Eric Johnson to Join Joe Satriani as Special Guest on the "Super Colossal" Tour for Select Dates This Spring

Press release
Source: Chipster Entertainment, Inc.

Two of the industry's most elite guitar players Eric Johnson and Joe Satriani have announced that they will be teaming up for special performances this spring as part of Satriani's "Super Colossal" U.S. Tour. For a select number of dates only, Johnson will appear as Satriani's special guest, performing songs off his recent Grammy® nominated album "Bloom" as well as such fan- favorites as the Grammy®-Award winning song "Cliffs of Dover".

Johnson, who spent the majority of last year touring behind "Bloom" which was released June 14th, 2005 through Favored Nations, is considered to be one of the most technically-proficient live performers on the scene today. In fact, Pollstar called his last routing "One of the best live shows of a rock guitarist of our time."

Johnson will kick off his performances with an exclusive headlining gig at Club Congress in Tucson, AZ on March 30th just before his March 31st appearance at the Tempe Music Festival celebrating Fender Musical Instruments 60th Anniversary with Jeff Beck and other guitar greats. He will then hit the road with Satriani on "The Super Colossal Tour" for a series of dates that begin in Denver on April 1st and continue through the middle of May.

An avid live performer, Johnson says that he doesn't mind all of the touring, even after spending almost a year and half straight on the road. In fact, he is so focused on making his live performances accessible to his audience that he recently released two new DVDs- "The Art of Guitar," an instructional video by the master himself, and "Live from Austin Texas", a never-before-released DVD and CD (New West Records) that captures the essence of the guitarist's legendary December 14th, 1998 performance on Austin City Limits! Live from Austin Texas includes many of Johnson's hit recordings from his Grammy nominated "Ah Via Musicom" and the first release of two fan favorite Jimi Hendrix covers; "Love or Confusion" and "Are You Experienced".

"I prefer playing live because I can take the music and expand it through improvisation," he said. "It's also great to see how the audience receives it." If these shows are anything like his last, it's safe to say that the fans will be eating it up, after all as Pollstar wrote, "If you love rock guitar you'll love the energy of his show. Don't miss him on this tour."

The official dates for Johnson's appearances include:

Thursday, March 30th Tucson, AZ Club Congress
Saturday, April 1st Denver, CO Ogden Theater
Sunday, April 2nd Kansas City, MO Uptown Theater
Monday, April 3rd Omaha, NE Orpheum Theatre
Wednesday, April 5th Chicago, IL House of Blues
Friday, April 7th Greensburg, PA Palace Theatre
Saturday, April 8th Cleveland, OH Agora Theatre & Ballroom
Monday, April 10th Buffalo, NY SUNY-Center for the Arts
Friday, April 14th Boston, MA Berklee Performance Center
Monday, April 17th Baltimore, MD Ram's Head Live
Tuesday, April 18th Sayerville, NJ Starland Ballroom
Wednesday, April 19th Upper Darby, PA Tower Theatre
Friday, April 21st Lake Buena Vista, FL House of Blues
Saturday, April 22nd Boca Raton, FL Mizner Park Amphitheatre
Monday, April 24th Tampa, FL Tampa Bay Perf. Arts Center
Tuesday, April 25th Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse
Wednesday, April 26th New Orleans, LA House of Blues
Thursday, April 27th Grand Prairie, TX Nokia Theatre
Friday, April 28th Austin, TX Paramount Theatre
Saturday, April 29th The Woodlands, TX C.W. Mitchell Pavilion
Monday, May 1st Albuquerque, NM Kiva Auditorium
Tuesday, May 2nd Las Vegas, NV House of Blues
Wednesday, May 3rd Anaheim, CA The Grove of Anaheim
Thursday, May 4th San Diego, CA Humphrey's By the Bay
Friday, May 5th Phoenix, AZ Celebrity Theatre
Saturday, May 6th Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern LG

For more information on Eric Johnson, visit www.ericjohnson.com or www.favorednations.com.