October, 26 2025 | 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

325 Park Central East Springfield, MO 65806
https://eventvesta.com/events/114214/t/tickets
785-749-7475 info@mammothlive.com

$40.00

Grammy™ Award winning and platinum selling guitarist, vocalist and composer Eric Johnson brings his Texaphonic 2025 Tour to the Gillioz Theatre in Springfield, MO on Sunday, October 26th. Tickets are on sale now at Gillioz.org.
Link to tickets: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/61191424/eric-johnson-texaphonic-tour-2025-springfield-gillioz-theatre
One of the most outstanding instrumentalists in rock over the past 40 years, Texas guitarist Eric Johnson was
already a legend before he recorded his first album. By the early 1980s, many celebrated guitarists were singing
the praises of this skinny kid from Austin with the mind-melting chops. Comparisons were made to such guitar
heroes as Jeff Beck and Jimi Hendrix and when he joined the ‘70s Austin fusion band Electromagnets they were
being hailed as “the Mahavishnu Orchestra of Texas”. With the release of his highly-anticipated 1986 solo debut
album Tones, the underground guitar legend finally emerged onto the scene fully-formed. It landed him on the
cover of Guitar Player magazine, which hailed the album as a “majestic debut”, and earned him his first Grammy
nomination for the song “Zap”. With the release of his follow up album, 1990’s platinum-selling Ah Via Musicom,
which contained the Grammy Award winning song “Cliffs of Dover”, Eric Johnson became a bona fide international
guitar phenomenon.
The New Age Music Guide once opined that “Eric Johnson plays guitar the way Michelangelo painted ceilings:
with a colorful vibrancy that’s more real than life” while Rolling Stone included him in their list of the 100 Greatest
Guitarists of the 21st century. A dynamic singer as well as an incredibly gifted guitarist, a pianist and a prolific
songwriter, Eric has been featured on the cover of countless guitar magazines around the world while also racking
up critical accolades along the way.
Since 1986 Eric has released seventeen albums, in addition to albums with other artists such as Eclectic with
jazz guitarist Mike Stern, and the platinum-selling G3 Live with Joe Satriani and Steve Vai. Eric has received eight
Grammy nominations along with numerous other recognitions, awards and wins in various polls and magazines.
Among Johnson’s many accolades are a GRAMMY award in 1992 for “Cliffs of Dover” as Best Rock Instrumental
Performance, lifetime induction into the Guitar Player Gallery of Greats, and his listing among the “100 Greatest
Guitarists of the 20th Century” by Musician magazine.
Over the course of more than four decades, Eric Johnson has been traveling on a prolific odyssey. Along the way,
his creations have cross-pollinated the various musical genres which include rock, blues, jazz, fusion, soul, folk,
new-age, classical, and even country. Inevitably EJ says it best himself in sharing that regardless of the genre “It
really boils down to the music and the song at the end of the day”, he explains. “The most important thing for me is
to grow musically and make a more expansive and meaningful artistic statement with every new project”.