This Guy Is NOT The Next Hendrix... He's SO Much Better! Amazing Solo

[@LeviClay]

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[@Arthur_My_Dear]

I think the main thing that gets overlooked with these ‘better than’ comments (I know often it’s just hyperbole) is that being a pioneer, making a guitar sound so new and different is worth 10x anyone coming along and ‘improving’ it in some way. That’s the genius, making the guitar do things no-ones ever heard before

[@masonkanterbury3007]

And that would be Jimi. Perhaps the only thing Jimi wasn't good at was being a support musician. He was always the star no matter what.

[@Arthur_My_Dear]

@@masonkanterbury3007 That’s how he started his career though, backup guitar under the name Jimmy James. He played for Sam Cooke, Little Richard, Wilson Pickett, Ike and Tina Turner, and The Isley Brothers. Little Richard kicked him out though - can you imagine those two in the same band? 😄

[@floormaestro9581]

Comparing the two is an exercise in futility. Like comparing Jordan and Lebron. Two different eras with different competition and styles of play. There is no “best” guitarist in the world simply because there’s so many amazing guitarists that excel at different styles. Nobody’s arguing Hendrix is the best classical guitarist in the world but a classical guitar is a guitar nonetheless. The fact Mr. Gales plays the instrument the way he does is amazing alone. To bend treble strings that are above your bass strings were you have way less leverage to bend strings in the 5th and 6th string positions while also not getting interference from your low E string in the process must be tricky. Also let’s remember this man could not have been taught guitar in any traditional manner either from teacher or self taught books, videos, etc. I’m pretty sure when he was learning there was no learn guitar upside down and backwards self help books available. He doesn’t need to be better or worse than Hendrix, but let’s just realize and appreciate greatness when we see it without the frantic need to rank everything.

[@MrHobocopter]

I bought tickets to his most recent tour without having very high expectations. Before I went, my guitar teacher said "As good as you think it's gonna be, it'll be 4 times as good." Well, it was about 10 times as good as I thought it was gonna be. He blew my expectations of what improvisation could be. He is a magnificent showman with tons of creative licks, expression, and tone out the ass. He started crying in the midst of "My Own Best Friend". Everything he gave, the audience gave him back just as good. He had them eating out of the palm of his hand. Easily one of the best performances I've ever seen, bar none. I don't think his compositions are as good as Hendrix's, but his performances are just as expressive and impressive, in my opinion. If you have the chance go see him, please go! You won't regret it!

[@brucecaldwell6701]

Couldn't agree more! And he looks like he loves what he does.

[@Pugsley_addams7]

I can attest to this statement and have the fan photo to prive this experience. Off the hook keeping guitar and the blues and the great master's he learned from alive. He deserves much of our respect.

[@krusher74]

Its crazy how over the space of 50 years someone like this has gone from world famous to hardly known.

[@3rdtonefromthesun]

This Eric Gales and not Jimi you know.

[@davidallman653]

I saw Eric play recently outside Philadelphia. There were maybe 20 people in the audience . . .

[@holliswilliams8426]

@@davidallman653 that's crazy

[@barbaradascalos4411]

Yeah..that is the reality of small scale live performance...there are no more clubs only 1-2,000 theaters in casinos on the outskirts of big cities.

[@TheWayOfVRIL]

@@davidallman653 Eric is like a fine wine whose value is known to a few. Youngsters mentally live in another dimension. They enjoy electronic substitutes for music.

[@valentinp4110]

No one will improvise at the level of Hendrix when he was on top of his game… you hear this and you hear Machine Gun at Filmore or Hear My Train A Comin’ at Berkeley. Tell me - what performance will stay with you? As much as I love Eric I don’t think that I’ll hear a composition like Little Wing from him or another guitar player. This is an opened invitation/challenge for all musicians - please, compose a song just as beautiful and intense as Machine Gun… write a song like Yesterday by The Beatles… write a song like Bohemian Rhapsody… let’s hear some great composing again !!! Btw, I’ll repeat the message - I love Eric’s playing and singing but he is not Hendrix !

[@powerbuilder1019]

Very Good point! memorable and nostalgic music in the past cannot be replicated today even with the advances of technology, so many hundreds of KZbin guitar monsters that can travel the fretboard on fly but can't compose a song as nostalgic as "Little Wing", or even "Let It Be", "Imagine", etc. Hendrix is still the blues GOAT.

[@fartknockers]

It's just a clickbait title. Levi has to get people to his channel. I think he even alludes to it in his description. Better is subjective, it depends what metric we base it on. I like so many guitarists, Hendrix is genius level what he achieved. However technically there are better guitarists. Hendrix as a package is for me unbeatable in his range of talent. Anyway I really like this channel and if people get triggered over the headline so be it. I don't Levi is being disingenuous or incorrect and I know you're not suggesting that. Ultimately enjoy the music it isn't a competition otherwise we have lost before we started! :)

[@holliswilliams8426]

It's clickbait, you can't blame him as he puts a lot of time into the transcription and needs to bring some views for it.

[@steelisreal]

Boomer tears are the best tears

[@valentinp4110]

@@holliswilliams8426 I know... I like Levi's clips very much because he has very good ears and great musical taste ! But we must see this from a diferent point of view - Jimi's music was a turning point in that era. He was a game changer. Eric is an extraordinary guitar player - at this moment is hard to show a better blues player (my opinion)... awesome technical skills, awesome voice and very good compositions. I saw him live last year and my jaws were on the floor !!! My point is that while Eric is an outstanding player, Jimi was a force of nature - his songs were hymns !

[@b.a.7228]

Eric Gales and Shawn Lane were friends. Apparently they've even cut tracks, if not an album, together that still has yet to see the light of day.

[@kevv5150]

I used to see Shawn play in and around Memphis,he would sit in with everybody.When people would hear he was going to show up and play it didn’t matter where it was it was packed.He was truly a great and gifted guitar player and the nicest guy you would ever meet,so sad we lost him way to early.🎸🎶🤘🏻🙏😎

[@brandonterzic]

There is no need to compare Eric to Jimi. The spirit that Hendrix expressed, of which Eric is a part of the lineage, has nothing to do with "better". Jimi was a visionary artist that gave the world all he had in the span of 4 years. Even Jimi said one time: "technically I am not even a guitar player, I express color and emotions" Jimi wasn't a line runner like Gales, he didn't sit around working out how to fit syncopated 16th note runs over different time feels, he was too busy trying to match color tones to emotions, like trying to find tones that sounded like they were coming from under the ocean or outer space. He was primarily a song writer. Eric Gales is probably the most gifted virtuoso that comes from Jimi, and I absolutely love his playing.

[@LyleWorkmanofficial]

Nailed it! One should always take into account what did Hendrix in the context of his time. In that sense, Hendrix reigns supreme in terms of a new expression never heard or seen before! That aside, Eric Gales is truly out of this world great!

[@3rdtonefromthesun]

Those cheeky titles! Glad you covered Eric, and I agree with your sentiments, he’s a fantastic communicator, good choice of clip it covers a fair bit of his approaches and I’m glad it had some of his wonderful chord voicings in there too!

[@SuperLocrian]

Thanks again Levi! Eric is an amazing guitarist and an amazing human being... he deserves so much more attention and love!

[@taLLdavid33]

I saw him live in 2018. What a treat. Hes so amazing and hits that nerve with his playing

[@jeffsheridan9910]

No question my favorite guitarist alive. He just makes me say “WOW” over and over whenever he begins to play. He’s also a great come back story with an inspirational message to all that want to hear it.

[@surfwriter8795]

Thanks Levi for always introducing me to great guitar players I have never heard of and are outside my normal listening, your channel has certainly helped me improve my guitar playing. You rock.

[@drgrahamsloanguitarist3727]

He’s been a top player for decades but this is so, so expressive, innovative, and inspiring! Much thanks for transcribing 👌👏🏼.

[@elderbob100]

Hendrix had the ability and the forethought to mix it up on the guitar. He could play fast, slow, loud, soft, heavy, light, distorted, clean etc. Hendrix was creating feelings that were genuine and beautiful. Every note he played was unique and fit the music perfectly. He was the ultimate Jazz guitarist who could play any genre. So many guitarists today are hung up on playing fast, at the expense of feeling and emotion. They become robots, very tiresome to listen to. Hendrix could play a standard left handed guitar and then flip the guitar over and play it upside down and backwards. Stevie Ray Vaughan is the only one who really was able to capture and play Hendrix. The level of commitment of doing that is incredibly high. Hendrix was also a beautiful person, a gentleman, a thinker, who was under constant attack by the MIC and his MI-6 manager. He was killed because he opposed the war in Vietnam, and was considered to be a threat to the deep state.

[@LeviClay]

ok dad

[@kevinkwiatkowski7197]

I have to say he is on a plateau all by himself, all others will look up to him

[@dogtownbrogers2796]

I saw him in a bar in Memphis when he had to be 19-20 and he was this good back then. His timing is the magic, he’s got that slightly behind the beat thing and the percussive pick attack. If he can keep away from the substances (he relapses quite frequently) and stay alive for another decade I can’t imagine the stuff he will be pulling off.

[@andrewoverhere8525]

Eric's 6 years sober. BOOM. Still blazes tho. "California sober", we call it

[@eston8660]

Been an EG fan for a while now. The fact that he plays left handed AND upside down makes what he's capable of even more mind blowing. Eric is the Man!

[@cliffirddelbridge2810]

Eric is amazing mind boggling. To me he has his own sound, he doesn't sound like Hendrix or SRV. To my ear he has more similar moves to Jeff Healey without trying to sound like him. He's just his badass self.

[@cliffords2315]

Yea nothing like Hendrix more of a jazz blues guitarist, its a silly comparison, he is his own music.

[@badbrad]

One thing you can't notate is emotion and Eric has it by the gallon.

[@Roy-xe9is]

Where is the clip for this show? Thanks

[@joelholmes5490]

Eric is one of my favorite musicians he's no hendrix by no means but he definitely holds his own.

[@guitarttimman]

Different styles. Eric is no Jimi, nor is Jimi an Eric.

[@ZalMoxis]

Head pulling is a prerequisite for this style.....it's great to see the spirit lives on..... and great to see him playing the 'right' way....

[@KalosPVP]

Him and mono neon are aliens for having their strings in the opposite sequence. Such great players.

[@brucecaldwell6701]

Eric is actually right hand dominant but his older brothers who were left handed taught him to play a right handed guitar this way. Albert King played this way too on a right handed Flying V. I saw a guy playing this way also with Buddy Miles after Hendrix had been dead a while.

[@Ross_Sandoval]

100% agree with the title haha he's miles ahead of everyone. soul and speed never been higher in one player

[@Ricko62]

I've been following Eric since The Eric Gales Band with his brother Eugene on bass. If ever there was a musician who has paid his dues and never received his rightful recognition in my opinion, this is the man. His playing and feel are definately "next level" and I hope he gets all the kudos he has so rightfully earned and deserves but, I tend to agree with a few other comments I have read on here that his compositions are not in the same class as Jimi. Jimi was a musical visionary and composer as well as a next level guitar player eg - Little Wing, Wait until Tomorrow, Up from the Skies etc and the incredible sound painting that is live and in your face of Machine Gun at the Fillmore and all this whilst blazing his own virtuoso trail as there where none like him for him to follow. There's a reason why when asked so many great players ( Beck, SRV, Gilmour, Townshend, Page etc etc) name him and thats because he was the whole package! Thanks Levi for the upload and agree with the Hendrix name being noticed and if that pulls in more peeps to discover the amazing Eric Gales and his music and get him the respect he deserves, then as Eric so rightfully says in his song ........ I Want my Crown! 🎸

[@vietnguyen4312]

Eric playing at 18YO kzbin.info/www/bejne/ronHq5-kgt2in5I

[@Ricko62]

@@vietnguyen4312 yeah ....🏍 🐕‍🦺 🤣

[@grandmastersilkl]

Where was this at anybody know

[@CorbCorbin]

Love Gale’s playing. He’s a one of a kind soloist, but he doesn’t have any recordings that I’ve ever cared to re-listen to, snd I’ve listened to every album he’s done. Love his live playing, since I was a young player, watching him jam with Santana in the 90’s, and thought he was amazing. But he’s not Hendrix, as Hendrix first played at 15, then learned a lot in the military, a short stint as a backup on the Chitlin’ Circuit, before he was taken to England, after playing for less than 5 years as a “working musician.” Eric has played since he was a 4 year old child, and is brilliant, but he’s just not the songwriter Hendrix was, and if Hendrix had even another three years, who knows what he’d have been playing. Hendrix’s songwriting and influence is what can’t be denied. I understand when someone doesn’t dig Hendrix’s music, or think he was sloppy, but part of how guys like Gales play, comes directly from Hendrix’s influence. Same for Eric Johnson, SRV, Mayer. Mayer didn’t release a Hendrix cover EP with his pop album, back when he was really breaking big, for no reason. He wanted to show he was a guitarist, before a pop songwriter. Think about SRV. He had been playing Hendrix songs, for longer than Hendrix even played guitar at all, before his first major label release. Hendrix wrote Voodoo Chile(slight return), sometime in 1968, snd recorded it that year, released in October. He got to play it for a little more than two years, after that, before he died. Most of these guys, have played Voodoo Child since they were kids. Hendrix left a blueprint, style and new way of approaching electric guitar, both in the studio and live. I’m really glad Eric survived his demons, and is still destroying audiences, at 48 years old. Hope he plays to 100.

[@gelonious1]

I was blessed to meet Mr. Gales last summer in the Bay Area, CA at 2nd Annual Blues festival in Vallejo. Did the meet and greet afterwards with a pic and an autographed cd. He's an incredible musician.

[@FernandoGarcia-lf6yh]

I discovered some years ago and it's really amazing the things he does with the whole guitar and strings upside down!!!

[@peterbrusch1493]

Gales is one of my Top 10 guitarists ever. His playing, his chord progressions are absolutely ingenious! And no, he is not the second Jimi Hendrix, he is Eric Gales and completely unique.

[@joerobinson2538]

Holy Smokes! Legend has it that his guitar neck is still smoldering to this day!

[@sipius22]

What is the song?

[@cliffirddelbridge2810]

Thanks for the transcription.

[@MattD86]

Wow. How did you get that into a tab? Software or manually? There is a piece I’m DYING to get tabs on and would buy the software in an instant

[@LeviClay]

With my ears

[@marcjamesjamos]

Man! Amazing work thank you so much for the resource!!!!!!

[@scottbuonanno41]

Amazing player and just a super guy. Had the chance to meet him after a gig and he was humble and found time to pose for pix and chat with anyone who wanted to meet him.

[@jeffdafonte]

This was a fucking treat man. Thank you! Absolutely love Eric’s playing. Pure emotion.

[@davidlawrence5]

Once again I thank you Levi for another compelling video but I must take exception on comparisons of one player to another and especially this one. I've seen Eric twice and I was thrilled by him but, perhaps it's my age showing, I saw Mr. Jimi three times and each performance utterly shattered all my ideas of what a guitarist can do and no one has moved me like that since. Perhaps I'm trapped in a moment but what a beautiful moment it is. I will now go count the rings on my tail!

[@LeviClay]

It always seems odd to me that none of these amazing life changing gigs were recorded eh?

[@davidlawrence5]

@@LeviClay Quite odd indeed! There are a few 8mm. snippets of shows with awful sound quality. I oft imagine what treasures I would have were there cell phones! We were tossed out if aught with a small tape recorder. Miserable bastards! Cheers Levi!

[@oudaram1]

@@LeviClay That seems to be the norm to me, seems the creative spirit doesn't like being recorded. My best nights recording ended up b;lank.

[@MarianZep]

levi there's a video from eric playing for elise and becoming blusier. he throws a chord that i can't replicate. if you know what video is i strongly recomend the transcription. thanks for the magic as always. cheers.

[@davidpaul6656]

I've tried playing chords, etc on a left handed guitar before and it was nearly impossible to play

[@Xazertroncharlie]

He is a good blues guitarist. But I wouldn't compare him to Hendrix. Jimi was out this this world with what he did. He was a pioneer in Rock history. Peace

[@BlindArthurBlake]

Agree. I saw a show in Lancaster, PA wherein Walter Trout opened for Eric Gales. EG was okay, but it was clearly Walter Trout's night that night

[@kevv5150]

I was born and raised in Memphis,TN..saw Eric Gales when he was a teenager and he was phenomenal, he just blew away everybody in the Memphis music scene if you ever get a chance to see him live he will blow your mind..🎸🤘🏻🎶😎

[@jordangamble3515]

His 1994 yt video is a beauty to go back and watch

[@DARRBEV]

Man, I love you're videos. Just discovered you and have a lot of catching up to do. Gales is a guy I heard about but never got round to him yet as getting so many new ones to get on to. Thanks for bringing me to him

[@chrisdurham6517]

Better is a weird thing to say in the world of guitar greats. Gales is awesome, and he started from a foundational springboard that Hendrix helped build.. and he's had almost twice as long an existence as Jimi got. But would he be "better" than Jimi if Jimi had never existed?

[@Onoma314]

Eric is the shizz ! Glad to see he's been clean and sober for a few years now

[@mackjohnson7764]

His approach to blues is seemingly simple yet so clever. The phrase he references is that 5h7 and then the root. The typical lick most players would do is bend the fourth, minor third then root. Here he's doing third, hammering to the fourth then the root. That was the first thing I noticed in this solo, it makes him stand out that hes not using the typical lick besides in select places after his fast lines. Got to check more of this guy out

[@Jeff4014]

And dont forget that he is doing all that, with the strings upsidedown...

[@yurib7067]

It’s amazing all the stuff he’s ripped off fro Eric Johnson.

[@dudeotis]

never heard of him before but that was fabulously good !!! love being turned onto new music / artists ! so glad I stumbled upon this ...THANK YOU !

[@frankzafra3494]

I appreciate your love of a great 👍 guitarist 🎸like Eric Gales who I listened to probably when you were just a kid no disrespect, but some people just don't get Jimi who was the complete PACKAGE, its not about just playing or singing or performing its all of the above. The most important thing is the CREATIVITY and to have done ✔️ all that the age of 27 yrs old. Imagine the continuity if he had live age 77 or more. Unfathomable. God bless 🙌 🙏.

[@Iskaral_Pust]

"Musical" is the perfect term. He really makes his guitar sing in such a unique way that's all his own. He's a great mix of that "sloppiness" that Jimi had with even more incredible technique. And I'm of the opinion that music SHOULD be sloppy. Very few people actually enjoy listening to the new breed of tiktok/IG virtuoso guitarists. Yes, their technique is amazing, but it all tends to feel so uninspired. Erik is different. God bless him.

[@markminnicks8680]

Has the Steve Trovato tab been uploaded to your Patreon? I can't seem to find it.

[@LeviClay]

Hey Mark - sorry, I've been meaning to get back to your message. Saw this and it reminded me. Shoot me a message on patreon and I'll send you the link. It's up there somewhere, but the current "filing system" is so bad it's hard to find specific things :)

[@TNTMac]

Awesome. Saw him in Brooklyn a few years ago. Amazing talent and he was as gracious and humble a human being as I have ever met. Love this!!!!!

[@tedcabana]

The thing that boggles my mind the most about watching Eric, is that plays a right handed guitar, tuned right handed, but played left handed. It's like watching someone play upside-down in a mirror. Freaks me out. God bless him!

[@stopclockapp]

Of the 3 guitar styles: Rock, Jazz, and Blues, blues is by far the best style. Look at the reaction of crowds. Blues make the crowds go crazy. Hendrix is the greatest ever because he's the one that made all the others players make their moms and dads get them a guitar for Christmas. No other guitarist's songs are covered more than Jimi's. Greatness isn't the best. It's the most influential. Example: Bruce Lee is the greatest martial artist ever because he's the one other martial artist coming up wanted to be like.

[@LeviClay]

Sorry… “the 3 guitar styles” 😂

[@Jim_Me1]

Eric Gales is absolutely phenomenal.

[@LeviClay]

☝️ this dude gets it

[@hjackson718]

True Eric is phenomenal but he's no Hendrix!!

[@yurib7067]

@@hjackson718 He’s one of the great wankers of our decade.

[@janetrickwood2484]

No one is better than Jimi.

[@oudaram1]

he just puts this nonsense to get clicks, it helps to get this to a wider audience which is always good.

[@arukapinaka5564]

I agree...nobody !!!

[@rickclayson-hu8lw]

Eric is the most technical guitar player ever

[@iggyfritz7150]

Also like to add every time Eric Gales performs he Bears his soul and puts everybody of his being into his playing. This man moves my soul when he plays

[@DanielHuman1996]

Dude plays with his strings upsidedown!

[@MrStanleyMilton]

What has he written?

[@LeviClay]

How many balls can Jimi juggle?

[@i.sMIth48842]

Just saw him tonight in Indiana. JUST KILLS IT!!!

[@selliantuttimusi6735]

Eric is a supernatural force of nature.

[@micpan_yt]

Behind you bro. That very strat. My dream guitar. I wish I had one. Nice vid.

[@TomLotGuitar]

The Gm9, is not a normal Gm9. It's also a sus4 chord

[@LeviClay]

*m11

[@TomLotGuitar]

@@LeviClay Touché

[@macarius8802]

This is what I wrote after seeing your title: "Eric Gales is one of my favorite players alive today... but BETTER than HENDRIX !? ... Come on man. You clearly don't know the depth of Jimi's playing on so many levels ... " Now I heard your intro, so okay, I still like you 😀!

[@geoffreyanderson2285]

Holy moly dude! First you turn me on to Shawn Lane, and now Eric Gales? My god, what great talents, and hats off to you for piquing my interest, and expanding my library.

[@davidsteinberg2120]

I like this guy a lot he's killing it right here! I hear much more Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan then hey Hendrix similarity

[@spencerdawson6536]

I’ve seen Eric thrice, once in Denver when he was a kid phenom playing with his brothers and twice more recently in NYC. The audience goes crazy when he covers Hendrix and he’s creative and interesting on record too. The 2nd time recently was in a theater and he had something of an off night - Preachin’ and Hollerin’ more than playing guitar. This was a few years ago when he re-emerged and he was overtly fond of sharing his recovery story. It’s possible he’s moved on from that now. He’s phenomenally expressive in this video.

[@spencerdawson6536]

Tabs are awesome, BTW. 😊

[@ATX0705]

His "That's What I Am" album is amazing and is one of my favorite albums ever. Amazing songwriting and solos on that record!

[@infowazz]

Hendrix was a pioneer. You can't compare a pioneer to those who came after.

[@michaelpurdy9165]

Eric Gales is such a monster player. He has every right to be in that conversation.

[@hipgnotist777]

On my way to see EG this very evening. It was the thumbnail that got me to look, not yet another Hendrix title.

[@marca7434]

Levi Clay ... Thank you for this. Eric's been out there jammin' for a long time now and this performance, mixed with the crowd's reaction, was like being in church. A good church, 'ya know. 🎵

[@emilgeo1]

What the name of this track?

[@bend-c8405]

Thank you Levi

[@markcook3570]

Saw Eric at 3rd and Lindsley in Nashville a little over a week ago. Peter Frampton was in the house. Met Peter after the show, Eric brought the house down.....

[@hummarstraful]

Thanks for this transcription. Gales is amazing.

[@bend-c8405]

This is my favourite solo of all time! A master class in all the good stuff. Big up Levi

[@railgraf]

how the hell it is possible to transcribe this!!! wow!

[@EvilVulthoom]

Numbs me out that he plays upside down. No lefthanded guitar. Just turn the righthanded upwards down, and fret it like that.

[@mg43472]

Seen and following him for a while.. Hes a true entertainer.. hes in that newer class of players.. like Bonamassa, Matt Schofield, Josh Smith.. Amazing!

[@floormaestro9581]

Comparing the two is an exercise in futility. Like comparing Jordan and Lebron. Two different eras with different competition and styles of play. There is no “best” guitarist in the world simply because there’s so many amazing guitarists that excel at different styles. Nobody’s arguing Hendrix is the best classical guitarist in the world but a classical guitar is a guitar nonetheless. The fact Mr. Gales plays the instrument the way he does is amazing alone. To bend treble strings that are above your bass strings were you have way less leverage to bend strings in the 5th and 6th string positions while also not getting interference from your low E string in the process must be tricky. Also let’s remember this man could not have been taught guitar in any traditional manner either from teacher or self taught books, videos, etc. I’m pretty sure when he was learning there was no learn guitar upside down and backwards self help books available. He doesn’t need to be better or worse than Hendrix, but let’s just realize and appreciate greatness when we see it without the frantic need to rank everything.

[@calenexum]

Recently saw Gales at G4. Absolute monster

[@mike8610]

He's 1000x better live than on recordings. Such a nice guy too, have met him a few times in Nashville. Incredible playing upside down/strings reversed.

[@Cvweare]

Seeing him for the third time later this month. Such a monster player!!!

[@jeremyversusjazz]

How in gods name do you transcribe all that sonic info dude! Amazing. And yeah hes a very exciting and interesting player. Killin

[@NYNick49]

His guitar is strung upside down. Amazing!

[@oudaram1]

Same with Albert King

[@2good2betrue3]

Eric Gales is the Man!....one of the "best but not so famous" guitarst that always goes out under our radar, because guitarists only focus on the famous shred greats- Vai, Satch, Yng, PG, etc Oh yes, just a little trivia to further "stir the pot" of this whole "versus" thing.😈(which is cool by the way, because we guitarists love competition and guitar is also a sports were only the FASTEST and the MOST Technical YET STILL MELODIC survives and rules! bwahahaha.🤭😅) There's a floating video in the early KZbin days maybe around 13 or 15 years ago entitled "Shawn Lane getting his ass handed to him!"😲(already taken down or renamed?) - the video quality is very poor 240p and dark were one of my fave Shawn is jamming, trading licks with some unrecognizable blues shredder and that other guitarist is really on fire🔥... to the point that not even SL's hyper speed tricks could overwhelm the other guitarists insanely tasty playing by mixing shred and jaw dropping blues licks. Later that I found out that the other guitarist is named Eric Gales!👏, that's were I knew him and became a fan. If you can jam with Shawn Lane and not only held your ground but also outplay him in his own game, then your really something special. That's Eric - very underated giant killer. Cheers!😉

[@maekong2010]

Excellent video about the only person who ever made me consider a Strat (I'm an LP guy). New Subscriber.

[@YouGottaFeelYourLine]

Levi you are such a lovely fella. Thanks for everything.

[@LeviClay]

😂 it sounds like you’re talking at my funeral

[@YouGottaFeelYourLine]

@@LeviClay didn’t mean to haha! But bringing some Eric Gales content to us has really moved me 😂🫡

[@tobiewolmarans4057]

Incredible.

[@jtpalooki7757]

Got to see him 4 years ago up close in Florida.. he is all that.. all contemporary guitarists also agree! And it is a unique sound he puts out..🤔

[@hughjarrse]

I saw Eric at a small club in York, during the day I went into a fairly large guitar shop, had a quick look around (very quick only two lefties) on the way out I asked the guys behind the counter if they "were going to see Eric Gales tonight" neither seemed to know what or who I was talking about, the next day Eric was on the front of Guitarist Magazine as the "best guitarist in the world" how is that possible? Needless to say Eric was wonderful, as was the whole band.... Smoke Face especially 😯 I had the foresight to take a scratchplate off one of my Strats and Eric graciously signed it lovely bloke🙂

[@atibakojo3478]

Sounds real,that BB sound and feel but with much more technical ability.

[@gregglockhart9551]

That was smokin’!

[@richadambudgen7520]

Come on mate, Hendrix literally reinvented guitar playing! 😮

[@LeviClay]

No he didn't. What are you talking about?

[@richadambudgen7520]

@@LeviClay well we will have to agree to disagree on this one! That being said your channel is still great and I won’t hold this against you 🤣

[@LeviClay]

We don't need to disagree do we? You can show me can't you? Show me Jimi doing anything, and I'll show you someone else doing it before, be it Curtis Mayfield, Steve Cropper, Alvin Lee, or Jeff Beck. People look back on Jimi like he literally invented most of the stuff we play today, but that's such a historical inaccuracy. Like saying Merle Travis invented Travis picking.

[@richadambudgen7520]

@@LeviClay blimey you seem stressed! All the best mate

[@LeviClay]

Who would have guessed... you didn't actually post anything. All good man, you keep repeating the thing someone else told you.

[@Miceliism]

EG has been around forever. I Saw him on Arsenio Hall show over 30 years ago. Not sure of the title.

[@xonious9031]

holy crap

[@thedonrizzguitar]

So glad you did some EG!! One of the best, you rule! Would love to see his version of little wing

[@lotharhamburg5343]

Awesome

[@thehalographicmind3976]

He's innovative and original... that said , I'm hearing B.B.King influences ~ Great Rhythm & Blues 👏 🤙👍✌

[@nicklassayshi]

I’m curious: How long did this take to transcribe? 😇

[@LeviClay]

About 2 and a half to 3 hours! Though as usual, I was distracted while working on it 😂

[@ridermak4111]

When I was watching the video of him and Mononeon jamming and realized they were BOTH playing upside down and backwards, something struck me. Doesn’t it indicate they are completely self taught ? I mean, show me where you find that guitar teacher. I think Cory Wong’s bass player is also. How long is the list?