Eric Johnson - Cliffs Of Dover - Live From Austin Texas (1984)
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- The guitar hero, Grammy winner and Austin, TX native is seen here on his debut Live From Austin Texas performance recorded in 1984. Johnson is one of the world's most acclaimed instrumental rock guitarists.
This was the performance that made the world take notice of his talent.
This collection features an early version of his 1991 Grammy winning instrumental "Cliffs Of Dover". - เพลง
On writing cliffs of Dover Johnson said “ I don’t even know if I can take credit for writing cliffs of Dover it was just there for me one day.. I literally wrote in 5 minutes . It was kind of a gift from a higher place that all of us are eligible for we just have to listen to it and be available to receive it “
Be cool if all 'artists' could admit that. No one 'writes' anything. No one 'composes' anything. Its all on download... waiting for the person who'll just take it in.
Really? Sir, I really thank you for the song you wrote!
Funny, I've heard this many times over. And, I'm a musician and I can attest that live performance is where the music literally comes to life!
@@thetruthchannel349I have no idea what you mean. That view suggest that the great artists/musicians have no special skills or talent. Give me a break. He is just being humble, but Eric is the genius he humbly does not ‘admit’ to being….
@@vinny5004 *There is no hope of your understanding.*
he was nervous... thus the crazy rapid tempo...
I know I'd be nervous too....Trying to play Eric's licks!
Eric was nervous of playing Eric.
Nah he rolled fear up in a blunt and smoked that shizzz.
i know it's kinda randomly asking but does anybody know of a good website to watch newly released tv shows online?
hahahaha
I personally love it. I think some of these riffs are better than the more polished version. I look at it as him really going for it more than being nervous. I think there was a lot of Hendrix influence here. I could hear it in the bends and pulls offs and slides.
I’ve never seen him play so reckless, I actually like it.
his hands are tired. this was about 45 mins into this show. I think he's just fatigued.
reckless? You think that was reckless? Man.... I wanna see you play guitar .... seriously
@@strace67 For “him.” He is a very meticulous and accurate player.
@@strace67Read the comments on this video… almost every other comment echos my sentiment.
Haha. Either he was heavily dosed on caffeine or uppers, or the monitors simply sucked
First saw Eric Johnson in '84, before this was taped. Unknown, unsigned. Did three sets in a half-empty club. First set was just him by himself, acoustic. He's become a good friend since then. But, that was one of those shows that changed my life forever. Hell, I was only 13 when I first saw him. We were all so thrilled when "Tones" came out. And THE NICEST GUY you could ever meet. The kind of guy you just automatically wish the best for. Way to go, Eric.
Good story bro. I was also friends with this legend.
Very cool. You are very lucky to have met, and become friends with him. Awesome to hear hes a good dude.
He seems like a very cool dude. Give him our love!
I met Eric in Vale at Vai Academy 2.0 in Aug 2015. We were both suffering from altitude sickness. such a decent, humble and nice person to talk with. We discussed his arthritic hand issues as I'm a orthopedic nurse practitioner; I offered a tel# of Regennexx in Raleigh NC; they pioneered PRP and stem cell treatment for arthritis. If you speak to him please tell him nurse Rick says hello. I'm sure he would have gladly given me his number,but It didn't feel appropriate to ask.
There is a similar company in Cary, NC called Flexogenix. They gave me several placental matrix tissue injections over the years that have enabled me to continue playing music. However, they are not covered by insurance and can be very expensive. But once you learn what is involved in CMC joint surgery, they start becoming the best (although expensive) solution.
Love the nervous, raw energy of this performance. Playing it "busting from the seams". Just going for it.
FUCKING RIGHT
Feels me trying to play it
It's called being "slippery" being able to play on top, right on or just behind the groove.
He is a master.
@@unenslaver1333 Odd, that is also what someone not playing in time does.
I will never back of my contention that this is the greatest version of this song. Later versions sound like a walk in the park for Eric, but this here his still raw, still working it all out, you can subtlety here the struggle and him reaching for the notes and that tension is what makes this version so incredibly badass. Kind of like listening to Hendrix vs Vai.
This version was embedded as a floppy record insert in an issue of Guitar Player mag back in the day, and I practically wore it out (til I recorded it to tape.) Glad I finally searched for it and found here. I agree no version since has had the same in-your-face impact as this - just those little variations of the licks he baked into later, more polished versions and the stuff he went for here that didn't make it into those. That note at 3:16... His tone seems sweeter here too, kinda like how Eddie's tone on VH1 just sounds better than all the other VH albums.
I had that floppy record insert as well. This is the best version.
I like the Austin City Limits version where he's wearing the marching band jacket. His solos were a lot cleaner, but still dazzling. I like the rawness here, but he staggers all over the beat. Still brings it back in with the rhythm section, but he almost sounds a little drunk. I know I think MY all over the place solos sound great to me when I've had one too many, ...not so much listening to playback the next day.
Hendrix Vai is spot on
@@Rockingruvin difference is in your case its actual wacky drunken solos and in his case its him trying his best to play a live rendition of a song that was really complicated, not even released and to top it off he was really young when doing so. Way to expose you're a casual by stating that idiotic opinion.
It's like the scene with Michael J Fox in Back to the Future...everyone just tripping out over this ridiculously incredible work of art with the guitar.
Exactly what I was thinkin' about when he was playin the solo part from 2:50 to 4:05 haha !
Lol
This music was way ahead of its time. Still is.
Except that this is 'Cliffs of Dover' while that was 'Johnny B. Goode'. I defy Chuck Berry to play this.
@@synthonaplinth5980 except guitar rock was already an established thing ahereas Chuck Berry had to basically be one of the first players of rock. He couldve played something like this if he wasnt born in the early 19teens
How many of you remember this version was released in a plastic vinyl attached to the inside of Guitar Player magazine? It was the first time I heard of Eric and it just blew me away. I'm really glad I found this version again after 35 odd years. And on video too!!!
Still have the plastic magazine copy
I remember that.
I remember it well!
Couldn't stop listening to it.
had no idea he had this song this far back
Best version in my opinion.
you can tell he really locked in towards the end of the song
his austin city limits performance in 1988 had a much more polished version of cliffs of dover, but this is interesting to see how the composition evolved between 1984 and 1990 when he won a grammy for au via musicom
Xxavric honestly thats all i was thinking too! i saw the 1988 performance and was totally blown away. its amazing that ej’s cliffs of dover was recorded throughout its evolution.
It was because this version was all impromptu, the 1988 was already been practiced / rehearsed.
Musicom is a great record. I never got into Jeff Beck much but when I finally listened to some of Beck's stuff I was interested in how much EJ took from Beck. Especially, since they are very different players.
He won a Grammy for Cliffs of Dover.
That "raw" , "authentic", electric guitar tone. Amazing!
Dumble SSS w/Fuzz and TS-9 :) Im really close w/my builds..
Anyone who’s ever tried to learn and play this song, know that’s is a marathon for your fingers and forearms. Nailing this song live on the tail end of a 45 min set is insane. Also, the live atmosphere really does a number on your guitar set up. 😅 He was a vet and still hit his main licks.
I agree with what you've said with only one qualifier... I think it's harder to play someone else's stuff note for note. I don't think he ever really plays it exactly the same twice, which is fine, It's his composition, but having to play something this long EXACTLY the same as you're "supposed to" is a little harder than if you can have slight variations.
I hope that made sense. ✌️
Just...wow......this was like finding the Holy Grail....I remember wearing out the Guitar Player magazine FlexiDisc with this and Steve Morse on another track...buying Tones immediately afterwards...and being slightly disappointed that this Austin City Limits version was not the one on the album....best overdriven Strat tone I've ever heard...still to this day it makes the hairs on my neck stand on end...every incredible vibrato sounds like it was crafted on another world....simply stunning!
Darren Kukulka yup i too had that Guitar Player soundpage (they called it here in NZ) and also the Steve Morse one. and ditto the hairs on neck. still remember my chin hitting the floor at what i was hearing. brilliant and very distinctive (and still is to my ears). i still have both them soundpages ...and the other one that blew my mind at the time was the Dweezil Zappa one.
Septikon Ah mate, had the Dweezil Zappa one too...wish I still had those discs...went missing sooo long ago. I also remember having the Satriani disc with The Crush of Love...and Vai's Attitude Song from the 84 GP...and then Blue Powder from 86.... good days!
Darren Kukulka Yes indeed, those were the golden days when Guitar Player was the premier guitar magazine; sadly, long gone. Now, no one carries ANY guitar mag around here anymore...
Hey, remember the Soundpage of Holdsworth's "Devil Take the Hindmost"? Now, THAT made my head explode!
Darren Kukulka I still remember that day I played that soundpage I was totally blown away ! Pure genius
+Darren Kukulka YES! That soundpage got quite a workout in my apartment. Then it dawned on me: Record it on cassette! Done! Still have the original, plus quite a few other soundpages. When I 1st played it, I thought: "Not bad......." By the 4th, 5th play, I was more like: "..........good-God............" The man created his own style & sound. Eric & SRV have got to be THE most-copied (Ripped-off?) guitarists in the past 20 years.
Incredible to see him stretching out and taking risks. Incredible performance, even if it’s not always perfect. If ya ain’t foulin you’re not playin ball!
Ahhh ... The energy of youth. That finger speed is insane. I love how this song just keeps evolving every time Eric plays it. This song is perfection. 🏆
eric and stevie ray. texas cornered the market on guitarists back in the day. glad i got to see eric do his thing back in 88.
Didn't know this was in his repertoire all the way back in '84. I remember skipping work to see him do a guitar clinic at "Lightning Music and Sound" sometime in the 80s, probably not long after "Tones" came out. His music was almost a soundtrack for Austin in the late 80s and early 90s. What an amazing talent who produced some great music!
Amazing performance! Eric looks so focussed, you could fire a gun next to him and he wouldn't notice. And the other two look so happy to be playing this song. Guitar music at its best, people.
And thus a guitar legend was born. Absolutely amazing.
4 years latter, and more controlled. He's worked out the timing, and has now relaxed into it. You can also hear his tone has improved, and it's nowhere near as over-taxed as the tone in the '84 vid. He's smoothed it out and man is it awsome! You can tell he really got control over the piece. I think he really made this version ('88) his best ever performance really, love the intro stuff from another song.
I agree ! But this video is the 1984 version. Here's the 1988 version:
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@@davidespinosa1910 lol, gotta love when you're hopping through videos and forget which one you're on 0.0 LOL. but yea, this is the one where he looks nervous and tense AF, not the other way around as I was typing it up. I think I probably had several videos up at the time that day in various tabs so, yea that's bound to happen when you're going by the responce and not the video itself... anyways yea. thanks for pointing that out.
@@christopherjunkins he's tense at the start but he clearly is at the zone from half to the end. Some such as myself would say the three last parts on this version are the best live renditions of said versions on this song
I recall reading about Eric in Guitar Player Magazine before this performance. I read about a kid from Texas that had an amazing tone and gifted runs. Later, I was perusing through the old TV Guide and I saw that he was going to be featured on Austin City Limits. (This performance). I set the old VHS to record it. Remember...this was 1984 and NOBODY sounded like Eric! I was blown away by this performance. One could tell that this kid was as nervous as hell but, the raw, audacious talent was evident. I agree that this isn't the best rendition of this song. However, I was hooked! That tone is vocal, dramatically throaty and forcefully raspy.
I added another guitar hero to my list that day in 1984.
Ya the smoothness in the overdrive isn't saturated out by over driving the pickups. Nothing squawky or piercing until he wants it to sound that way & he gets that from angling the pick. Definitely knew exactly what he wanted. Hard to believe hes 30 here. Looks like hes 14.
My favorite version of all time. He is reaching for this one and going out on a limb-awesome.
It’s amazing the growth he made in just a few short years! There were some obvious rough spots and knowing how much of a perfectionist he is I’m sure he felt a lot of vindication at his next visit to ACL!! That one was the closest thing to perfect I’ve heard! I just watched a Rick Beato interview with him and he seems like he’s a lot more mellowed out these days!
I mean the other one he still has mistakes in so he might still not have been happy lol, he bums a note and he shakes his head and then later he mistimed the first note of a fast descending line and the whole thing was muted so you see his fingers going crazy but there’s nothing coming out lol
There’s a story my guitar teacher told me about Eric Johnson and how everything needed to be absolutely perfect for the studio recording. Like ABSOLUTELY PERFECT. He made the sound technician change the lightbulb in the amp because he swore it made a difference in the tone
Seems like I’ve heard the bulb story! When i saw his rig rundown! There was nothing crazy, no thousand dollar pedals, Keeley DDR, TC chorus and tube screamer! Pedals just barely turned up for a touch of color but stacked in a way that makes it perfectly Eric Johnson!
What a great peak into how the legendary "Cliffs of Dover" originally sounded in 1984 before getting refined over several years and finally deemed as ready for release only in 1990! No doubt this version is very raw and melodies unrefined but Interesting to see the evolution from 1984 to 1990. A Perfectionist refining a piece of art little by little over several years to bring it close to perfection. One of the Greatest Guitarists Ever!!!
This is insanely good. He set that fretboard on fire! Whoa.
I don’t care one anyone says. There is not one “mistake” in this. He’s channeling a power bigger than all of us. I truly believe his music is the universe expressing itself.
Solid truth. Well said. Completely agree!
At this point it’s fantastic bits patched together and raw but it’s not a coherent whole, yet.
It doesn't sound good, what the fuck do you mean..
@@nairdazitro7460 That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. Is your head just for decoration?
I think you'll find there are
Wow, he looks so young! What can you say but pure FIRE!
The bass player is Rob Alexander, a high school classmate of mine. He is a fantastic musician (bass, piano, guitar, drums) and singer in his own right. I was fortunate enough to play with him many times before he moved to Austin.
Damn he was awesome, Eric’s had some monster bass players…👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
I remember Rob mailing us some cassette tapes of that band. This was in the late-70s, early-80s and Eric Johnson wasn't well known back then. I had never heard anyone play guitar like that!
I have had the pleasure of working closely with Rob in recent years and he is a fantastic musician and gentleman of the highest order.
@@stradivarius151 I haven't seen Rob in many years. I think a mutual friend told me that he is living in Florida now.
@@scotttucker9346 Yep that's right. We haven't done anything since before COVID but he's still around here.
Changed my life. had read a short piece on him and he seemed intruiging. When coming home from a camping trip with my girlfriend I bought the guitar player with him on the cover. I remember hearing about him. I was 18 at the time and had been playing for about 5 years. Eddie was my god. I put on that sound page and didn't make it through a few times becaue I kept stopping it and restarting it. Totally blown away. NOBODY did those pentatonics like that until him. I personally put the entire 1984 perfomance up as his best work by far. He had a rawness that he seemed to get rid of as he went on. I had actually slowed down and figured out the entire intro but in different positions than
he played. Within an about 6 months he actually played a bar in Milwaukee and I watched him from 10 feet away. What memories
Wow. How very cool. Loved the story.
i love this song and how much it actually incorporates texas sonically
Once in awhile, God smiles on you and everything come together in perfection. This was Eric's moment. I still have the Soundpage.
Watching and hearing Mr. Eric Johnson, makes me happy and makes me dream...
Nothing can touch the 80's. in music. All kinds of wonderful music and a stream of guitar virtuosos that no other era has surpassed yet.
I had the pleasure of meeting EJ in the early 80's. We had a mutual friend. 7 degrees of separation is real. Eric is a nice guy. Awesome human being! He is a great man
Finished transcribing up to 3:36 in the solo. I will post the transcription on my website when I am done for all to see. It's gonna be great!
it's ready?
Is Christmas Eve (Dec24 2023) and I just found this gem, what a xmas present!
Im so going to Eric Johnson’s concert this upcoming 2024!
Greetings and love from Monterrey, Mex.
The demo done live, lovely to hear him using the live situation to get it all in place.
I Never get tired of listening to EJ!
Seen him about 40 times just in Texas!
this is like playing at graduation in a front of all family and students and teachers very much from memory, not calm, thinking how it goes in 1988 there is no hurry, no stress, no trying to play same thing, here very raw like he is playing this for the first time, but I still like it.
I come back to this over and over, just for 2:49 to 2:54 ... just about the greatest 5 second phrase I have ever heard.
Proof. Here I am years later, and I still remember watching this live on PBS one late night in the early-'80s, and having the presence of mind to pop a VHS tape in and hit record. At 02:49 ... that is still jaw-dropping stuff, nearly four decades on.
Omg yes. Those licks are insane. Are you still watching?
that tone..
Wow, this amazing solo has so many renditions over the decades, but however he does it- it always turns out really great. ;)
I grew up in the 60's and 70's, and I'm ashamed to admit that we didn't give proper respect to the kids with musical talents back then. If you didn't play football, baseball, or run track, you were a "geek" back then. I can only take comfort in the fact that the generation before us DID value these kids, and the results were bands like Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, and The Beatles... and so on. The 70's produced some of the best music that was ever produced, and will EVER be produced. I thank GOD that these talented kids - even though their music DEFINED the times - weren't part of the times they represented. My kids all grew up in the 80's, and all of them were - and still are - musicians, and I don't mean the synthesizer types that defined that ridiculous decade of music. Back when I was still working an actual JOB (retired, and a legal consultant now) I used to listen to the Bob and Tom radio program. They had promoted that Robert Plant was to be a guest on the show, and I kept waiting, and listening, because I wanted to hear what he had to say. He was running late, so, I parked in the parking lot of my next appointment and waited. With just 15 minutes left to go in the program, Robert finally joined the show. It was worth the wait. He said (paraphrasing): We were all classically trained musicians. I sang, but that's only because I wasn't as good as Beck was on the guitar. We understood music, completely. Today, you don't have that kind of musical education, and the result is that you have ten-thousand Limp Biskits." It was one of the most profound 10 minutes of radio I ever heard, or delayed an appointment for.
He looks so young. Amazing
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Thanks for uploading such a good quality version of this. I remember getting a free flexi-disc with Guitar Player magazine in the mid 80s with this very version on it....completely blew me away, still does a quarter of a century later!
When he was young and shreding fast licks!!! I think this is the best versión to me
I love it!! The main phrase progression gives me an All My Lovin Beatles vibe.
This is classic I love it one of my favourite guitar riffs
Absolutely incredible playing and even better tone
Such an awesome guitar piece it hits so many levels! Truly amazing, nervous or not! Thank you for uploading this video!
What no video of Eric can capture is the way the room feels when he plays.Those tones just take you somewhere else altogether. The atmosphere of the place shifts into something utterly other, in the best, most euphoric way.
True, I seen Eric at the House of Blues in New Orleans 10 + yrs ago. His tone and complete virtuosity was something mesmerizing. He was really loud and filled the room with harmonics and timbre I had never heard. A true master of an instrument has his own sound/tone/finger print. You do not need to see Eric play - just hear him for a few seconds and you know ...HMMM that's Eric Johnson...
Thank you for writing this post. Very helpful!
ABSOLUTELY Killer job Eric! Just fantastic man..
I saw Eric live last night in London UK - he plays pretty good...28 years after this great performance!
I had given up the electric guitar back in 1972 and went acoustic. Then when I heard Cliffs of Dover in 1988 I got back into the electric. Now retired with several electric guitars that I have enjoyed playing all these years. And yes I did learn how to play CoD and it became the song people demanded I play when gigging for close to 5 years thereafter.
First time I saw him was, I am guessing, several years before this. He was doing a clinic at Fox Music, the downtown location in Charleston, SC.
His hair was very similar to this, back then most considered that spiked look as being "punk rock-ish."
He was trying to get someone to bring him a pedal so he could get the reverb turned on, out of some type of Fender amp. My friend and I were clueless, at the time, about anything other than distortion so when he got that "AHHHHH..." look on his face, we were baffled. "What is he going on about, I don't hear anything?!" we whispered to each other...
When he started playing though, we shut up and within a minute or so, our jaws were on the ground. Little did we know, at the time, that we were extremely privileged to see someone who would go on to become a legend.
And, I always have a little touch of reverb on every solo... makes me go "AHHHHH..." as well
;)
May God bless you with many years of life and playing EJ!
Met Eric at a EJ Guitar Workshop in Denver in the early eighties,super down to Earth, really nice guy!!!
Wonderful! The best guitar trio performance ever 🥇❤️🥇❤️🥇❤️🥇❤️🥇❤️🥇❤️🥇❤️🥇❤️🥇❤️🥇❤️🥇❤️🥇❤️🥇❤️🥇❤️
This is the version I remember when I first heard it on a thin strip of vinyl out of guitar player magazine and I’ve been looking for it ever since. My favorite version of this song.
WAAAY back when, Guitar Player magazine used to put vinyl sound pages in the magazine, some had guitar technique lessons from famous musicians, or some other related info. A recording of this was on the B side of one of those, and my cousin turned me onto it, I was BLOWN AWAY!!! I recorded it to cassette, came home & played for several friends, and went out & bought the Tones album. Sometime after Ah Via came out, and I went to see him live. I have seen him several times since, but this performance still stays with me 30 some odd years later, I'm just glad to be able to see the video of it now.
Look how young he is!! Amazing. Such a prodigy. Love it. My favorite.
I think he's 30 here. Looks younger than that, but he still looks young for his age.
A little "unrefined" in this video. I found him after I got out of the Marine Corps around 1992. I always said he was a "studio" guitar player until I saw him at a G3 show in Minneapolis. What a treat to see live. Oh yeah, it was Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, and Eric Johnson, I mean.....DAMN! The only ones missing were Eddy and Stevey Ray. They don't make them like that anymore.
having to play this live damn props in my opinion best guitar players of his time
i remember seeing this on TV one night in the 80s, and i had just bought his album with this tune on it.
i remember thinking, man, what a nervous wreck this guy is! all those dud notes!
but now, seeing this again after decades, and with a better appreciation of it, i can see the "Ah, wadaheck let's burn this up" attitude and reckless abandon.
years later, in the 90s, i performed in front of an audience of about 400, and messed up really bad. so bad, i wanted to dig a hole right there and disappear into it. now i know how amazingly Eric held this together!
He was 32. He basically improvised an almost flawless version. Improvised! It is an amazing performance. He had just written the song a few weeks before.
I remember looking up the tabs for this song in high school. I immediately shut off my computer.
One of my favorite instrumentals and guitarist. A real musician. This isn’t my favorite performance of CoD. Maybe he fell off the cliff once or twice but ok by me. He looks so young. I’ve watched many videos of him playing this song. I’ve been to many live concerts too. Some in very small venues that I was so close I could almost reach out and touch him. Amazing guy and guitar player. Although I think he’s way beyond ‘playing’ the guitar. Bravo Eric!
Love to se how he has changed some of the tabs with time to make it better. Here he has the Teen Spirit and plays fantastic. He has come so far!! Love it!!
Johnson is the perfect guitar player , He can play any style , and play it well.
Wow, this is really raw!
So FREAKIN awesome... ev-er-y time
His tone is monstrous! Absolutely amazing!
Amazing!
Long, longtime fan here of EJ too. Awesome.
I’ve never listened to this song before, so I don’t know how it ended up in the “My Mix”, but I’m sure glad it did.
God pored lots of musical gift to Eric.
😳😳😳 Amazing. And so young ! That's 35 years ago !!! Such an early talent
No on fact he was not young back in the day
amazing performance.... great...
Wow! I wish that I had access to watching this in `84!!!
@Matt Jackson He does have some rough spots but he's playing it at a redicolus pace too, at least 30% faster than LP version.
Pure dirty notes live love it!! This was when Eric played how it was
This is a living song changing as it ages.
HOLY SHIT ! This is awesome. Man he was a badass back then. Lingaping !
Best version ever, start to finish. The original cut that appeared on the Guitar Player mag flexi disc. When I heard it in 1986, it made me feel like giving up.
Wonderful playing.
He put it out there! His best at the time!
oh my.... this is just the best version I've seen
BEST version EVER I saw it back then
Monster Zero id have to disagree. Its nowhere near as sweet and polished sounding
@@TheRealSlimShady509 His note choices are brilliant and raw I LOVE IT
I watched this the night it aired on PBS in 1984 and was blown away by this then unknown guitarist.
As a kid I recorded the flexi disc to a cassette and played it countless times. I remember not liking the big bends at 3:45. The raw emotion of it makes sense to me now - his 'Hendrix' moment along with the whammy abuse at the end. Certainly the best version - even he hasn't been able to touch this since IMO.
Imagine being that young and discovering that guitar tone already.
At this point he was in his 30s already
awesome song ! Mr JOhnson is really GOOD at the guitar !
Nobody can play this better, they are fooling themselves. I have played for over 20 years and I still can't play it like Eric. So clean, so effortless and the way he plays with the time is impossible to replicate.
I also had the flexi-disk of this from Guitar Player. This version is one of my all-time favorite solos. Years ago I tried to find the dvd of this but could never find it - they only had later versions from Austin City Limits. Thank you for uploading this!!!
Fantastic
Reckless and beautiful!
Looking at it again, His playing sounds Nervous But Wow '84!!?? STUNNED! The Same year Van Halen Released 1984 I sought around Eric around 1992 I think.
What a fantastic player
fantastic
I like th 1988 version the most!
2:38 The best note ever played by anyone, anywhere.
Lol
Hahaha i hate to listen on this one full of half tone hahaha why
@@gbmusica1557 well I think he didn't listen to the other versions
I'm totally in love with this song ♥.♥ :)
A friend had video-taped this performance and I made a crude cassette recording from the video, which I then wore out trying to pick out what he was playing note for note. After a few months I could fake my way through it (not near as well as the internet kids can do it today). I would go see his shows at MC2 in College Station, and he always performed it. I was surprised when it wasn’t included on Tones, happy when it was finally released on Ah Via Musicom and loved having it included as one of the hardest songs on Guitar Hero III. This version has not always been easy to find on TH-cam, but glad it is out there now. He really lets himself go here and seems to enjoy himself. This is the definitive version in my opinion, still the one that bounces around my brain and the one I try to play-always a humbling experience.