Eric Schermerhorn is an American guitarist and composer. Born in Massachusetts on April 11th 1960, he has since lived in NYC and Los Angeles. He played with Iggy Pop on the American Caeser and Naughty Little Doggie albums, and David Bowie on the Tin Machine It's My Life.. tour (as background vocalist and guitarist), and appeared in the video and live record Oy Vey Baby.
He later played with They Might Be Giants on Factory Showroom, Severe Tire Damage and Mono Puff's It's Fun To Steal. He also played with Seal and appeared in the video release One Night to Remember. He also has recorded with Melissa Etheridge and Ric Ocasek. He also wrote and recorded with Richard Butler of the Psychedelic Furs.
Since 1995, starting with the work on the album I Saw The Light, he became the guitarist for the band The The, replacing Johnny Marr. In 1998 he wrote and recorded Living in the Present Future with Eagle Eye Cherry, son of Don Cherry. He played with A1, María Gabriela Epúmer's band, in 1996, recorded the album Señorita Corazon. In 1999 and 2000 He wrote, recorded and toured the "Naked Self" record with Matt Johnson of The The, with Earl Harvin on drums and Spencer Campbell on bass. Upon moving to Los Angeles in 2001 he wrote for Jason Jason Mraz's first album, Waiting for My Rocket to Come. Working with Linda Perry, he wrote and recorded for Pink's Try This CD.
He joined Seal's band in 2003 wrote and recorded the "System" record as well as Seal's acoustic album and a live DVD in Paris. Sheryl Crow covered a song he co-wrote with Brian Mcleod and Bill Botrell called "Shine Over Babylon" for her Detours album. He has a production company called "CHIMP" with Pete Min producer of "Airborne Toxic Event" in Los Angeles
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