Shawn played with melody, just listen to Hey T Bone from Centrifugal Funk. Alan was on the previous MVP CD, Truth in Shredding, with Frank Gambale (who is on both), not memorable like Centrifugal Funk. Also, Bret Garsed is brilliant on Hey T Bone.
Snuppeluppen søppelsopp Agreed! I don't get the post comparing him to Hendrix. A better comparison is he's a mix of McLaughlin and Holdsworth (especially the latter)
Oh big time,..shawn would tell you that himself, I mean allan IS THE ONE who sent shawn back to the drawing board when shawn heard allan in 1980,..i was trying to do a shawn lane lick,..the crazy outro to get you back,..and if you just play that lick without the music guess who it sounds like,...allan holdsworth! lol,...I steal ANYTHING I can from allan and shawn when it comes to playing,..and I cant steal much..lol,..but the little that I can makes me a %100 better player,.....
Hahaha, I hear you there! I play the blues, mostly, but now and then I try to play some more challenging stuff like jazz-fusion or thrash metal. Certain players you can figure out fairly quickly. Allan Holdsworth is not one of those players, lol! Even if I had 100 more years on this earth, I probably wouldn't be able to crack his code. Pure genius. As for Shawn, another total genius. It's unreal how fast yet melodic he was. I wish they were both still around today...so much more to give.
1998 was the year I was introduced to Shawn's playing. I was 14 years old, and a guitar playing friend loaned me Powers Of Ten. That album totally recalibrated what my brain thought was possible on a guitar.
It's always the insanely talented ones that get taken away too soon. I don't know why but it's true.. I think it's someone upstairs saying.. you have done your time and have become an amazing musician.. now it's time to move on to the next challenge... A bit less darker way to think about it, regardless at least he was around long enough to grace people with his music while he was here.
ComaProductions More like you just don't notice as much when extremely talented musicians grow old, and notice more when they die in their prime because it's truly tragic. Regardless, there is no doubt that Shawn Lane died long before he reached what would've been his peak.
0:02 insane bebop improvisation 1:49 evil holdsworth be like 2:03 pentatonics from hell (eric j / zakk wylde kinda) 2:16 other madness ? 2:50 black market (weather report) 3:32 teen town (weather report)
Shawn definitely had a freakish nervous system (as he quoted himself). His brain must have always been going at light speed. What an incredible guitar player he was. I still mourn his death. :( RIP Shawn
@@NovelMeetsEvilPodcast No....really. I knew Shawn. By the time he was a teenager he'd read the majority of books in the Memphis Public Library. I'm not proclaiming him a god. But he was a rare human being. Intellect and talent not often seen.
@@jakemitchell1671 I just shake my head and laugh when I see/hear him switch from guitar to keyboard and back. Really inspiring if you’re a savant. Demotivating for some of us normals 😊
Late to reply, but I’ve read his usual guitar was lost in transportation (checked bags at airports), so he borrowed someone’s guitar. I thought I read it was an Epiphone Les Paul, but I might be wrong. I don’t know much about guitars
I’m gonna have to watch this on repeat for weeks to wrap my head around it entirely. I’ve been a casual fan of Shane for years but I didn’t realize the extent of his genius; never put a dude in my top 10 after one performance. This may be the single best guitar performance I’ve ever seen - beating out Gatton and Buchanan. He’ll never be my favorite guitarist (Hendrix) but he’s officially a contender for greatest guitarist of all time.
the older I get I realize that it's personality and image that make you famous; guitar playing is secondary; this guy was obviously in the rarest of airs; And at least if he didn't get famous as he should have he always seemed to love what he was doing and listening to his interviews knew more about music than anyone I can think of
No, it's also accessibility; this kinda music is way over the top of most people's appreciation. Way more people would rather listen to Clapton or SRV, myself included. I can appreciate his mastery but it's just ugly, atonal noise for the most part.
Famous musicians have famous songs; without the songs you wind up as a great musician admired by musicians. You will find no none musician who knows of Lane, Holdsworth, Stern but who hasn't heard of Hendrix, Santana, Van Halen?
+David Jones he is buried at Memorial Park which is on Poplar. His gravestone is just opposite the grotto area not too far from the entrance. Only a few feet from Isaac Hayes :)
Why are there trolls here who feel they're actually competent enough to make negative comments about this man ? Obviously they have not scratched the surface of what he was capable of, the depth of feeling he could pull out of a guitar when he wanted to. Yes this was a shred fest, but I'll retract my statement if anyone can produce even one player who can shred like this. Shawn was a genius intellectually as well as musically, and had so much to say that he had to rip out like this now and then. But man, oh man, he could make you cry with a simple phrase when he wanted to.
This is the example of total mind flow. What he thinks, he plays and all is totally correct, in key and in time. this is an example of someone who is a total prodigy and showing what he can do anytime at the drop of a hat. Perfect! So glad this and whatever is out there of being Shawn recorded is available to see here. He is/was such a special musician who many are unaware of his talent.
I didn't read it on the internet friend. i read it in a posthumous magazine article and was said by multiple friends and members of his family including his wife. They said his house would literally be filled with stacks of books and that he would go the library and check out dozens of books at a time on a given subject. Just cause you couldn't comprehend someone elses ability to do something doesn't mean they can't. That's why we have words like "genius" which unfortunately are grossly overused and therefore removed from their true meanings. That being said i did not know him personally and can't say with certainty either way on the subject that's why i used the words "reportedly read 3 to 10 books a day". thanks for your concern
steven cross 10 books a day? Can't be done. And how can you, in the real world, check out 'dozens of books at a time' from a library, to any practical end, especially 'on a given subject'? I can well imagine he was a voracious reader and very intelligent but the silly fan boy myths that get built around people because they can play fast are ridiculous.
fine dude. you know it all. how exactly can a six year old whos never played a piano be able to play mozart by ear? some peoples minds are different from yours. And i personally go to the library quite often and they let you take up to 20 books at a time and recheck any of them out up to 3 times. There's easily hundreds of books of on most subjects. And if you think that what makes Shawn special is the speed at which he plays you're clearly not listening.
On Buckethead's guitar lesson he said he heard it on a Shawn Lane bootleg, and Gilbert helped him out with it, regardless of why he did it or who inspired him, its pretty freakin cool
ShadowNinjaNoah Its a very interesting story actually. Bucket was trying to imitate something that was meant to be impossible to play, yet he did it!! haha This is what Shawn said on an interview "What that is was, I have been pretty obsessed for a little while with the music of Conlon Nancarrow, so I wanted to try to express something like that with the guitar and I wanted to do note combinations that I didn't think could be done on the guitar. So actually what I did is constructing it by recording every note separately. So I actually just would play a note and then record however long I wanted the tone to be. If I wanted it to be longer I'd record longer, for shorter notes I just recorded for a second. And I literally just constructed it note-by-note over a couple of night's time. Thousands of notes. I wanted to make combinations of notes that couldn't be played, I was pretty convinced they couldn't be. So I did that as a stand-alone loop about 8 years ago and a bootleg tape of it got in the hands of buckethead. And nobody told him that I didn't play it, that it was assembled on tape with guitar. And so he tried to sound like that by tapping and based a lot of his style on that tape. So it's Conlon Nancarrow influencing me influencing Buckethead. It became it's own style. But I think it's funny because it was because of a misunderstanding. He didn't know that I didn't play it so he assumed that it could just be played. Well, when I constructed it, I constructed it specifically so it could not be played. And he didn't know that, so he achieved something going (imitates Buckethead playing fast) by tapping them in wide intervals. It's a weird story (laughs)" www.richardhallebeek.com/interviews/lane.php
Most of Shawn's best playing was done on an obscure Roland synth guitar with the synth stuff taken out, through a MORE obscure Holmes Mississippi Bluesmaster solid state amp. I saw him dozens of times in Memphis, TN just ripping the world up. His soulful playing was more mesmerizing than his blistering ripping stuff. A true genius. RIP.
I often wonder how the guitar world would have evolved if monstrous players like Shawn Lane, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Randy Rhoads, Chuck Schuldiner, and even Django Reinhardt lived longer lives. Shawn was a true casualty. I still revisit his music from time to time and it is beyond comprehension how much of a genius he really was. Such a shame about his health. :/ We can only hope that modern players like Rick Graham, and Guthrie Govan realize their impact on the community, and continue to pass the torch to the next generation of players like Plini, Aaron Marshall and Nick Johnston.
saw these guys in '97. the 90% of the show sounded like the part that starts at 4:20. 420. I like that. Shawn smoked alot of weed. Spent alot of time in Amsterdam. Medical. (Psoriatic arthritis. He didn't have good health insurance. he probably "got big" from the steroids. He died(20 years ago) when it spread to the lungs. a godman, he was.
Okay. I'm not gonna read any comments until I'm done writing this. I never heard of Shawn Lane until I saw a Marty Friedman post with him playing with his band and then the next up was "10 Best Solos from Jason Becker". Listened to some of that and then poked into the comments to see what people were saying. The usual well deserved platitudes and comparisons. Harmless stuff. But one commenter said something about Jason being the greatest except for maybe Shawn Lane or something like that. I searched TH-cam for Shawn Lee and got some Asian human beat box. Pretty cool actually. But I failed to see the connection to Jason's music. I went back to the comments and saw that it was Shawn LANE. So hear I am. Watching him for the first time and I'm blown away. As a guitar player for 40 years who's loved all the shredders and made a lame attempt myself, I don't hear too many things these days that I haven't heard of. Well, that's my story. Reading people's comments and/or reviews of things in entertainment are sometimes the best way to learn about other artists, movies, etc. Unfortunately in the comments I saw someone say Shawn suffered the same fate. No matter what the reason, I guess he ain't playin' anymore. :(
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It's crazy that 2 of the greatest guitarists ever in Shawn Lane and Jason Becker, had autoimmune diseases that took them away from their craft so early. What a shame.
Long ago, a friend of mine's band shared a bill with Black Oak and he wouldn't shutup about "this kid from Memphis" who was a "total monster". As this was before the wonders of the internet and youtube I just took his word for it but I thought it odd that a guitar virtuoso would be playing with a band like Black Oak (nothing against them) - and then I more or less forgot about it. A few months later, someone gave me a grainy cassette of Shawn's playing with a cover band and I was blown away (like most people were). Even though the tape was like a second or third generation copy, full of hiss and random drop outs, you could definitely hear that he not only played the tunes with great precision and respect but he had his own unique thing happening and at such a young age. Of course the rest is history but he deserved more credit.
There was Shawn Lane...and then everybody else... he was in a catagory all of his own...the word genius is overly used....but in his case it applies......🎸🎸🎸🎸
If look all the great guitars players of the past era you have at least resources to study as example;Malmsteen,Vai,Petrucci etc... except,shawn Lane,he gave absolut everything to music,he gave everything.
Shawn lane is the the highest score you have to beat to win guitar.
Ain't that the truth.
you know it’s true when there’s 110 likes and not a single person is arguing about the lack of feel lol
He was on a whole different level.
Guthries the closest runner up but goddamn
Shawn Lane makes Yngwie look like he is playing in slow motion.
Shawn had amazing speed and musical mastery, him and Holdsworth are players that really are untouchable
I can't tell about Shawn, but you could absolutely touch Allan and even get drunk with him
Shawn played with melody, just listen to Hey T Bone from Centrifugal Funk. Alan was on the previous MVP CD, Truth in Shredding, with Frank Gambale (who is on both), not memorable like Centrifugal Funk. Also, Bret Garsed is brilliant on Hey T Bone.
Dude was like John Coltrane mixed with Jimi Hendrix.
yes he was. Shawn and Coltrane will always be my favorite improvisers. genius.
HOldsworth Cough Cough!
Snuppeluppen søppelsopp Agreed! I don't get the post comparing him to Hendrix. A better comparison is he's a mix of McLaughlin and Holdsworth (especially the latter)
Oh big time,..shawn would tell you that himself, I mean allan IS THE ONE who sent shawn back to the drawing board when shawn heard allan in 1980,..i was trying to do a shawn lane lick,..the crazy outro to get you back,..and if you just play that lick without the music guess who it sounds like,...allan holdsworth! lol,...I steal ANYTHING I can from allan and shawn when it comes to playing,..and I cant steal much..lol,..but the little that I can makes me a %100 better player,.....
Hahaha, I hear you there! I play the blues, mostly, but now and then I try to play some more challenging stuff like jazz-fusion or thrash metal. Certain players you can figure out fairly quickly. Allan Holdsworth is not one of those players, lol! Even if I had 100 more years on this earth, I probably wouldn't be able to crack his code. Pure genius. As for Shawn, another total genius. It's unreal how fast yet melodic he was. I wish they were both still around today...so much more to give.
2:05 the drummer was like" oh crap I don't think I can play that fast"
:) :) :) :)
felix sabal-lecco inthink you are an incredible drummer mr sabal-lecco! How was your experience of playing with shawn?
1998 was the year I was introduced to Shawn's playing. I was 14 years old, and a guitar playing friend loaned me Powers Of Ten.
That album totally recalibrated what my brain thought was possible on a guitar.
Shawn Lane left the world a better place & thankfully we are still appreciating him now in 2021. Super upload.
I think Shawn Lane reached "Godlike" level on guitar .
"Don't reach, youngblood!" (Shawn Lane to god)
And that's why God plagued him with health problems.
ComaProductions Really unfair..
It's always the insanely talented ones that get taken away too soon. I don't know why but it's true.. I think it's someone upstairs saying.. you have done your time and have become an amazing musician.. now it's time to move on to the next challenge... A bit less darker way to think about it, regardless at least he was around long enough to grace people with his music while he was here.
ComaProductions More like you just don't notice as much when extremely talented musicians grow old, and notice more when they die in their prime because it's truly tragic.
Regardless, there is no doubt that Shawn Lane died long before he reached what would've been his peak.
I am fully convinced the Shawn Lane could literally play anything at any speed in any style on any guitar.
And he played keyboards just as fast!
0:02 insane bebop improvisation
1:49 evil holdsworth be like
2:03 pentatonics from hell (eric j / zakk wylde kinda)
2:16 other madness ?
2:50 black market (weather report)
3:32 teen town (weather report)
Shawn definitely had a freakish nervous system (as he quoted himself). His brain must have always been going at light speed. What an incredible guitar player he was. I still mourn his death. :( RIP Shawn
He was a voracious reader, too. He'd read up to 10 books a week.
He actually read 3 to 10....a DAY...INSANE!
And a hell of a piano player too.
He also walked five miles to school barefoot uphill both ways 🤣
@@NovelMeetsEvilPodcast No....really. I knew Shawn. By the time he was a teenager he'd read the majority of books in the Memphis Public Library. I'm not proclaiming him a god. But he was a rare human being. Intellect and talent not often seen.
@@jakemitchell1671 I just shake my head and laugh when I see/hear him switch from guitar to keyboard and back. Really inspiring if you’re a savant. Demotivating for some of us normals 😊
Shawn will always be the most mind blowing guitarist, nobody can touch him and his piano skills were amazing too. This is ferocious.
Shawn Lane is the among ultimate expressions of creation. Like the Sistine chapel. Saw him in '97, mind blown. Was an atheist. Not anymore.
Which God did you decide to start worshipping?
Jiminy Lummox shawn lane ofc
Well said my friend!!! oilkills aka Don Rose, btw, do you like my Picture here? lol, Peace!
@@jiminylummox9352 lol
But really though??
man I would give anything to be able to sit down and have a conversation with Shawn
I just can't wrap my head around how he played like this it's totally beyond my comprehension it's almost alien.
0:02/0:06 This man will never be matched
This is the best tone I have ever heard out of him. Probably because it's rare that you see him with a Gibson...especially into a Soldano.
Late to reply, but I’ve read his usual guitar was lost in transportation (checked bags at airports), so he borrowed someone’s guitar. I thought I read it was an Epiphone Les Paul, but I might be wrong. I don’t know much about guitars
My God, what amazing player. Off the charts superhuman.
You know, what i love about this guy is everything. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
at the end - Teen Town !!! Jaco Pasorius forever!!
While the audio tech figures out the bassist amp problem, Shawn delivers the goods.
Is that the context of this improv occasion? Bass was temporarily off? Oh, yeah moments after typing this the bassist is back up and powering
Man. The dude was just cash money. Love Shawn Lane.
I’m gonna have to watch this on repeat for weeks to wrap my head around it entirely.
I’ve been a casual fan of Shane for years but I didn’t realize the extent of his genius; never put a dude in my top 10 after one performance. This may be the single best guitar performance I’ve ever seen - beating out Gatton and Buchanan.
He’ll never be my favorite guitarist (Hendrix) but he’s officially a contender for greatest guitarist of all time.
the older I get I realize that it's personality and image that make you famous; guitar playing is secondary; this guy was obviously in the rarest of airs; And at least if he didn't get famous as he should have he always seemed to love what he was doing and listening to his interviews knew more about music than anyone I can think of
Roger Adams he had a autoimmune disease that ruined his life, which made him overweight. He was actually very good looking in healthy years.
No, it's also accessibility; this kinda music is way over the top of most people's appreciation. Way more people would rather listen to Clapton or SRV, myself included. I can appreciate his mastery but it's just ugly, atonal noise for the most part.
Famous musicians have famous songs; without the songs you wind up as a great musician admired by musicians. You will find no none musician who knows of Lane, Holdsworth, Stern but who hasn't heard of Hendrix, Santana, Van Halen?
@@scottwaszak698 and Clapton is rigid, predictable, stationary and colorless..horrible shit
@@davederoux3361 not in his prime.
It's all so musical. But man do i love the transition to "Black Market" and then right to Teen Town." They sound so cohesive
Monster! Coltrane on the guitar and beyond!
Unstoppable playing and so fast.No one is comparable to that speed.
He had unique nervous system.
Pure stream of consciousness improvisation. No physical limitations, no musical limitations. What a monster talent.
fantastic comment
Understatement
He was playing mostly Schofield licks in the beginning, Shawn wasn't an old school jazzer, so he often reverted to that style in those situations
A jam with him and Guthrie would have been Epic. 2 of the most complete guitar players to ever exist.
Proud to carry on his legacy and tell people about him! Jawdropping musicianship!
I used to live in Memphis. I heard he was buried at poplar st. cemetary. God i wish he was still with us!!
+David Jones he is buried at Memorial Park which is on Poplar. His gravestone is just opposite the grotto area not too far from the entrance. Only a few feet from Isaac Hayes :)
+stevo0914 Oh, OK. Thanks. Man, I wish he was still with us.
+stevo0914 He should be burried on mahogany tbh
+David Jones I wish he were with us in body as well as spirit and music. At least the latter two live on!
freaking no words to describe Shawns playing
how has this not hit a million views? What a shame!
it blows my fucking mind. it's just unbelievable what this person did on this instrument especially with the health problems he had.
this guy is unreal.
Why are there trolls here who feel they're actually competent enough to make negative comments about this man ? Obviously they have not scratched the surface of what he was capable of, the depth of feeling he could pull out of a guitar when he wanted to. Yes this was a shred fest, but I'll retract my statement if anyone can produce even one player who can shred like this. Shawn was a genius intellectually as well as musically, and had so much to say that he had to rip out like this now and then. But man, oh man, he could make you cry with a simple phrase when he wanted to.
The trolls here are unbelievable. Rules of the game has some of the most emotional melodic content ive ever heard.
Name one who has the Soul Technique God given talent. Answer nobody. Miss you
Miss my fellow MemphIan.always a treat to watch him play.
Shawn was the best guitarist who ever lived. Period.
Indeed!!!
U2WB he is phenomenal....wish i could hear more
Yeeees
☺☺
+U2WB jason becker...period
This is the example of total mind flow. What he thinks, he plays and all is totally correct, in key and in time. this is an example of someone who is a total prodigy and showing what he can do anytime at the drop of a hat. Perfect! So glad this and whatever is out there of being Shawn recorded is available to see here. He is/was such a special musician who many are unaware of his talent.
Thank you Shawn!
It is also definitely worth noting that he reportedly read from 3 to 10 books a day. A true genius.
More like a freak... But in a good way!
steven cross Do you have any idea how long it takes to read 10 books? Don't believe everything you see on the interwebz.
I didn't read it on the internet friend. i read it in a posthumous magazine article and was said by multiple friends and members of his family including his wife. They said his house would literally be filled with stacks of books and that he would go the library and check out dozens of books at a time on a given subject. Just cause you couldn't comprehend someone elses ability to do something doesn't mean they can't. That's why we have words like "genius" which unfortunately are grossly overused and therefore removed from their true meanings. That being said i did not know him personally and can't say with certainty either way on the subject that's why i used the words "reportedly read 3 to 10 books a day". thanks for your concern
steven cross 10 books a day? Can't be done. And how can you, in the real world, check out 'dozens of books at a time' from a library, to any practical end, especially 'on a given subject'? I can well imagine he was a voracious reader and very intelligent but the silly fan boy myths that get built around people because they can play fast are ridiculous.
fine dude. you know it all. how exactly can a six year old whos never played a piano be able to play mozart by ear? some peoples minds are different from yours. And i personally go to the library quite often and they let you take up to 20 books at a time and recheck any of them out up to 3 times. There's easily hundreds of books of on most subjects. And if you think that what makes Shawn special is the speed at which he plays you're clearly not listening.
I’m late to the game with him, but at the moment he is the only guitarist I’m paying attention to.
Shawn Lane was a incredible and perfeccionist guitar player .
All the legends love Shawn Lawn and respect him very much! So amazing nek level. God bless
I see now where buckethead got his atonal tap stuff, but its incredible cause shawn is doing it with one hand
Hahaha Lmao!
Buckethead based his style, or part of it, on a record that Shawn wrote in the style of Conlon Nancarrow.
On Buckethead's guitar lesson he said he heard it on a Shawn Lane bootleg, and Gilbert helped him out with it, regardless of why he did it or who inspired him, its pretty freakin cool
ShadowNinjaNoah
Its a very interesting story actually. Bucket was trying to imitate something that was meant to be impossible to play, yet he did it!! haha
This is what Shawn said on an interview
"What that is was, I have been pretty obsessed for a little
while with the music of Conlon Nancarrow, so I wanted to try to express
something like that with the guitar and I wanted to do note combinations that I
didn't think could be done on the guitar. So actually what I did is
constructing it by recording every note separately. So I actually just would
play a note and then record however long I wanted the tone to be. If I wanted
it to be longer I'd record longer, for shorter notes I just recorded for a second.
And I literally just constructed it note-by-note over a couple of night's time.
Thousands of notes. I wanted to make combinations of notes that couldn't be
played, I was pretty convinced they couldn't be. So I did that as a stand-alone
loop about 8 years ago and a bootleg tape of it got in the hands of buckethead.
And nobody told him that I didn't play it, that it was assembled on tape with
guitar. And so he tried to sound like that by tapping and based a lot of his
style on that tape. So it's Conlon Nancarrow influencing me influencing
Buckethead. It became it's own style. But I think it's funny because it was
because of a misunderstanding. He didn't know that I didn't play it so he
assumed that it could just be played. Well, when I constructed it, I constructed
it specifically so it could not be played. And he didn't know that, so he
achieved something going (imitates Buckethead playing fast) by tapping them in
wide intervals. It's a weird story (laughs)"
www.richardhallebeek.com/interviews/lane.php
Dimitri808 crazy shit i didn't know that
God Lane
Damn!
the best ever. #oneofone
Enjoy Jonas dancing around in the opening, what else can you do? Shawn doesn't need no stinking rocket to travel the universe.
Most of Shawn's best playing was done on an obscure Roland synth guitar with the synth stuff taken out, through a MORE obscure Holmes Mississippi Bluesmaster solid state amp. I saw him dozens of times in Memphis, TN just ripping the world up. His soulful playing was more mesmerizing than his blistering ripping stuff. A true genius. RIP.
I miss him more and more
I often wonder how the guitar world would have evolved if monstrous players like Shawn Lane, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Randy Rhoads, Chuck Schuldiner, and even Django Reinhardt lived longer lives.
Shawn was a true casualty. I still revisit his music from time to time and it is beyond comprehension how much of a genius he really was. Such a shame about his health. :/
We can only hope that modern players like Rick Graham, and Guthrie Govan realize their impact on the community, and continue to pass the torch to the next generation of players like Plini, Aaron Marshall and Nick Johnston.
Matteo Mancuso and Max Ostro are really coming into their own right as well.
Great! Shawn playing "black market"and "teen town"
Amazing !!! SL the best !!!!
saw these guys in '97. the 90% of the show sounded like the part that starts at 4:20.
420. I like that. Shawn smoked alot of weed. Spent alot of time in Amsterdam. Medical. (Psoriatic arthritis. He didn't have good health insurance. he probably "got big" from the steroids. He died(20 years ago) when it spread to the lungs.
a godman, he was.
shawn was a guitarist everywhere from jazz to shred to neoclassical to speed metal. and he was a god at all of it
holy cow that is insane
he was soooooo goood.
Okay. I'm not gonna read any comments until I'm done writing this. I never heard of Shawn Lane until I saw a Marty Friedman post with him playing with his band and then the next up was "10 Best Solos from Jason Becker". Listened to some of that and then poked into the comments to see what people were saying. The usual well deserved platitudes and comparisons. Harmless stuff. But one commenter said something about Jason being the greatest except for maybe Shawn Lane or something like that. I searched TH-cam for Shawn Lee and got some Asian human beat box. Pretty cool actually. But I failed to see the connection to Jason's music. I went back to the comments and saw that it was Shawn LANE. So hear I am. Watching him for the first time and I'm blown away. As a guitar player for 40 years who's loved all the shredders and made a lame attempt myself, I don't hear too many things these days that I haven't heard of. Well, that's my story. Reading people's comments and/or reviews of things in entertainment are sometimes the best way to learn about other artists, movies, etc.
Unfortunately in the comments I saw someone say Shawn suffered the same fate. No matter what the reason, I guess he ain't playin' anymore. :(
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he's ripping on a Soldano slo-100, great rig!
Un cabezal de maestros. Una reliquia. Yo amo ese cabezal.
I sadly only discovered this guy after my formative years. I was influenced by all the typical shredders from the 80's. This guy was awesome.
It's crazy that 2 of the greatest guitarists ever in Shawn Lane and Jason Becker, had autoimmune diseases that took them away from their craft so early. What a shame.
Yes, you are correct in mentioning the Big 2... Shawn and Jason.
Absolutely BADFKNASS!!
I HAD TO PAUSE WHEN HE TURNED ON THE OVERDRIVE 😂… WTF Shawn!! Jeeeeeeeeesus Chrissssssssst! I’m crying at how amazing this is! 🥹😅
amazing tone -les through a Solano...love Shawn !
Long ago, a friend of mine's band shared a bill with Black Oak and he wouldn't shutup about "this kid from Memphis" who was a "total monster". As this was before the wonders of the internet and youtube I just took his word for it but I thought it odd that a guitar virtuoso would be playing with a band like Black Oak (nothing against them) - and then I more or less forgot about it. A few months later, someone gave me a grainy cassette of Shawn's playing with a cover band and I was blown away (like most people were). Even though the tape was like a second or third generation copy, full of hiss and random drop outs, you could definitely hear that he not only played the tunes with great precision and respect but he had his own unique thing happening and at such a young age. Of course the rest is history but he deserved more credit.
Mind blown, again!
1:50 at 2:00 remember buckethead atonal licks tapping
Israel tanker yeah me too
Huskope Shroud except he does it with one hand lol
who do you think buckedhead got that from? it's all shawn lane
There was Shawn Lane...and then everybody else... he was in a catagory all of his own...the word genius is overly used....but in his case it applies......🎸🎸🎸🎸
I love how he randomly jumps into Weather Report stuff sometimes.
Such freedom with the instrument.
My good and very genius by tecnic,,
SHAWN LANE ! = Genius 🎸💯🎶🎸💯🎶🎸💯🎶🙏
aah...hmmm... speechless
Monster!!!!!!!!!!!!
Blahhh i donno why i do this to myself amazing human being one of a kind.
Great bass guitarists perfomance
i agree and this was 15 years ago
Geniale ❤
Wow no comments on the drummer? He was doing great too
Awesome
Yeah!!
Could not put it better!!! Thank you.
BTW the Bass/Guitar lines at the end of the jam are WEATHER REPORT's TEEN TOWN.... Jaco Pastorious! These guys also have incredible taste in music:)
one&only eletric guitarist that i know that has 100% control over his instrument.....
Hey man, what a great accident it was clicking on this dude!!!
Awesome so jazzy, I like him playing clean guitar best
Love this one by Lane. Great band too.
Awesome Weather Report Black Market lick at 3:04, sure knew his stuff
2:00 my smartphone started to catch fire.
Jaw-dropping licks, as always.
didn't expect that teen town at the end !!! awesome !
I hear that; if exposure was determined by talent he'd be a household name worldwide.
The Drummer need some props on this jam!
If look all the great guitars players of the past era you have at least resources to study as example;Malmsteen,Vai,Petrucci etc... except,shawn Lane,he gave absolut everything to music,he gave everything.
Love the weather report nod .
Fucking stunning!!
Shawn Was Badass
1:34 that change to distortion hits so hard