Eric Roche – Bushwacker

I found this recording of Bushwacker on a “Guitarist” magazine CD i bought a long long long time ago that Eric Used to write for, i was fairly sure i threw it out along with all the other guitar magazines i got rid of a few years ago but luckily enough this one slipped by me.

its such an excellent version of bushwacker too.

I was pretty shocked to find out only a few weeks ago that Eric had passed away, back in 2005… and that he was Irish… and a such brilliant guitarist…
all i really knew about him was that he used to always have some good songs tabbed out in the “guitarist” and “guitarist techniques” magazines now and again… im certain i learned the finger picking for Nick Drake’s “Things Behind the Sun” from one of Eric’s columns…

and anyway we didnt have youtube back in 2003 or 2004 or whenever it was i bought those magazines so it wasnt as easy to just do a search for some ones music as it is these days.

Shame he had to leave so soon anyway. There is a good radio documentary on RTE that is narrated by his brother, just some interesting things about Eric’s life and how they grew up together (with a bit of background music by Eric). He actually gives a fairly positive account of the last few months of Eric’s life, check it out for yourself, you’ll know what i mean:
http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/with_these_hands.html

RIP Eric Roche

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