And then, famously, the wheels came off in spectacular style. Gales toured the world, worked with heroes such as Stevie Ray Vaughan, and amassed a passionate following. Having that attention at a young age was exhilarating.” The things that came forward in my life and things that I’ve been privileged to do, and accomplishments and things of this nature, I’m very proud of them. I had no intention of being famously known for what I do. “Then all of a sudden I noticed that the world was taking a real liking to what was happening. I don’t remember what I said to him, I just know that I was in awe."Īlbert King in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1967 (Image credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) I said: ‘Wow, that’s Albert King.’ It blew my mind. And I’ll never forget it, it touched my life. I think that might have been the first famous person that I met that was truly an inspiration to me. “Meeting him was one of the coolest things ever. “Albert King, his playing had so much depth to it, man,” Gales says, still a fan all these years later. And, you know, I just soaked up as much as I could.”Īt the age of 11 he even met his hero, blues great Albert King, at the local fish market – a humble setting for such an informative moment. Anybody and everybody definitely made a trip through Memphis and left some DNA and a fingerprint there. “Per capita, that is one of the most hit-making towns. “There’s a lot of history there,” he says. But possibly most pertinent, and least tangible, was the influence of Memphis itself.
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He first picked up an instrument when he was six or seven, joining in as grand family gatherings full of aunties, uncles and cousins inevitably led to the whole clan singing and playing along together, steeped in the gospel music of their church.Īt school he was a typical kid, and threw himself into his role of drummer in its marching band.
Born in Memphis, Tennessee into a family full of musicians – Eric was the youngest of five boys – to a stay-at-home mother and a truck-driver father, a sense of working hard and doing the right thing was instilled in him from a young age.
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