Event/Date: Eric Johnson/22nd October 2005
Time/Venue: 7.30pm/ University Cultural Centre - NUS
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Born in Austin in 1954, bright-eyed Eric Johnson emerged on the
music scene in the late 1960s with a group called Mariani. The band
released a psychedelic record with a limited run of 100 copies.
Today, a single copy can fetch up to $3,000 from devoted Johnson
fans.
At 16, Eric had already recorded mature blues licks, well before he
gained world-wide recognition. And by 1974, he hitched a ride with
the Electromagnets pumping out riffs with his Gibson Les Paul along
the lines of Hendrix and Clapton until the group broke up three
years later.
His genius was fully expressed in his breakthrough album Ah Via
Musicom (1990). Guitarists rejoice in the superb tune Trademark
and his Grammy award winning instrumental Cliffs of Dover and get
some kicks out of Eric singing on a couple of tracks including a
sweetly plaintive, Desert Rose.
Ranked as Guitar Player magazines Best Overall Player five times
in a row and the Austin Chronicles Guitar Player of the Decade in
2000, in April, 2005, Johnson walked off the Austin Music Awards
stage with the following:the Austin Musician of the Year Award;
Best Electric Guitarist Award; and, Best Acoustic Guitarist
Award.
Eric has more colorful tone in his fingers than Van Gogh had on his
palette.
Steve Vai
When I heard Eric he was only 16, and I remember wishing that I
could have played like that at that age. Johnny Winter
Eric Johnson is amazing, this might sound silly, but if Jimi
Hendrix had gone on to study with Howard Roberts for about eight
years, youd have have what this kid strikes me as. Jeff Skunk
Baxter, The Doobie Brothers