Vault Sessions: Eric Gales shreds a '51 Fender Nocaster (S3:E4)

[@andmajst7678]

this needs to be longer, Eric Gales is a legend

[@SongbirdsFoundation]

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[@soulo3x859]

@@SongbirdsFoundation where’s the other interview

[@glennkemp6565]

Eric Gales is my favorite guitarist. He can do no wrong.

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

Can't decide whether I like Eric Gale or Eric Gales more so I'll just continue to listen to both of them.

[@johnbuell8035]

I found Eric Gales (a good few years ago) by searching for Eric Gale

[@braderrick]

At first I thought that must have been a lot of trouble restringing and setting up that vintage tele for a southpaw but then I realized it’s still strung righty lol

[@braderrick]

princewish it is mind boggling for me to see guys play like this but I guess if that’s how ya learn and put your mind to it anything is possible... I’m just glad my old man is right handed so his guitars weren’t as confusing to me as a youngster lol.

[@dons8992]

Me too exactly

[@porkbelly0713]

yep, it's a right handed guitar strung normal and he plays it upside down. His brothers forced him to learn to play this way, I am guessing there was a shortage of left handed guitars in Memphis in the late 80s and early 90s

[@braderrick]

@@porkbelly0713 I’m sure you are correct. They don’t have the selection even today like the right handers do so that makes perfect sense for back then for sure.

[@porkbelly0713]

@@braderrick and his half brother M learned the exact same way. Eric himself posted this as a tribute, we lost him in 2002, RIP Manuel kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6m6eaSdhctgmsU

[@gtrjay55]

The first of the Gales I heard was Little Jimmy King.A great player as well. RIP🙏😷❗🎸🎶🎵👍

[@leecrutcher4360]

There is no right or wrong way when you play that well

[@e2thelp98]

I'm left handed and I play left handed. Guitars for me are hard to come by. Sometimes i wish I learned the same way he did so I could pick up anyone's guitar and shred away. This guys cool af

[@ChessmasterHex]

His nails so fleek!

[@cfname]

Wish that interview was longer...

[@SongbirdsFoundation]

Chris Fort we do to. Hope to get more when Eric is back at Songbirds next week.

[@InspiretoVictory]

The Captain meets Eric Gales. Great interview with Eric by Lee Anderton, the owner of Andertons Music in the UK.

[@faveritzakount3831]

My new favorite guitar player right now.

[@SongbirdsFoundation]

More soon!

[@robertbrighterlife9501]

He's NASTY. On a whole other level... I've seen him play before , but it's so inspiring to hear him speak about how he got going and the multitude of influences that make him the player he is now

[@rambomhtri]

I've just discovered this guys and I'm in love with him, what a player man!

[@jeffsheridan9910]

Simply incredible and mind blowing. Love this mans playing.

[@dons8992]

Man I like Eric's sound

[@damienr1076]

This guy is a beast 👍👍👍

[@keithjohs5873]

THAT riff-Make a Dare.... just killer...wowow!

[@junkboxhero4825]

Mr. Eric Gales HAS GOT to beat Covid19...he's too important to the world of guitar players to pass now...he's NEEDS to keep teaching us!!

[@kostapanis]

No more words 👍🎸🎸🎸🎸👍🎸

[@spoolstring1853]

Legendary 😎 possibly the best ever

[@KDMI86]

I grew up playing left handed on right handed instruments because that's what was around. I was determined to create what I could hear in my mind. Now I play left handed both inverted and traditional. My writing in either format is entirely different. Dual-Perspective is a wonderful thing.

[@Gtraxx1]

So much respect for this dude.

[@randybock82]

Mr. Gales I know exactly where your coming from. I have played left handed upside down also and write right handed.Been like this 50 plus years. So cool to see you play and really understand where your coming from.

[@randybock82]

@princewish I agree.

[@alexmpundyk]

We just gonna ignore that Dumble ODS in the background

[@jacobnewson480]

Was literally just saying that 😂 My guys playing that blues jnr too 😂🤷🏻‍♂️

[@mahdiyussuf9804]

I just tried flipping over my own '95 'blackguard tele' and having a go at it....can't do anything 😁

[@TomGrubbe]

haha

[@SongbirdsFoundation]

We tried too. Fail.

[@mahdiyussuf9804]

@@SongbirdsFoundation I love what you guys do with the foundation, stay awesome 👍😃

[@ruiseartalcorn]

An awesome guitar player, playing an awesome guitar!!! :)

[@rosswalkman9652]

Saw him on a Hendrix tribute tour. First things he said when came on stage was:” ladies and gentleman, this is no trick, No smoke and mirrors. I am playing this left-handed” Bought his cd outside the venue”That’s what I am”, great stuff.

[@SongbirdsFoundation]

We have more Eric Gales coming soon. So subscribe and check back soon.

[@dfix3364]

I’m not surprised of this... where I grow up in Asia lots of guys left handed plays like this & they are good 😎

[@fleadoggreen9062]

Never heard of him, you tube strikes again, I like his playing

[@MrRuizrudy]

If you get the chance.... check him out live!! Wiiiiild!

[@jguitar29]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4usYmSCpaelp7M Check out the solos

[@spencerbradley2610]

lucky for you my friend he’s one of the best alive right now

[@LostPlectrum]

It's never too late to discover the great Eric Gales

[@Rennyblue]

One of those guitarists that can't be imitated

[@craigtaylor6208]

My favourite guitarist

[@SongbirdsFoundation]

More with Eric Gales coming soon. Stay tuned!

[@chutupfool]

I've hung out and jammed with Eric a few times and he's even better than anyone realizes. Like, I know everybody knows he's amazing, but he's seriously a true virtuoso that can play anything. I've seen him peel off country/bluegrass licks that would make Brad Paisley quit and I've seen him jam along to Slayer albums and play the solos better and more interesting (sorry Slayer..). This guy is an open channel of true virtuosity that people are unaware of. Glad to see him getting some attention and credit. Jam on, brother.

[@gergemall]

Sounding great

[@peteglickenhaus]

I love that he paints his nails

[@jerrytee2688]

That's funny about the left-handed deal. I write & hold a fork left-handed, but have always played guitar right-handed.

[@ProbableCauseBluesBand]

jerrytee LoL me too!

[@trevor4533]

Me three!

[@svarthelikoptern]

Me too! Doesn't make any sense to me that righties play the way they do, because like writing my left hand is also the picking hand.

[@ParaBellum2024]

I believe Gary Moore was also a lefty who played right-handed. Any other well-known ones?

[@Lance37a]

@@ParaBellum2024 Mark Knopfler, David Byrne, Steve Morse I'm sure there are others.

[@guitfiddleblue]

Great to see Mr. EG on a tele! He makes it sing! By far one the best, if not THE best, blues/rock players today!

[@sickboy5919]

my head hurts when I watch it being played like this upside down... and he learned riff with walking bass line and kinda melody when he was only 4... wtf maybe that's the right way

[@poperaisin]

Sick Boy that is definitely the unorthodox way

[@scottnorris68]

Day 33 of the quarantine.... FUCK YEAH!!!!! MERICA!!!!!!!!

[@bluesyjazzcat31]

That’s the coolest I’ve heard that bass tone of a blackguard sound

[@iagobroxado]

Only time I heard someone make it cool.

[@EricGalesBand]

[@ricardoraulino-guitar]

Eric Gales , you make all of us very Proud of being lefty guitarists. Thanks for being such an incredible Person and outstanding musician Mr Gales. Greetings from Brazil!

[@FunkHitsTheFan]

I could have sworn that first riff you learned was I wish - Stevie Wonder nice bro!

[@dyhockane7506]

You the fucking best. Greetings from Italy

[@ericwatler23]

The MAN period

[@SongbirdsFoundation]

We agree! More with Eric Gales coming soon.

[@eb7912]

Gréât man great player

[@Jeff4014]

damn this guy is amazing!

[@steviedebarge77]

Worlds greatest Mr. Gales

[@bernhardhuber4799]

Mr Gales! You're doing it all wrong!! ...amazing...

[@matthewhorizon6050]

Living legend

[@charlesbateson2471]

I play the same way and totally understand where he’s coming from. The right had does the difficult bit! So obvious!

[@MrDavemiley]

Eric Gales . . . great player !

[@castanonw]

Amazing Player

[@joethelionband5169]

Too cool!

[@jesseshookman8502]

EG is so awesome ... and nuts! Perfect. :)

[@diffrent_somk6120]

Evry guitar player here,, have you tried play upside down? This is amazing.. 🤘

[@KindKang]

Eris's finger nails are brigther than my future.. xD

[@kenitchimarou-theoriesetma7210]

I am fan want some more video of him playing

[@SongbirdsFoundation]

You are in luck. More videos with EG coming soon. Subscribe for notifications!

[@mr501mc]

Jump music😜. You gotta love Eric Gales!

[@mikemachadomusic8555]

His nails are as shiny as the slickness of his playing is.... EG is beast...

[@dezionlion]

Ok now that was just wierd!

[@hotman718]

His down strokes sound like up strokes because it's backwards. That's pretty cool

[@Earthdancer46234]

Great music! I would love for Jerry Douglas and Derrick Trucks play old times blues together. A very talented young musician is Macyn Taylor that posts on youtube as Busker 12.

[@Manumanunitomidri]

Genius...........

[@christophermoody6840]

I'd read in biographies about Jimi Hendrix that he could play a right handed guitar UPSIDE DOWN. Not just having a right handed guitar flipped upside down with the strings strung left hand like he is famous for but playing the damn thing with the bass strings at the bottom and treble strings at the top. I thought it was tall tales and that nobody could actually do that. Until I met a dude in college when I was in a classical guitar ensemble and this dude was right handed and played guitar strong LEFTY. He said his dad was left handed and learned to play on his dad's guitar that was always strung LEFTY so that's how he learned. It was amazing to me.

[@oi1e319]

Nasty stuff he got there I bet ppl in the church be like : “Uh uh Amen!”

[@retaliaterguitar2]

Dude has such a crazy picking technique, really cool sound though.

[@otaviorocha4156]

Eric is always soulfull and perfect at the same time

[@matthewdixon7257]

Let’s help these kids like and subscribe people.

[@anAeijingBuffoon]

When you string the guitar properly all you really doing after that is learning new chords (even though they're the same chords upside down). Then you can play both ways and have more chords up your sleeve than the other guy.

[@illClintonDuval]

His first riff at 4yo.. some shit I can barely play now lol

[@Truthinshredding1]

Killer guitar player

[@frankiefresh3958]

I write left handed and play with my right

[@dr.lyleevans6915]

Me too

[@lukasrydelius6174]

same. I also dribble a basketball with my right hand and shoot left handed....but it's not ambidextrous until I can do the same task with both hands

[@DarkAbysmalSmoke]

Hendrix started playing the same way! 🤘🔥🤘🔥

[@お茶-p1s]

Please come to Japan. I want to go to a concert.

[@stringtheoryguitars4952]

Every time I see Gales I flip my guitar over- just to see if I can play ONE lick... basically impossible. Not because the hands are switching places, but because the guitar makes no damn sense that way! Aaaaarrrgghh!!!!! And to think how GREAT Eric Gales is... it just makes me sick.

[@SongbirdsFoundation]

When we hire new guitar teachers, we ask them to try to play a left-handed guitar so they can remember what it is like starting from square one. Absolutely impossible:)

[@SatrilRose]

Is there a right or wrong way to play guitar ?? There's so many different techniques and ways to play a certain song or to get a certain song

[@FeelTheSmasH]

What is the name of the song he is playing in the second 52, please?

[@vvavie4858]

Dope ass dude with chains playing a telecsster. This doesn’t ass up

[@normc8169]

Support you Eric. I play just the same way but not as great as you are.

[@DamianDiazepam]

Sounds al good to me!

[@johndlugosz201]

Schools out boys and girls EG is amazing

[@jgus4312]

Wow played upside because his brothers played that way I played that way because I’m a leftie and my brothers are right handed I changed over years ago but can still play a RH with chords

[@GuzzWeber]

You can taste it's sound

[@hoze1235]

playing upside down , cause the right way is too easy 😁😁

[@docbobster]

He said something I've often thought: Isn't it more logical for the dominant hand to be the one on the fretboard?

[@bmann792]

docbobster that’s why I play righty and am left handed.

[@adambond589]

Always messes with my brain when I see him play...amazing player though ✌

[@ayushmanbhalla8737]

Eric is just gifted you can’t play like Eric even if you practiced 10 years constantly !

[@MrMakintosh100]

I’m sure anyone would be just as good if not better if they did practice several hours a day for 10 years. The difference in those who are great and those who are not is that most people are not willing and disciplined enough to practice several hours a day for 10 years consistently. It’s not just the years, it’s the hours. The great ones are constantly practicing or jamming somewhere more often than they are doing other things.

[@MrMakintosh100]

Cory Paul Thats true. You shouldn’t want to play HIS style, because nobody can play HIS style better than him. You should want to play YOUR style because YOUR style can’t be taught either and nobody can play like YOU.

[@whyuprtms]

Its same like a moldi from Indonesia. Playing guitar use finger left , but not swapping the strings.

[@dadude7]

Wait a minute.... is he fucking playing that thing upside down? Never seen him play before.

[@SongbirdsFoundation]

Yes. And it was a good thing since we didn't have a lefty guitar with us that day!

[@moonkef]

Is that a two rock? Looks like a dumble. Killer.

[@SongbirdsFoundation]

Yes, the amp sitting on the left (not used in this video though) is a 1977 Dumble Overdrive Special. Check out some of our other videos to see it in action. Cheers!

[@dariusewing6962]

I knew this dude was a church boy!

[@josemourinho2810]

Awesome history. you are left handed and u can play right hand guitars without any problem. I'm left handed. I want to play and buy Gibson SG but the guitar shops never have left handed guitars. It's so sad lol

[@gblueslover8807]

I'd like to see him jam with Steve Vai 🎸🎸

[@N8SAY]

The playing left handed is fine but what is interesting about Eric is that he plays with the strings upside down. That's what is "wrong". Hendrix didn't even do that. Albert King did.

[@chriskifaya735]

Hendrix DID play like that....NOT fake news

[@N8SAY]

@@chriskifaya735 He DID NOT! So yes, horrible uneducated fake news! kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmiTYqOXgKqAjtU

[@moscowlove5840]

I want to see how he plays Master Of Puppets with this style)

[@TheUnseenraven]

How often does he clean those nails just wondering

[@Nichi-Ji]

Is he wearing nail polish on his right hand??

[@TomGrubbe]

I bet he could play it right-side-up just fine.

[@oldguyjammin9732]

Can he play it the “right way” too? That’d be really far out. Wait... is he gonna flip it?

[@SongbirdsFoundation]

Ha, we are interviewing him again this weekend and I'll ask him.

[@commanderthorkilj.amundsen3426]

I don’t believe he was doing that in preschool (age 4). If so, he’s definitely improved since, but not that much. He peaked very early.

[@NicholasStrong]

No need to restring it for a lefty, just flipped it around. That’s a bad man!

[@711-v3k]

Thats some shiny ass nails bro!

[@blastomaticdisel6189]

Manicure

[@agungwayne3090]

Shiny nails

[@ikigai47]

There is no way a 4 year old had big enough hands to play that riff. I just taught myself what he was doing there, that's not a first time, infant riff

[@ikigai47]

​@Rafael Felan - I'm sure he was. But I'll never believe the _very first thing_ he played was something semi advanced and way too big for his 4 year old hands. That's just silly talk. Even the prodigy of prodigies (Mozart) played very basic progressions the first time he sat down at the piano.

[@ZudaVogel]

What is he smoking?)