heart. I've yet to play a track on it's own. I can't. I put on the cd and that's it, every song.
I believe someone sent them "Venus Isle" in the last Unboxing. I think it be great as another segment or another channel, they would play samples of tracks from their gifts :D.
@@mvunit3 Thankyou for the info - I haven't yet watched their last unboxing. I try to catch everything they do. I must watch that. I love seeing those unboxing posts.
Great great song, Eric is an amazing artist, I highly recomend, Venus Isle, beatutiful record. You can react to "lonely in the night" or "when the sun meets the sky" by the way great reaction as always.
….. and so I’ve now discovered Eric Johnson. First time knowingly hearing him. I’m hooked. You must try 10CC, Somewhere in Hollywood and also Old Wild Men. Both from the Sheet Music album. A band that invented the Gizmo that emulated different instruments and was revolutionary in the early 70s
Thanks. Also check him out in a fusion band he had prior to his solo career called the Electromagnets (on TH-cam). Because of their keyboard player they reminded me of Return To Forever.
@@-R.Gray- Wow. Electromagnets. Why have I never heard of them?!! Found the whole self-titled album posted by Terminal Passage (great source of un-heard-of or obscure treats). I liked the variety they offered and the vibe is right on (like Return). Thanks, RG. For all your input. My requests are gonna go astray ... not “out of the box” - more pop and enjoying the music “box” - hope it works 🤷🏻♀️ ✨🤪
Him along with Gary Moore, one of the best guitar player vocalists. Tones, Ah Via Musicom and Venus Isle, all fantastic albums. Check out When The Sun Meets The Sky from Venus Isle for ultra smooth vocals and guitar playing.
The first album I purchased of Eric's. So good. Nick, You freaked me out! Because I also made a patch on my digitech rp pedal called E.J. Lead. I looked up his gear online and used digitech's version of everything he used. A fuzz face into a tape delay into a Marshall plexi into celestion greenback speakers. That's the Eric lead tone. 😊 I also love the "Venus isle" album.
His first band was Mariani but I don’t know much about them. Electromagnets was his next band and I do own the cd and they sound like Mahavishnu Orchestra but they come from Austin,Texas. His first solo album is Tones(1985) and it’s an amazing debut.
Great song off a classic album, when I saw him open for Buddy Guy he played most of that album and was incredible. Buddy was great too, walking out into the audience with a barrage of Blues licks. That's entertainment! Please play some more of another musical master, Michael Schenker and UFO. Thanks and Rock On! 😎
This was very nice! Very melodic and clarity of those solos! So cool! This was a treat after a long day ! Great reaction. Thanks for sharing all this amazing music with me! Good times! Cant wait for the next one! Take of yourselves!
Love your videos, you seem very sweet, kind people. Eric is unique, as you say his tone is so gorgeous. And he's always so musical. My suggestion: can you do Eric's track Western Flyer from 1988 - where he teeters on the edge of madness - or Trademark, or 12 To 22 Vibe, or the unvelievavly beautiful Venus Isle Reprise? Thanks and hugs from Sevilla, Spain. Barry Smith
Kinda surprised it took you guys so long to get to Mr. Johnson. Better late than never I guess. Much like David Gilmour, Eric is widely regarded as a ‘tone monster’. And he’s just as talented a singer and songwriter as he is a guitarist. You really need to check out basically ANY track from his previous album “Tones”. That’s the one that really put him on the map. When it was released, Guitar Player magazine featured him on the cover with the caption “why is this man on our cover?” (cuz he was a complete unknown at the time…).
Great choice guys! Thank You! Love Eric Johnson--so melodic and such a unique style. If you’re looking for some really tasty stuff by him other than Cliffs of Dover, you should give “Trademark” and “Manhattan” a try :). Glenn Proudfoot is a really great guitarist in his own right with very similar tones and lines as Johnson.
Living in Austin in the mid-70s, Eric was our jazz-rock guitar hero, in the band Electromagnets - they were flat-out great. Frank Zappa called them "A Mahavishnu Orchestra with a sense of humor." You can find a live performance recorded at a public TV station in Atlanta and uploads of their 2 albums if you search for "Eric Johnson and Electromagnets" on TH-cam. I'm more inclined to instrumental music myself, so I was sad when that band broke up and Eric made what I thought was the questionable decision to sing, LOL, and move in a more commercially-acceptable rock direction. But he never stopped being a great guitar player, that's for sure!
His non trebly distortion tone has been compared to a 500 lb. violin. They used to call him the Tone Ranger because he could tell what brand of batteries were in his stomp boxes by the sound. His voice always reminded me of a Bryan Adams with no grit in his voice. Among other things he's a big Hendrix fan, and I remember he said that some guitar tones on this song were inspired by Hendrix's "House Burning Down", and created by using 2 flanger pedals on different settings. He also plays like Wes Montgomery sometimes - see "Manhattan". I wanted to choose something besides "Cliffs Of Dover".
"Tone Ranger because he could tell what brand of batteries were in his stomp boxes by the sound" Hahaha! :D That sounds about right! The only other guy I can think of that _may_ be more tone obsessed is Tom Scholz (Boston). Thanks for another great contribution to the channel! Its always cool to see people getting into musicians that WE have loved via NickNLex :).
@@mvunit3 Thanks again for the playlists. Now that what at first looked like 3 playlists has expanded to 10 plus reading material, I'm afraid that (since I'm over 70) I might not live long enough to go through it all, even if I skip the artists I already know. I'm sure that since my tastes aren't going to evolve instantly, I won't like a certain percentage of it right away, but thanks for this great resource. I'll take it slow, because right now I'm feeling daunted by the time it's going to take to go through it all. You know how much time and effort went into it, so you must have a sense of what it is like for a person to be confronted with this amount of material at once.
@@-R.Gray- - Don't let it be daunting, these playlists are for those that I have understood and sense that people will like a good chunk of the bands/tracks, and be enlightened of what is out there from the past and present. Just let it flow and enjoy the ride. Each track I add to playlists I put together like a puzzle, they are meant to "flow" together, as I don't just add tracks willy-nilly after each other (not made to put on "shuffle" ;). That is part of the fun of putting these playlists together. And I have others that have a conceptual "theme" or subject matter. I think, if you liked Caligula's Horse, and enough to suggest a reaction, that type of "Metal"/Prog Metal, and its tone, layers, transitions, heaviness . . . then you'll be into many more bands than you think (from that moment when writing your reply). Just look at each playlist as if you were listening to the Radio on a long trip :). - I hope you enjOy the journey :).
@@mvunit3 I guess I am destined to find a bunch of music I like. The Caligula's horse song wasn't chosen because I was a fan of the group. It was a replacement of a Pat Metheny song I had as a NicknLex's under 25 min. paid-for request selection. I thought the original song might not have enough content and variety, so I needed to find a replacement song between 10 and 25 min.. I remembered that Jim Newstead had quite a few long songs on his reaction channel and I remembered seeing an impressive song there, but I couldn't recall the name of the group. I never did find that song. I clicked on "Graves", and didn't see any reason to look any further. So besides listening to your playlists, I still have to check out Caligula's Horse's other music - but I haven't found the time. I started listening to a playlist, but I wasn't just listening as if to a radio - I was looking up the bands as I went, so this is pretty time consuming. Maybe I should just research the groups that impress me the most. Try to imagine yourself 15 years from now, with an undetermined length of time left. Would whether or not a piece of music aligned itself with, and possibly transformed your musical conditioning be as important to the overall picture of your life as it is now? Come to think of it though, that's exactly what I've been doing myself with my requests - trying to expand peoples' knowledge and enjoyment by exposing them to music I like.
My favorite off that album is "Forty Mile Town" . There is really not any guitar solo in that song but what is there is some gorgeous tones and textures in the track. Its so melodic.
I once found a video on TH-cam of Eric playing in Carole King’s band looking like he couldn’t be more than 19 and he’s like smoking all these older players and amazing Carole. It’s pretty funny and impressive! Carole’s own band is pretty damn good, so half-way kidding kind of lol.
Interesting fact: Eric was always a great session guitarist but it was Christopher Cross who asked him what the hell he was doing and motivated him to produce Ah Via Musicom - the rest is history - Christopher Cross isn't a bad guitarist, but Eric - another world. Check out Nothing Will Change by Christopher Cross - unmistakable guitar tone.
Eric is a amazing, picked up these guitar tracks until reaching perfection do not scare him. I advise you the album that came out after 1996 'Venus Isle', who unfortunately did not obtain the success that would have deserved. ..When the Sun Meets the Sky
I was lucky and found EJ's music very early in my teen years (1987 maybe?). Tones and Ah Via Music.. are great albums but Venus Isle (album) is just perfection in my opinion. I could never put him in a genre, his music is very unique in so many ways.
I always liked this one. His guitar tone is amazing. If Nick can play Alan Holdsworth parts - he is a very good guitarist! I like Alan best on the Bruford albums.
E.J. is not actually that young. He turns 67 in a few days. He did start young, though. He was 21 for the first album of his band The Electromagnets, in 1975. If you like jazz fusion I highly recommend searching for their self-titled album. I actually "discovered" him with his first album, Tones, from 1986. Good stuff. Occasional hints of Rush on that one, actually.
Maybe this will stay up - unlike the David Torn song. The weird thing about that was underneath the "Video Unavailable" it says UMG and mentions a recording of the Jurassic Park theme. That movie came out 7 years AFTER Torn's album, but according to an article I read about a deal UMG Music made with TH-cam, they don't have to follow the rules for Fair Use etc. anymore. Oh well, you didn't like that music anyway.
Hola, felicitaciones por las reacciones a las bandas en español, y aprovecho para dejarles algunas recomendaciones de grupos argentinos y españoles : Estilo Prog CRUCIS : Pollo frito y/ó Abismo terrenal EL RELOJ : Al borde del abismo AQUELARRE : Patos trastornados LOS JAIVAS : Antigua América Estilo Jazz fusión RUBEN RADA : Montevideo ALMA Y VIDA : Don Quijote de barba y gabán Primera Banda de Charly García. SUI GENERIS : Tribulaciones, lamentó y ocaso de un tonto rey o qué. Estilo Rock canción ORION’S : Lisa FITO Y FITIPALDIS : Me equivocaria otra vez CERATI : La excepción Espero que puedan reaccionar a estas joyas del Rock argentino y les mando un cálido saludo desde Buenos Aires. Sigan así y muchísimas gracias.
I am a long time Eric fan. If you like virtuosos ho can flawless sing you may check Richie Kotzen - High live in sao paulo. Now if you like Guthries style more u should definetely check out Greg Howe's work!
Sehr guter Gitarrist, schöne Soli und dazu ein guter Sänger, mehr muss man nicht sagen. Gitarristen, die gut singen können, sind eher selten, einer hat Gary Moore erwähnt. Ein anderer ist Mikael Akerfeldt von Opeth, er ist nicht nur ein guter, sondern ein sehr guter Sänger, ich liebe seinen Mix aus engelhafter Stimme und Growls in den alten Songs. Vielleicht hört ihr euch mal Ghost of Perdition oder Deliverance an. Auch Matt Heavy von Trivium ist ein guter Sänger, ein sehr guter Metal Gitarrist und Komposer ... und dann gibt es noch bass-spielende Sänger wie Jack Bruce und vor allem Phil Lynott (Wink mit dem Zaunpfahl, Nick, THIN LIZZY, you remember ... Emerald oder Boys are back in town)
Seen Eric 3 times! I love this man. When you watch his How-To videos . . . You wanna' look at your guitar carefully, then just toss it on the floor :P. You guys MUST see the videos of Eric Johnson on Austin City Limits, together. Both you Nick and especially Lex will be BLOWN away. This is one of my FAVORITE tracks on this album. And I am going to say it; Eric has one of the MOST underrated "Vocals" out there (I'm a big fan of Vai's voice too). His voice is very unique, and goes _perfectly_ with his guitar tone. I always love it when he does those "pinch-harmonics", and how he changes sounds with his stomp boxes, even for just a second, just to add another layer, as if its 2 guitarists. He is an amazing guitar player. Been into him since his album "Tones", btw - he is also an excellent pianist :).
@@NicknLex If i could ask for a reaction to Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape by Be Bop Deluxe ( album version remix ), made in 1974 , Bill Nelson guitarist sounding like Eric Johnson !!!!
@@NicknLex Buhääää :-( die Information zur korrekten Aussprache hatte ich schon vor 1 Woche im Aristocrats-Kommentar geschrieben und ihr habt es ignoriert, jetzt bin ich traurig :-(
Had to add this; Rick Beato's interview with his "friend" (that man knows everyone! :D): th-cam.com/video/xyG1vSeCFlU/w-d-xo.html And the Tone Master on ACL: th-cam.com/play/PLoKeBWiCYbRr5BJqn0XJHG2G4TBHw5lT3.html
Eric Johnson is the master of fast pentatonic solo patterns.
Guitar Player Magazine May 1986 issue, "Who is Eric Johnson and why is he on our cover?" with Flexi-Disc insert of Cliff's of Dover was my introduction to Eric Johnson. Never looked back, this guy is amazing and when I first heard him sing it was different and refreshing. Like others have said when you see him play why do I even try, lol. Hope you guys continue down the Eric Johnson rabbit hole and come out saying that's why he was on that cover!
One my all time favourite solos by Eric is Venus isle.
Always love watching an initial reaction EJ video! Truly one of my favorite guitarists and guitar/vocal arrangements by Eric Johnson. Trademark is another Gem from that album and is, to this day, my most favorite Eric Johnson song of all time.
Love this song and the entire album. Eric's tone is killer as is his playing
Great to see Eric Johnson get some love! he always plays with such great tone and fluidity. Do yourselves a favor and buy Ah Via Musicom as there are many other gems on this album that I know you guys will love.
Such a sweet tune. Obviously he's got chops for days, but it's his beautiful tone and melodies that really set Eric apart.
Thanks for giving Eric some much needed attention. Being from Austin, TX, I grew up with this Album which had heavy airplay on Austin radio. I actually had my CD sighed by him at an in store appearance and he’s such a great, humble guy for being such a virtuoso. His first Album, Tones, along with Ah via M., are two of my favorite albums of all time. Criminally overlooked and underrated for many years, believe it or not, but of course a lot of guitarists know who he is now with some help from G3. He really should have been much bigger. I guess many people know Cliffs Of Dover which I think was grammy nominated, but all his songs are unbelievably good. I remember he toured with Rush back in the day., but yeah every song on Ah Via is great, not one weak song and it’s just a masterwork of different soundscapes, styles, and textures. I hear a lot of Hendrix influence in his playing as well, most obviously with the feed back stuff he had going on.
Love this album and his distortion is really warm and easy on your ears...makes it much easier to enjoy.
His guitar sounds similar to a violin in certain ways.
Great reaction to a great song by very talented musicians. I would recommend checking out Eric Johnson's Live At Austin City Limits '88...one of my favorite concerts in my dvd collection 🤘
Ah, what a beautiful song. It has been a while since I heard that tone. EJ is one of a kind. Now you are just teasing me...Plini please.
You’ve got to check out Eric Johnson playing Cliffs of Dover live at Austin City Limits. Unbelievable. But seeing is believing.
Great that you reacted to EJ!! Being from Austin, Eric's home, we have the fortune of seeing him live every year as well as occasional record store appearances. Cliffs of Dover is his most popular composition, but if I were to introduce someone to Eric's music I would start with this as the two guitar solos are amazing and the scales are phenomenal!!! Eric has over 35 years of music, and has appeared on the cover of Guitar Player magazine several times and more importantly has had several special series of Fender Stratocasters issued in his name! And he's extremely appreciative to his fans, really nice person!!
OK…. Love Eric Johnson but… when I saw Desert Rose I thought Sting. You have to do that one too! Sooo good.
I loved this album 30 years ago and it's still one of my favorites, very impressive from beginning to end. Thanks for the reactions to out of the ordinary stuff!
The Desert Rose solo sections are amazing pieces of music on their own. Cliffs of Dover is great also, don’t get me wrong…but Desert Rose is the real masterpiece on that album, imho
I saw him live on the Experience Hendrix tour in Reno a couple of years ago. He did All Along The Watchtower and a couple of others.
That tour was amazing, I caught it in Albany, a million notes blazing in tribute to Hendrix. Please react to Voodoo Child or Voodoo Chile (Slight Return), both on Electric Ladyland. The best ever, at his best. 🎸
@@vicprovost2561 I made a 25 minute video of dUg Pinnick, Joe Satriani and I can’t remember who played drums.
Ah Via Musicom was my intro to Eric and it introduced a lot of folks to his music style/ability. Liked "40 Mile Town" off that album and especially the live version as it is such a peaceful, easy going tune for those days where a smooth, care free song is required to put one at ease.
WOW! I've never heard this song before! Til now!
Now it's on my playlist!
Thanks for sharing!
Well, well, well. I see you guys are raiding my cd/album collection...again. ;) I mean ELP, PMG and now Eric Johnson. 'Tones' and this album are personal favs from EJ (too many great tunes to list...really). Thanks for checkin' him out!
You and I probably have a similar record collection, lol!! Eric, PMG, and ELP are in my top 10 of favorite artists. Living in Austin have had the fortune of seeing EJ live many times over the last 30 years, and meeting him on several occasions. (Also got to meet Keith Emerson and Carl Palmer once and hang out on the tour bus with them during the Three tour, and then meet ELP again at a meet and greet on the reunion tour)
@@michaelescareno7048 Wow! Cool! My first concert was ELP. I was nine. lolol (questionable parenting? It was scary and fascinating). Carl Palmer was my ultimate inspiration to play the drums. Now, I'm seriously considering jumping back behind a set because of an entirely different drummer named Akane Hirose (BAND-MAID = A...MAZING!). Austin? There's a world class guitar player, like, every hundred feet or so down there! Hahaha!
@@TheJerm It's been great being able to see a lot of musicians here over the years. Was that ELP concert on the Brain Salad Surgery tour by any chance? 😊
Take a Pebble ... and take a drink 🥃! We love your mentions of Allan Holdsworth, Nick. Reminds me to drink my water. Lol. ✨🤪
High Landrons is off this album. Its a banger.🎵☺🎸
Hi, I love Eric Johnson. This is such a brilliant track. His style and tone is wonderful and yes the guy can sing. If you like this track as you obviously do then checkout his album " Venus Isle" - Should you play from track 1 which is the title track, there will be little point in you doing a reaction to it - because you will not be able to stop. I don't mean pause during a reaction. I mean you wont be able to stop playing the entire album. It's simply majestically wonderful music and his singing fits perfectly with that soaring guitar sound. Track 1 Venus Isle and that's it - I promise you wont stop. Just enjoy it for yourselves. Thankyou for this. I really enjoyed that....Now if you will excuse me - I need to find that album I mentioned. You put me right in the mood for it. Lol
Venus Isle is a beautiful record, every song is a treasure.
@@lucaanf - It's is indeed. Breathtaking music that touches the soul as well as the heart. I've yet to play a track on it's own. I can't. I put on the cd and that's it, every song.
I believe someone sent them "Venus Isle" in the last Unboxing. I think it be great as another segment or another channel, they would play samples of tracks from their gifts :D.
@@mvunit3 Thankyou for the info - I haven't yet watched their last unboxing. I try to catch everything they do. I must watch that. I love seeing those unboxing posts.
Great great song, Eric is an amazing artist, I highly recomend, Venus Isle, beatutiful record. You can react to "lonely in the night" or "when the sun meets the sky" by the way great reaction as always.
Excellent, thank you! 😎
Love this one!
….. and so I’ve now discovered Eric Johnson. First time knowingly hearing him. I’m hooked. You must try 10CC, Somewhere in Hollywood and also Old Wild Men. Both from the Sheet Music album.
A band that invented the Gizmo that emulated different instruments and was revolutionary in the early 70s
Really nice, RG 👍 And Great reaction. I’m getting Ponty/HOLDSWORTH vibes. ✨🤪
Thanks. Also check him out in a fusion band he had prior to his solo career called the Electromagnets (on TH-cam). Because of their keyboard player
they reminded me of Return To Forever.
@@-R.Gray- Wow. Electromagnets. Why have I never heard of them?!! Found the whole self-titled album posted by Terminal Passage (great source of un-heard-of or obscure treats). I liked the variety they offered and the vibe is right on (like Return). Thanks, RG. For all your input. My requests are gonna go astray ... not “out of the box” - more pop and enjoying the music “box” - hope it works 🤷🏻♀️ ✨🤪
Him along with Gary Moore, one of the best guitar player vocalists.
Tones, Ah Via Musicom and Venus Isle, all fantastic albums. Check out When The Sun Meets The Sky from Venus Isle for ultra smooth vocals and guitar playing.
The first album I purchased of Eric's. So good. Nick, You freaked me out! Because I also made a patch on my digitech rp pedal called E.J. Lead. I looked up his gear online and used digitech's version of everything he used. A fuzz face into a tape delay into a Marshall plexi into celestion greenback speakers. That's the Eric lead tone. 😊 I also love the "Venus isle" album.
His first band was Mariani but I don’t know much about them.
Electromagnets was his next band and I do own the cd and they sound like Mahavishnu Orchestra but they come from Austin,Texas.
His first solo album is Tones(1985) and it’s an amazing debut.
My favorite Eric song by far. Thanks for reacting! So glad I discovered your channel - you are the best! A joy to watch! 🙏👍💚🌻🔥
His live version on live from Austin city limits is stunning!
Great song off a classic album, when I saw him open for Buddy Guy he played most of that album and was incredible. Buddy was great too, walking out into the audience with a barrage of Blues licks. That's entertainment! Please play some more of another musical master, Michael Schenker and UFO. Thanks and Rock On! 😎
This was very nice! Very melodic and clarity of those solos! So cool! This was a treat after a long day ! Great reaction. Thanks for sharing all this amazing music with me! Good times! Cant wait for the next one! Take of yourselves!
Love your videos, you seem very sweet, kind people. Eric is unique, as you say his tone is so gorgeous. And he's always so musical. My suggestion: can you do Eric's track Western Flyer from 1988 - where he teeters on the edge of madness - or Trademark, or 12 To 22 Vibe, or the unvelievavly beautiful Venus Isle Reprise? Thanks and hugs from Sevilla, Spain. Barry Smith
Kinda surprised it took you guys so long to get to Mr. Johnson. Better late than never I guess.
Much like David Gilmour, Eric is widely regarded as a ‘tone monster’. And he’s just as talented a singer and songwriter as he is a guitarist.
You really need to check out basically ANY track from his previous album “Tones”. That’s the one that really put him on the map. When it was released, Guitar Player magazine featured him on the cover with the caption “why is this man on our cover?” (cuz he was a complete unknown at the time…).
Great choice guys! Thank You! Love Eric Johnson--so melodic and such a unique style. If you’re looking for some really tasty stuff by him other than Cliffs of Dover, you should give “Trademark” and “Manhattan” a try :). Glenn Proudfoot is a really great guitarist in his own right with very similar tones and lines as Johnson.
Living in Austin in the mid-70s, Eric was our jazz-rock guitar hero, in the band Electromagnets - they were flat-out great. Frank Zappa called them "A Mahavishnu Orchestra with a sense of humor." You can find a live performance recorded at a public TV station in Atlanta and uploads of their 2 albums if you search for "Eric Johnson and Electromagnets" on TH-cam. I'm more inclined to instrumental music myself, so I was sad when that band broke up and Eric made what I thought was the questionable decision to sing, LOL, and move in a more commercially-acceptable rock direction. But he never stopped being a great guitar player, that's for sure!
Nobody……..NOBODY sounds like EJ! He is amazing!!!! And his singing voice isn’t bad either!
His non trebly distortion tone has been compared to a 500 lb. violin. They used to call him the Tone Ranger because he could tell what brand of batteries were in his stomp boxes by the sound. His voice always reminded me of a Bryan Adams with no grit in his voice. Among other things he's a big Hendrix fan, and I remember he said that some guitar tones on this song were inspired by Hendrix's "House Burning Down", and created by using 2 flanger pedals on different settings. He also plays like Wes Montgomery sometimes - see "Manhattan". I wanted to choose something besides "Cliffs Of Dover".
"Tone Ranger because he could tell what brand of batteries were in his stomp boxes by the sound" Hahaha! :D That sounds about right! The only other guy I can think of that _may_ be more tone obsessed is Tom Scholz (Boston).
Thanks for another great contribution to the channel! Its always cool to see people getting into musicians that WE have loved via NickNLex :).
@@mvunit3 Thanks again for the playlists. Now that what at first looked like 3 playlists has expanded to 10 plus reading material, I'm afraid that (since I'm over 70) I might not live long enough to go through it all, even if I skip the artists I already know. I'm sure that since my tastes aren't going to evolve instantly, I won't like a certain percentage of it right away, but thanks for this great resource. I'll take it slow, because right now I'm feeling daunted by the time it's going to take to go through it all. You know how much time and effort went into it, so you must have a sense of what it is like for a person to be confronted with this amount of material at once.
@@-R.Gray- - Don't let it be daunting, these playlists are for those that I have understood and sense that people will like a good chunk of the bands/tracks, and be enlightened of what is out there from the past and present. Just let it flow and enjoy the ride. Each track I add to playlists I put together like a puzzle, they are meant to "flow" together, as I don't just add tracks willy-nilly after each other (not made to put on "shuffle" ;).
That is part of the fun of putting these playlists together. And I have others that have a conceptual "theme" or subject matter.
I think, if you liked Caligula's Horse, and enough to suggest a reaction, that type of "Metal"/Prog Metal, and its tone, layers, transitions, heaviness . . . then you'll be into many more bands than you think (from that moment when writing your reply). Just look at each playlist as if you were listening to the Radio on a long trip :).
- I hope you enjOy the journey :).
@@mvunit3 I guess I am destined to find a bunch of music I like. The Caligula's horse song wasn't chosen because I was a fan of the group. It was a replacement of a Pat Metheny song I had as a NicknLex's under 25 min. paid-for request selection. I thought the original song might not have enough content and variety, so I needed to find a replacement song between 10 and 25 min.. I remembered that Jim Newstead had quite a few long songs on his reaction channel and I remembered seeing an impressive song there, but I couldn't recall the name of the group. I never did find that song. I clicked on "Graves", and didn't see any reason to look any further. So besides listening to your playlists, I still have to check out Caligula's Horse's other music - but I haven't found the time. I started listening to a playlist, but I wasn't just listening as if to a radio - I was looking up the bands as I went, so this is pretty time consuming. Maybe I should just research the groups that impress me the most.
Try to imagine yourself 15 years from now, with an undetermined length of time left. Would whether or not a piece of music aligned itself with, and possibly transformed your musical conditioning be as important to the overall picture of your life as it is now? Come to think of it though, that's exactly what I've been doing myself with my requests - trying to expand peoples' knowledge and enjoyment by exposing them to music I like.
I have Ah Via Musicom proudly donated to me from Guthrie!
:O!!!
My favorite off that album is "Forty Mile Town" . There is really not any guitar solo in that song but what is there is some gorgeous tones and textures in the track. Its so melodic.
You gotta check out the Eric Johnson tune,Cliffs Od Dover.Such a great song.
This is my favorite from the album
I see three Allan Holdsworth CDs and a Jean Luc Ponty LP in the background. In addition to Eric Johnson, these definitely validate your credibility.
I once found a video on TH-cam of Eric playing in Carole King’s band looking like he couldn’t be more than 19 and he’s like smoking all these older players and amazing Carole. It’s pretty funny and impressive! Carole’s own band is pretty damn good, so half-way kidding kind of lol.
Yea, that Wah Wah peddle at the end :0
Has a Poco sound, 👍. Look up Trevor Rabin - Can't Look Away, great song and album 👍🏻👍🏻
Aw man, EXCELLENT album!
Interesting fact: Eric was always a great session guitarist but it was Christopher Cross who asked him what the hell he was doing and motivated him to produce Ah Via Musicom - the rest is history - Christopher Cross isn't a bad guitarist, but Eric - another world.
Check out Nothing Will Change by Christopher Cross - unmistakable guitar tone.
Eric is a amazing, picked up these guitar tracks until reaching perfection do not scare him.
I advise you the album that came out after 1996 'Venus Isle',
who unfortunately did not obtain the success that would have deserved.
..When the Sun Meets the Sky
Allan Holdsworth’s favorite guitar player in 1985.
I was lucky and found EJ's music very early in my teen years (1987 maybe?). Tones and Ah Via Music.. are great albums but Venus Isle (album) is just perfection in my opinion. I could never put him in a genre, his music is very unique in so many ways.
Cliffs Of Dover
I’ll say no more…..YES….And You and I
High Landrons, Lonely in the night, Venus Isle
I always liked this one. His guitar tone is amazing. If Nick can play Alan Holdsworth parts - he is a very good guitarist! I like Alan best on the Bruford albums.
There is a video of Nick playing Allan Holdsworth on the channel! Check it out!
E.J. is not actually that young. He turns 67 in a few days. He did start young, though. He was 21 for the first album of his band The Electromagnets, in 1975. If you like jazz fusion I highly recommend searching for their self-titled album.
I actually "discovered" him with his first album, Tones, from 1986. Good stuff. Occasional hints of Rush on that one, actually.
I was going to write the same thing!
Its like Kings X bassist/vocalist . . . he is 70!
I was going to write the same thing!
Its like Kings X bassist/vocalist . . . he is 70!
Killer 🎉
Maybe this will stay up - unlike the David Torn song. The weird thing about that was underneath the "Video Unavailable" it says UMG and mentions a recording of the Jurassic Park theme. That movie came out 7 years AFTER Torn's album, but according to an article I read about a deal UMG Music made with TH-cam, they don't have to follow the rules for Fair Use etc. anymore. Oh well, you didn't like that music anyway.
We hadn’t realized it was blocked, ugh!! 😣 We’re working on another platform to put blocked videos on. Thanks for the heads up and awesome requests!
Hola, felicitaciones por las reacciones a las bandas en español, y aprovecho para dejarles algunas recomendaciones de grupos argentinos y españoles :
Estilo Prog
CRUCIS : Pollo frito y/ó Abismo terrenal
EL RELOJ : Al borde del abismo
AQUELARRE : Patos trastornados
LOS JAIVAS : Antigua América
Estilo Jazz fusión
RUBEN RADA : Montevideo
ALMA Y VIDA : Don Quijote de barba y gabán
Primera Banda de Charly García.
SUI GENERIS : Tribulaciones, lamentó y ocaso de un tonto rey o qué.
Estilo Rock canción
ORION’S : Lisa
FITO Y FITIPALDIS : Me equivocaria otra vez
CERATI : La excepción
Espero que puedan reaccionar a estas joyas del Rock argentino y les mando un cálido saludo desde Buenos Aires.
Sigan así y muchísimas gracias.
Holaa,podrian reaccionar a la cancion "etiqueta negra" de "los redondos" xfaaaaaa
I am a long time Eric fan. If you like virtuosos ho can flawless sing you may check Richie Kotzen - High live in sao paulo. Now if you like Guthries style more u should definetely check out Greg Howe's work!
I’m a big fan of both of those. Thank you! - Nick
Sehr guter Gitarrist, schöne Soli und dazu ein guter Sänger, mehr muss man nicht sagen. Gitarristen, die gut singen können, sind eher selten, einer hat Gary Moore erwähnt. Ein anderer ist Mikael Akerfeldt von Opeth, er ist nicht nur ein guter, sondern ein sehr guter Sänger, ich liebe seinen Mix aus engelhafter Stimme und Growls in den alten Songs. Vielleicht hört ihr euch mal Ghost of Perdition oder Deliverance an. Auch Matt Heavy von Trivium ist ein guter Sänger, ein sehr guter Metal Gitarrist und Komposer ... und dann gibt es noch bass-spielende Sänger wie Jack Bruce und vor allem Phil Lynott (Wink mit dem Zaunpfahl, Nick, THIN LIZZY, you remember ... Emerald oder Boys are back in town)
To the people who make fun of Nick’s English, I bet your German isn’t too good!! 😛
You should look at Sting and Cheb Mami.
Guthries name is pronounced GUVERN!
Seen Eric 3 times! I love this man. When you watch his How-To videos . . .
You wanna' look at your guitar carefully, then just toss it on the floor :P. You guys MUST see the videos of Eric Johnson on Austin City Limits, together. Both you Nick and especially Lex will be BLOWN away.
This is one of my FAVORITE tracks on this album. And I am going to say it; Eric has one of the MOST underrated "Vocals" out there (I'm a big fan of Vai's voice too). His voice is very unique, and goes _perfectly_ with his guitar tone. I always love it when he does those "pinch-harmonics", and how he changes sounds with his stomp boxes, even for just a second, just to add another layer, as if its 2 guitarists.
He is an amazing guitar player. Been into him since his album "Tones", btw - he is also an excellent pianist :).
You Could "Come Dancing", if your Wired by Jeff Beck. You know, dancing, shaking to the beat of a different drummer.
Haha! You go again Kevin! (and CONGRATS! Maybe they can face the _3 Fates_ or . . . eh em . . . a *Fates Warning* :O!).
@@mvunit3 Now that they've heard it they will want more, so I thought I'd switch it up and hit them with Jeff Beck, screw Pat Metheny.
Guthrie " Govern" is pronounced as in the first part of "Govern"ment ,just so you know 😉
Wow that’s amazing. We had no idea!! Thank you! Gonna be hard getting used to saying it that way 😛
@@NicknLex If i could ask for a reaction to Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape by Be Bop Deluxe ( album version remix ), made in 1974 , Bill Nelson guitarist sounding like Eric Johnson !!!!
@@NicknLex Buhääää :-( die Information zur korrekten Aussprache hatte ich schon vor 1 Woche im Aristocrats-Kommentar geschrieben und ihr habt es ignoriert, jetzt bin ich traurig :-(
@@rudolfbecker4313 Sorry Rudi. Ich hatte diesen und dein Kommentar garnicht gesehen. Danke für die Verbesserung 🙏
Johnny Lang plays and sings! Lie To Me is a great song!
Had to add this; Rick Beato's interview with his "friend" (that man knows everyone! :D): th-cam.com/video/xyG1vSeCFlU/w-d-xo.html
And the Tone Master on ACL: th-cam.com/play/PLoKeBWiCYbRr5BJqn0XJHG2G4TBHw5lT3.html