Galen Niles Interview - Guitarist of Homer, Ultra, The Outcasts, Etc...

[@fuzzcityrecords432]

Homer - Full Album: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSVl8... Ultra - "Mutants": www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBlcC...

[@GerardDaily-w4f]

I took from Galen also. I moved to Fort Worth to go to TCU. I took up keyboards and played with Johnny Reno and the Sax Maniacs Played all over the country and saw myself on MTV. Galen was a great teacher and a great person to hang out with.

[@TheGuitologist]

It's great to capture this history in a video. This is the first I've heard of this dude's bands. Gonna check this stuff out for sure.

[@dannyfenris7708]

Glad I found this. So nice to find out that the guy who played that fantastic guitar on the Outcasts' 1523 Blair / Smokestack Lightning is a really nice guy. 👍

[@barkbarkbarkbarkable]

Informative and entertaining ! ....Nice job Matthew !

[@tankthelord1178]

Thanks - great interview. All the best from England. Video Unavailable..... until when I pressed Read/Show More the links worked..... bizarre.

[@danescottstephens]

What a great interview!!!

[@geronimo9097]

Took BANJO lessons from Galen at Dellview Music in the late 70's. Nice guy, good teacher and talented musician.

[@johnniecontreras3622]

Galen Niles was my bass guitar instructor at a place called dellview music center in san antonio...and what a cool dude and also I bought an unfinished jazz bass guitar from the ultra bass guitarist Scott stevens that has a really cool "fender claw bass bridge" that he got at a namm show!!! This was back in the early 1980's

[@kyanokuijpers2339]

Way cool!! 🎶

[@J.R.Psych74]

I've this album on cd . It's on the Akarma label. Great album and interview. ✌😊

[@Mark_Williams300]

Great interview, well done man!

[@steveballard2934]

I just found this ! I took lessons from Galen Niles in 1971 at Dellview Music Store in S.A. He was teaching there and playing as well. Totally inspirational as he was showing me stuff like "Funk 49", by James Gang(Joe Walsh) "Crossroads" as played by Clapton in '66 live at Albert Hall and other stuff. Galen was a very patient and Monster player...glad he is well and Still Alive and Well! I still have some of his pencil chord charts from my lessons.

[@ric9759]

He taught me Funk 49 too, plus 50 other songs. I'd bring in a record and he'd learn it by here right in front of me in a 30 minute session.

[@ric9759]

I took guitar lessons from Galen in the late 70s at Dellview Music in San Antonio. for several years. Its still there, same location, looks like the same sign and paint job.. A couple young guys have taken it over are giving guitar lessons out of it. Galen deserves as much recognition as possible and then some Awesome teacher!!! (Ultra warmed armed up for the Sex Pistols too, a total mismatch)

[@BockwinkleB]

Awesome interview. Going to check out his works now. Too bad all those tik tokers dont leave the bedroom.

[@fuzzcityrecords432]

the song by Ultra really took me by surprise, its like a lost Thin Lizzy hit

[@BockwinkleB]

@@fuzzcityrecords432 yeah, good stuff. Kinda surprised he was surprised by the stoner rock label.

[@tenlittleindians]

I seen one of those Homer Sunkist albums at an estate sale a couple of years ago. I didn't know the music but almost bought it for the album cover art work. I just listened to the links. Homer reminds me of many bands of that era. The Ultra footage is something else! Too bad you didn't ask him about the gear they had back then. I have never seen so many Explorer's and Flying Vee's in one band! Those had to be either originals or some of the very first reissues that Gibson put out in the 70's. We all know Jimi Hendrix and a few others played early Vee's but the only guy I knew playing the Explorer's around 76 was Tommy Bolin. Did you notice how dark those Explorer's appear? I wonder what color they were?

[@sirhenners204]

they could also be Japanese copies of gibsons, most notably Ibanez destroyers (explorer copies). A surprising amount of 60s/70s musicians got these instead of the real American instruments since they were cheaper and easier to get, and the build quality was as good as the American made guitars.

[@tenlittleindians]

@@sirhenners204 I'd have to watch the video again but I'm pretty sure I seen Gibson on the headstocks. The Ibanez copies came out in 75 and that's probably contributed to Gibson reissuing these guitars in 76.

[@sirhenners204]

@@tenlittleindians ah right, thanks for the info

[@jillian2852]

They're actual Gibsons... 1976 Re-issue Explorers (replaced the white pickguards with black), and 1967-68 Flying Vs... Switched out the bridge pickups with DiMarzios in all of 'em... :)

[@tenlittleindians]

@@jillian2852 Thanks for the clarification! Those replacement pickups are probably going to be as collectable as the original Gibson paf's someday soon. There were not many after market pickup maker's back then from what I remember. Numbers wise I wish I knew how many DiMarzio's in a Gibson size were made and sold compared to Gibson back then? Someday there will be a whole new breed of collector's focusing on vintage after market gear.

[@joeypinter7264]

i love that Texas accent. it must have been great learning from an actual musician.

[@Mark_Williams300]

Gary CRAPster? What an unfortunate name