Rig Rundown - Eric Johnson [2018]
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Premier Guitar’s Ted Drozdowski met with guru of tone Eric Johnson before his show at Nashville’s City Winery. Johnson revealed his absolute commitment to recreating his trademark sounds with his carefully selected array of guitars, a four-amp setup, and his resurrection of his original Ah Via Musicom pedalboards.
Although he carries two of his new signature Fender Stratocaster Thinline guitars, Johnson mostly plays this vintage-white model. The only mod is the bridge pickup, which he replaced with a DiMarzio HS-2 to better dial in the tones from Ah Via Musicom.
The other axe Johnson relies on heavily is a 1954 Fender Stratocaster. Note the more severe angle of the stock whammy bar. It’s a trait of ’54s that he applies to his signature models. This axe also includes the bridge pickup from the guitar he used on the original recording of “Cliffs of Dover.”
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This is what I got from someone on Fb Fender Stratocaster group saying Eric Johnson is boring, really GTFO !
I laughed when he said "it's called Traditional Clean. I use it for dirty rhythm".
Yeah I laughed, too :D
hahah same here, typical Mr. Johnson ;)
What a sweet hearted dude. Always gracious and humble. Must be that southern thing..
I want to hangout with Eric . 'Hey Eric can you give me one of your Fenders ? ' " Yeah... yeah . " ' Eric can I also have a million bucks ?' " Uh-huh .. yeah , yeah "
I actually asked EJ one of his strats, I said it could be the mexican one the doesnt care for, via facebook. He replied "no, but Im sending good thoughts". True story.
Eric will send you an actual Mexican at no scharge mang...
Lol 😂
Hate these Guitar Heroes always So Boring!!!!
rc121crx lol..right?
“Hey Eric, can I have that Fuzz Face?”
“Yeah, yeah let’s do that, yeah..”
😂😂🤣🤣🎵🎶
I'd love to see a conversation between Eric Johnson and Tom Morello. Mainly because Eric is naturally mellow(like someone on Xanax")and Tom is naturally wired(like someone on cocaine). Plus, they're both tone chasers in their own way.
You can tell he's a humble guy. Wish we could have heard a demo of each guitar.
He's the real deal.
He reminds me so much of Tom Petty.
The Premier Guitar staff were definitely like "Lmao let's get the calmest, most laid back guy to interview Eric Johnson. It'll be a bunch of mellow "yeah"'s the entire time"
I couldn’t tell who smoked the most doobage. The whole thing sounds like a college dorm at 3am.
@@pewdeepew9620 hahahah for sure, but the way he said "yeah" its so calm
Yeah
@@Mathuews1 ...Yeah...
@pewdeepew9620 EJ no alcohol no weed vegetarian too
He's not only perhaps the greatest guitarist of all time, dead or alive, but probably one of the nicest kindest people ever.
Agreed also a notorious coke fiend
Nah he’s in my top 5 of the greatest instrumentalist of all time. Definitely one of the guitar gods of all time
@@TomasUjhelyi
That’s a strange thing to post.
I’ve been following Eric’s career since the early 80s and never seen him drunk or high, or heard anything from other people about Eric being into drugs or even alcohol. This guy is stone cold sober all the time.
Thanks for the bullshit comment though.
A Conversation between Eric and Meshuggah's tech would be like "Yeah", "Yeah Yeah" , "Yeah" ... ;-)
Yeah?
Well, yeah!
Yeah?
Cool !
astroandyborgloh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
I love Eric. He's just a great human being and a beast of a player with tone for days. Kids.. Pay attention.
Yes. Tone. Amazing tone.
Is any famous guitarist not a good human being. Got get off his dik
Agreed. I was such an Eric Johnson fanatic in middle school and high school right until I joined my Uni’s jazz band. I learned everything I could from him! Still listen to him every now and then
Eric is 6 foot tall so this guy interviewing him must be a giant.
Eric is 6’2” so that guy must be 6’5” if not more
@@thearabianmage Yeah I have met him and I don't think he is 6'2". Maybe a shade over 6' regardless this other dude is huge.
I know Ted, the interviewer, and he is a little over 6'. EJ is an average size guy, and is not over 6 feet. Look how big a strat looks on him.
My guitar teacher used to own a store in Texas that EJ used to frequent, and had to tell him “no” several times bc Eric kept wanting to buy a wah that his late brother gave him. Small world!
😮who cares, are you gay?
I saw Eric several years ago at the Birchmere in Alexandria, VA. Small club. Wife and I had seats right at the foot of the stage. Terrific show. At the end of the show I jumped up and held a Fender Strat trem spring cover and marking pen out to Eric (I was the only one to do so). He looked at me and turned to go. Then he suddenly paused and came back and gave me his autograph and thanked me for coming to the show.
Musicians don't like it when anyone "jumps up" and comes towards them , can you blame them ha
maybe he thought it was his, don’t know where mine’s at. Din’t see any on his in this video, forgot if it helped the sound with it back on, but see how the f- holes could smooth things and resonate(if they lacquered the cavity. Maybe I’ll route me out one. Naw,,,,,,
EJ is such laid back nice dude.
This interviewer is the king of respect, humbleness and segwaying into questions 😂
He's a totally rude interviewer if you ask me. I literally would have walked away from him. He constantly interrupted one of the finest guitarists of all time....
@@jeffliberatore3759 I think he did fine. He spoke like a normal person would in a normal conversation
He's rude....
in the amp part EJ goes thru the rig and the dude didnt take anything in and asked him about what he just said😂
All he did was talk over him and cut him off lol
“Yeah” Count - 111
You put in the work with a count clicker? Yea. Yeah
Love how greats like him never brag about themselves. When you get right down to who they are... They are just fans of other musicians just like the rest of us...
Haven't seen a rundown with this interviewer before. So far I like him; good questions, chill dude.
still miss Rebecca Dirks :( ...this guy has all the right questions tho ;)
i thought the same thing! enjoy his questions and was polite. but yes, Rebecca will always be missed.
Because I told her she couldn’t do it anymore.
she left to join the #metoo movement
He's like the PBS version of a Rig Rundown interviewer.
"Wonderful guitar player..."
Understatement of the century.
the interviewer is the oldest millennial i have ever seen
Hes a total ass....
@@jeffliberatore3759 He interrupts wayyyyy to much
Just a total annoyance and somewhat disrespectful...
Rebecca is way better
Eric Johnson - the tone master. What a lovely man too, could listen to him all day; be it speaking or playing.
I swear his Texan accent grew more prominent as the interview went on.
What a cool dude!
Watching March 2022, such a humble guy, no ego and seems a really nice fella. And a wonderful musician.
"It's no perfect collector's piece."
So humble. It's a collector's piece because he plays it.
lol yeah, that guitar is an iconic strat and would sell for serious money.
Are you "Eric" bias? Ha ha jk.
Great Rig Rundown, very informative, thanks! Eric Johnson is a heroic player, yet stays such a modest nice guy. What's not to like?
I see Eric's alien antennae :) 7:06
wilson YU lol
LOL Totally!
Love Eric Johnson's music and he's such a kind person.
I saw the A Via Music show in Capistrano back in the day. Me and my Buds had close seats. I remember EJ had a taped intro, and I swear to my God we thought a jet was crashing into the building. People were scared! Not me. The sound was amazing. Then EJ sits down and plays The Boxer. It was one of the greatest shows of all time. EJ you will always be my King.
There’s a ghost of me still out there in the mid nineteen eighties, standing with delighted shock in front of the stage where I first saw Eric playing live.
I just bought a set of his Jazz picks and they're the best!
I use them as well; probably as close as I am going to get to be able to play as well as Eric Johnson
Great interviewer, and Eric is a great person. Very simple and down to earth. Loved this Rundown.
next person who tells me these new age high brand guitar cables are great, i will direct them to this pedalboard with 18th century rusty cables.
Yeah since he was trying to recapture the sound of the glory days I heard he also even wore the same socks and underwear from this tour as he did back then. He said it had something to do with the elastic in the underwear that slowed the current in his body to match the current in the Tube Screamer and give him a slight overdrive boost.
@@SimpleManGuitars1973 This is seriously the best comment on youtube of all time
Those look like a George L’s brand guitar cable.
George L’s all the way. Damn expensive but they last and and sound great with minimal noise.
EJ is such an intelligent and gracious cat proving yet again that the the heaviest dudes are light as a feather to be around.
He looks like he’s Vegan
Wow, for a touring rig Eric's setup is surprisingly simple; easy to follow, no - nonsense signal chain. Blown away by the Echoplex mod, that's brilliant.
I just got the EJ Dimarzio Humbucker for my bridge. Man it sounds like something special! Its like a low output humbucker but with a higher treble. It never gets muddy no matter what you do with it!
From what i understand, he runs his in split mode. Basically a single coil.
Eric Johnson is such a great man. I love when the REAL guitarists do the rig run downs.
So passionate, what a great guy and inspiration to all.
One of the very best and a hell of a nice guy.
"Cool" "Yeah" TRUE MUSICIAN LANGUAGE
3:05
Aliens invading earth: We will destroy all human and take their planet!!
EJ: Cool! Let me show you around so you can plan...
(Few hours later, all happy aliens returned to their galaxy with EJ picks as souvenir).
Hey interview guy! Don't talk over Eric all the time! 🤯
Man, I HATE Eric Johnson! He's just too damn talented. IMO, he's the best all around guitarist ever and Ah Via is the best all around guitar album ever. Eric's style is super otiginal yet it incls Blues, Rock, Country, Folk, Jazz, Ethereal, Fusion & more. Plus he's a great song & lyric writer and has a beautiful, etherael voice to match his playing. Did I mention he plays great piano too? Bottom line, Eric is a total nusician & a nice, humble guy to boot. ...Yeah, I hate him.
Zen people, zen moment in this crazy world, thank you.
This man really got a rack mount laying on the floor hahahahahah I love it
I love this guy!....it's great that he uses all older equipment
I have some footage from this show... I should find some time and post that; though the phone doesn't do justice to how much he NAILED the tone on the record for this show. I found myself just enjoying more than recording. My wife got a picture of me and the guy behind me with looks of utter amazement on our faces- watching it played so flawlessly after all these years was frankly unexpected. I've seen EJ a lot of times over the years but this was far and away my favorite show. It was uncanny to see it live (Nashville) because he did literally play the track list all the way thru, with some other songs in a bit of a warm up set. Amazing.
DJ Eshelman yeah I saw him in San Diego and it was great.
Wish john bohlinger would have done the interview
John and Rebecca Dirks like a menage a rug-down
Can't stand that interviewer... He's rude af.
Other possible names for this video: "Yeah" "Yeah...yeah" "Yeah..." 😂
Stock vintage non-master volume Marshall on 10 = Loud AF!!!😎
Eric is one of the all-time greatest to have EVER touched six strings, and one of the kindest human beings ever as well....
The sunburst"54" Strat!! Hammer of the Gods!!!!!
So what's it like to be in the presence of God?
alanis morissette had nothing to do with this rig rundown.
LeTTaRS wait a minute, I thought it was Morgan Freeman?
A lot people talking in this thread yet no one's mentioned Lemmy yet? For shame.
TheDarthsteve316 Lemmy Kravitz? Nah... he's no God! :D
phil smith...i seriously hope you're kidding lol.
Great Rig rundown. It actually feels like these guys were just having a normal convo and the cameras sneaked in and started recording everything haha!
What's cool is if you watch the Live on Austin City Limits from 1988, you will see all that exact equipment, right there on stage!
I'll be seeing him Saturday night in Kansas City, can't wait to see him live!
Good interviewer. I feel EJ should always be addressed with a slightly hushed voice.
Uh huh uh huh, yeah yeah, uh huh. He’s such a laid back down to earth dude, Love EJ
I like the fact that he recreates his old tones.
It was almost a Tap moment when the venue for Eric's mountain of tone is revealed as some kind of wine'n'napkin dinner event.
As much as the interviewer is chill and nice like everyone says, and has a stylish hat, I don't like how much he talks over Eric, just hard to listen to.
He’s probably nervous af.
Nice to see Eric doesn’t think he too good for this like other rig rundowns where they interview the guitar techs. Because the douchy guitarist thinks he’s so special. Eric seems like a great guy. And he’s a better guitarist than most.
Maybe they're just _busy_ you tit
Exactly, the guy is a living legend and still takes the time to do a rig rundown.
Classy dude
One time in NYC I ran into Eric before one of his shows. We walked a few blocks together and he couldn't have been nicer. He needed a few batteries from his room. Just a regular guy, except for the guitar mastery thing.
talkin bout nawlins.....you could feel the guarded replies from Eric....I don't blame him, keeping some mystery back is not a bad thing.
Eric's live acoustic sound on the ah via tour was amazing. 'Song for George' was the highlight of the night! The man is just so plain humble. Thanks for sharing your setup.
DSW I really like his musicianship.
looks like hes performing in a cafeteria
It just ain't right without John Bollinger ....
Rebecca
He could play a Fire hydrant....in tune and make it bad ass.
His pedalboard looks like a disaster! He's such a precise guy you thought it would be neat and tidy! Unbelievable guitarist, unique, I think he's probably the best guitarist in the world, I can't think of anyone better.
Eric moves things a couple inches apart, tries different cable lengths etc because he says it changes the tone. This is why his board is so messy
Never mind the rig, tell me about his PERFECT HAIR.
it's a wig!
his hair sucks
Just having hair in his sixties is amazing. All that Zen paid off.
Skynet Your going to find this hard to believe but my dad is 82 and still has all his hair, it's the same dark brown -light black color it was when he was 30, might be because his grandmother was full blooded Cherokee..??? When he was working years ago I always accused him of having "Greason hair dye" (shows you his age & mine, don't know if they still make that stuff) in his locker at work because he had no gray hair in his 50s, kinda funny because my mom was completely gray in her mid twenties.
@@AlienSexGod No it's not.
Eric is a all around genuinely nice dude .
Ted should not do this again, it was painful to watch him interview.
I witnessed Eric Johnson in the early 90's playing at Burruss Auditorium in Blacksburg Va, amazing show. I came away as he was one of the top five guitarists I had ever seen for sure. He played everything from his own material at the time to Cream, excellent sound using a Strat through a huge stack of Marshall amps. Excellent show .
A few months ago, I got his new thin line strat. Man, I own like 10 guitars, at least and it is by far the best one.
The host makes me uncomfortable with his tight pants.
.. had been waitin' long for this one, thanks guys!! .. EJ's kung-fu is very, very strong... :)
Such a humble great player....you know that touring is draining on people,yet Eric has always been accommodating.
Nice guy and a fantastic player, but to be honest he looks not very healthy, or is this just me? Dark rings under his eyes....
eric johnson speaks so softly. could listen to him all day
Eric looks like he was smoking some Devils Lettuce...
11:00 & 13:45 - 14:00 Never gonna believe anybody who says you need high quality cables to ensure good tone. Look at the state of those leads! Brilliant
He’s definitely had those cables since the 80’s, they’ve got better tone than the new ones!!!
Love those vintage handmade patch cables. Also, looks like he's using batteries on the pedals. I would think that's uncommon for a touring pro. Must be for the purity of the tone.
I don't know why player grade or mint matters to him...once he owns a guitar the value goes though the roof
"black-face Twins that I put in a piggy-back cabinet"...so it looks to me like Eric has taken the speakers out of them and re-Tolexed them with just the heads in each? I know that Twins typically have 2-12s, so not sure if that's what he did or not...? just guessing here. As an added note, I saw Eric in a strip club called the Foxy Lady in Beaumont, Tx back in the 70s when he was still relatively unknown, except for maybe in the Austin area. It was a week night and the place was pretty empty, but Eric played an amazing set; he was just as good then as he is now. I talked with him after the set...such a nice guy and a phenomenal player.
No inner ears. Monitors on floor
EJ is so loaded on opiates here it ain't even funny. I heard like Petty he had a hip or leg issue and it's obvious he's deep into an oxycodone or morphine sulphate jones. Pinned pupils, flat affect, the whole deal. I hope he's careful. This whole "opiate crisis", which has been going on for decades and is just now getting play, is hard on chronic pain patients because doctors are scared to prescribe pain meds in the quantity & duration they may need but there's also tons of people topping themselves off with fentanyl laced heroin. If the Dr. cuts people off they have to hit the corner and the only available opiate is heroin. It's a bad deal all around. Be cool EJ, be cool.
And are they playing in a dinner theater or some shit...this is Eric Johnson man!
What are you talking about
@@ericjohnsonsdover Eat fewer boogers pal.
As Rick Beato says: Fender has got too many models.
The interviewee guy needs to chill and stop being so quick to speak. He was talking over Eric!
Yup 4:12 just did it again...
you heard it here first. There will be a time come when relics are not considered cool anymore and all the guitars that someone paid to beat up will lose alooott of value.
Man, what a STUPID thing that whole "relic" shit is. Thanks, but I'd rather beat it up, play it down and make my OWN scuffs and wear-out the fingerboard myself! I know a couple of ppl who have them and -of course- they can't play, for shit and one of them just bought it to hang on his wall. Paid like $3,000 bucks for it and the last time I picked it off his wall it was all coated with furniture polish from his wife. ! LOL
@@techtiledonaldson9506 thats literally disgusting. Id sell the wife
@@techtiledonaldson9506 I was selling a Strat a year or so ago and the guy at the store was like "Oh it has a ding here and a ding there so I'm gonna have to give you a little less for it..." and I said "Yeah but if the Custom Shop had 'reliced' it then you would have to give me thousands more..." He was like "Well I never thought of it that way but you're actually right..." LOL!
@@SimpleManGuitars1973 SEE, I knew that nonsense was going to confuse the market. I mean, what if you buy a, I don't know, say a Clapton "relic", play it for 10 years and it acquires MORE wear and scratches and whatnot(?) Is it NOW not "worth as much" as the ridiculous price, originally paid? As a life-long guitarist and tech I can tell you, I've played them ALL and the relics didn't sound any better or play any better than a non-reliced guitar. That shits for cornballs with too much money and time on their hands. So they think putting an exact replica of Claptons guitar in them hands is going to make them cool or maybe get a hot chick. Lol
George Washington
"Older friend of mine"🤣
Splendid interview
Love Eric J. but the interviewer did not work for me. He interrupted Eric during the amps where Eric had to repeat himself to finish his thought. Did you catch it?
So you interrupted the maestro when he was explaining you his amp setup, and 1 minute after you ask him about it? Let him speak...
There is something disingenuous about the interviewer. He’s too “eager”. His attention span is too fast. I love this channel, but this guy keeps stopping the artist.
If Eric sells that pedal board, I'm sure it's at least a million dollars. Those pedals have also grown old with them. Such a nice guy. Amazing guitar player.
what a lovely guy Eric is, im very surprised of his kindness, hes such a genius and so down to earth
I can't imagine trying to remember all that setup while trying to remember how to play and sing.
I met Eric in the 90's. He's as nice as he seems here.
That's the kind of pedal board to work with. Tone, modulation, space. Cool.
Look at those old cords on his pedal board 😳
This was a really enjoyable and informative Rig Rundown. Good job!
my son got to hang with Eric when he was in Boston,he said he was one of the nicest approachable Stars ,you would ever meet ,humble ,loves to talk tone .He could tell if a 9 volt battery lost a volt and went to 8
Imagine Eric and Mr Rogers having a conversation/interview if he was still living! The most chill conversation ever lol 🤘
Wonder if Joe Bonnamassa learned to copy anymore of E.J after this vid..🤔🙄
and the guitar picks from dunlop
Wow. And i thought my board looked like a fire hazard.
EJ may have dirtiest pedal board, but have a cleanest tone.