This month’s cover feature interview with Eric Gales captures an artist at one of those rare, special moments when they reach their peak potential – all the years of blood, sweat andthe horizon towards brilliant fruition. Other times, they just seem to represent a moment when the camera shutter (musically speaking) snapped shut on an artist in full flow, on the form of a lifetime – you might say that BB King’s famous was a fine example of that. Other times, as with Hendrix’s , a masterpiece resulted from meticulous studio work – something that people often missed about Hendrix, assuming him to be so much a child of the psychedelic 60s that the incredible sonics of his albums were down to drug-inspired experimentation, rather than a meticulously realised vision, as was really the case.
