Great Mix Of Styles
Eric Johnson's AH VIA MUSICOM is a great mix of guitar tones and influences, from Wes Montgomery and Charlie Christian to Steve Morse, Dickey Betts, Allan Holdsworth, Joe Walsh, Chet Atkins, and Robin Trower. In other words, you'll find hard rock riffs and solos, country picking, violin-like string-skipping, and numerous other stylings mixed into pop songs that draw equally from bands as diverse as Artful Dodger and Foghat. Some songs feature vocals, but many of the great ones are instrumentals. This album will stand the test of time in 30 years much better than the grunge which followed it by a year.

great music
i discovered Eric johnson in the least music conisour way! his song cliffs of dover is featured (and one of my favorites to play) in Guitaur Hearo 3 and i loved playing is so much i thought ok ive got to find out more about this guy so i checked it out here on amazon and i found that right along with eric johnson there are SEVERAL masters of the guitar that i had been missing out on so i highly reccomend Erics music to enrich your collection ;o)

Soft Rock Hell.
I don't know what I expected from this album, inspirational forays exploring the boundaries of the instrument and music? Maybe. Failing that some good rock n' roll played very well. I certainly expected more than this bland over-produced pap.

The thing most people strive to emphasise when describing this artist is the melodic nature of his work. Not for him the pointless wailing of other guitarists. This would be fine if the music were aiming for something more than Don Henley's "The Boys Of Summer" with the melody, hooks and any interesting guitar sounds removed. THEN they take what's left and reprocess it to make it more synthetic and less vibrant/organic. Perhaps Eric Clapton at his worst produced similarly disappointingly bland mediocrity but with him there was always hope for a return to better things.

I read one comment "this guy can shred any style..." If this guy shredded anything I would be in favour but really all he can do is smoothe off all the edges and hollow out the middle. Virtuosity is meaningless without the music to back it up.

A totally empty musical experience.

Great!!
My first venture into buying Eric Johnson all down to "Cliffs of Dover". Great guitarist, but th vocals lack. This WILL NOT put me off buying more of Eric's music.

my doctor likes this cd to
i've wanted this cd for years because of cliffs of dover when i started ordering from amazon it come to me maybe they've got it and they did my doctor went to loan me this cd and i told him i got it from amazon.