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Eric Johnson | Lloydie Lloyd wrote: | IT IS A SIGN!!!!
Go see Eric Johnson, saw him with Satch and Vai once and he is well worth the ticket!  |
You talked me into it, Lloydie!
I take it you saw EJ with G3? I have a CD G3 Live in Concert with Satriani/Vai/Eric Johnson that’s really good. You were lucky to see G3 with that lineup!
Ok, I’m taking this to a new thread since I’m going a bit off topic/thread jacking. I don’t consider this to be a review; more like my “report” of the show.
Got my ticket on Thursday and went to the show on Friday. Enjoyed it very much. I'd had it in back of my mind for years that I would like to see Eric Johnson live.
The venue was a GA place called the State Theatre and it was my first time seeing a show there. I arrived not too long after door time and there was this huge line going out the door, down the street, and around the corner. Really I shouldn’t have been surprised. Just that the last few GA shows I’ve been to were sparsely attended or I got there early and had no problems getting in right away. Now I know what you guys in the U.K. and Europe mean about queuing up before a concert!
In spite of the crowd, I managed to sidle up to the front and by the time Eric Johnson was playing I was standing in the second/third row of people from the stage  One of the advantages of going to shows by myself.
Opening the show was Mato Nanji of the band Indigenous. He played an acoustic guitar and sang and played about a half dozen bluesy sounding tunes and was quite good.
Eric had a bass player and drummer playing with him and I THINK they’re the same two guys who have been playing with him like forever.
Except for the tunes from the Ah Via Musicom album (Ah Via Musicom, Cliffs of Dover, Desert Rose, Trademark), which I readily recognized, I’m a little bit clueless about the set list. From memory and doing a little digging around, I think these are some of the other tunes he played - NOT in order:
Dear Prudence (Beatles)
My Back Pages (Dylan)
May This Be Love (Hendrix)
I’ll Go Crazy (James Brown)
county tune introduced as a new song
Austin (new song)
Zap (?)
Plus a few more. Like I said, I’m not that good at playing “name that tune” when it comes to Eric Johnson.
I’m not a big guitar expert but it looked like Eric mostly played a Fender Strat (with rosewood board?). He also used a sunburst Gibson ES335 on two songs.
I didn’t any pictures or even bother to bring a camera this time. Somehow I got the feeling it wasn’t a bring camera and go nuts snapping pictures kind of gig. I was content to move to and enjoy the music with no other distractions going on. I did see a few people using camera phones and a woman in front of me had a digital camera she got out closer to the end of the show.
Again, I really enjoyed the show. Eric played great. I don’t go to that many live shows, relatively, and this one was definitely well worth my time and effort to have gone.
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Lloydie Lloyd
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Hi Hi Fi!Glad you got down to the show, sounds like a good one. My mistake is I always take a disposable camera and then develop it and find I got three shots uot of a 24 roll film. One of someone's head, one of somebodies feet and one of me outside some fast food place after the actual gig having the compulsory post-gig chocolate shake and burger. (Helps settle the alcohol consumed through the show I usually find!).
Anyways as for guitars I seem to remember him on an SG when I saw him last. As for the show he did with Satch and Vai it was incredible.
If you can guess the third guest (yep thats right in London there was *another* guitarist that stalked the stage with them!) that came out to play the last 2 songs, one of which was "Big Bad Moon" by Satriani, then, well I cannot offer anything but lets just say it will be worth all the suspense!!!!
Start your guessing!
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HiFi
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Re: Hi Hi Fi! | Lloydie Lloyd wrote: | If you can guess the third guest (yep thats right in London there was *another* guitarist that stalked the stage with them!) that came out to play the last 2 songs, one of which was "Big Bad Moon" by Satriani, then, well I cannot offer anything but lets just say it will be worth all the suspense!!!!
Start your guessing! |
You mean another six-string guitar player? You’ll just have to tell me because I have no idea. 
I don’t follow G3. I like the live CD that I have. The subsequent lineups haven’t interested me nearly as much as the first with Satriani/Vai/Johnson.
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Lloydie Lloyd
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Oh well then!I guess I'll stop all this suspense!
The guest guitarist was Queens very own Brian May!
It was a great gig, at the end Brian May came out and played Big Bad Moon with Satch and Vai and then played Tie your mother down with all the band.
Great show
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sleeper
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That sounds like a great show, wish I was there.
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HiFi
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Brian May?!!!  WOW!!!
He's one of my favorite guitar players ... no, he IS my favorite guitar player. I would have loved to have seen that.
Tie Your Mother Down rocks!
I was fortunate enough to see Brian May with QUEEN in 1980. I would consider going to see him with whatever he's doing now, just to see him play again, if the opportunity arose.
Funny, it seems about half my favorite guitar players are either named Brian or Steve ...
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