I'd put myself also in the upper intermediate (though I've been playing a lot longer), and this has been my goal song for well over a decade. But then heard other people say its really not that hard, and more of an intermediate level song. I've wondered this myself, because I've always put it firmly in the "super advanced, holy shit, what is even happening here?" category. you can see he really meant it, as his recording output over the next ten years exceeded his output from the first twenty.
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He spoke about it at length around the time he was doing the G3 thing with Satriani and Vai, and that doing that tour was the impetus for him to start making a concerted effort to wrestle free from a lot of that, and stop being so precious about every tiny little thing. Can you imagine how many days he would probably spend mic'ing a single cabinet? And then months would go by and they'd get halfway through the sessions and he'd throw it all away and start over because everything sounded awful to him, etc. He would start a record and tinker around with shit for ages before he'd ever let them hit the 'record' button. The big takeaway from all of it is that, whether Eric Johnson has really big ears or it was psychosomatic, it led to a pretty damned debilitating perfectionist syndrome that carried over to and vastly impeded his work.
But he then went on to say that he could also hear the difference in different connectors- gold-plated vs. Anyone can absolutely hear the difference in cable length, and as such he soldered his own cables and had them cut to length according to the need for each one, and mentioned he liked using George L's, etc. Now that's a different thing on the surface. He also spoke about how he was obsessed with cables, too. Unless you had your pedals in a rack drawer, it wasn't common at all to do that and in any case he said Eric preferred battery power over constant current. He would literally spend months working on an album, and then scrap everything and start over, stuff like that. He said Eric preferred Duracells over Eveready Energizers, and was dead serious about it, saying he had done blind tests where no one but him knew what was in the pedal and Johnson sniffed it out every time.Īnyhoo, in the last fifteen years or so Johnson has backed way off on that kind of microscopic-level of minute detail, saying that it was psychologically crippling and was mostly responsible over the years for his slow and sporadic recording output.
He swore that Eric could tell the differences between not just old and new batteries, but the brand. He spoke about how EJ was super-picky about the number of wraps around each post during string changes (and it was a different number for each string), and then he started getting into the pedals & batteries thing.
He spoke about how EJ would have certain cabs in his multi-amp rig laying on their side because they resonated better that way, and a Marshall head sounded better on the floor instead of on top of the cabinet, and so on. Not a rumour- it all came from an interview in Guitar Player magazine in 1987 with his then-guitar tech.
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