Eric Gales Amazing Solo - Eminence Party NAMM 16

[@old-manparker6153]

ERIC GALES! Wow! Funny, I've listened to rock n' roll my whole life. I "thought" I knew what really great guitar playing sounded like. I didn't. Heavy metal hard rock guitar players I thought were great…. now… I'm thinking…. not so great ...when compared to Eric Gales. Now, here I am, an old man, and finally Eric Gales appears and he shows what's it like to really REALLY R E A L L Y play the guitar. Wow, it's soooooo much more beautiful, and heavier that I ever thought possible! Thank you Eric Gales!

[@porkbelly0713]

@Bryan B My son helped him out with his website way back in 2008, this garnered him a credit on the Transformation liner notes. I'm 66 now and Eric is one of the best git fiddle players I ever heard in all my life. He got his act together, got married and now is working on a new release with Joe Bonamassa.

[@eucaliptuspin7208]

Me too, I was thinking John Petrucci and Malmsteen have ratcheted the realms of guitar virtuosity until I heard Eric Gales

[@BrianDonnelly68]

Thanks for sharing that. Everything a guitar solo should be - passionate, harmonically interesting, rhythmically relevant - and acknowledges there's an audience that's going along with you for the ride.

[@SunnyDsouza]

5 people tried transcribing eric

[@likhound]

He plays the most amazing licks I've ever heard .

[@mkilner]

...Like the solo from back to the future!!.....ohh sorry you guys aren't quite ready for this yet! 👏🏻✨💥

[@KristofGuitar]

Man, this is insane! Must have been awesome to have been there! Noy, Schofield, Lettieri and Gales all on one stage. If I wrote DC Comics, this would be my Justice League.

[@jimmyrecce8787]

I saw Eric at a place in Fort Wayne Indiana called C2G ...it was a place that had been a church at one time and they still had services there...and Eric was feeling the spirit that night and took us to church...Eric is one of the greatest players around today...and the most honest and authentic artist anywhere today....love me some Eric Gales....💘💘💘

[@bluessax5089]

I hope you don’t mind but I played the Eric Gales solo from this video but on Saxophone and put it on my channel

[@Jeff4014]

This guy is a beast

[@JeremyMcCant]

Greatest guitarist alive, at least when it comes to raw emotion and soul, Eric Gales is literally from another planet, just insane!!!

[@peterbrusch1493]

He is so incredible!

[@Scias]

God damn beastly player!!!

[@williamSchmidhuber01]

Damn... This guy is amazing...👏

[@RG-hf4et]

Saw Eric open for Walter Trout......Omg, what a night! 🎸

[@racerx3065]

I love when other guitarists watch Eric, they have no clue what he's playing!

[@jameswellington4795]

They guy with the Sky blue strat is Mark Lettieri who more than likely knows exactly what he is doing.

[@Jeff4014]

James Wellington wrong!, marc lettieri can show anything he wantq except for one thing! Tthe. "upsidown and backwards" licks eric gales has invented and innovated! I am a piano teacher and guitar player

[@lopezb]

They know what he's playing, they just are amazed he can pull it out of the clouds and sky like that.

[@richardmason9832]

That was incredible! Thanks for the upload man!

[@eminencespeaker]

The Eminence 50th anniversary party was AMAZING. Thanks for posting this video!

[@CruchyMode]

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.”

[@bluesstylee411]

Nick Campbell on bass. Dude is a BEAST

[@clovis2012]

I'll have whatever he's smokin

[@PaulEvansRahal]

+clovis2012 Hard work?

[@bluesyrocker6050]

Yeah me too bro✌

[@dajnerise]

+Paul Evans Rahal Hard work is one sick drug, everyone should get it!

[@Knight14649]

clovis2012 /-lol he's sober

[@lopezb]

He's straight now (we all hope)- he did jail time and we are lucky he's alive

[@csabela79]

He is a crazy! :-) Fuckin' great rock@roll

[@tommybombadillo9544]

Thank God I am not one those sad sacks behind him...

[@joshuamcdonough2197]

funny enough, all of them are just as good! lol

[@maxspann8623]

Rolling 5s and bouncing 10s- this guys the spitting image of Eric Johnson 🔥 and a little SRV💯

[@AndrewAFuchs]

BRB selling my guitar

[@dennisjonescentral]

The amazing Eric Gales!!

[@toneyrockstv]

That's what you call raw soul. EG left it all on stage that night. Hope to run into him at NAMM next week.

[@CRISSFRESNO]

*Simply crazy and genius haha*

[@jaguardo10]

Hey that is Mark Lettieri from Snarky Puppy!

[@Odiculeoj]

Superstition will never be the same after this ... Dang!!!!!

[@Kenji.1ChessPiece]

Insane! Thanks for sharing!

[@runrabbitrun4342]

Gail's is a fine wine un corked. plain and simple.............

[@kirklorange]

Gales ... not Gail's.

[@DavidHendersonMusicChannel]

EG killing... Matt looks like he's been through this before. LOL Would have loved to hear Oz, Matt and Mark play too!!!! Please post if you have it!!

[@lastho]

+David Henderson HAH Matt's expression makes this video twice as good! He's like "ohh here we go again.."

[@andyvimar2202]

+Pietro Venza mark letterri of snarky puppy

[@thaisnowman1]

He just looks smug. He wishes he could play like Gales!

[@runrabbitrun4342]

yEAH THAT IS TO FUNNY. wAITING FOR HIM TO TWITTLE HIS THUMBS. LOL

[@carlscarlet]

Matt's pretty good, but not in the same universe as Gales..he really does look smug and peeved that the attention is completely taken away from him and that he's reduced to a bystander.. but once EG is up there, no one gets a look in, and rightly so. The last thing we need is more of the same SRV wannabe licks, Gales is a true one off. Didn't like the fact that Matt started that kind of jokey talking to the guy to his right, trying to act indifferent and unfazed by what EG was doing, but in doing so, rather than making him look cool and nonchalant, he made himself look even more insecure and owned. Talk about reluctant to acknowledge when you are in the presence of greatness. I remember many times bumping into Eric in music shops in Memphis in the late '80's, a rare talent indeed.

[@DanielSing90]

Quentin Tarantino on bass?

[@stuartkelly396]

+Daniel Sing ha ha ha its his double

[@TheBhannah]

Man ON Fire !

[@4Bolter]

This is how you do it, boys... ;-)

[@MrPhrygianmaniac]

To keep up with Eric's energy level on stage.. Forget about it 😆

[@sasmitha8446]

You need Angus Young.

[@cliverkay]

The best thing is the look on Oz's and Matt's faces !! They can bow later !!

[@andreaserd]

THAT riff and solo ...holy shitballs!!!

[@jeevanpillay]

Eric Jales sold his soul in this video.

[@sirspongadoodle]

?? why

[@bluesyrocker6050]

Raw Dawg keep it up!

[@markschmidt2475]

Man .... that was other worldly

[@SuthernZero]

has anyone heard what he plays at 0:42 ... man i been studying guitar for over 20 years and a I ain't ever seen something like this. WOW! Absolute pure genius because he wants it so bad!

[@maxspann8623]

It’s a technique Eric Johnson developed, called bouncing tenths. He utilizes this in the intro to cliffs of dover.

[@runrabbitrun4342]

LOVE 1:45 AND ON HIGHLIGHT @ 1:50 / 1:51 JUST BAD ASS IN NEED OF CAPS..............

[@philreg3898]

Someone is finding god again ? After that, i found him ! So much freedom in his playing ! Awesome ! From 20 years, i'm fan of this guy and Robben Ford an George Benson. I can't tell that i prefer one of them (and many other guitar players) but, i can tell that E.G. leads something special. Robben is a master and plays only when he's got something to tell. GB is from another planet and EG... I don't know. may be UFO or something. (Sorry for my english, i'm french).

[@philreg3898]

@Brian Casper Lagrène ?

[@philreg3898]

@Brian Casper I saw him often in Paris. I like him very much like many other guitar players, Nuno Bettencourt, BB King, Gary Moore, Stevie Ray V., ... But I think that, beetween Hendrix and Van Halen, nobody has changed the instrument. After E. V. Halen, everything was différent. And, Roben Ford, today, shows us something new, simplicity, phrasing, pulse... With him, playing a major scale is wonderful. Amazing. And E.G. is so free, and in harmony with his band, it's always a conversation piece.

[@luisreyes6063]

Genious!!!!!

[@АкустикБюро]

F**K! Who is that drummer? F**kin' awesome!!!

[@byronp24]

UNBELIEVABLE! 🎸

[@Supersled]

Eric Gales and Mark Lettieri on the same stage together....please? Wowwwww!

[@JustinTabor24]

beast

[@youbian]

That Memphis guy...

[@GuitarCalaveraMagazine]

Amazing!!!!

[@jipes]

Just smoking !!!!

[@seryac7726]

Yes Man..jimi hendrix de retour..

[@Randomly_Ruli]

that bassist though.

[@floydland3509]

WOW Just WOW!

[@maranhaoguitar]

pressão! Top

[@jgrvitor]

Vc por aqui? kkkk Eric é muito doido, curto d+ tb

[@Critsist]

great bass player right there

[@megajames3000]

There are great guitarist and then there’s Eric gales

[@305dadecounty_grabberbluem5]

School is in!

[@lpgoog]

Nobody comes close.................................

[@Jeff4014]

Woww man!

[@ScotDvorak]

Yeah!!!!!!!

[@Jeff4014]

Haha all three guitarist wish they played what eric gales is doingg , movements and everything

[@Jeff4014]

Damn!!!

[@jlagrassa]

Smok'n \m/

[@TheInkhead]

Lol Oz and Matt in the back lookin terrified cause they got nothing on Eric

[@bluessax5089]

I actually played Eric Gales’s solo from this but on sax 🎷, I would be humbly honored if yo would check it out and tell me what you think 🤔

[@RickDevita]

Now THAT is how you rip a solo!!!!!

[@old-manparker6153]

RAWK!

[@SuthernZero]

Augmented scales? Really? what a genius! WOW.... it's a pitty he makes his band members feel like nothing when he decides to steal the show.

[@mr501mc]

What's the guy with the teles name?! I've heard him play. He's such a master!

[@vvg67776777]

!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jumboshrimp5193]

Love Eric's playing! But is he a muppet?

[@acejohnson448]

can anyone transcribe that progression he's playing from 0:42-1:15

[@MrNivaro34]

+A-K Lowery haha I wish !!!

[@acejohnson448]

+MrNivaro34 ive been trying 😂

[@beachcomber4141]

OMG!!!! HAHAHAHAAAA!!! What the HELL!!!

[@petitgary]

Matt and Oz noy trying to act hard when they knew Eric was taking people through a book Not a story!

[@johnathanmorgan1013]

What’s the riff at 2:30

[@hound406]

Why his guitar is not for left-hand?

[@jhzab666]

It's a Gales thing. His late brother, played that way And his bass playing brother plays like that. I think they are really right handed, but picked up and learned that way. Upside down. What skill

[@dvdhidro]

White mens dont know solar... Kkkk

[@JerkMorrison]

As a guitar player - this is almost hard to watch.

[@dvdhidro]

White mens dont know guitar solo... kkkkkk

[@oldmanmoans6612]

Boring.

[@Jeff4014]

Hahah jelaus