theriffer (July 24, 2008 at 11:40 pm)

I love Eric Johnson's guitar playing. Cliffs Of Dover just blew me away and is in my list of 'tunes I can't live without'. BUT, I get tired of him and his music, I always go back to my favs like Johnny Winter, SRV, Hendrix, Gary Moore, and a host of others. Of course, Eric's muscianship is arguably beyond those named, but it's all about the MUSIC, is it not? Us geetar players get too hung on the technical and forget that the whole point is to play SONGS!. At that point, it's all subjective.

boozito (July 19, 2008 at 6:04 am)

I use the G-dec for my practice times, feel free to enter to my youtube page and take a look.

josh753789 (July 16, 2008 at 2:04 pm)

Not that it matters all to much as long as I am listening to his music, but it's ashame they didn't put him on the greatest guitar players of all time.

grogcaveman (July 13, 2008 at 8:12 am)

bah, if you put that much delay on *anything* it's going to sound good ain't nothing like a cranked old tube amp!!

fender51503 (July 11, 2008 at 10:43 pm)

i'd have to say eric and joe satriani know the most musical theory. eric's playing is so melodic and unbelieveably good. that little fender amp sounds really good too.

k2625299 (July 10, 2008 at 9:41 pm)

it would sound rubbish if a general public played it who isnt a guitar master =..=

ManTurds (July 6, 2008 at 4:06 pm)

I have seen Eric Johnson live three times (once during the piano tour) and I'll travel again and again to hear that tone. One of my favorite guitarist, a complicated individule with self imposed stratosphere standards.

donostia13 (July 5, 2008 at 4:38 pm)

The key is to just play...a lot. Eric himself said that he's spent too much of his time chasing tone, which ultimately takes time away from making music. It's all so subjective anyway, tone. As for a person's playing style, it has to be one the main factors affecting tone. Eric's on this site playing a Les Paul somewhere, and it still sounds exactly like Eric Johnson...

bmanmatterdaddy (July 5, 2008 at 11:29 am)

its cool to have a main style but at the same time stay true to what your fingers sound like, and if you dont know what that is learn some scales or some licks and some chords mix and match and developed a little. youl find there is no way in hell you can ever sound like what you originally heard that first time you slapped in a Hendrix CD or anSRV or Eric Johnson album but thats cool because the same can go for your unique style. no one can play the same as you your self the individual musician

donostia13 (July 4, 2008 at 8:04 am)

I agree...so many guys try to find the "SRV" Texas blues tone, etc. etc. which only makes them sound like imitative poseurs. I think that, more than any other electric guitar, the Stratocaster is the one instrument that should remind us all that creativity is what counts. Hendrix walked away musically from what the Strat originally sounded like in '54, but now the dopes out there think that's the "way to play it."