Let me tell you how I got on to the trail of Eric Johnson, Joe Satriani and Steve Vai this morning; I follow Eric on Twitter (click here to follow Eric) and this morning, E.J. tweeted a link to a Chicago Tribune article by Kevin Williams from January 5th. In it, the writer invoked some info and opinion on the 1996 G3 tour that featured the guitar virtuosi (heh heh...that's plural for virtuoso, I learned that before I left college to go play some Stones tunes)...
There is an immense, veritable pig pile of reasons to love guitar wizard Eric Johnson. Tinnitus is but one.
It was 1996, and the G3 concert tour, featuring Johnson, Steve Vai and Joe Satriani was all the rage...
...The upside is that because of that volume-related hearing problem, Johnson couldn't play loud. Which meant that nobody could. The result was one of the best-sounding shows you'd ever want to hear at the Aragon, which turned out to be a wonderful-sounding room, since a sound engineer wasn't trying to bludgeon it into submission with volume. So there's Johnson to thank for that voyage of discovery, even if the show turned out to be too much of a good thing. Mind you, that won't be a problem this time through, as it's just Johnson, without any other string-bending demons.
This guy clearly favors Johnson and also brings up an interesting subject with the whole tinnitus thing (an I love the phrase "pig pile" too btw), louder isn't always better.
Interesting clip here from those G3 days and notice that E.J. is wearing the headphones...also notice how each guy puts forth some stylistic matter over the basic blues format.
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