this needs to be longer, Eric Gales is a legend

@SongbirdsFoundation

4 жыл бұрын

You are in luck! We have another interview with Eric this weekend. So another episode will be out soon. Subscribe for notifications.

@soulo3x859

3 жыл бұрын

@@SongbirdsFoundation where’s the other interview

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

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

His nails so fleek!

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

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

No more words 👍🎸🎸🎸🎸👍🎸

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

@johnbuell8035

4 жыл бұрын

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

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

Me too exactly

@porkbelly0713

3 жыл бұрын

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

3 жыл бұрын

@@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

3 жыл бұрын

@@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 kzread.info/dash/bejne/p6yLqtOggMmTlMY.html

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

Legendary 😎 possibly the best ever

My new favorite guitar player right now.

@SongbirdsFoundation

4 жыл бұрын

More soon!

Wish that interview was longer...

@SongbirdsFoundation

4 жыл бұрын

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

@InspiretoVictory

4 жыл бұрын

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

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!!

Man I like Eric's sound

This guy is a beast 👍👍👍

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

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.

I love that he paints his nails

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

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

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.

One of those guitarists that can't be imitated

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

So much respect for this dude.

Simply incredible and mind blowing. Love this mans playing.

@ricardoraulino-guitar

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@dyhockane7506

4 жыл бұрын

You the fucking best. Greetings from Italy

Living legend

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!

We just gonna ignore that Dumble ODS in the background

@jacobnewson480

4 жыл бұрын

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

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

Worlds greatest Mr. Gales

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

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

4 жыл бұрын

@princewish I agree.

damn this guy is amazing!

Sounding great

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

@iagobroxado

4 жыл бұрын

Only time I heard someone make it cool.

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

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

@TomGrubbe

4 жыл бұрын

haha

@SongbirdsFoundation

4 жыл бұрын

We tried too. Fail.

@mahdiyussuf9804

4 жыл бұрын

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

Jump music😜. You gotta love Eric Gales!

Amazing Player

Too cool!

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

Eric Gales . . . great player !

Probably the best guitarist ever!

My favourite guitarist

@SongbirdsFoundation

4 жыл бұрын

More with Eric Gales coming soon. Stay tuned!

Gréât man great player

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

4 жыл бұрын

Sick Boy that is definitely the unorthodox way

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

@MrRuizrudy

4 жыл бұрын

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

@jguitar29

4 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/c459k5OFoKXYobQ.html Check out the solos

@spencerbradley2610

4 жыл бұрын

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

@LostPlectrum

4 жыл бұрын

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

The MAN period

@SongbirdsFoundation

4 жыл бұрын

We agree! More with Eric Gales coming soon.

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.

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

@TheOpinionatedGuitarist

4 жыл бұрын

jerrytee LoL me too!

@trevor4533

4 жыл бұрын

Me three!

@svarthelikoptern

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@Lance37a

4 жыл бұрын

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

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

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

Killer guitar player

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

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

@dezionlion

4 жыл бұрын

Ok now that was just wierd!

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

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

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

Let’s help these kids like and subscribe people.

Sounds al good to me!

Eric is always soulfull and perfect at the same time

I am fan want some more video of him playing

@SongbirdsFoundation

4 жыл бұрын

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

Schools out boys and girls EG is amazing

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.

Sweet chain. We was kangz!

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

You can taste it's sound

Hendrix started playing the same way! 🤘🔥🤘🔥

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I write left handed and play with my right

@dr.lyleevans6915

4 жыл бұрын

Me too

@lukasrydelius6174

4 жыл бұрын

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

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

4 жыл бұрын

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:)

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

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

I knew this dude was a church boy!

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

@bmann792

4 жыл бұрын

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

How often does he clean those nails just wondering

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

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

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

@MrMakintosh100

4 жыл бұрын

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

4 жыл бұрын

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.

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

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

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

@SongbirdsFoundation

4 жыл бұрын

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!

Is he wearing nail polish on his right hand??

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

4 жыл бұрын

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

@N8SAY

4 жыл бұрын

@@chriskifaya735 He DID NOT! So yes, horrible uneducated fake news! kzread.info/dash/bejne/gmtkk9Kae6iziNY.html

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

@SongbirdsFoundation

4 жыл бұрын

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

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

@SongbirdsFoundation

4 жыл бұрын

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

Thats some shiny ass nails bro!

@blastomaticdisel6189

4 жыл бұрын

Manicure

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.

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

Shiny nails