10 Guitarists You've Never Heard Of - Eric Sardinas

From a very young age, Eric Sardinas loved the blues. He first experienced the sound of the blues on a compilation of old field recordings and was enthralled by the sound of slide guitar. He explored the many sounds of the blues, from Chicago style electric blues to the acoustic blues sounds of the Delta.

When Sardinas was in his teens he continued to inhale the blues but also experienced the more modern rock styles of the 60s and 70s.

Sardinas is left handed but learnt to play the guitar right handed. He says that he was always drawn to the sound of the resonator guitar, which he uses but with an interesting twist. Sardinas combines his blues heritage with the sound of hard rock. He plugs his signature Washburn ES20 resonator guitar into a 50 watt Rivera Quiana head and a 4x12 cabinet loaded with celestion greenbacks. He also uses a subwoofer for extra low end. His pedalboard consists of a Dunlop Crybaby wah and Dunlop Univibe with foot controller.

Sardinas' technique is based around acoustic blues bottleneck played in open tunings but his use of feedback, sustain and distortion takes the sound in a new direction. Sardinas usually uses either open D or open G tunings but places two capos at the second fret to raise the pitch to open E or A.

Sardinas' first two albums were critically acclaimed and his third, Black Pearls was released on Favoured Nations (Steve Vai's label). For this album Sardinas worked with producer Eddie Kramer.

If you'd like to learn more about Eric Sardinas please visit ericsardinas.com.

Comments

I've heard of Eric Sardinas, and seen him. But that's because I rule. Oh, nice article.

[Scorpions]

how many more guitarists have I not heard of until we get to 10?

[CoryXCore]

This is that guy who has that sig washburn resonator and made that blues and black pearls album, hes in like a billion guitarworld ads.

CS91253:
yeah, stop making these articles dude

Oi n00b, stfu already this is an ongoing project between numerous members of the columns team. If you havea problem with it, insulting the Columns team and the admin is not a good idea.

[ChurchNSkate]

ive heard of him, pretty cool guy. yeah, CS, *** you. he takes some good effort to make these, give him some credit! not only that, but theyre good articles. open up your eyes to some good music!

[twotonerudie]

these always sound like they're going to be epic and then are like, three paragraphs long. needs more body.

[strumntheguitar]

I personally haven't heard of him... so i'm gonna check him out cuz he sounds pretty cool... and for everyone bashing these articles... why don't you just quit reading them :-p

[msierragtz]

cool

[arguy337]

CS91253:
yeah, stop making these articles dude

Shut up newbie
Nice article

[ZepHedJack]

I've seen him in Guitar World ads. and I accidentally d/led (what i assume is) him playing Rollin' and Tumblin', but I haven't got his cd yet, It is something i mustdo

[MrLucky77713]

The requirements were 3-4 paragraphs. Deal with it.

And no it wasn't, Cory. If it was, that'd be plagarism, and I wouldn't have been accepted, and I would possibly be banned. I DID get all my information there, but it was all in my own words. Stop knocking me, you dick. You can't blame me for using his bio as a source, and I didn't copy it.

[MrLucky77713]

Teppei's whole bio is in the first person, and is done extremely informally. His gear is in list form. That's nothing like my article. It's damn blasphemy to go flaming columns. I don't see YOU putting out an acclaimed series of punk history articles, or writing an article on teppei that DOESN'T take anything from the thrice site.

[Geldof the Grey]

Posts from retards deleted!

[GNRoses]

nice article, i've gotta check him out. sounds really cool.

[m_unit_soldier]

one of the most underrated guitarits ever. check out his performance on "the attitude song" on steve vai's "live at astoria london" dvd.

[RememberSRV]

i seen him in des moines...best 7 bucks i ever spent

[sardinas05jim]

ive heard of, seen him live twice, got all his albums on the year of release and can play a hell of a lot of his stuff, but its true that a lot of people havn't heard of him, and they damn well should, one of the best live showmen ive ever seen!!

[appetite]

^^^^V.true, i saw him play with vai and met him! He's a good guy and can really play that guitar!

[Despairicle]

Nope

Yngwie Malmsteen still number one

[Despairicle]

Nope

Yngwie Malmsteen still rules

[matthew123]

Yngwie Malmsteen is a cocky bastard

[Stormy32]

I have actually met him, he was on the the Steve Vai tour in '05. Got a signed album off all the band members aswell as the ticket. He is thee most ridiculous guitarist ever, especially when he uses a beer bottle, lol.

[northernman]

Anyone who can play his guitar solo with a Bud bottle whilst walking round the crowd and from the back seat of a police car gets my vote