Eric Johnson 2018

[@ChristEnlightening]

Eric still sounds great. Long live the legend!

[@TheIdiotNamedJoe]

EJ’s pedal board: *appears in a video* Guitarists: Write that down! Write that down!

[@jazzram_]

True

[@DeanBritton]

Accurate af!

[@DeanBritton]

Ever googled his amp settings? 🤣🤣

[@terrywin2661]

You know a player is on to something when 2.5 chords in, you know EXACTLY who the player is.

[@green95gt]

wishing the viewers a slammin’ day at the end gets me every single time... His playing, and tone, in one word...GORGEOUS...!

[@stuartredd8876]

So glad he passed on this.

[@1-2-q5o]

I Hope everybody sees the gem of a recording he left us to learn from.. whether you want to learn it fast by ear or slow it down the first section of his improv from 31 seconds to 36 seconds is beautiful insight into the open voiced chords of Eric Johnson..& just amazing in general ..... listen to it slow, sounds amazing as well, watch the elegance of the technique in slow mo and the note choice ...every video has a gem somewhere it seems, He is so humble he acts like he doesn't have the CLEANEST, THE SMOOTHEST, THE DEADLIEST FENDER CLEAN TONE ON EARTH period........ Or does he know ? .... Who knows ... Mind Blowing the music you have created here on this planet Eric .......... Your Humbling yet Intimidating Guitar Mastery & Musical Essence will show its influence as time goes by with the disciplined player with an ear and Love for the craft .......

[@asnipa]

Well spoken!

[@Lushoverthebridge]

So much respect for him. Beautiful tone.

[@impala327]

This is so great because its not "produced". Love to hear all the weird harmonics jumping off in the room.

[@MrTommyg4]

I hear that High Landron chorus sound an I turn my head like the RCA Victor dog .

[@rabbirelax]

What a wonderful human being.

[@profoundsinger]

So this is proof that even Eric’s gorgeous tone can still sound the same with “ir’s”. It’s time to embrace the technology folks!

[@CentralStateMower]

Awesome Tone with that setup!!

[@davidmonzonquebuenpunteo4579]

Masterrrrrrrrrrr

[@SharpEdgeStandardOfficial]

I wanna see EJ can do with an AxeFx! \m/

[@JavierGarcia-kb1no]

What a Cool an Badass Guitarist!!

[@Diax1324]

It's so adorable how excited he is by getting his tone without any actual speaker cabs.

[@jackgranger9291]

Great !

[@mrmisterman999]

you call him eric i call him master

[@rc3754]

Thanks for almost blowing my speakers out, PAL. Audio compression...Get Some!

[@jameslay240]

Going direct can work with a clean tone, sounds harsh and brittle with distortion

[@timfender0740]

Depends if you have cab emulation on

[@GatesMcCrary]

Liking it

[@leoimr7321]

This is doodleing for Mr Eric

[@Wtfdawg321]

That tone

[@vintagepipesnightmares]

What does he mean without using speaker cabinets ? I see that he is using the Marshall ones. I don’t get it.

[@Diax1324]

I'd suspect the reason he didn't end up liking this is that he utilizes a certain degree of speaker distortion with the dirty rhythm side that ox box's don't do.

[@MrTommyg4]

3ox boxes for sale in AUSTIN ! Lol.

[@antonisprotopapas]

Any ideas what flanger he is using at 2:15?

[@Billywagner22]

I'm assuming he's using the JBL D120 model with 2 414's on his clean tone? Sounds great.

[@brunolima9808]

Vlw por fazer Cliffs of Doves 😉

[@Samana009]

for God's sake... would this guy sound bad just once? Or play slopy? Just to to makes us feel better?

[@insidertompettytheheartbre7526]

Was EJ going thru the OX boxes the entire video? Where was the sound coming from in the vid? Speaker cabs or monitors from the OX boxes?

[@mrfuzztone]

My guess is a direct recording of the output of the OX. It sounds that good. I have one. Great stuff.

[@insidertompettytheheartbre7526]

@@mrfuzztone I have one as well and love it. I was part of a discussion wondering what the audio source was, OX or cabs. Can't see any PA or monitor speakers so just curious on where it was coming from. My guess was the OX but some people disagreed.

[@Diax1324]

Ox boxes into a PA system.

[@ChristEnlightening]

He literally says it’s ox box straight into the pa in the video. Just because you can’t see the speakers doesn’t mean shit. He said that’s wtf is going on. There’s a whole forum ab this lmao it’s a big ass room, Eric is the one important for the video, not the pa. Even the ox box is more important hence why it made an appearance - most people know what a pa is, but not everyone know about ox boxes…

[@Eberponton]

[@jasonlee8497]

Problem....Eric , you could make just about any set up sound good.....i guess you know what you're looking for better than anyone....

[@rickshipman9279]

To much prescience for me ,let's here a bit more bite!

[@SuperHotrod4]

Nah...sounds ok, but sounds like shit compared to his original rig.

[@ChristEnlightening]

Yeah it’s cool, especially on clean, but we all can see why I he never went this route…

[@joshmuz9018]

That wow factor he had has sadly departed with age, still good but not the same

[@tomslater8374]

you're wrong

[@joshmuz9018]

@@tomslater8374 I'm right

[@breakburrito]

I think he's probably going for "not the same". We all should aim for that. And I think it's pretty tough to feel that "wow" factor anymore since we have been desensitized by the likes of KZbin.

[@stringtheoryguitars4952]

From what I heard, he maintained a very heavy practice schedule back then with almost no social life. As years went by he decided to ease up on the practicing and enjoy his life a bit more. He worked so hard on Musicom it almost killed him, literally. So yes he lost that dazzling virtuosity, but kept all the other aspects. Chet Atkins and Steve Morse said 5 hours per day was required just to be able to play their own catalog. And judging from EJ's catalog, you can bet it takes at LEAST that much. That's just too much of a burden at some point. I can barely practice 2 hrs a day because I hate it LOL

[@HiredGoonage]

There is still plenty of wow there

[@jamesmick8653]

Nope.

[@ChristEnlightening]

Na I meanc it’s a cool video of his playing, but, we all can see why I he never went this route…