Yup , being one with the 🎸

they aren watching beyonce

well, mainstream kinda sucks nowadays right? lets keep it real!

Eric has been around for a long time. The "grunge movement" stalled Eric when his career was starting to launch. This "movement" moved a certain distance then stopped and died. Eric is different, he is revolutionary. He doesn't stop and die like a movement, he comes back around bigger and better than before. Welcome to the revolution!!!

FOR REAL!

Leonardo Motta they're too busy watching untalented wankers like Harry Styles

yeah, but not nearly as good as any of them

He’s much more than that.

@@Barefoot67 You're delusional bro. The names the OP mentioned were better songwriters, sure. But Eric Gales is a much superior guitarist than any of them.

@@Sam-ky3su you think Gales is better than Jimi Hendrix was?

@@Barefoot67 Absolutely. Hendrix was a good guitarist but his best asset was his songwriting, which made him popular in the first place. He wouldn't have been popular if he didn't have any good songs. Gales, on the other hand, is known primarily as an elite guitarist. People should know the difference.

It's all in the fingers man

@@adamfiedorczuk5969 no it's not lol

Adam Fiedorczuk also probably comes from the fact he’s hitting the strings from a different direction (highest to lowest string)

It''s probably a mixture of awesome playing and that Two Rock amp he's using.

@@adamfiedorczuk5969 no lol

I’ve known about Eric Gales since 1991. He *still* blows my mind! #BOOM

Me too man!

Learned about him late 2020, one of my favorite blues guitarists

me fuckin too!!!!

Happy to hear it

I agree that this is a great sound however, the beauty of the Strat is that it can be used to achieve such a wide range of tones and applications ; not just one particular one.

U met a legend dude

You better have bought him a drink lol

How did you know who he was though to look up ?

@tabularasa7775 We were both sitting at a bar together in the Atlanta Airport waiting for our next flights. I offered him a light for his cigarette and he introduced himself to me and told me he played music.

He's a bad was and knows it. When he goes in at 20:54 he tears his glasses off and explodes then starts nodding his head. He's knows what he did haha!

um.. In between two albums, Gales served 21 months of a three-year sentence for violating the probation he received in 2006 for drug and gun charges. “I was smoking weed on the road and I didn’t want to risk them telling me to come home in the middle of the tour” because of a dirty urine sample, he said in a recent phone interview. “I just said to myself, ‘I’ll deal with it when I get home.’” So he turned himself in after the tour and was sent to prison. (He couldn’t play a guitar for his first six months of incarceration but - because of the intervention of a warden who knew who he was - eventually led a prison band.)Gales was released in March 2010, but “I got arrested again within a month,” he said. “I got caught up on Beale Street, man. I had some cocaine and some Xanax pills on me and wound up going to jail again. ... After that I made a decision that it wasn’t conducive for me to stay any longer in Memphis, Tennessee. ... I knew too many of the wrong people, and too many of the wrong people knew me.”

Then he needs a better publicist! I saw the vid with Greg Koch and he was right there with Mr. Insane Talent. It broke my Cherry for a real new guitarist!

+no name needed I honestly always thought it was crack that he'd got sidetracked on. nice one man, thanks for that story.

I guess you're just awesome

It’s because he’s been washed out by mainstream studio written radio trash that brainwashed people into thinking there isn’t other music or the people on the radio are the best

This comment nailed it. All of it. Thank you.

@David Phelan He means his style of playing, not the effects. It's organic in a sense that it sounds as if the rhythm and lead parts are fused together in a very natural way, similar to the style of Jimi Hendrix.

@David Phelan "Organic guitar playing" is what the comment said. You're referring to "tone" and seem to be confusing the two.

Sterile is the exact word

Agree, he's one of my fava guitar players,and such a humble guy

Sorry, I do not mean "Shit brother"... that was rude. I mean holy shit brother! I can watch and listen to you all day and all night. DAMN!

Thank you all for the intermittent likes. It gives me a reason to listen to this over and over again.

feeling resurrected and feeling like a fearless kid who wants to buy a guitar and go busk in the streets xDDDD

true!!

Mati B Exactly how I found out! This dude is just draw droppingly great!

Mary Galloway i think it went over your head

He certainly makes it seem that way, doesn't he?

😂

😂

Finally someone found a way NOT to hit the volume knob every time lol

"Best" ...

Because most people wouldn't know good music if if poked them in the eye. They'd rather hear K*nye W*st or Lady G*ga.

***** Best Hendrix interpreter since SRV.

Karl-Henrik Arendt i think he has his own style in a way, a little bit of eric johnson mabye? But he isnt a ripoff

***** sure, what I meant was that he has made some of the best Hendrix covers you can find on youtube. Check his Little Wing with Jazz chords or his more traditional Voodoo Child.

***** you have a lot of fun and feeling waiting for you! Enjoy his music!

***** He's been putting out music (mainly with vocals, but a few instrumental CDs too) since his mid teens in the early 90s under the Eric Gales Band and just Eric Gales - he's been on labels from MCA to Shrapnel Blues Bureau. Go find his stuff, you won't be dissapointed.

nice

Indeed. They are absolutely top-notch as he is.

Dave Philpott He had a brother that passed away that played completely upside down as well and he played a Flying V( If i remember correctly) . Look up The Gales Brothers. Killer album!

Double L wait..his brother played left handed too??? that's like gotta be a statistical anomaly

Dave Philpott There're a couple of axe guitar shredder musicians who play like this, like, there's this bloke who plays w/ Eric Clapton sometimes I think who plays left handed w/ upside down strings, and the best part about that guy imo is that he plays LEFT HANDED Strats, but he flips the strings upside down..which's actually kinda like Albert King. I also saw this guy on KZfaq shredding gnar several years ago, I've never been able to find him tho, he was playing some cik metal shredding stuff, and he was playing left handed w/ upside down strings

Dave Philpott albeit a totally different style, Kristopher Roe from the pop-punk outfit The Ataris also plays left handed with an untraditional string arrangement.

Dave Philpott Saw Eric a couple years ago and was fortunate to get a front row center table. If I remember what he said correctly, he isn't lefthanded. He flipped the guitar over so he could be right across from the guy who first started showing him some chords. That is my recollection anyway. Not to lump him in with the Hendrix clones, but you'll especially enjoy his Hendrix sets because he voices chords and such just a little bit differently, so it's definitely Eric and not an attempt to just copy Jimi for a set. Of note, Jimmy Haslip plays 'upsidedown', too, on bass. Does make you wonder if it's the rest of us that are actually playing upsidedown......

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I know, right?? All I dream of is seeing some of the new generation's greats get together and collaborate more, the same way BB King did with so many artists. We've seen John and Gary CJ play together. What about Joe Bonamassa and Eric? More collaboration and less hate is what we need!

greatvanzinni Oh man. Just gone done with it. He is something.

I did a triple take on that! I've seen Steve all over the Bay Area for years, mostly with Roy Rogers. Just great playing man. I've just been listening to Eric Gales for a bit. This video came up after one of his gear ones. So glad to find this. Thank you.

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Chris Cain to Gales, he gets around the block...

wow I never heard of Luther Allison, will definitely check him out

No. They just won't accept the corruption of the music industry today.

Luther's son Bernard is no push over either.

Because people like Eric aren't easily replaceable in the cog wheel known as the record business. That's why the hardcore talent doesn't get pushed out front. You can't make carbon copies of players like this and therefore its harder for the money changers to control him and maximize their revenue streams. Its also a way to control the pay scale. When your whole set can easily be played by any late teenager with drive to practice and a little angst...you are easily replaceable. Thats why you actually have to get up and really support people like Eric. Go to a show. Anything. He needs you more than you think.

I guess it has a lot to do with luck. Also, I remember Freddie Mercury saying he knew a lot of very talented people who didn't know how to sell themselves, that's also a talent..

Koby Bland I second that

Probably because this is not genius

Bill Keaveney Tell us about a genius then

Go listen to migos and katie parry then lmao. troll.

@@billkeaveney1526

Its Amazing the way they do