This is not shredding. It's much better: they're improvising, they're listening and reacting to what they're hearing. Often these jams are horrible, but here are two MUSICIANS.
I was just thinking the same thing, like is he ever going to back off and play rhythm so he can let Greg step in and play leads. I thought they were going to genuinely play off each other but it was just straight up Greg playing rhythm and Eric playing licks based off Greg's rhythm phrases. Especially when he boosted his amp, I knew dude was def not going to back off lol. Even the greatest like Stevie Ray Vaughan knew when to back off and play rhythm and let the other guitarist do his thing. In my opinion that's what made players like Stevie Ray so great because he was so well rounded. Maybe that's a shortcoming of Eric.. people think hes like a prodigy but he don't know anything else but to play leads and be the center of attention while not knowing when to back off. Still blows my mind how guitarists like him and Albert King play a right handed guitar upside down but keeping it strung for a right handed player with the high e string ontop. Unlike Jimi Hendrix who played a right hand guitar upside down but restrung the guitar so it was properly strung for a left handed player with the low E on top.
Gales is one of the few players that can make me feel a range of emotions when he plays. Every time ive seen him live, it was like a religious experience.
It’s refreshing hearing two greats grabbing axes off the wall, playing clean, plugging straight into the amp, and just improvising off each other....it’s really becoming a lost art.
He'll yeah! Awesome say! Grateful is where it's at. This is why we love Greg and holy shit Eric. These two absolutely love life. There Gratefulness comes through in energy.
Anybody notice that Mr. Gales is playing his guitar upside down? Fat strings on the bottom and skinny strings on top. Wow... It makes my head hurt to watch his fretting hand work.
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Hey John, when you introduce yourself to people it’d be sick if you were like, “Pleasure to meet you. The name’s John Hendricks, but my friends call me Jimi.”
Eric Gales is a genius, plain and simple, and Koch happens to be one of the best players there is, as well. Hard to find something you don’t like here.
I like them both and the exchanges in solo is amazing as always but one thing I didn't like here is Eric's impulse to do some runs during Greg's turn to solo and his guitar's piercing volume when his playing the rhythm, almost masking the solo of Greg. I tried the wildwood's video of this and though the volume was enhanced, Eric's guitar is still saturating Greg's guitar sound. But other than that, both are amazing and I still enjoyed the exchanges.
Strats are my fav, but the Tele just sounds gorgeous here the entire time, so sweet and melodious. Great player playing it like.a master doesn’t hurt either hahaha
As much as i love Jimi, Eric Gales gives anyone a run for their money... Though i do like better greg koch, i can't deny the incredible set of ears Eric has, he just see notes from nowhere, almost like he's squeezing a new vocabulary out of the strat, from a monster like greg id expect it easily from him to do such, but on Eric s case it's like no one saw him coming when he do solo. Jimi past his 30s bet he would ve been total fun to listen to.
One of the people who not only can hang but really... kind of outplay Greg with that kickass picking and economy picking Gales does. Greg is awesome tho. He is more unorthodox and plays unexpected things. Eric blisters the same lines but they are so smooth it doesn't matter if it's just a pentatonic run. Eric's as if he's in his own world while he's playing. I guess they took that tune to places it hasn't been yet. hahaha I guess you could say that tune is now.... experienced. no? okay, I'll leave.
Listening through my trebly, piercing lg g2 speaker, still sounds inspiring. Good musicians but nevermind the obvious. The way the brother plays is why i keep on picking up my guitar..
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This is just one big mess-->> I like Eric but he steamrolls over everybody he jams with and its so painful watching timid players trying to keep up. And to be fair Eric is just jumbling together Jimi, BB, and Albert King licks Ive heard played thousands of times.
Still blows my mind how guitarists like Eric, Doyle Bramhall II, Albert King, and the Chicago blues guitarist Lefty Dizz played a right handed guitar upside down but kept it strung for a right handed player which made the strings upside down from a leftys perspective, with the high e string ontop. Unlike Jimi Hendrix who played a right hand guitar upside down but restrung the guitar so it was properly strung for a left handed player with the low E on top. Totally different approach of playing.. like having to pull the high strings down instead of pushing up to bend the strings to a higher note. I always wondered but never saw Albert and Lefty Dizz do it.. but Eric or Doyle or any lefties out there who play guitar like this and are reading this, can they play actual guitar chords with the strings upside down? Would he be able to play a G chord in the traditional shape? I'm sure they'd be able to play chords in a hendrix triad style, thumb over, bar chord tho.
If you had 4 hands, and a 12 string strung with 2 sets of strings, 6 strung normally, last 6 flipped skinny to fat, then you 2 could get this ethereal sound..or you could just listen to these guys.....which is way easier....and possible....I'm leaving now.
If you don't know who Eric Gales is just read the shirt..if you still don't know just read the hat..if you still don't know I'm sure he has his name embroidered somewhere else on him😂
Is the brother gales a tad flat or is it just me..needless to say awsm jam..i do enjoy gales hes a monster has his own sound as all top players do..as for the other kat man hes a players player👍👍
Is it just me or is Greg Koch one of the only guitarists that impresses Eric Gales while jamming together so much. Not that there isn’t others but damn, Eric always looks so impressed when he jams with Greg.
If they release such damn thing i'll grab a hundred records, to make sure they don't go unnoticed. I'm from chile, so there you go, talk about ppl who havent listened to what titan guitarist sound like.
Obviously two great players that are not playing well together. Greg is like, what the fuck should I be playing over Eric trying to fancy up Little Wing?! A bit of a shit show. But what the hey, it’s improvising.
The goal of jamming is some kind of getting on the same page. And when you accompany someone on the rhythm side, to lay a good discernible rhythm down while the other solos - to get out of the way. Eric Gales does not do that here. He's doing his own thing. Greg Koch knows it. This is mostly just noise.
