Shawn Lane appreciation thread.

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Shawn did things on a guitar that were jaw dropping. If you dig him post up your favorite clips or thoughts.

If your not familiar with him watch this...

RIP SL

 
This one. As soon as he puts the cig down he starts channeling from lord knows where. Bits of Jimi in there but he just goes off as only he can.



 
cupcaketwins":18mo0x0h said:
This one. As soon as he puts the cig down he starts channeling from lord knows where. Bits of Jimi in there but he just goes off as only he can.



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I saw him on this tour when he played at The Wet Lands here in NYC Carl. Buckethead opened up the show but what he did was just too damn weird. He had a DJ up on stage and they did this whacky atonal stuff with moments of heaviness and then these Alt picked flurries right out of the Paul Gilbert playbook that were all run through a harmonizer. Didnt do a thing for me...



When it was Shawns turn, I was standing directly in front of him, maybe 2 feet away. He sees me smoking and asks me if Im going to be staying for the whole show and I said yes so he then hands me a pack of smokes and asks me to hold on to them and then says " Thanks man, my name is Shawn". They started to play and he would just kind of nod at me throughout the show and I would hand him a cig and light it for him. Afterwards, He said " Thanks, I owe you a beer" and we hung out and talked for about half an hour. The guy couldnt have been any nicer or more down to earth..

Watching him was crazy, I was so close that I could literally hear the actual pick attack off of the guitar itself. I was really trying to pay attention to what he was doing to see if I could learn something but I gave up and just enjoyed what he was doing and it was friggin nuts....
 
Here's a couple I like that I rarely see referenced.

Willys original from '87... great solo at 3:32


With Helborg and the Vinkarayam brothers in Paris.
 
The king of alternate picking.

I did not like alot of his ambient styles early in his music career but you cannot ignore his diversity in on-the-fly note choices. There is alot someone can learn from him - too deep for most which is why some continue to give him a bad wrap.

When i picked up alternate picking practice licks learning right-handed guitar i did not go to paul gilbert, george lynch, or any others. I looked up Shawn Lane - little finite details that make things effortless :rock:
 
Shawn Lane is the fucking man. It is a shame he is often forgotten about and swept under the rug..

-Alex
 
What an amazing guitarist and I think he was the best out there during his time here. He will be missed. I am a huge fan of the Shawn Lane/Jonas Hellborg stuff.
 
roodboy":19osg09c said:
Any recomendations for albums other than powers of ten?
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This is a start

1. ABSTRACT LOGIC (WITH JONAS HELLBORG,SHAWN LANE AND KOFI BAKER)
2. PERSONAE (JONAS HELLBORG)
3. GOOD PEOPLE IN THE TIMES OF EVIL (JONAS HELLBORG)
4. TRI-TONE FASCINATIONS
5. ICON (JONAS HELLBORG)
6. TIME IS THE ENEMY (JONAS HELLBORG)
7. TWO DOORS (JONAS HELLBORG AND MICHAEL SHRIEVE)
8. TEMPORAL ANALOGUES OF PARADISE (JONAS HELLBORG)
 
for some reason his playing doesnt just speak to me and i dont know why. hes super fast, way better than ill ever be but i just dont enjoy it and i dont know why. maybe its because he doesnt have a chucky mask and a mcdonalds bag on his head :dunno:
 
hardly a week goes by for me without admiring and missing the musical universe that is shawn lane. his technicality was so beyond, but his melodic and harmonic command made him untouchable among fusion rock shredders. so thankful i saw him live at NAMM lay waste.

so tragic...some of his playing on the live powers of ten dics sounds like a galaxy is exploding.
what a drag andy johns didn't produce him like planned. the drums on his music sounded like digital cardboard and he deserved way more.
 
mentoneman":576uh1gn said:
hardly a week goes by for me without admiring and missing the musical universe that is shawn lane. his technicality was so beyond, but his melodic and harmonic command made him untouchable among fusion rock shredders. so thankful i saw him live at NAMM lay waste.

so tragic...some of his playing on the live powers of ten dics sounds like a galaxy is exploding.
what a drag andy johns didn't produce him like planned. the drums on his music sounded like digital cardboard and he deserved way more.
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So true. When I saw him in 95 or 96 in Monterey it was about the best thing I had ever seen and that includes a ton of great guitar icons. Such a great player. When I met him at NAMM I was truly humbled by his soft spoken and humble attitude towards music. He paid great respect to Jeff Beck, Hendrix and Brett Garsed in that conversation. The guy I was with though (king crimson Gerlach) made me extremely uncomfortable as he pummeled Shawn with stupid questions like " are you as fast as Frank Gambale" and "what do you think of Frank, I have been studying his video" . I disappeared quick as that was just plain awkward and I did not want to have anything to do with the moronic line of questions.

Shawn was an an incredible player and nobody will ever duplicate his feel and style. It was all his own. Those that try fail miserably IMHO. :rock:
 
metalmaniac93":2ee1poo6 said:
roodboy":2ee1poo6 said:
Any recomendations for albums other than powers of ten?
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This is a start

1. ABSTRACT LOGIC (WITH JONAS HELLBORG,SHAWN LANE AND KOFI BAKER)
2. PERSONAE (JONAS HELLBORG)
3. GOOD PEOPLE IN THE TIMES OF EVIL (JONAS HELLBORG)
4. TRI-TONE FASCINATIONS
5. ICON (JONAS HELLBORG)
6. TIME IS THE ENEMY (JONAS HELLBORG)
7. TWO DOORS (JONAS HELLBORG AND MICHAEL SHRIEVE)
8. TEMPORAL ANALOGUES OF PARADISE (JONAS HELLBORG)
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Thanks
 
tonedog":34y0fh28 said:
mentoneman":34y0fh28 said:
hardly a week goes by for me without admiring and missing the musical universe that is shawn lane. his technicality was so beyond, but his melodic and harmonic command made him untouchable among fusion rock shredders. so thankful i saw him live at NAMM lay waste.

so tragic...some of his playing on the live powers of ten dics sounds like a galaxy is exploding.
what a drag andy johns didn't produce him like planned. the drums on his music sounded like digital cardboard and he deserved way more.
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So true. When I saw him in 95 or 96 in Monterey it was about the best thing I had ever seen and that includes a ton of great guitar icons. Such a great player. When I met him at NAMM I was truly humbled by his soft spoken and humble attitude towards music. He paid great respect to Jeff Beck, Hendrix and Brett Garsed in that conversation. The guy I was with though (king crimson Gerlach) made me extremely uncomfortable as he pummeled Shawn with stupid questions like " are you as fast as Frank Gambale" and "what do you think of Frank, I have been studying his video" . I disappeared quick as that was just plain awkward and I did not want to have anything to do with the moronic line of questions.

Shawn was an an incredible player and nobody will ever duplicate his feel and style. It was all his own. Those that try fail miserably IMHO. :rock:
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preach! the perfect blend of holdsworth, gilbert, johnson, guthrie, hendrix...and his own monster skills.


i saw SL play in 96 a the celestion show with bunny brunell and shawn's tone was massive--his valley arts guitar was the perfect weapon for him

bunny was a bad match. he was so innapropriately loud in this smallish tent, and his tone was uglier than ron howard's brother.
 
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