I use Indica at night right before bed and every single night I come here to watch 19:00 until the end of the song because it feels like the first time I heard it and it always makes me cry. It's the most perfect guitar moment to ever happen.
I've got to walk around that room at MI for campus tour, when i looked at the stage all i could imagine was what it must have been like for a student to experience this clinic and how jealous i will always be of them. I kept starring at the left side because thats where Shawn stood, truly some magical shit.
For reals aye! 20 years after his passing and with all the amazing virtuoso guitar shredders sprouting up via the internet, l still see Shawn Lane as the absolute Gold Standard by which all of them are judged.
I knew Shawn in Memphis and I'll tell you a funny story about one night he came over to my house and as we stood in the kitchen talking my dad walked in so I introduced them and said This is Shawn he is a guitar player and my dad said hi and then he said ''A guitar player? So are you any good?'' I could have gone through the floor and just died from embarrassment but Shawn being the soft-spoken guy he was said '' I think so'' THINK SO!! When I heard him say that I nearly died again
Sean Rickman is still touring with the best. I watched him live this year (2022) with Steve Coleman's band here in London. He hasn't aged a day in 29 years!
Can we talk about this incredible TONE? Fok! It’s so smooth, singing, big and full, no huge amount of hiss, it’s not easy to design a guitar sound like that.
Now let's ponder the idea that Shawn, like most guitarists, was attempting to play what he heard in his head. Just to conceive this sound, let alone replicate it, is what astounds me. 30 years + now since this was created, it's still the Gold Standard, and Shawn is still the GOAT. Matteo Mancuso is perhaps the closest we have today, another prodigy.
I always knew the Charvel XL750 was much more than a metal guitar. Shawn is a legend. He made it sing, with beautiful melody lines, ultra fast runs and phrasing that is magical. Two underrated treasures.
This is gold, that passion and feeling, my idol. You can see how emotional Lane was, just watch in 24:22 clearly is crying, and his music was beyond creative, full heart warming. ´R.I.P. the legend´
“Epilogue for Lisa” is simply one of the most beautiful pieces ever written on guitar. The pain and love for his sister resounds so wondrously in every note. Shawn was a virtuoso in the best sense of the word-he always played true to each song. This footage of the maestro is priceless. Thank you!
I was sat a few rows from the front at that show! GIT ‘93!! That was a great gig and we were spoilt with many more visiting artists over the time i was studying there 😀 A truly awesome place!
And John McLaughlin; can't ignore him, especially taking his compositional legacy into account. Holdsworth is my favorite player, but sadly he only wrote a tiny fraction of the music McLaughlin did; of course it was profoundly great; they each loved and admired the other, right so, and Shawn said he thought McLaughlin was the best alternate picker, and called Holdsworth "the best". Obviously Shawn was a singular genius as well.
There are so many.. Pat Metheny, Al Di Meola, Scott Henderson, Mike Stern, Frank Gambale, Beck, Garsed... ... ... There is a video from Namm 1995 where Shawn Lane meets Allan Holdsworth. He says: “my idol, Allan Holdsworth.. The greatest” Allan denies: “don't really”
@@dingao000 There are many great players no doubt. However I definitely don't think the greats are all equally great; in my opinion you lumped people together that don't really go together. I think Allan Holdsworth, John McLaughlin and Shawn Lane are the greatest three fusion guys; Shawn was more of a rocker, but still a fusion genius with freakish speed. I love many others, you mentioned a few that I will always love, especially Henderson and Beck, but for my money; Holdsworth, McLaughlin and Lane are way beyond everybody else.
@@dingao000 BTW, I know the video you mentioned; pretty cool to see the meeting of the giants! What else was Allan going to say? Of course he denied it; never cared about being the best anyway, he just wanted to play his music. But Shawn was right; Allan was the GOAT, imo!
There's so many jaw-dropping moments in this gig it's impossible to list them all. His passion, talent and tone are all at their peak, and all I can do is wonder at his gift.
I'd sell my soul if I could to go back in time watch this performance Live Perfection all around, rickman is so great on the drums 🔥 And that beautiful Charvel crafted in Japan fell in hands of the greatest player I have ever heard, they were made for each other
Dead at the age of 42 ... That hit my soul big time !!! One of the most talented musicians on the planet ... Hopefully jamming with his Idol Allan Holdsworth up there ! ... ?
I think the only people that can really appreciate just how good he was are those that have played themselves at some time in their life. I have had many guitars through the years and just never was any good at it. I could not copy this if you gave me 3 more lifetimes to try. He, Eric Gales, and Manuel Gales (Little Jimmy King) are 3 of my fav git players ever, and all 3 came out of Memphis .................. RIP Shawn and Manuel, gone but surely not forgotten
That *improvised* solo he plays on Tri 7/5 has met no match even today. Most incredible piece of guitar playing the world has ever seen. No wonder even Guthrie picks Shawn lane as the best there's ever been.
Shawn Lane is melodically connected with the universe, there are so many beautiful parts in this show that his harmonies take us to infinity 59:11... a journey... no one was so virtuous and melodically so sophisticated and full of feeling... the timbre of your guitar is unique and your sound is not found anywhere else... this show is a milestone in the history of Rock-Fusion guitar... reference for everything!!! Thank you so much for this whole show!
ohhh wow... these guys.... total tone, total technique... amazing. And I know they did it all so that I would say that one day. This is so important to remember. This perfection is..... the WHOLE point.
You are EPIC. Thanks a million for the hard work you put into this. And Shawn is just next-level in this. There are very few people alive that can come close, and none that can surpass when it comes to sheer technique. What a dude/alien. What a loss.
All the actual shredders nowdays like Guthrie Govan,Asato, Max Ostro and so on can play and amazed people because Shawn it´s no longer here.Next to him,there are none in his level of virtuosity,taste,melody and feeling,even in his final 2 years,with a big beard and cigar Shawn was unmatched.RIP legend.
Agreed. Shawn was and will always be a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon, a true shooting star! Max and Guthrie are also incredible, but they too would agree that Shawn was and will always be a beacon in all our lives here and to come as pure cosmos magic!
Yeah. I've been a fan since the late 90s. Dude's incredible. I remain a guitarist by believing that Shawn was an incredibly high functioning autistic savant...otherwise I'd have sold off all of my gear years ago and mourned my inadequacy.
Thanks so much for posting!! I really appreciate the time spent getting this together, specially considering the poor audio/video source material. There isn't enough full SL concerts on RU-vid so am really enjoying this!
Superbe...all the greatness of a guitar genius...Priceless.Thank You Shawn for a wonderful musical legacy ...Beyond words...music beauty in IT s purest form...
I was accepted and visited the school, from NY, during that time, they told me Henderson and another big name were teachers/instructors and famous musicians were attending. I couldn't get the money, and un fortunately never attended.
I had read about Shawn Lane often, but didn't get to hear him til the late nineties when I bought the powers of ten, which I could find only on cassette. The flurries of rippling monster picking was all very well and good, but didn't interest me. I absolutely love Shawn's compositional aesthetics, and his music is far ahead of his guitar playing ( which is saying a lot because, his playing is expressive and tasteful as well as fast) I love the melodious parts of the album where he is at his best making beautiful vehicles for his vocal like guitar. Such a loss. Love to all.
Yeah shawn is one of the best composers of all time in my opinion. The melodies, layering and modal changes he uses are insane, and like you said its not just guitar
