Many issues of various guitar magazines have articles. There are many postings in the archives of the list. We have a page up on ericjohnson.com.

2. Where can I read a decent bio/article?

Try Eric Johnson's Bio.

3. Why does it take so long for Eric to put out an album?

Eric is a perfectionist. That's the reason he's so good and the reason it takes so long for him to do albums. In his case you can't have one without the other so get used to it. In the case of Venus Isle he was trying to get a groove different from anything he had gotten in the past. Learning a whole new thing takes time. Also Ah Via Musicom was a slow starter with long legs, as they say in the business. As he was working on VI he was having to support AVM by touring. Expect there to never be that great a delay in the future. I wouldn't expect albums yearly though. ;-)

4. Where can I send Eric something?

Please don't. He is a very nice person who feels he needs to personally respond to the letters/tapes/etc. he receives. This takes time he has little of to spare and results in more pressure on him. Please, just send warm thoughts through the ether. If you just have to ask him something, put it on the Official Eric Johnson Mailing List. I'm going to ask him a few questions every month or so but no promises are made herein that they will be your questions.

5. Is there a fan club?

Yes you can reach it by writing to:

Eric Johnson Fan Club

PO Box 5249

Austin, TX 78763

There is a newsletter you can receive through the fan club which provides information on merchandise, tour dates and other news.

6. What was Mariani?

Mariani was and is Vince Mariani who with Eric on guitar and Jimmy Bullock on bass recorded a demo in the fall of 1969. They pressed 100 copies to use to promote the band in order to get a major label interested. The records were in white covers and were autographed by the band. The band played approximately 10 dates in the central Texas area. No deal was ever struck with a major label and the band broke up in the spring of 1970. The album is now a major collectible worth over $1000 at last count. The album has been bootlegged numerous times with the most recent being a CD from an Italian company which is a horrible out of sequence version taped off a very bad copy of the album. It neither gives credit to the actual musicians nor gives accurate information on Eric's contribution. Eric neither sang or wrote the compositions on the album.

7. What was the Electromagnets?

The Electromgnets, fondly referred to as the Magnets around here, were an Austin based jazz/rock band that Eric joined in 1974 and who's rhythm section later became the first Eric Johnson group. For a whole web site on them look at http://www.io.com/~park.

8. Where can I find more sites on the web about Eric?

Check the Links page on this site or goto a search engine like Yahoo!, Excite, Altavista, etc.

9. Where can I get copies of the Austin City Limits shows?

So far there are no authorized sources. Austin City Limits has started to sell tapes of some of their past shows though at this time Eric's are not available. I have heard talk of a guitarist tape in the works, at this point, as far as I know, all it's just talk.

10. Where can I find bootleg tapes of Eric?

11. Where can I find Eric's tour itinerary?

12. Eric has problems with tinnitus?

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