There has always been a mythos surrounding Eric Johnson. From the time he played in Austin’s Electromagnets in the early ‘70s, he was regarded as a virtuoso without peer. Over time, Johnson developed a reputation as something of a six-string stickler, with ears so good that he could identify what...
Guitarist Eric Johnson brings his Tone-A-Rama tour to the House of Blues on Saturday.There has always been a mythos surrounding Eric Johnson . From the time he played in Austin’s Electromagnets in the early ‘70s, he was regarded as a virtuoso without peer.
With three hotshot guitarists sharing the stage, is there a sense of competition at work? “You want to bring your best,” Johnson says. “And that’s a funny thing, because sometimes when you want to bring your best, you really try way too much, and you don’t sound as good as when you go with the flow. You overdo it thinking about it too much.
“I’ve always loved certain instruments, great violinists and pianists, great saxophone players. And you listen to their tone and their playing, and you automatically set this benchmark that’s really hard to achieve with distorted lead guitar. I listen to Wayne Shorter, and then I listen to my Marshall lead guitar tone, and I say, ‘It doesn’t sound as good as that!’ You want to transmute the sound and the playing to a place where it’s a bit above and beyond what intrinsically happens.
Johnson professes a love for not only rock titans like Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, but also for classical violinists Jascha Heifetz and Itzhak Perlman, not to mention pianist and renowned Bach interpreter Glenn Gould. And then, of course, there are the Beatles.
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