Eric Johnson: guitar messenger interview

News:
02-12-2008:
Eric Johnson gets the guitar messenger treatment, well done Ivan Chopik!

EJ: A perfect solo? Well, you know, you get in a lot of trouble for using the word perfect – I do. So I really try to stay away from that. In a lot of different idioms it’s just part of the package. It’s not the most important thing, obviously. But if you listen to violin players or classical musicians, and you study what they’re trying to do, or you listen to them run through their repertoire of practice – there’s no question that there’s a little bit more of an embraceable atmosphere to go for that level. Do you know what I’m saying?

But for some reason, if you get on guitar, that goal of playing like Yo-Yo Ma or whatever, or playing with the kind of tone, you know, the really cultivated thing, it’s like ‘Oh, no, it’s not…’ So I hate to get into that arena of using that word, because it can cause semantical discourse, I guess you would say.

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