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.
@ 2:03 These descending pentatonic flourishes are simply superhuman in their speed. This guy's nervous system was truly "freakish" as he was once quoted when asked about his speed.
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
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.
Probably the best clean tone I've ever heard on a Les Paul, along with Les Paul himself. This man could play some crazy shit with incredible ease and seemingly complete lack of effort.
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.
@@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
Don’t know if anything can be labeled “the best,” but if you want to argue about it this would be a great place to start. He’s unreal. I never tire of listening to the Utube posts of his playing. Thanks for posting.
What an inspiration ! realistically an impossible aspiration, but none the less an absolute inspiration. I hope he enjoyed his time on this planet because musicians like him show us instrumental Giant Steps
2:28 - 2:34 is single handedly the most furious combination of picking and hammerons i have ever witnessed a guitar player do. The speed is inhuman, the note volume is equal on every note. Probably the strongest left hand in guitar history and with out a doubt the most complete well rounded guitarist ( in my own humble opinion of course) I have ever witnessed here on youtube. Scotty Anderson, Guthrie Govan, and Frank Gambale are the only ones who come close as far as being well rounded IMO.
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 :)
I would highly recommend anyone watching this listen to his opening run at half speed. Guthrie Govan, talking about Shawn, mentioned that "this wasn't just a guy who practiced his scales a lot." This dude was a genius to invent such passages at this tempo with actually interesting notes. Listening at half speed really highlights this.
This is an amazing tip. haha. I'm doing this now and it feels like a whole new world of amazing phrasing and note choices. But of course at full speed it's hard to discern what's going on. Thanks!
What I like here is how (and what I think sets Lane apart from other "shredders") is his picking hand. You can hear the pick hitting every note as opposed to the left hand doing all the work.
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)
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.
Turned a few students on to this, and others as well. I was there, being a professor at the University of Warsaw. I did not know who Shawn Lane was at that time--I got some lesson I will never forget. RIP to a wonderful soul who was a guitar giant!
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.
Trying to show my wife and kids the original of Teen Town and the godly ness of JACO. I love Shawn because of his humble nature and how he was a fan of everything musical. I strongly recommend that everyone go check out Lane’s REH video where he talks about the first time he saw Allan Holdsworth was by accident and forever changed his life. Same thing happened to me;)
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.
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.
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
Literally a freak of nature when it comes to guitar. I believe Shawn was the most technically proficient guitar player to this day. I think it would be difficult to find any guitarist that recognizes his level and doesn't hold it in high regard. It's very sad that he passed away so young.
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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.
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
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.
Nobody sounds like this because nobody can. The absolute king of electric guitar.
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?
Just when I thought that I was playing pretty good lately, I had to go and see this from '98 and well, I'm going to sleep.
Gotta love the internet where a video of a fantastic fusion jazz guitarist can spawn dozens of people arguing about useless mundane crap.
For me, he's the greatest electric guitar player of all time.
No doubt.
@Andy Butler Yeah, you are right about that. I prefer Shawns music though. It connects with me more than Allans does.
He and Buckethead are aliens...
For me too...Nobody comes close..
With Guthrie Govan
@ 2:03 These descending pentatonic flourishes are simply superhuman in their speed. This guy's nervous system was truly "freakish" as he was once quoted when asked about his speed.
Even despite his condition and health, he still played this show with such passion and skill.
Lots of RUclips videos have "the best" in the title. This one deservedly so.
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!
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
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.
Probably the best clean tone I've ever heard on a Les Paul, along with Les Paul himself.
This man could play some crazy shit with incredible ease and seemingly complete lack of effort.
Shawn Lane left the world a better place & thankfully we are still appreciating him now in 2021. Super upload.
man I would give anything to be able to sit down and have a conversation with Shawn
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.
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
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 😊
I just can't wrap my head around how he played like this it's totally beyond my comprehension it's almost alien.
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
Shawn Lane was and is the greatest. Super shredder and great note selection.
My God, what amazing player. Off the charts superhuman.
Paul Gilbert, Bucket, and Guthrie always pay homage to this man
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
Gettin my Shawn dose before my gig, RIP brother
Don’t know if anything can be labeled “the best,” but if you want to argue about it this would be a great place to start. He’s unreal. I never tire of listening to the Utube posts of his playing. Thanks for posting.
What an inspiration ! realistically an impossible aspiration, but none the less an absolute inspiration. I hope he enjoyed his time on this planet because musicians like him show us instrumental Giant Steps
2:28 - 2:34 is single handedly the most furious combination of picking and hammerons i have ever witnessed a guitar player do. The speed is inhuman, the note volume is equal on every note. Probably the strongest left hand in guitar history and with out a doubt the most complete well rounded guitarist ( in my own humble opinion of course) I have ever witnessed here on youtube. Scotty Anderson, Guthrie Govan, and Frank Gambale are the only ones who come close as far as being well rounded IMO.
And it is absolutely horrendous to listen too, verging on non-musical...
❤
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.
You know, what i love about this guy is everything. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Monster! Coltrane on the guitar and beyond!
Shawn was a genius.
Shawn will always be the most mind blowing guitarist, nobody can touch him and his piano skills were amazing too. This is ferocious.
freaking no words to describe Shawns playing
Proud to carry on his legacy and tell people about him! Jawdropping musicianship!
A jam with him and Guthrie would have been Epic. 2 of the most complete guitar players to ever exist.
it blows my fucking mind. it's just unbelievable what this person did on this instrument especially with the health problems he had.
Man. The dude was just cash money. Love Shawn Lane.
this guy is unreal.
Unstoppable playing and so fast.No one is comparable to that speed.
He had unique nervous system.
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!
I would highly recommend anyone watching this listen to his opening run at half speed. Guthrie Govan, talking about Shawn, mentioned that "this wasn't just a guy who practiced his scales a lot." This dude was a genius to invent such passages at this tempo with actually interesting notes. Listening at half speed really highlights this.
On the videos ,when he shows how to play the licks ,they are MORE melodic !!!!
This is an amazing tip. haha. I'm doing this now and it feels like a whole new world of amazing phrasing and note choices. But of course at full speed it's hard to discern what's going on. Thanks!
It's sad how many guitar videos I saw before I stumbled across Shawn.
how has this not hit a million views? What a shame!
First time I've seen him play a Kes Paul... usually Vigier... amazing... wish there was more quality footage of him than there is...
What I like here is how (and what I think sets Lane apart from other "shredders") is his picking hand. You can hear the pick hitting every note as opposed to the left hand doing all the work.
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)
Astro SAX Guitar. Total mind blowing improv. Be bop & beyond. Wowzer!!!RIP Brother
at the end - Teen Town !!! Jaco Pasorius forever!!
Shawn, the greatest!!!!!
His music will live thru him forever
+Chuck Wuethrich indeeeeed
0:02/0:06 This man will never be matched
Thank you Shawn!
Back again 9 yrs later and he is still the king of the hill. It looked like Jonas was getting his praise dance going.
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.
Miss my fellow MemphIan.always a treat to watch him play.
Turned a few students on to this, and others as well. I was there, being a professor at the University of Warsaw. I did not know who Shawn Lane was at that time--I got some lesson I will never forget. RIP to a wonderful soul who was a guitar giant!
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.
I’m late to the game with him, but at the moment he is the only guitarist I’m paying attention to.
He was a genius!
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.
Damn!
Finger power that no one ever has except the great Shawn Lane.
holy cow that is insane
He is a master
Mesmerising, unbelievable groove and terrifying licks!
The best shredder that ever lived. Even if you slow his playing down is so detailed and well articulated.
Love hearing Shawn with a Gibson!
Epiphone 😉
Trying to show my wife and kids the original of Teen Town and the godly ness of JACO. I love Shawn because of his humble nature and how he was a fan of everything musical. I strongly recommend that everyone go check out Lane’s REH video where he talks about the first time he saw Allan Holdsworth was by accident and forever changed his life. Same thing happened to me;)
The best
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.
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.
Great to see EVH son live!!
Shawn Lane played at the NAMM Jam with Steve Vai and Joe Satriani in 1993 along with Andy Timmons, Paul Gilbert, Rob Beach and Alex Skolnick.
GOAT
I love how he randomly jumps into Weather Report stuff sometimes.
Shawn Lane was a incredible and perfeccionist guitar player .
He was, is, and always will be a legend!
All the legends love Shawn Lawn and respect him very much! So amazing nek level. God bless
I miss him more and more
Name one who has the Soul Technique God given talent. Answer nobody. Miss you
Shawn Lane was just a bad ass. RIP !
Mind blown, again!
UNTOUCHABLE, NOT HUMAN!
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
Well im late to the show,but its obvious this man was born with a gift. RIP SHAWN
Literally a freak of nature when it comes to guitar. I believe Shawn was the most technically proficient guitar player to this day. I think it would be difficult to find any guitarist that recognizes his level and doesn't hold it in high regard. It's very sad that he passed away so young.
There are many times in his live videos where his left hand moves noticeably faster than any guitarist I've ever seen. A True Legend with a Gift 🙏
he's ripping on a Soldano slo-100, great rig!
Un cabezal de maestros. Una reliquia. Yo amo ese cabezal.
Shawn.
Great! Shawn playing "black market"and "teen town"
2:00 my smartphone started to catch fire.
Awesome
Yeah!!
Could not put it better!!! Thank you.
Fantastic scale!!!!!
aah...hmmm... speechless
I can't even play like that in my dreams. I think he came across every scale in the book with crazy improvisation.