Focus on JAMES JOHNSON

In late 1986 (or was it it early 1987) the beginnings of what was to become Poor Yorick began to slowly form...you know, like primordial ooze.  Anyway, performing in those days under the name "EPS" (10 points if you happen to know what that stands for) our original drummer was none other than... JAMES JOHNSON.  We had all fallen in together while working at day jobs in a very "silly" place and, after a time, with a few band-personnel shifts, and after having changed our name to 'Poor Yorick' (a story in-and-of-itself), James settled into lead guitar duties.... and has been steady in that role ever since.

As a seminal member of PY, JAMES has produced some tasty performances throughout the band's catalog...early on as the percussionist as mentioned, and later on his solid-body-electric-six-string guitars.  Just a quick and limited sample of some of our favorite guitar passages from JAMES includes... a slippery counterpoint break in  'Not As If We Lied' (1992); some driving riff work on  'Walking the Dogma'(2005);  and some wild-classic-retro-blasts in the middle of  both 'Walking Through'(2012) and  'Gone Munkeys' (2005).


Needless to say...O.K. we'll say it...PY wouldn't be the same without him, his guitar, his supporting vocals, and his goofy sense of humor.

Ladies and gentle-germs....JAMES JOHNSON!