148 - Erick Walls' First-Call Funk and Gospel

No Guitar Is Safe

Jude Gold

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4.8 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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In addition to winning Grammy Awards for his work on albums by Beyoncé and John Legend, guitarist/composer ERICK WALLS has recorded and/or performed with many other superstars, including Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Jennifer Hudson, Will Smith, Kanye West, Alicia Keys, Jay-Z, Black Eyed Peas, Whitney Houston, and Michael McDonald, to name a few. And from the moment Erick plugs in on this episode, you’ll hear that he also has deep church roots. (He’s played guitar at West Angeles Cathedral in Los Angeles for 19 years and counting, and has worked with great gospel singers all his life, starting with his father, George Walls, on up through Kirk Franklin and Miami Mass Choir.) When the interview opens, Walls is playing a solo guitar arrangement of The Caravans’ “Lord Keep Me Day By Day,” which was one of his father’s favorite songs. Erick also likes to rock out, too, as you’ll hear when the interview gets to the segment diving into the music of his rock/funk band Black Waat3r. This episode takes place at Erick Walls’ home studio. It is presented by GUITAR PLAYER magazine and hosted by JUDE GOLD. Thanks for supporting No Guitar Is Safe!

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0:00.0	Folks, super excited Eric Walls is about to plug in for you here on episode 148 of No Guitar is Safe, The Guitar Show, or Guitar Heroes, plug in.
0:14.5	And it's brought to you today by Guitar Player magazine and guitarplayer.com.
0:19.9	Guitar player, play better, sound better.
0:24.7	What's up everybody?
0:31.0	I'm super psyched today to have Eric Walls plugging in.
0:34.5	You know, this is not a podcast.
0:36.5	This is an adventure cast because we take
0:39.6	that helicopter over the hills and we go to cool places and we parachute into guitar layers. And what a
0:46.9	cool guitar cave we're going to today. Eric Walls, here's a little sample of him playing his
0:53.2	Don Grosch-Strat-style guitar.
1:14.6	Yeah, so sweet. This is actual audio from the interview you're about to hear. You'll hear all of this and so much more.
1:17.6	Eric is just one of the tastiest most grooving guitar players I've met in a long time.
1:26.6	And you know they say that the session scene is slowing down, but nobody told Eric
1:33.0	Walls, because his phone is ringing.
1:36.5	He was able to fit me in between sessions with John Legend.
1:41.3	He already has a Grammy with John Legend. He's also got a Grammy with
1:45.0	Beyonce and a bunch of other Grammy nominations. He's also Emmy nominated as a
1:50.7	composer. He does a lot of film work and he's got a cool rock band we're gonna
1:56.9	check out.
2:04.2	Yeah, Eric is keeping busy.
2:07.0	And just check out all these artists he's played with.
2:10.9	I guess I just got to grab this paragraph and just choose some random names out of it.
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