after being a long time Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jeff Healy fan, I discovered Eric Johnson, Gary Hoey, Andy Timmons, Gary Moore and many others by downloading the iHeartRadio on my phone.
You tell people like that to pick up a guitar and tell them to "show me what you want to hear and how you want me to play it". Relatives, strangers, doesn't matter. When they can't play it, tell 'em to eat it and bugger off.
My 15-year-olds first concert was Eric Johnson in 2020. She was completely blown away. Never heard his music before, never seen anyone perform live. I fear I may have ruined her, she'll always be comparing performers to a true master of his craft.
Still something 'boyhood charm youthfulness' about him. Maybe it's how he lives, maybe the muse keeps us searching and longing, maybe because I remember Eric as a very young and inspired individual.
Eric Johnson, Master of tone, chords and feel . His sound and style is so unique, so rich, so full, so amazing. Eric may you never leave this earth :-)
@@JBlanco66 Hi, your recording is probably the best version of this intro, which is why I used it in my latest vid (non-profit channel). Hope you don't mind as I credited everything to you including the video link and a subscription on your channel. Let me know, thx.
@@losangelos I don’t mind at all, I’m glad you liked the audio quality. I will watch your video this evening. Thank you for your comments and the credits. I really appreciate it
I love that the first 8 and a half minutes of that song is really just for him (we love it too, but his focus is all on his instrument), then he comes in and gives the smile to the crowd.
I saw him open for Satch and I wished he'd been the one headlining. Much more to my taste than Satch with all that whammy screaming and wah wah crap. Eric is just so musical.
The year was 1985 and my guitar friend (I’m a drummer) told me about EJ, showed me a vid of him on Austin City Limits. We went to see him that year in a small venue for a guitar clinic in Addison , TX. At the end, we walked up to where he was seated and I shook his hand. Little did I know I was shaking the hand of one of the most influential guitarists of all time. Have seen him lots of times since then and will never forget that day. His music has left an unremovable impression on my life. Thanks, Eric.
He doesn’t have anything to prove. Just enjoy what he does. Give him a break,he’s 65 for heaven’s sake. Time & Arthritis & wear & tear will always catch up with you. He’s an Original. Period.
EJ, only one of a kind, in a class by himself. When the sad days come and the Mt. Rushmore/Founding Fathers of rock guitar have passed, I will be consoled by listening to Eric. Folks, if you’ve never been to one of his shows, do not miss him!!
@@mikealbert1146 I think you mean EJ can tear it up!? Saw him live in Venture,Ca around mid '90's just after Venus Isle. I went with an established local finger style player from Santa Barbara. WOW was it ever loud! EJ and his Bass player seemed almost wireless and strutting stage forward like a couple bad ass Texans. It was so Rock-n-roll. The player I was with was dubious, but I remember the shear energy of it and how EJ played so many encores. It was like a burning bush from the stage.
I have to say that I feel overwhelmed of the response to this video! I am not a TH-camr by any chance, this is just a hobby, I go to concerts and record one or two videos, just for fun and to have a memory for myself. Thank you so much to all of those new subscribers and all the comments, it means a lot to me! Now that pandemic is going away little by little, concerts are back, all those cats are back on the road. I just bought tickets to attend Joe Bonamassa at the Majestic Theatre in San Antonio, TX It will be on October the 15th. I’m going to do my best to get one or two videos for y’all out there. Thank you again, folks, keep on rocking and bluesing!!!
Bro!! I'm from San Antonio TX too. I've seen Eric Johnson several times back in the 90s. I've seen him at the Lila Cockrell and Sunken Gardens Theaters with Joe Satriani and Steve Vai. Guy's a guitar legend in my book!!
@@alanalanis2257 hey paisano! I try to attend any blues gig in SA, this pandemic lockdown was driving me crazy. I go often to Sam’s Burger Joint, I’ve seen a whole bunch of good blues players. I’m going to Bonamassa’s in October. There’s some guys coming to town, Albert Cummings, Davy Knowles, Black Label Society, I hope to catch you sometime at any of these events
@@JBlanco66 I'm glad things are picking up. However I'll probably never go to a live show again as much as I hate that. As much as we want things to go back to normal there's always going to be that covid risk, vaccination or no vaccination. I'm not willing to take that chance. I'll miss seeing Dream Theater live the most😭😭 I do appreciate you helping me to relive some great memories!!
Many years back when I was a fledgling drummer, I attended a Carmine Appice drum clinic at Strait Music Company here in Austin. At that time Eric was a local talent (the Electromagnet days), not known that well outside the Austin area. Carmine had asked Strait to round up a good guitarist and a bass player so he could jam and demonstrate some of his technique. Well, Strait got Eric and Kyle Brock to show up -- Carmine was not familiar with either, and asked them to do something in 4/4. As soon as Eric played the opening bar I thought Appice was going to fall off his throne, he came in on the drums with a huge grin on his face, nodding his head in obvious approval. As always Kyle Brock's bass was equally amazing. Carmine Appice became an Eric Johnson fan that day.
I was at this same clinic also what year was that? Seems like Carmine was saying he just lates down drum tracks for Bark at the moo or was fixing too also seen Carmine do clinic at old Austin music light and sound think that was after straight? Use to run into SRV at Ray Hennins and Tommy’s drum shop one day I was in arrays and both SRV and EJ were both there had just opened hardly no one was there I skipped school with a buddy to hit music stores. Trivia SRV his favorite famous strat that he always played he bought at Ray Hennings Christopher Cross came in and said it was junk and traded it out. Good memories in this town ran into Yngwie at old guitar redirection man I need a time machine.
I've seen him four or five times. Here he was giving the audience a unique intro, finding a new way to enjoy himself by improvising. Jorge you were lucky to be there in person. I have a friend that rehearsed at ARC, Austin Rehearsal Complex, back in the early 90's. He told me that Eric would be there for hours playing the same piece. My friend finally asked a staff member about that. The staff member told him, "he's not practicing the riff, he's trying every option for the tone". He would try different cables, different brand batteries in his effects, even the placement of the cables. He is a consummate pro, tone is everything to him. You don't know it but your ears appreciate it.
I think it's a little too dark.. like when your tone knob is all the way down, But that just my opinion. I know he says it sounds like trash with too much treble.. but not enough can hurt you too! again just my opinion. and he's Eric Johnson.. still amazing it's noticeable from the rest of the band.. is my point. but that could be because it's recorded live, and not so much noticeable if I was there? the 4k, 8k, 16k eq's you really notice it when the drummer hits the cymbals. and I know too much highs do sound like crap too.. but needs to be in the middle.
A true master. Saw Eric in Baltimore at Rams Head and I was in tears for most of the show. Because my dad Introduced me to this type of music. His chord structures are so full of feeling and emotion. I listen to this and think about my really awesome dad
Saw and met him at the 1-2-1 Club in Austin in 2016. Wished the crowd had been more respectful. He is perhaps the best guitarist on the planet and has been for a long while. A true artist and a nice guy.
Eric Johnson is amazing! I saw him do much of this in 1980 at a theater on the square in San Marcos, TX. My roommate Dave and I were really excited to see him play live and, worried that we wouldn't get in, drove down from Austin at a ridiculous hour-- like 6 in the afternoon-- only to find no one there. We got a beer and a look from the bartender still setting up the well and wandered up to the balcony, on the side overlooking the stage. Much to our surprise, Eric comes out and does his sound check. Literally the only people in the place, we had a front row seat to a mind-blowing jam as he tested out the various effects. Swept into the concert later, it only got better.
Saw this performance in Maryland, he put on his best show. Amazing musician! He had a second guitarist/keyboardist playing rhythm/leads, this allowed him to really perform his music. TONE MASTER!
I was in a touring band based out of Dallas tx in the early 70" s we would get home about every 2 or 3 months and I had seen Eric live with his band the electromagnets and the venue was called Sneaky Pete's ...and it held a few hundred people the funny thing is that everybody in the place we're musicians He was unbelievable back then and every genre was there to see the future of guitar .....they were awesome and Eric ...what can I say ? We witnessed greatness happening before us all👍💯
I'm very happy to have seen him twice. Once he opened for BB King, and another at a small club where I was RIGHT IN FRONT of him.......a truly amazing guitar player.\m/
I was listening a big Fan of Eric Johnson and having a few drinks and man sounded like he's going a 100mph my eyes were going back and fourth to each note he played just crazy, Amazing..🤣😂🎸🎸🎸 (A Legend) thanks Eric Johnson for taking every hungry guitar player to the next level.
eric johnson is the master of "HARMONIC SCHREDDING"!!!!!!!!!! it is for sure we can conclude that eric johnson has a "TRADEMARK" sound !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m glad he’s still playing this with some passion, I saw him back in the mid 2000’s opening for Satch and he really seemed like he was “going through the motions”….Thanks for posting this….
God hes one of the very best top elite guitarist that ever been out there for so many years and i thank the one guitar teacher at the music store i was taking guitar and vocal lessons at ty for telling me about eric johnsin and joe satreeuani, & Steve via,& Stevie steven's there my Top #1 elite favorites nobody will ever sound as good and as perfect as they sound and play nobody eill ever compair to these guys there the elites god id give anything to meet them in person and to see them play in person. U can get lost in there guitar playin and there sounds nobody can make the guiart talk like they can do perfectly there perfection. It would be a total awesome dream to be able to see them and listen to them in person a up close and personal mini concert for two one night.
I graduated the Connecticut State Police Academy in 1993 and they filmed a video covering our 7 months at the Academy. This was the sound track to the video. Not to shabby, not shabby at all. Thank you TFC Terry for that little piece of magic that this song is.
I ❤ every single version of this song, this one is special though! I love his little jumps, he has fun and we his loyal fans, love watching, hearing! ❤
Just try to play that bridge to cliffs of dover fast like it 's supposed to be.. it's the hardest part of that song.. I think but if you play it slow it's easy!? just crazy it might be the chorus? it's not the main riff but that second part.
It was just days before covid hit, my last concert, then locked down forever, after that, my first concert was Joe Bonamassa at the Majestic, OMG! What a concert!
I agree with all these comments. My story about this man’s music might be similar to others. It was 1990 and I was 20 and had found some freedom in driving around in the summer with the top down in my old Jeep. About this time Ah via musicom came out and Cliffs was in the radio and I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. Now some 30+ years later my 18 YO son has discovered EJ and can’t get enough of him. The circle is complete! May this man’s magical music carry on in the afterlife.
Magnificent version , fortunate to have seen Eric back in '86 at a clinic at Gelb Music , after he hung out and talked equipment for a half hour. Totally sweet and humble genius. The show that night at the Keystone was epic.
Saw him play a small venue years ago, and it was epic. Ziggy’s Tavern in Winston-Salem, NC. His pedals went haywire, so he had to have his tech come out to troubleshoot. While that was going on, he sat on the front of the stage, noodling around on the guitar and chatting with guests at the show. Such a cool dude and a great musician.
EJ's guitar playing continues to evolve and he's arguably more technically skilled now than he was years ago...didn't even believe that was possible. Love the jam session intro. EJ seems to be having a blast trying out different guitar effects, just winging it out on stage in front of a live audience, with precision and purpose.
intro was magical, song itself always seemed a little struggle live especially during the solo. He loses his sense of melody (what chords are happening) and is always rushing a tad in the main melody but man.... the intro clean stuff absolutely (imo) outshined the main song. Sure, he wants to go for it and not repeat the album but this was sub par on the main song. But that intro!!!!! man... it was worth every second of my life to hear him play all those chords andleading melodies and various harmonic techniques. I will now enjoy a 2nd listen of the intro.
I agree, amazing intro but he's thrown in totally behind the band always trying to catch up. When starting the main melody riff, his signature violin tone was kind tonally dull sounding Maybe it's one of the new distortion pedals he's lately been trying? Don't mean to be critical. i'm reallly a huge fan and guitar player. Still though amazing intro but once the main song hook begns he's playing catch up behind the tempo. -Really happy to get out of the bands torrent rush and the really bottom heavy rythmn section. Still love Eric though..
Most players are evolving and oftentimes they just keep getting better, but in all honesty…65 is not that old at all. You’re still young, and hopefully having as much fun as possible without hurting anyone. Keep playing and you, too, will be able to play as well as EJ can when you’re this "OLD", (😂🤣😅😆). Whew!
Beautiful Player . So Musical . Harmonics. David Gilmour , Derrick Trucks Play with feel and Beauty. Eric Johnson is right up there with the Best. We just lost a Pillar. JEFF BECK 🙏 ♥️ I'm grateful for EJ . Guitar Voice of EJ is filled with emotion. One of my favorite players.
@@javierherrera8782 y en donde dice que son competencias?. La música es la expresión del alma, no hay mejores ni primeros lugares, el querer calificar es una tonteria.
Saw this tour twice- EJ never disappoints. I love the classics but really enjoy some of his deep cuts. He is a master to listen to and watch- just amazing! he's such a cool dude.
Heard this live after his ‘gift’ of a small disc in Guitar Mag ~ 86, iconic!! Never Forget, in the Twin Cities, never better- still the same 100# violin Strat!!
I saw him live in Chicago in the late 90's, he played a jam-out intro to this song with the dark purple lighting similar to how he did here, and it was just magical. I will never forget it. I cannot believe how much guitar mojo he has in him. He could jam forever and would still sound good.
Played it hundreds of times live and never played it the same twice...
@5five6, true, he masters his own work
One of the functional definitions of Jazz: Never repeat yourself. Or better yet, keep experimenting...
IMO it was never a song. Just a mobile backing track to improvise to at all his gigs ahaha. Man's a legend.
Or miss a note
What should scare guitarists. Many of those are regular chords. SCARY.
after being a long time Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jeff Healy fan, I discovered Eric Johnson, Gary Hoey, Andy Timmons, Gary Moore and many others by downloading the iHeartRadio on my phone.
My 85 yr old aunt liked the intro, looked at me n said, why can’t you play that instead of the crap you normally do?
Funny! Ha! I can almost picture your aunt looking at you…
adorable aunty:)
My Mother would always say "All you do is plinky plinky, play a song I know."
You tell people like that to pick up a guitar and tell them to "show me what you want to hear and how you want me to play it". Relatives, strangers, doesn't matter. When they can't play it, tell 'em to eat it and bugger off.
Because it takes a billion hours of practice haha
My 15-year-olds first concert was Eric Johnson in 2020. She was completely blown away. Never heard his music before, never seen anyone perform live. I fear I may have ruined her, she'll always be comparing performers to a true master of his craft.
*So she doesn't get the perfect artistry of Arianna La Grande?* Lol
@@thetruthchannel349 we’re you born in the wrong generation :( it’s *Ariana btw
@@e.t4635 *I was making fun. I know*
@@e.t4635 *Yes I was born in the wrong generation. I should have been born in the 1950s*
There will be more
He 65 years still blowing people minds respect and learn be kind he wont be here forever.
Still something 'boyhood charm youthfulness' about him. Maybe it's how he lives, maybe the muse keeps us searching and longing, maybe because I remember Eric as a very young and inspired individual.
Lots of wisdom there and it's so true...sad, but true.
I know that's right !
He still a simple person! And a great guitarist.
I wish Stevie was alive and him and EJ were touring together
Eric Johnson, Master of tone, chords and feel . His sound and style is so unique, so rich, so full, so amazing. Eric may you never leave this earth :-)
Great vid. I was on the left side of the stage in front of those amps. It was loud as FUCK. To see him play the entire AVM album was incredible.
@@imageskj1 that was an amazing concert!
@@JBlanco66 Hi, your recording is probably the best version of this intro, which is why I used it in my latest vid (non-profit channel). Hope you don't mind as I credited everything to you including the video link and a subscription on your channel. Let me know, thx.
@@losangelos I don’t mind at all, I’m glad you liked the audio quality.
I will watch your video this evening.
Thank you for your comments and the credits. I really appreciate it
@@JBlanco66 Great, Thx a lot !
I love that the first 8 and a half minutes of that song is really just for him (we love it too, but his focus is all on his instrument), then he comes in and gives the smile to the crowd.
If you haven't had the experience of seeing Eric play live, you can't even begin to fathom how magical this really sounds.
I saw him open for Satch and I wished he'd been the one headlining. Much more to my taste than Satch with all that whammy screaming and wah wah crap. Eric is just so musical.
I have seen him twice....once he opened for BB King, and the other time I saw him in a small club.....fawking amazing \m/
I was at this show. He played the entire AVM album. It was a dream come true. And LOUD as Fuck.
@@angusorvid8840 Hey now
@@smallfaucet Same, back in the 90's he opened for Buddy Guy, who opened for BB. What a great, great show that was.
When you totally own your instrument, this is what it sounds like. For decades the gold standard, EJ is a gift to the musical world.
I heard some here and there but he gets a pass - it’s live
Word.
Agreed!
The year was 1985 and my guitar friend (I’m a drummer) told me about EJ, showed me a vid of him on Austin City Limits. We went to see him that year in a small venue for a guitar clinic in Addison , TX. At the end, we walked up to where he was seated and I shook his hand. Little did I know I was shaking the hand of one of the most influential guitarists of all time. Have seen him lots of times since then and will never forget that day. His music has left an unremovable impression on my life. Thanks, Eric.
He doesn’t have anything to prove. Just enjoy what he does. Give him a break,he’s 65 for heaven’s sake. Time & Arthritis & wear & tear will always catch up with you. He’s an Original. Period.
Eric destroying all despair and all diseases with his awesome musical vibration guitar tones !!!!
Yes!!!!!
EJ, only one of a kind, in a class by himself. When the sad days come and the Mt. Rushmore/Founding Fathers of rock guitar have passed, I will be consoled by listening to Eric.
Folks, if you’ve never been to one of his shows, do not miss him!!
Eric makes a guitar do things that even the guitar didn't know it could do. His chords are other-worldly.
Easily and thankfully one of the greatest "Strato-castors" of all time...
"Strato-Blaster" of all time, also my friend..
@@mikealbert1146 Yes sir. EJ's music always transcends and makes me feel better, if I'm a bit down...
@@mikealbert1146 I think you mean EJ can tear it up!? Saw him live in Venture,Ca around mid '90's just after Venus Isle. I went with an established local finger style player from Santa Barbara. WOW was it ever loud! EJ and his Bass player seemed almost wireless and strutting stage forward like a couple bad ass Texans. It was so Rock-n-roll. The player I was with was dubious, but I remember the shear energy of it and how EJ played so many encores. It was like a burning bush from the stage.
And Jeff Beck!
@@kenthhamner2641 Was just thinking that JB and EJ are the textbook examples of how a strat should sound in the modern era.
Dear God I’m speechless! Beautiful Eric!
Never the same twice, yet easily recognizable every single time 👍
From God to this man's soul and straight to his hands. It brings a joyful tear to my eye. He's just so AMAZING
One of the most perfect comments
B.a. wow !
I have to say that I feel overwhelmed of the response to this video! I am not a TH-camr by any chance, this is just a hobby, I go to concerts and record one or two videos, just for fun and to have a memory for myself.
Thank you so much to all of those new subscribers and all the comments, it means a lot to me!
Now that pandemic is going away little by little, concerts are back, all those cats are back on the road.
I just bought tickets to attend Joe Bonamassa at the Majestic Theatre in San Antonio, TX
It will be on October the 15th. I’m going to do my best to get one or two videos for y’all out there.
Thank you again, folks, keep on rocking and bluesing!!!
Bro!! I'm from San Antonio TX too. I've seen Eric Johnson several times back in the 90s. I've seen him at the Lila Cockrell and Sunken Gardens Theaters with Joe Satriani and Steve Vai. Guy's a guitar legend in my book!!
@@alanalanis2257 hey paisano! I try to attend any blues gig in SA, this pandemic lockdown was driving me crazy.
I go often to Sam’s Burger Joint, I’ve seen a whole bunch of good blues players.
I’m going to Bonamassa’s in October.
There’s some guys coming to town, Albert Cummings, Davy Knowles, Black Label Society, I hope to catch you sometime at any of these events
You did good, brother! Thanks for sharing the joy of music!
@@tomsteger1 , thanks Tom!
@@JBlanco66 I'm glad things are picking up. However I'll probably never go to a live show again as much as I hate that. As much as we want things to go back to normal there's always going to be that covid risk, vaccination or no vaccination. I'm not willing to take that chance. I'll miss seeing Dream Theater live the most😭😭 I do appreciate you helping me to relive some great memories!!
I could sit and listen to this intro type chord phrasing for hours…
EJ always delivers
It's a japanese style actually
just some of it
Many years back when I was a fledgling drummer, I attended a Carmine Appice drum clinic at Strait Music Company here in Austin. At that time Eric was a local talent (the Electromagnet days), not known that well outside the Austin area. Carmine had asked Strait to round up a good guitarist and a bass player so he could jam and demonstrate some of his technique. Well, Strait got Eric and Kyle Brock to show up -- Carmine was not familiar with either, and asked them to do something in 4/4. As soon as Eric played the opening bar I thought Appice was going to fall off his throne, he came in on the drums with a huge grin on his face, nodding his head in obvious approval. As always Kyle Brock's bass was equally amazing. Carmine Appice became an Eric Johnson fan that day.
Cool story. I know Kyle. He's such a cool laid back dude! I miss seeing him.
what a cool story!
I was at this same clinic also what year was that? Seems like Carmine was saying he just lates down drum tracks for Bark at the moo or was fixing too also seen Carmine do clinic at old Austin music light and sound think that was after straight? Use to run into SRV at Ray Hennins and Tommy’s drum shop one day I was in arrays and both SRV and EJ were both there had just opened hardly no one was there I skipped school with a buddy to hit music stores. Trivia SRV his favorite famous strat that he always played he bought at Ray Hennings Christopher Cross came in and said it was junk and traded it out. Good memories in this town ran into Yngwie at old guitar redirection man I need a time machine.
eric is a true musician. he's still trying to intro the song differently after however many years
I've seen him four or five times. Here he was giving the audience a unique intro, finding a new way to enjoy himself by improvising. Jorge you were lucky to be there in person. I have a friend that rehearsed at ARC, Austin Rehearsal Complex, back in the early 90's. He told me that Eric would be there for hours playing the same piece. My friend finally asked a staff member about that. The staff member told him, "he's not practicing the riff, he's trying every option for the tone". He would try different cables, different brand batteries in his effects, even the placement of the cables. He is a consummate pro, tone is everything to him. You don't know it but your ears appreciate it.
I think it's a little too dark.. like when your tone knob is all the way down, But that just my opinion. I know he says it sounds like trash with too much treble.. but not enough can hurt you too! again just my opinion. and he's Eric Johnson.. still amazing it's noticeable from the rest of the band.. is my point. but that could be because it's recorded live, and not so much noticeable if I was there? the 4k, 8k, 16k eq's you really notice it when the drummer hits the cymbals. and I know too much highs do sound like crap too.. but needs to be in the middle.
it does make him unique however..
When all the theory, practice and goof ups are smoothed out into orgasmic bliss in a master's hands.
Thank you for sharing.😎🤘
A true master. Saw Eric in Baltimore at Rams Head and I was in tears for most of the show. Because my dad Introduced me to this type of music. His chord structures are so full of feeling and emotion. I listen to this and think about my really awesome dad
Music goes to another level when there’s a connection like this, I bet your dad was an awesome person
The solitude he brings,, the moment,,, He is literally part of his guitar!! Beautiful!! Love this!!
Saw and met him at the 1-2-1 Club in Austin in 2016. Wished the crowd had been more respectful. He is perhaps the best guitarist on the planet and has been for a long while. A true artist and a nice guy.
Eric Johnson is amazing! I saw him do much of this in 1980 at a theater on the square in San Marcos, TX. My roommate Dave and I were really excited to see him play live and, worried that we wouldn't get in, drove down from Austin at a ridiculous hour-- like 6 in the afternoon-- only to find no one there. We got a beer and a look from the bartender still setting up the well and wandered up to the balcony, on the side overlooking the stage. Much to our surprise, Eric comes out and does his sound check. Literally the only people in the place, we had a front row seat to a mind-blowing jam as he tested out the various effects. Swept into the concert later, it only got better.
Saw this performance in Maryland, he put on his best show. Amazing musician! He had a second guitarist/keyboardist playing rhythm/leads, this allowed him to really perform his music. TONE MASTER!
I was in a touring band based out of Dallas tx in the early 70" s we would get home about every 2 or 3 months and I had seen Eric live with his band the electromagnets and the venue was called Sneaky Pete's ...and it held a few hundred people the funny thing is that everybody in the place we're musicians He was unbelievable back then and every genre was there to see the future of guitar .....they were awesome and Eric ...what can I say ? We witnessed greatness happening before us all👍💯
Just the best - ive met him a few tines and he's such a nice humble guy. Legend !!!
Very beautiful. A master of extracting those great Stratocaster clean tones.
I'm very happy to have seen him twice. Once he opened for BB King, and another at a small club where I was RIGHT IN FRONT of him.......a truly amazing guitar player.\m/
My bud from college ,dad owned the aztec--Trinity Univ 1978
Brilliant, raw and reinvented masterpiece. We’re so lucky to have him. Monster
I was listening a big Fan of Eric Johnson and having a few drinks and man sounded like he's going a 100mph my eyes were going back and fourth to each note he played just crazy, Amazing..🤣😂🎸🎸🎸
(A Legend) thanks Eric Johnson for taking every hungry guitar player to the next level.
arguably the greatest living guitarist
Thank you Eric for telling us that hope is not lost and for sending us into the 3rd Heavens where only unexplainable joy exists for ever !!!!
I love the way he keeps ya hanging. He never ends on an expected leading tone/chord or a 4th or 5th.
One of the reasons of his uniqueness
He really takes us to the Cliffs of Dover by way of Texas! 🤩 I love every version of this song!
The amazing Eric Johnson. Great guitarist; One song worth listening to.
That intro can make a grown man cry
I love his volume swells. He's so good at them.
eric johnson is the master of "HARMONIC SCHREDDING"!!!!!!!!!! it is for sure we can conclude that eric johnson has a "TRADEMARK" sound !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m glad he’s still playing this with some passion, I saw him back in the mid 2000’s opening for Satch and he really seemed like he was “going through the motions”….Thanks for posting this….
Thank you for watching and the comment
God hes one of the very best top elite guitarist that ever been out there for so many years and i thank the one guitar teacher at the music store i was taking guitar and vocal lessons at ty for telling me about eric johnsin and joe satreeuani, & Steve via,& Stevie steven's there my Top #1 elite favorites nobody will ever sound as good and as perfect as they sound and play nobody eill ever compair to these guys there the elites god id give anything to meet them in person and to see them play in person. U can get lost in there guitar playin and there sounds nobody can make the guiart talk like they can do perfectly there perfection. It would be a total awesome dream to be able to see them and listen to them in person a up close and personal mini concert for two one night.
I just saw Joe Satriani last night at the Tobin Center in San Antonio, TX.
What a night!!!
Thank you so much for both capturing and posting this.
My pleasure, thank you for watching and your kind comments
I graduated the Connecticut State Police Academy in 1993 and they filmed a video covering our 7 months at the Academy. This was the sound track to the video. Not to shabby, not shabby at all. Thank you TFC Terry for that little piece of magic that this song is.
That moment when you realize your own song is crazy hard to play live! haha.. :) Still love him! Legend! :)
A Fountain of creative guitar innovation! As Musical as the very best. Thanks, Eric!!!
His tone is indescribably brilliant.
greatness never gets old, it only gets better
thank you for posting
What a respectful and loving nod to Glen Campbell, woven into his intro.
I ❤ every single version of this song, this one is special though! I love his little jumps, he has fun and we his loyal fans, love watching, hearing! ❤
I absolutely adore the japanese koto style he incorporates in the intro of cliffs live. i need to learn that.
good luck!
Just try to play that bridge to cliffs of dover fast like it 's supposed to be.. it's the hardest part of that song.. I think but if you play it slow it's easy!? just crazy it might be the chorus? it's not the main riff but that second part.
The flowing transitions as a seamless garment of the light in sound like the crystal waters of the living. Thus, Eric Thank You, from Bruce Gordon.
Dude the sound quality on this video is amazing
It's an iPhone, using the highest quality in audio and video, this phones do a good job.
@@JBlanco66 which iphone do you have?
@@marlongonzalez14 I have the 11 pro max
I was at this show, right in front of the most center stage Marshall cab. I was 1st or 2nd row as I recall. great show.
It was just days before covid hit, my last concert, then locked down forever, after that, my first concert was Joe Bonamassa at the Majestic, OMG! What a concert!
So pure and CLEAN LIKE FIRST SNOW
I agree with all these comments. My story about this man’s music might be similar to others. It was 1990 and I was 20 and had found some freedom in driving around in the summer with the top down in my old Jeep. About this time Ah via musicom came out and Cliffs was in the radio and I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. Now some 30+ years later my 18 YO son has discovered EJ and can’t get enough of him. The circle is complete! May this man’s magical music carry on in the afterlife.
Amen to that, bro! Peace ✌🏼
That guitar tone of his is unmistakeable. Incomparable.
i felt that in my soul
EJ has one of the cleanest guitar tones IMHO. Everytime he plays his Strat... just absolutely W-O-W!!!😎
Thats rock,jazz,classical all combined ,thats the kind of music I compose
Seen Eric 3 times in UK. What an incredible player! He's all over the place here though.
Eric is one of the GOATs
Greatest
Of
All
Time.
Awesome
Poor guy, he will never find that sour note he's looking for.
Why no one's liking this comment? Underrated, sir
What sour note?
@@kennyerrant3570 I think he means making a mistake
That's okay, I'm keeping it warm for him.
@@mikepaulus4766 haha me too
This is a man who never got the recognition he deserved. It's a sad commentary on where our musical tastes lie.
If you've never seen him live, DO SO if at all possible!
Magnificent version , fortunate to have seen Eric back in '86 at a clinic at Gelb Music , after he hung out and talked equipment for a half hour. Totally sweet and humble genius. The show that night at the Keystone was epic.
the man who can make his guitar sound like a harp, a koto and all in between
I took a dump at 1:30 AM this morning. Now here I am listening to this.
After many years this song is still my favorite one. I even didn't that he was still playing
Had front row for this show and he signed my Guitar Speak lp for me... :)
Saw him play a small venue years ago, and it was epic. Ziggy’s Tavern in Winston-Salem, NC. His pedals went haywire, so he had to have his tech come out to troubleshoot. While that was going on, he sat on the front of the stage, noodling around on the guitar and chatting with guests at the show. Such a cool dude and a great musician.
EJ's guitar playing continues to evolve and he's arguably more technically skilled now than he was years ago...didn't even believe that was possible. Love the jam session intro. EJ seems to be having a blast trying out different guitar effects, just winging it out on stage in front of a live audience, with precision and purpose.
I could listen to EJ just noodle around for hours and improvise shit...his throw away stuff is 1,000,000 x better than my proudest stuff! lol
intro was magical, song itself always seemed a little struggle live especially during the solo. He loses his sense of melody (what chords are happening) and is always rushing a tad in the main melody but man.... the intro clean stuff absolutely (imo) outshined the main song. Sure, he wants to go for it and not repeat the album but this was sub par on the main song. But that intro!!!!! man... it was worth every second of my life to hear him play all those chords andleading melodies and various harmonic techniques. I will now enjoy a 2nd listen of the intro.
I agree, amazing intro but he's thrown in totally behind the band always trying to catch up. When starting the main melody riff, his signature violin tone was kind tonally dull sounding Maybe it's one of the new distortion pedals he's lately been trying? Don't mean to be critical. i'm reallly a huge fan and guitar player. Still though amazing intro but once the main song hook begns he's playing catch up behind the tempo. -Really happy to get out of the bands torrent rush and the really bottom heavy rythmn section. Still love Eric though..
It came across like a song he was composing as he was playing it - totally goosebump inducing!
Simply amazing. Ridiculously beautiful!
If I had never heard this song before I probably would think it was played on an actual fiddle, that's how awesome and unique that tone is
Everything about this is beautiful!
I'm listening to this song now. 🎵
Go Eric John's Music Forever
His playing always leaves me mesmerized. I love watching him. And I can air guitar him like nobody's business. LOL
One of the cleanest guitar player
Awesome & beautiful! Thanks for the vid 👌👍🎶🎸
It’s cool to see he can still play as well as he can at his age.
65 ain’t old!
u must be american lol
@@lyrasimo bro what lmfao
Most players are evolving and oftentimes they just keep getting better, but in all honesty…65 is not that old at all. You’re still young, and hopefully having as much fun as possible without hurting anyone. Keep playing and you, too, will be able to play as well as EJ can when you’re this "OLD", (😂🤣😅😆). Whew!
@@frufru0071 I never said old lmfaoo jeez, I was simply pointing out how impressive playing so technical at 66.
Beautiful Player .
So Musical .
Harmonics.
David Gilmour , Derrick Trucks
Play with feel and Beauty.
Eric Johnson is right up there with the Best.
We just lost a Pillar.
JEFF BECK 🙏 ♥️
I'm grateful for EJ .
Guitar Voice of EJ is filled with emotion.
One of my favorite players.
Eric Johnson makes me want to get a strat in ways Hendrix never did.
Banjaxeguitars nahhhhh youre probably just too olg and still believe hendrix is the greatest guitar player ever hahahahahha for fuxake
@@javierherrera8782 y en donde dice que son competencias?. La música es la expresión del alma, no hay mejores ni primeros lugares, el querer calificar es una tonteria.
Every guitarist should own a Strat.
Saw this tour twice- EJ never disappoints. I love the classics but really enjoy some of his deep cuts. He is a master to listen to and watch- just amazing! he's such a cool dude.
Beautyfull clean sound, the legend
Geez - just keeps getting better and better - love how he masters those volume rolls
Heard this live after his ‘gift’ of a small disc in Guitar Mag ~ 86, iconic!! Never Forget, in the Twin Cities, never better- still the same 100# violin Strat!!
Eric J. is the Best
More than a musician, a true artist!
I come back here to cry when I need it… thank you Eric…
That wasn't an introduction, that was a distinct composition, it's own thing entirely, and very excellent I might add...
It really doesn't get any better than this.
I saw him live in Chicago in the late 90's, he played a jam-out intro to this song with the dark purple lighting similar to how he did here, and it was just magical. I will never forget it. I cannot believe how much guitar mojo he has in him. He could jam forever and would still sound good.
This sound cleaner than water
The subtle 60-cycle hum actually compliments the playing. So nice….