Eric Johnson
Eric Johnson is a guitarist and songwriter born August 17, 1954 in Austin Texas, USA. Although best known for his solo work, Eric Johnson is also associated with other projects and appearing on many other records such as "Distant Star" by Steve Morse and "The Washing Away of Wrong" by John5.
Eric Johnson has been widely appraised for his guitar skills by many guitar magazines including Guitar World and Total Guitar as well as other well known guitar players such as Joe Satriani, Allan Hodsworth, Steve Morse, B.B King and Stevie Ray Vaughn. Eric Johnson has also appeared on the G3 tour with Joe Satriani and Steve Vai.
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The Early Stages
Eric Johnson began playing guitar at the age of 11. However Johnson was born into a musically related family and took up playing Piano prior to guitar. Eric Johnson was able to develop his style quickly and studied his influences who at the time included Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan and Wes Montgomery.
At the age of 15 Johnson recorded his first demo tape with his first band which attracted a lot of attention to Johonson's guitar playing from the local music scene. The group soon parted however when the members of the band graduated from school.
After school, Eric Johnson became a part of a local fusion band called Electromagnets. Although the music scene was impressed by Johnson's guitar skills, the band were unsuccesful and split 3 years later. During that time however Eric Johnson had managed to gather fans of his playing and decided to form his own group of musicians which included Bill Maddox and Kyle Brock
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