Twin Cities: Eric Gales CD release party @Bunkers 9/5

[shark_bite]

Normally Sunday nights are for Dr. Mambo's Combo, but they'll be having their friend Eric Gales starting off the night, playing some songs from his newest CD "Relentless." It should be a really great night. I'm pretty pumped about it. :)

The Combo will then finish the night off.

EDIT:
My other gigs for the weekend:
Thursday: Gluek's with Midnight Moxy for the Twins post-game show
Friday: Gluek's again with MM
Saturday: The Lookout (Maple Grove) with Mick Sterling and the Irresistibles
Sunday: Duh. Eric Freaking Gales CD Release show. Don't miss it.

[suckamc]

Wait... so what's Eric's legal status? I figured he'd be off the scene for a while. This is great news!

[drgonzoguitar]

Really?

http://www.bunkersmusic.com/calendar.html


WOW! See you there, Adam!

[shark_bite]

I'm not really sure what the deal was with that last hiccup, but he's not in jail. He's in town for a few months and then he'll be heading out on the road. Actually... it should be noted that he's teaching some lessons down at Capitol Guitars while he's here. If you've ever wanted that master class with Jimi Hendrix but couldn't do it because he's dead, here's your chance.

Also, he's been sitting in with the Combo every week.

[Bobby D]

that's GREAT news....i am glad Eric is doing OK :JAM

[mullytron]

Awesome news, hope it sells out.

[suckamc]

I'm not really sure what the deal was with that last hiccup, but he's not in jail. He's in town for a few months and then he'll be heading out on the road. Actually... it should be noted that he's teaching some lessons down at Capitol Guitars while he's here. If you've ever wanted that master class with Jimi Hendrix but couldn't do it because he's dead, here's your chance.

Also, he's been sitting in with the Combo every week.

Awesome. Love Eric! I'm thrilled to hear that he's free!!!

BTW, I think he has WAY more EJ than JH in his playing. A lot of his fast lines are blatantly EJ-inspired, but I don't hear much of Jimi's specific vocabulary in there. But whatever the mixture of his influences, the end result is very special.

[shark_bite]

Awesome. Love Eric! I'm thrilled to hear that he's free!!!

BTW, I think he has WAY more EJ than JH in his playing. A lot of his fast lines are blatantly EJ-inspired, but I don't hear much of Jimi's specific vocabulary in there. But whatever the mixture of his influences, the end result is very special.

EJ didn't learn to play guitar in the church, trying to transpose the B3/piano chords into guitar chords. JH did. Sitting down and playing with EG is very different than popping in one of his CDs. I now feel like I understand JH on a completely different level, and it's given me some serious ammo to take with me to MY gospel gig. The way he plays and inverts gospel chords is otherworldly.

[Bobby D]

Awesome. Love Eric! I'm thrilled to hear that he's free!!!

BTW, I think he has WAY more EJ than JH in his playing. A lot of his fast lines are blatantly EJ-inspired, but I don't hear much of Jimi's specific vocabulary in there. But whatever the mixture of his influences, the end result is very special.

yeah....i hear a lot of EJ with eric's playing...when i played with Eric when he was still 16, back in 1991, he was AMAZING, and was able to effortlessly peel off those EJ style pentatonic runs like nobody's business :bow

Eric and his band at that time, older borther Eugene on bass and vocals and a drummer who was black and sang vocals as well, was one of the tightest trios i have ever heard.

they BLEW us off the stage that nite :rotflmao

i remember checking our Erics pedalboard, i was still using a rack system back then.....he had ALL his pedals painted FLAT BLACK.

i asked him what the pedals were, and he kept saying "oh, you know, just some fuzzes and stuff" :D

[suckamc]

EJ didn't learn to play guitar in the church, trying to transpose the B3/piano chords into guitar chords. JH did. Sitting down and playing with EG is very different than popping in one of his CDs. I now feel like I understand JH on a completely different level, and it's given me some serious ammo to take with me to MY gospel gig. The way he plays and inverts gospel chords is otherworldly.

I agree with most of that, except that saying EG learned to play in church is way simplistic... nobody learns from just one source. EG has always said he listened to tons of EJ growing up, and it's really obvious in his lines; way more obvious than the JH influence to his improv lines. The constant comparisons to JH (not by you, but by everyone) are motivated more by... something else... than by his actual playing.

BTW, if there's one guy who needs to do a live album, it's EG. His albums are always kind of a let-down compared to his live stuff (as Youtube can attest).

[shark_bite]

Ha. Yeah, he's funny like that. Doesn't obsess over the little details at all. Look at his Two Rock amp - two really simple channels. No weird Dumbly shit going on. It's really straightforward.

It's funny because he hired me for the gigs and a week later asked me if I had an amp. I sheepishly replied that I have a whole room full of 'em. Then he asked if I had any pedals for "dirt and stuff." I bet $1 zillion that if I said "Oh, I stack a Timmy, a Lovepedal Kalamazoo, and a Klon, run them through a Dragon Fuzz and out a Carbon Copy delay," he'd be like, "Huh? Does that do overdrive?"

As for the JH stuff, he's never mentioned much about EJ to me, but we've talked about Hendrix a bit, and gospel. I gathered that he's learned a good deal of his chord theory stuff from gospel. You don't hear much of that live and hardly any at all from the records unless you're listening very carefully, but trying to learn these rhythm parts is proving to be tougher than I thought it would be, because his fingers stretch really far and his chords are super complex. Plus he does everything upside down. But man, the upside to that? It sounds like two guitars. Or some other instrument altogether. The voicings are so complex. I can't get enough of it.

[suckamc]

Here is where you can hear some of his complexity:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDxEs9dmVrI&playnext_from=TL&videos=Dle8whkf7AI&feature=grec

BTW, I'm from Memphis, too. Honestly, I pray for Eric a lot.

[shark_bite]

Here is where you can hear some of his complexity:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDxEs9dmVrI&playnext_from=TL&videos=Dle8whkf7AI&feature=grec

BTW, I'm from Memphis, too. Honestly, I pray for Eric a lot.

My only response to that clip is this: Jesus H. Christ.

But then I saw an even better response post on another EG video:

It's like watching someone eat a lion. A live lion. And not get a scratch on them.

[LR1400]

The only constant over the dozen times I have seen EG plays is the Blues Driver and some delay type pedal, various types.

I also hear way more EJ than JH. He's like a EJ with lots of funk, less anal, and WAY better time feel.

I hear Shawn Lane in those runs as well which are very similar to EJ's runs.

He's the best rock player of the last 20 years.

I have 3 live boots, on tow of them he goes off, tons of the gospel stuff and just jamming big clean wet sound.

[Electric I]

+ infinity on an EG live album. That'd sell more'n a few, I bet.

In the meantime, people - please - take lots of video of his shows, so others may live vicariously through you. Thanks.

[drgonzoguitar]

My only response to that clip is this: Jesus H. Christ.

But then I saw an even better response post on another EG video:

:agree

[shark_bite]

Eric popped in at Famous Dave's this weekend and sat in with Moses Oakland. Someone in the house took this video of it:

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[shark_bite]

I'll bump this because the release party is a week from tomorrow and we'd love to see as many people there as possible, of course... BUT also... we'll be playing tomorrow night at the Barbara LeShoure benefit show at MMC. 8:30-ish.

[Frater B]

Dude you are playing with the man!

Have fun!

OXh9aW-bIAU

__

[shark_bite]

Sunday night!

We played last weekend and I've never seen so many jaws hit the floor in one room at one time.

[Bobby D]

lol......when i played with him when he was 16, he had all his pedals painted FLAT BLACK....i asked him a few times what they were, he kept saying "oh, you know.......some fuzzes and stuff" :rotflmao

just got the new CD from Mike Varney, and it's REALLY good. :bow

i'm gonna be helping organize some Florida shows, so i will be meeting you one of these days, Shark :D

hoping to bring you guys to Key West for a weekend at The Green Parrot, trust me, you'll love it. band house right in back of club, and you can walk to Duval Street a block away.....then up to Ft Lauderdale, probably over to Tampa/Sarasota, then back up to either Pensacola or Jacksonville/Daytona depending on which way you guys will be heading after the Florida gigs.

i have only worked for free for ONE other artist before in a promotional capacity, and that was Chris Whitley, after he got dropped from Sony. this is a labor of love, i wanna see Eric do well :love:

[Lex Luthier]

I was at Bunkers for the show, man EG was blazing!