Eric played a great gig at Blues festival there and after that around midnight we just got in the cellar hall of the hotel we were staying and there was this local wedding. While local brass band was having a break, Eric just took to the stage and did some unofficial jamming entertaing us. Crowd mainly did not have a clue who we were..:)

He is Eric Gales, one of the most talented guitarist in the world..he had many albums..and he is the best!

Sam C. Yea I can’t tell if you’re joking or if you just have never seen Eric gales play before

Eric Gales dude!

Thats how I play. Learned early on that a left hand guitarist has a problem when jamming with someone's guitar.

This is how he was taught to play from the very beginning by his brother Eugene, he insisted Eric learn this way. So his low E string is on bottom instead of top. The real beauty in this is that he can walk on to any stage impromtu at any time and they don't have to have a left handed guitar for him. I have witnessed him do this very thing a few times

It’s an impromptu jam session man. Dude probably never covered that song before. Know what I mean? Pretty damn good for off the cuff.

He making it his own.

Yeah. I agree. Could be many were just out for a social interaction, but failing to realize the gift on that stage just shows how unattached our youth is to music today. (most of that crowd looks young...I'm sure if biebers boyfriend started playing a flute they'd of been losing their minds).

Ever thought it could have been improv? Many of the greats do just that, and rarely nail the vocals. Emotion over verbatim ffs.

Steve Brickhouse , I agree with you ! The crowd tried to rock with the great Eric Gayles, and, his band in the very beginning. The minuet they started butchering such a great master piece , they lost the crowd !!!!

"Masterpiece"? Laugh. Um, you mean a pop tune written as the title song for a trivial movie designed to promote a pop star's image? WTF is "purple rain" supposed to mean, after all? Oh, that's right: nothing.

"As I'm sure you are aware, Prince was a dedicated Jehovahs Witness..." Another sign of Prince's intellectual limits.

Prince stopped writing interesting music by the early '90s, relying thereafter on derivative, watered-down funk/ latin/ rock jams supported by his top notch musicians (and his own solid-if-unremarkable playing). Like a lot of big artists during the '80s, he faded, as a musical force... but what lived on was his Brand, which was brilliantly conceived: the whole "purple" thing, and the spelling idiosyncrasies, and the cheesy-fun choreography, etc, for which he had to thank the teams at Warner Bros, who launched him. He was a talented guy but he was far from a genius (he wasn't even the sole composer of his hits, but an NDA can be a beautiful thing)... he was just smart enough to maintain some dignity and keep his mouth mostly closed over the years so the original branding remained intact. And, again: that branding was *brilliant* . The label created that. I know major labels are largely malevolent entities, interested only in maximum profits, but one thing they were good for, in the golden age, was myth-making/ branding. They made that glorified B-list show girl (Madonna) huge, didn't they? Oh, and re: P's guitar playing: nah. He was just pretty good for a guy who wasn't primarily a guitarist. Eric Gale, Guthrie Govan, Gary Moore... the list (of guitarists who are orders of magnitude better) is endless. Prince was better than George Harrison, though... I'll give him that! Anyone who thinks "the vault" is full of hidden masterpieces is bound to be terribly disappointed: I can almost guarantee that the best material was already released, gauging by the thinness of the material we heard for the past 20 years. PS Hum some of Prince's biggest hits and you'll quickly grasp his limits as a composer; those songs were mostly (very catchy) productions.