Eric Johnson

I’ve always been a fan even during my metalhead days you were the calming influence but your music became the most profound on one night in particular.
I had admitted myself to a psychiatric ward of the hospital I worked at after I suffered a severe nervous break and blind rage incident. I had been in the hospital for a couple of days when I was finally allowed to have my little mp3 player.
To demonstrate the irony of what happened next I need to explain that I used to take long walks to clear my head and I’d have music playing through that little mp3 player usually set to random play.
The first night I had music in my room the first song to start up was Brain Damage. The irony of the situation caused me to burst out laughing, belly laughing. I was laughing so hard I couldn’t breathe. The staff came running to my room and was asking me what was wrong, I couldn’t talk. One of the orderlies then took my headphones off and listened, smiled and said “He’s alright” Thank you.