JEFF JOHNSTON

AGE: 34

HOMETOWN: Augusta

OCCUPATION: Musician and guitar teacher

PLAYS: Pictured with his Ovation Celebrity acoustic

MEMBER OF: Blue Cotton (2007-present) and The Beatles tribute band Number 9 (2004-present)

FIRST GUITAR: "It was this old beat-up Stratocaster. ... And one of the pickups didn't work in it, and the fretting was just awful, action was awful. It sounded like a piece of drift wood, but it was mine."

FAVORITE MOVIE: IDIOCRACY

FAVORITE CONCERTS ATTENDED: Pink Floyd at Bobby Dodd Stadium, Atlanta, and Death Valley Stadium, Clemson, S.C., 1994: "Beyond a shadow of a doubt, those were two of the best shows I've ever seen" ... and that's the last time that Pink Floyd has toured, so I'm one of the lucky people who can say they actually saw Pink Floyd."

FAVORITE FOOD: Fajitas

FAVORITE TV SHOW: I'm not big on TV, not anymore ... it would probably just be something like Scrubs."

FAVORITE SHOW: Number 9 performing The Beatles' Revolver album at the Blue Horse Music Hall, 2006: "I thought that we really dotted our i's and crossed our t's and really nailed it."

MOST CHALLENGING BEATLES SONGS TO PERFORM: "Individually, Within You Without You; group-wise, (St. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)."

UPCOMING GIG: Blue Cotton will perform at 10 p.m. Saturday at the Cotton Patch, 816 Cotton Lane.