He prefers the warmer tone of the brass plugs over nickel, chrome or gold-plated plugs for his lead guitar tone. He also prefers unplated plain brass plugs on his guitar cables, preferably the Bill Lawrence, or unplated plain brass George L's as a second choice. Speaker wires were soldered to the speaker terminals, not the connector-type plugs. The speakers used were very late 1970s or early 1980s G1280 80-watt speakers, which are similar to modern-day "Lead 80" speakers.
The cabinet contained four 8-ohm speakers instead of the original four 16-ohm speakers.
Johnson used a 100w Marshall tube amplifier with E元4 power tubes (he liked the German brand Siemens made by RFT), with a 4×12 cabinet wired in vintage style series-parallel 8-ohm total load. He played with small thick picks, preferably Dunlop Jazz III nylon picks, which he also now endorses. He probably used GHS brand strings, which he now endorses. Johnson strung his guitars with pure nickel strings, instead of just nickel-plated. We just have to listen for it and be available to receive it." Equipment used kind of a gift from a higher place that all of us are eligible for.
CLIFFS OF DOVER GUITAR INTRO FULL
While he did indeed compose "Cliffs of Dover", Johnson does not take full credit, saying "I don't even know if I can take credit for writing 'Cliffs of Dover'. The outro or coda then recalls the freestyle mood and timing of the ad-libbed intro. Drums are then added as the song settles into a 4Ĥ rhythmic shuffle verse accompanied by a very accessible set of melodies that, throughout the song intro, feature variations (octavations for example) on the main chorus. In the solo intro, Johnson does not adhere to any distinct time signature. Eric Johnson's Ah Via Musicom is available now via Capitol."Cliffs of Dover" begins with an ad-libbed electric guitar solo, using techniques such as string skipping and hybrid picking.“And wouldn’t you know it – that’s the only time I won! It’s kind of funny. I figured, All these other people are better known than me. “I had been nominated a few times before and never won,” he says, “so when ‘Cliffs of Dover’ was nominated, I didn’t go to the show. Johnson took his newfound fame and Grammy nomination in stride. Shane’s work paid off when “Cliffs of Dover” became one of the most-played rock instrumentals of its day, hitting No. He wanted people to hear the song, and he did everything he could to make it a hit.” “They Really Like Me” “They didn’t think the record would do anything.” However, one of the label’s promo men, Jeffrey Shane, loved Ah Via Musicom and thought “Cliffs of Dover” was a single. “They were like, ‘Whatever,’” he remembers. Johnson was ecstatic with the job mastering engineer Bernie Grundman did on the EQ (“He really got the track to sound perfect”), but he was dismayed at Capitol’s initial reaction. Guitar effects were minimal: “It’s just an Echoplex into a Tube Driver, and that went into a 100-watt Marshall with a 4x12 cabinet.” I played it all the way through with my Strat, but the solo didn’t sound as clear and elegant as I wanted, so I punched in an ES-335 for the main solo You can hear the tone difference, but that’s okay – the spirit is there.” Then it goes back to the Strat for the end. “In the studio, I tried a few versions until I got something that sounded right.” His band blazed through two or three takes of the track before arriving at a keeper, but Johnson was unhappy with his guitar sound.Īs he explains, “I played it all the way through with my Strat, but the solo didn’t sound as clear and elegant as I wanted, so I punched in an ES-335 for the main solo. “It varied every time I played it live,” he says. Before the main song, he included a freeform improv section that he had always played live.
After signing with Capitol Records in 1989, Johnson decided to finally record “Cliffs of Dover” in a studio.
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