His speed and phrasing is legendary but my favorite playing of his was when he was so deep into Indian classical ragas and phrasing, his sitar mimicking slides and modal solos are some of the greatest guitar playing I’ve ever heard...haunting
I agree 1000%. No one captured the Indian Vocal style better than Shawn Lane, without a doubt my most favorite era of his, and some of the most beautiful music that I've heard.
Shawn Lane was light years ahead of the game.. that’s one of the most beautiful guitar pieces I’ve ever heard in my life so inspiring.. absolutely amazing. Rest in peace Shawn 🙏🏻🎸
For me this video is why Shawn Lane is so fuckin insane.He turns into Ravi Shankar and shreds/dances with the guitar gods of past.The scales and notes he hits are beyond anything.
Oh my dear god. What did I just witness? I have no words... I can't believe I've only just come across Shawn Lane. Has there ever been a guitarist (or pianist) as talented? A true virtuoso if that term could ever be meaningfully applied to anyone...
Hes the best of all time... I am at a tony macalpine concert and i run into this dude we are talking guitarists, i ask it...whos the best of all time? Guy who i now know as mark says shawn lane... hes one of my best friends years later because of this...ive asked many ppl that question...and ive only heard the proper answer which is shawn once...if u find someone who knows about him dont let that person go..
@@jacobattias8401 I listened to all shrapnel guitarist during 80s somehow I missed Shawn lane. Didnt know who he was until 15 years later. Buckethead interview in 2004 guitar magazine. It’s the way buckethead explained shawn lane. Buckethead said back in 80s there were shawn lane tapes floating around guitar scene LA..
after many years, this is still my favorite solo of his. how something so blindingly fast can have such amazing melodic presence. combined with that reverb/delay and the clean amp. like a hundred angels playing harps in heaven.
I refer to performances like this, those towards the end of Shawn''s life as "Shawn's Prayers". Amazing offerings to the higher power that created him. I'm so humbled whenever I watch him That he was given to us while I'm alive.
Back in 2008 my friend used to play this for me when I was depressed. RIP Shawn Lane. Underrated is an overused word, but Shawn Lane is truly underrated.
I don't know a single person, guitarist, musician, or music lover that once they heard this man's genius they didn't think he was one of , if not the GOAT on guitar. We will never know what commercial exposure would have done with his career. Personally, in my opinion, ..to play at this level you have to know what love is. It's the energy that motivates willingness to sacrifice for what's important to you. He went all in. R.I.P my friend. I wish we met sooner, but I will have a great time catching up. Peace
I found this a while back after Shawn passed away and it was posted on Buckethead’s message board. The main page had a touching tribute to him, and this was the first video I checked out of the many listed. I still come back to this every couple of months because it’s so beautiful. Thanks for sharing it again.
The speed and phrasing are just unbelievable, especially when you stop to think this was done with a totally clean amp. You CAN NOT achieve this unless you are digging into and attacking those strings with the pick. Id bet you could have heard Shawn playing this from the back row with the amp turned off.
Woah, one of my favorite live versions that I’ve seen. The phrasing, expression, and emotion of this song is so great. Hands down one of my favorite guitar songs
Whoooooaaaaa. I thought 'bookshop india' title for search was best for SL. I've never ever wept more watching a video, let alone all of the SL I waatch. Wow this melody melts me. Pure, fluid and Intelligent
Here I am making another post on the same Shawn Lane video I've watched a million times, and for good reason! Shawn was born poor and died poor, despite being a child prodigy, a savant, an amazing artist and a very productive one at that! He also died of issues that could have been prevented had he had more wealth. But here's the lesson that I learn watching him shred across this fretboard: He had the freedom to practice and play what he wanted, not what he was paid to do. If Shawn had held close to his health issues, he'd have become a corporate musician making bangers for billionaires. That means he'd have spent his life practicing and creating what other people want, not what is true to his heart. To actualize his own artistry, Shawn Lane had no option but to forgo his own wealth building empire and accept an early death. There was no way for Shawn to heal, be wealthy and play exactly what you watch in this video. He plays what he does because he sacrificed the material world for self-actualization. So who do I want to be? Do I want to cling to my health issues and be productive for people who don't care about me to get my needs met and live a long life? Or do I actually want to be an amazing musician? You try all of it and see what sticks, which is why I know Shawn could have walked a different path in if he wanted to. He just recognized how empty that would be, to live and not express what you hear in this video. He made the sacrifice to bring us inspiration, which is inspiring ontop of the musical inspiration.
I think your view is incorrect. I wish he HAD made more music to make the bucks to the get ongoing treatment. He could still have done the stuff close to his soul and done the money music only as a side gig. It's not a binary issue: it's not a black and white choice between staying pure vs selling out. You can earn a living and being a true artist at the same time. Others have done it. 'Dying' for your art is wrong.....
just the other day I discovered how Shawn is able to play modally like this, sound good and mix styles of blues, jazz and eastern classical. There's lots of scales that are logical within musical theory, but aren't frequently utilized and if you search online information is scarce and limited. If we take mixolydian, we would want a #11, making it a Lydomyxian scale. But there are other notes that can be altered besides the 11. The 2 and 6 can be altered, so you can have a scaled like Lydomyxian b9, Lydomyxian b13 or Lydomyxian #9. The modes of these Lydomyxian scales have parts that are chromatic, like the #4, 5 and b6 of Lydomyxian b6. But rather than being pentatonic or hexatonic, they are heptatonic and you can see the shapes of bluesy chromaticism within the mixolydian scale. There are others, lots of them. SInce I coulnt find any names I had to name them myself. Here's what I came up with. Modes of Lydian b13: Lydian b6, Major Locrodorian 6, Super Aeolian, Blues Locrian, Ionian b2, Lydian Augmented #2#6, Phrygian Blues Modes of Lydian b9: Lydian b2, Minor Locrian Blues, Dorolian Blues, Locrian Blues, Ionian Diminished, Super Dorian, Blues Aeolian Modes of Lydomyxian #9: Lydomyxian #2, Super Ultra Locrian bb6, Harmonic Minor b5, Super Locrian 6, Augmented Melodic Minor, Phrygidorian #4, Lydian Augmented #3 Modes of Lydomyxian b13: Lydomyxian b6, iolocrian, Super Aeolocrian, Blues Super Locrian, Phrygionian, Lydian Augmented #6, Lydomyxian Augmented Modes of Lydomyxian b9: Lydomyxian b2, Minor Locrian Major, Ultra Aeolocrian, Super Locrian bb6, Melodic Minor b5, Super Phrygidorian, Augmented Melodic Minor #4. Most of the scales themselves don't make great sounding chords, but as you can see each of them can be played on major or dominant respectively, and the modes represent positions on the guitar. So on a G dominant 7 chord you can play a mode of G Lydomyxian #9, like F Lydian Augmented #3. I can literally see his fingers mapping out the patterns of many of these shapes, and if you compare him to other guitar players Shawns hands are always doing something most players aren't. He's a smart guy, he probably wondered why nobody talks about or uses these scales, when they're just another collection of notes to draw sound from. They don't always make good chords, but they make good scales to use over your basic minor, major, dominant and diminished. How does he play without the direction of accompaniment? All scales can be referenced to either C or some alteration like Cb or C#. You can play chord changes by changing the mode, that's what chord changes are for a jazz musician. So if he knows ahead of time the modes he needs to play in order according a progression he knows, he can do something like in this video where he casually shreds and it always sounds good and always resolves nicely. You can see sometimes even he doesn't expect what he's going to play and has the look of surprise. Sometimes you don't always know how its going to sound, but you know the changes you need to make and what positions on the guitar to play them and in which order.
Whoever you are managin shanws account, and loved my accound, thank you for sharing such an inspiring and unique soul, he was a virtuoso, one in a lifetime
I would have been in 4th or 5th grade and im still very upset that that was the closest i could.have got to.seeing him...ive watched so many vids of shawn i met him in a dream...told him he made the best music ever
@@bendameron9922 I know it was a bit hyperbolic, just like your reply. I would say one of the greatest guitar players. Just a fun opinion not meant to be taken literately, calm down dude.
i always wonder WHY steroids were used to treat his psoriasis. It seems to me that physicians never gave him and his condition the due attention. What an immense loss.
Guthrie has been a session player for many years and is indeed a catalog of styles and theory because of this. But he is also a lovely person, very humble and an incredible guitar player. No need to bash him.
Just noticed there’s not a single bend in the entire video. Shows there’s many ways to show emotion in the guitar. A lot of players throw random bends every 5 seconds to hide their lack of musicality, and act like they are full of “emotion”
His speed and phrasing is legendary but my favorite playing of his was when he was so deep into Indian classical ragas and phrasing, his sitar mimicking slides and modal solos are some of the greatest guitar playing I’ve ever heard...haunting
I agree 1000%. No one captured the Indian Vocal style better than Shawn Lane, without a doubt my most favorite era of his, and some of the most beautiful music that I've heard.
continuing his idol, John McLaughlin.
@@Nedwin yeah, and John is the one who actually started it
Totally agree
A legend that was gone too soon.
Shawn Lane was light years ahead of the game.. that’s one of the most beautiful guitar pieces I’ve ever heard in my life so inspiring.. absolutely amazing. Rest in peace Shawn 🙏🏻🎸
19 years ago today. RIP Shawn
That right there is the farthest anyone has gone..... RIP mr. Lane, You are loved and have impacted many.
All these years later, I'm still touched by his playing.
Who in their right mind is not touched?
Same here my friend!
For me this video is why Shawn Lane is so fuckin insane.He turns into Ravi Shankar and shreds/dances with the guitar gods of past.The scales and notes he hits are beyond anything.
Have listed to every great in every country, time and instrument. 45 years of playing and listening. Shawn Lawn is the best.
Right there with you. Shame you don't have a bunch of playlists to check out.
Got some suggestions ? I love U srinivas - gajavadhana
ruclips.net/video/XgG4FiBPw48/видео.htmlsi=1qjKt__lQNaLUH_V
thank you Shawn and whoever decided to hit record
Man, no kidding.
Oh my dear god. What did I just witness? I have no words... I can't believe I've only just come across Shawn Lane. Has there ever been a guitarist (or pianist) as talented? A true virtuoso if that term could ever be meaningfully applied to anyone...
Hes the best of all time...
I am at a tony macalpine concert and i run into this dude we are talking guitarists, i ask it...whos the best of all time? Guy who i now know as mark says shawn lane... hes one of my best friends years later because of this...ive asked many ppl that question...and ive only heard the proper answer which is shawn once...if u find someone who knows about him dont let that person go..
@@jacobattias8401 I listened to all shrapnel guitarist during 80s somehow I missed Shawn lane. Didnt know who he was until 15 years later. Buckethead interview in 2004 guitar magazine. It’s the way buckethead explained shawn lane. Buckethead said back in 80s there were shawn lane tapes floating around guitar scene LA..
nope not yet, not ever...
Hearing this with headphones, tired af after working, I almost transcends when hearing this
after many years, this is still my favorite solo of his. how something so blindingly fast can have such amazing melodic presence. combined with that reverb/delay and the clean amp. like a hundred angels playing harps in heaven.
I have watched this at least 100 times and I get amazed every time
1:23 so deep and beautiful. The feeling that this melody gives me ... I never get tired of hearing it
So damn cool.
I refer to performances like this, those towards the end of Shawn''s life as "Shawn's Prayers". Amazing offerings to the higher power that created him. I'm so humbled whenever I watch him That he was given to us while I'm alive.
Thanks for lifting my spirit, Shawn! PEACE!
Back in 2008 my friend used to play this for me when I was depressed. RIP Shawn Lane. Underrated is an overused word, but Shawn Lane is truly underrated.
I don't know a single person, guitarist, musician, or music lover that once they heard this man's genius they didn't think he was one of , if not the GOAT on guitar. We will never know what commercial exposure would have done with his career. Personally, in my opinion, ..to play at this level you have to know what love is. It's the energy that motivates willingness to sacrifice for what's important to you. He went all in. R.I.P my friend. I wish we met sooner, but I will have a great time catching up. Peace
He gave with so much soul and spirit to guitar music 🎶
There are no words to describe his playing!!!
The greatest of all time in my book!
I miss you Shawn 😢😢😢
That last stretch he does at the end looks killer. But wow what a sound he created. The entire performance took me to the heavens.
I found this a while back after Shawn passed away and it was posted on Buckethead’s message board. The main page had a touching tribute to him, and this was the first video I checked out of the many listed. I still come back to this every couple of months because it’s so beautiful. Thanks for sharing it again.
Exactly how I discovered him when way back in 2003
The speed and phrasing are just unbelievable, especially when you stop to think this was done with a totally clean amp.
You CAN NOT achieve this unless you are digging into and attacking those strings with the pick. Id bet you could have heard Shawn playing this from the back row with the amp turned off.
Woah, one of my favorite live versions that I’ve seen. The phrasing, expression, and emotion of this song is so great. Hands down one of my favorite guitar songs
just love this musician so much. what a tragic loss. but im glad for this channel and so much he left for us.
The best Shawn’s presentation
Just as the amazing Buckethead put it.. The greatest guitar player to ever live. What a legend and an inspiration!
Whoooooaaaaa. I thought 'bookshop india' title for search was best for SL. I've never ever wept more watching a video, let alone all of the SL I waatch. Wow this melody melts me. Pure, fluid and Intelligent
Here I am making another post on the same Shawn Lane video I've watched a million times, and for good reason! Shawn was born poor and died poor, despite being a child prodigy, a savant, an amazing artist and a very productive one at that! He also died of issues that could have been prevented had he had more wealth. But here's the lesson that I learn watching him shred across this fretboard: He had the freedom to practice and play what he wanted, not what he was paid to do. If Shawn had held close to his health issues, he'd have become a corporate musician making bangers for billionaires. That means he'd have spent his life practicing and creating what other people want, not what is true to his heart. To actualize his own artistry, Shawn Lane had no option but to forgo his own wealth building empire and accept an early death. There was no way for Shawn to heal, be wealthy and play exactly what you watch in this video. He plays what he does because he sacrificed the material world for self-actualization.
So who do I want to be? Do I want to cling to my health issues and be productive for people who don't care about me to get my needs met and live a long life? Or do I actually want to be an amazing musician? You try all of it and see what sticks, which is why I know Shawn could have walked a different path in if he wanted to. He just recognized how empty that would be, to live and not express what you hear in this video. He made the sacrifice to bring us inspiration, which is inspiring ontop of the musical inspiration.
I think your view is incorrect. I wish he HAD made more music to make the bucks to the get ongoing treatment. He could still have done the stuff close to his soul and done the money music only as a side gig. It's not a binary issue: it's not a black and white choice between staying pure vs selling out. You can earn a living and being a true artist at the same time. Others have done it. 'Dying' for your art is wrong.....
Jaw dropping
Otherworldly playing.
👽 🎸
It’s all soul and at the same time razor mind. Mighty power
Perfection.
So beautiful!
Amazing.
Virtuoso....e muitas horas de estudo...Amazing...um dos melhores guitarristas da sua geração....uma alma com muito feeling....
just the other day I discovered how Shawn is able to play modally like this, sound good and mix styles of blues, jazz and eastern classical. There's lots of scales that are logical within musical theory, but aren't frequently utilized and if you search online information is scarce and limited. If we take mixolydian, we would want a #11, making it a Lydomyxian scale. But there are other notes that can be altered besides the 11. The 2 and 6 can be altered, so you can have a scaled like Lydomyxian b9, Lydomyxian b13 or Lydomyxian #9. The modes of these Lydomyxian scales have parts that are chromatic, like the #4, 5 and b6 of Lydomyxian b6. But rather than being pentatonic or hexatonic, they are heptatonic and you can see the shapes of bluesy chromaticism within the mixolydian scale. There are others, lots of them. SInce I coulnt find any names I had to name them myself. Here's what I came up with.
Modes of Lydian b13: Lydian b6, Major Locrodorian 6, Super Aeolian, Blues Locrian, Ionian b2, Lydian Augmented #2#6, Phrygian Blues
Modes of Lydian b9: Lydian b2, Minor Locrian Blues, Dorolian Blues, Locrian Blues, Ionian Diminished, Super Dorian, Blues Aeolian
Modes of Lydomyxian #9: Lydomyxian #2, Super Ultra Locrian bb6, Harmonic Minor b5, Super Locrian 6, Augmented Melodic Minor, Phrygidorian #4, Lydian Augmented #3
Modes of Lydomyxian b13: Lydomyxian b6, iolocrian, Super Aeolocrian, Blues Super Locrian, Phrygionian, Lydian Augmented #6, Lydomyxian Augmented
Modes of Lydomyxian b9: Lydomyxian b2, Minor Locrian Major, Ultra Aeolocrian, Super Locrian bb6, Melodic Minor b5, Super Phrygidorian, Augmented Melodic Minor #4.
Most of the scales themselves don't make great sounding chords, but as you can see each of them can be played on major or dominant respectively, and the modes represent positions on the guitar. So on a G dominant 7 chord you can play a mode of G Lydomyxian #9, like F Lydian Augmented #3. I can literally see his fingers mapping out the patterns of many of these shapes, and if you compare him to other guitar players Shawns hands are always doing something most players aren't. He's a smart guy, he probably wondered why nobody talks about or uses these scales, when they're just another collection of notes to draw sound from. They don't always make good chords, but they make good scales to use over your basic minor, major, dominant and diminished.
How does he play without the direction of accompaniment? All scales can be referenced to either C or some alteration like Cb or C#. You can play chord changes by changing the mode, that's what chord changes are for a jazz musician. So if he knows ahead of time the modes he needs to play in order according a progression he knows, he can do something like in this video where he casually shreds and it always sounds good and always resolves nicely. You can see sometimes even he doesn't expect what he's going to play and has the look of surprise. Sometimes you don't always know how its going to sound, but you know the changes you need to make and what positions on the guitar to play them and in which order.
What on Earth are you talking about?
gracias por haber existido shawn.
Shawn loved Srinivas's playing, he must have been ecstatic to jam with him, I wish there were a video of the entire show
Thanks 👍😘🇸🇪
great sound !! thanks !
3 comments? This is so beautiful and jnderrated
Aren't comments and beauty unrelated ?
Whoever you are managin shanws account, and loved my accound, thank you for sharing such an inspiring and unique soul, he was a virtuoso, one in a lifetime
@@recipoldinasty , Shawn’s daughter and friends.🎸🕊
I would have been in 4th or 5th grade and im still very upset that that was the closest i could.have got to.seeing him...ive watched so many vids of shawn i met him in a dream...told him he made the best music ever
Bravoooo!
This is the music you hear when entering heaven.
What a beautiful way to enter
True genius
I need this solo but in music format.
anyone know where I can find this complete perfomance?
Om mani padme hum shawn and thinking of you tomorrow on your birthday.
Shawn Lane is the greatest guitar player in the known universe.
I doubt there's a better one in the unknown universe. At least I'd be surprised.
YES!!! Behold The GOAT!!!
Only profound ignorance can speak so boldly
@@bendameron9922 I know it was a bit hyperbolic, just like your reply. I would say one of the greatest guitar players. Just a fun opinion not meant to be taken literately, calm down dude.
@@1tgiuntac395 I’m mad. Furious, in fact.
Has anyone tabbed this?
MASTER SUPREME
Still the greatest
But Einstein 's relativity theory says the speed of light cannot be exceeded. Maybe He was wrong...
3:30👌
I literally cant even perceive what his middle finger is doing at that part, but as usual it sounds amazing
@@samhartway437 literally faster than a hummingbird's wings
That is the largest wave I have ever surfed! Whew!!!!
What scale does he play? Trick question, he plays them all. I need to learn this 5:00
I'm responsible for about half these views.
its looks like he practised every day for 200 years
The one above all
His zeeeewwrrmm…and …zeeeewwrrmmsS were so0 amazing’ …and ghhheeEeeesSsse and ghheeesssSe, wish he was here today 👋🏽🎸
one every thousand thousand
GOD
i always wonder WHY steroids were used to treat his psoriasis. It seems to me that physicians never gave him and his condition the due attention. What an immense loss.
What was the date of this show?
Not sure, sorry. -CB
Shawn and and dimebag best
People who think Govan is better are not my people....this man is a sage a majin buu if you will
Govan is just a catalogue of licks
Henry Cowell totally agree!! Spaghetti
Absolutely no need to trash Guthrie
Guthrie has been a session player for many years and is indeed a catalog of styles and theory because of this. But he is also a lovely person, very humble and an incredible guitar player. No need to bash him.
@@keesketsers5866 I didn’t bash anyone, but I see how it looks negative. Guthrie is grossly overrated where as Shawn overlooked in my view 🙏
Im lost in the music
1:02 ishowspeed song?
Just noticed there’s not a single bend in the entire video. Shows there’s many ways to show emotion in the guitar. A lot of players throw random bends every 5 seconds to hide their lack of musicality, and act like they are full of “emotion”
He doesn’t go more than five seconds without bending a string in this video. And why shouldn’t he?
@@marcwormjim There aren’t any bends, just vibrato
Lots of delay hiding some sloppiness.
You obviously dont know who Shawn Lane was and what his capabilities on instrument were!
@@tusharsharma5924 He was clearly good at eating!
@@NoName-ql1wk do some research about him then bark here!
Shawn Lane had arthritis.
@@CesarClouds Agreed he was well fat.