Oh man, I wish there were more live performances of this. I wish there could be more perforamances of everything by Shawn Lane, of course, but this is EVEN MORE incredible than a lot of other Shawn Lane videos in my opinion, and this is the only live video I've seen of this particular tune.
@MELanza ...funny scene in Pick Of Destiny! "...looks like they all use the same pick - wholy shit balls!" *lol* ...love that movie. Had a laugh in every scene.
Wait...what the hell has been going on and what does this have to do with Shawn Lane in any possible way? Whatever. I don't care. I am an American and I am aware of the strength of America's advertising of watered-down mainstream music. Saying that Americans know the least about music out of anyone is not necessarily true though. There is just an abundance of them who are ignorant about music. That is why next to nobody in America knows Shawn Lane despite him being the best at what he does.
Then again, he doesn't even need to do that. He can join the Hollyweird establishment and do the same thing through the typical Hollyweird brainwashing that the mainstream media is famous for. I'm sure he could get the CIA and others who don't believe in Freedom of Speech to fund his efforts. Oh sheesh, I better shut up, I'm giving the selfimportant dictator wannbe a way to make a good living and we really don't need any more brainwashing, especially not from another moron. Ha, ha!
When I call soiledfrills moron, etc., it is because he is, not because I'm calling him names as he claims. This selfimportant "psych" needs to come off his high horse and realize not everyone wants to have his opinions and that everyone indeed has the right to have different opinions. And that's under American law as well as in most other countries today. His other option, if he can build a time machine: transport himself back into a KGB job where he could force people to have his opinions, ha.
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Of course the last sentence was purposely phrased with the words in the wrong sequence, to make the point which you probably already figure as most people with common sense do, but which "soiledfrills" would I'm sure never accept (pertaining to himself in any case), since Mr. Ego has already tried forcing his "authority" onto my consciousness with his bragging about being a psych, like it would make anyone care. Watch him call me names again.
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GDarkstar74, be careful with calling Zappa your favorite, because I did that with Django, and the moron oilkills hasen't stopped harrassing me since. He follows my coments around the Shawn Lane clips, because Lane happens to be his favorite and claims I'm lamblasting Lane, but I haven't even mentioned Lane lately. What a loser. He can't handle someone else having a different opinion than his own. But he has the gall to call himself a psych. Yeah right. A degree does not someone intelligent make.
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I have moron! Besides, I like the country, that is the nature, (woods, mountains, etc.), not morons like you. Why don't you get lost from the planet? Noone likes your bullshit artistry anyway. Funny, how you keep going back to that comment trying to recruit allies. You must also be the typical pussy trying to bully on the net. Go bully your mom. Ha, ha!
You do this cuz you DON'T HAVE A LIFE!!! GET LOST... go spread your ill-will elsewhere... I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WERE IGNORANT ENOUGH TO SAY, and I quote, "Americans know the least about music." YOU'RE A PIECE OF TRASH!!! Why don't you leave the U.S. if you do not like it?
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Oh boy, the sophist is back. Twist it whatever way you want, I never said I didn't like Lane, just that he's not the best ever IMHO, unlike yours. Opinions are like ..., everyone has one, remember? Now shove it up, neanderthal! (You can't phase me. I learned to bag from the best of the best. Delinquents. Ha, ha.
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Granted Malmsteen is not as versatile unfortunately, but is great at what he plays. I'd like to see you do it. In any case I play myself, so I knew exactly what I was talking about. Maybe you don't agree, but then just say so. You don't have to resort to trying to insult m intelligence in order to promote your faves. I'll take your opinions (as anyone else's) at face value, so to speak.
You are a joke... calling me names... you go around and de-face SHAWN LANE videos, AND come up with stupid statements like, "Americans know the least about music" and you want to call me names?! YOU ARE A LOSER PORKBACKSIDE... why don't you go hang out with people who are more like you... OKAY... we get it... you don't like Shawn Lane... now go away, and take all that name calling and negativity with you!
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Whatever.Django wasn't Metal that's true,but he influenced all the the greats.He improvised on the spot so beautifully no matter what the speeds, that other famous Jazzers made comments like: "This man never played an ugly note". Or "Though he didn't read, he always knew what fit the best", etc. Django influenced your obvious idols too.
Zappa,like Page,and your other obvious idols
all specialized into one or twogenres,whereas Ritchie has specialized into multiple genres over time as did Django.
I'm actually not a fan of Jimmy Page at all. I'm more of a fusion person than a rock and roll person, plus Page isn't that great anyway. I prefer McLaughlin over most guitarists any day.
When it comes to Rock music Zappa is quite obviously to me, the greatest there ever was.
Metal soloing involves minimal if any improvisation and is pieced together over long periods of time. Many guitarists don't even write their own solos. That's why Frank Zappa, The Grateful Dead, Phish, Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Shawn Lane, Pat Metheny, Steve kimock and many more are and will remain the far more skilled musicians.
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GDarkstar, there's nothing wrong with Yngwie's
idolization of Ritchie. R. Blackmore basically developed Metal soloing, it was all Blues and Country based Acid Rock, Psyvhedelic Rock, 60's Rock, and Rockabilly before he, Page, and Iommi developed the first generation of Metal. Besides Ritchie can play circles around
others in more genres than just about anyone. Perhaps the most versatile player, since the all-time greatest, Django Reinhardt.
I believe that jimmy page had just as much influence on metal soloing, and he was taught by John McLaughlin, if you have any idea who he is (arguably the greatest fusion guitarist ever).
OH YEAH..... and I could name at least 20 fusion guitarists off the top of my head who easily transcend Yngwie and Ritchie, leaving yngwie and ritchie with thousands morons emulating them.
Let's not forget Uli John Roth. Without a f-ing doubt the biggest influence on Blackmore and Yngwie. Checkout the Sails of Charon and anyone can see who Blackmore and Yngwie were chasing after. In fact Yngwie managed to get a hold of a Uli John Roth "Star" guitar... : )
Frank Zappa, John Mclaughlin, Shawn lane, Pat metheny, and Derek trucks are easilly more versatile than any Yngwie, Ritchie Blackmore or Django. Frank
Zappa was around before Ritchie Blackmore and writing much much more difficult music in the early 70's and his soloing was the most melodically and rhythmically versatile of any rock guitarist ever. You simply don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
Moron, learn to spell in your own language before posting in lieu of someone else. Especially, if as any halfwit can tell, you're only using the person to play get back.
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Puterefaction, I saw your profile. Evidently you're in a band? Good luck, but before you criticize Yngwye who you first label "good" then, a "one trick pony" (oxymoron there), you should learn how to play some of his material, and no, not just one hit piece. Try learning some of his instrumentals. Then you can talk. I know your playing for "2 years" does not a critic make.
#2) you can't tell someone when they can talk or what to talk about... look at you and your ridiculous opinion... you're the weirdo that that said, and I quote, "Americans know the least about music"... that's just RETARDED, cuz you haven't met all Americans to know!!! He gave his opinion just like you, and now you are criticizing him for doing the same thing you do... HYPOCRYTE!!!
Let's face it, yngwie sucks. He had two good albums, both in the 80's with rising force. Since then he hasn't done shit but deep purple covers. He looks up to Ritchie Blackmore for god's sake.
You can recognize the headstock of an Ibanez guitar almost instantly. But I can tell the Ibanez S sound even quicker. It has this special sound that comes out when a lot of notes are played fluidly.
Shawn Lane is the greatest musician/artist EVER! A god on piano and guitar...he had more gifts than God ever bestowed on a single human being!!! rip great one, u r misd
shawnfan, funny dude. My bro even "hates" me when he's drunk. But seriously, I being a musician myself I just call it like I hear it,
nothing to do with ego really. More to do with
lamenting the fact that schools in the U.S. especially, but elsewhere as well have been dumbed down enough to prevent kids (generally) from learning about real music. You know the
media hype for all the modern dance b.s., (C)Rap, Funk, R&B, Disco the precursor, and much of the modern Pop, Screamo, Emo, Shock Rock.
Sort of like the difference between the Gypsy versions of Hungarian and Romanian Folk vs. the traditionalist farmer's/peasant's style, only the difference is even more pronounced.
shawnfan, I listened to part of it again, and this piece has a Bluesy vibe, especially begoinning at 2:28, I don't have time to look for the Jazzy segment as well, but suffice it to say the whole thing is partly Jazz, the same way as The Trio's fusion pieces mix Jazz and Flamenco. Just becaues there's some quawwali in there doesn't eliminate the other two genres here. A traditionalist quawwali musician knows exactly what I mean.
There by the grace of God goes Shawn Lane. Absolutely stunning. I'm so thankful that, while he was only with us a short time, there's a wealth of his music left behind for us to enjoy!
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Sorry, but this was good for one listen. If I want to repeatedly listen to something that shreds like this in a Bluesy context , like Shawn does through much of this, I'll take Yngwie's Spacebo Blues. Much more melodic. And if I want to repeatedly listen to Blues combined with Jazz like Shawn plays toward the end here, I'll prefer Django on many pieces.
Ywingie was a spandex wearing dunce compared with Lane.
i respect he was a good guitarist, but also a one trick pony, while Shawn has more than some sweeps and appegios memorised in his head, he was pure genius.
Came back again to listen through this piece again. It looks like he's not even working. It's that Economy of Motion across the frets along with an incredible stretch that is really makin' it happen for him.I've played with a lot of talented guys...but his motion across the fingerboard is really unique!I'd say he might even have Christophe Godin beat on this one...And That's Saying A LOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Are you shittin' me Shawn? WTF! That was the most ripping musical display of spontaneous combustion I've ever seen!!! I just had a cool thought: Imagine if John Coltrane were still alive and he and Shawn traded improv/solos on this song!!! How FU&%ING COOL would that be?!? Anyways, I hope Shawn and Coltrane get to jam in the afterworld. Peace!
That's not Jonas Hellborg. I think they werw at Newby's in Memphis here. If I am not mistakend. He didn't get with Hellborg until a little later in his career.
"Here's Shawn Lane & DDT playing at Newby's, Memphis, TN. - 27th Jan 1995. D.D.T. was a band Shawn played with between 1994-1995 that consisted of : Luther Dickinson - guitar Cody Dickinson - drums Paul Taylor - bass DDT took their name from the initials of the three band member sirnames (two of them being brothers). DDT later became "North Mississippi Allstars"... Shawn played on 3 tracks on their 2003 album "Polaris".
That doesnt look like Hellborg. Still it may be him. Shawn may have cut down on his guitar antics because he is using an Ibanez. Later on he preferred "Vigier" guitars over other brands because of the really low actions on them. Thanx for putting up one more of this underrated but unforgotten guitar hero who is such an inspiration to all of us. RIP Shawn........
i never saw a guitarist transcend as many feels and techniques as shawn - i mean hes brilliant, the feel and power of a blues/rock guitarist, technical ability of a jazz cat on steriods meshed with holdsworth x10 some hendrix and pure adrenaline and you have this monolith of guitar player. and he can shred like no other, amazing.
they aren't non-sensicle syllables and they weren't as inspired so much by be-bop, but more by pakistani qawwali music. shawn was a great fan of nusrat fateh ali khan and other qawwali singers.
Unreal, Surreal !! RIP Shawn Lane.
smkonwater23 5 months ago
Nice performance! But 0:50 is the funniest thing I've ever heard from Shawn.
Morenumbers123456789 6 months ago
his has so many ideas, there is no repetition ! i could listen to this power trio for hours.
emeraldomusik 7 months ago
Oh man, I wish there were more live performances of this. I wish there could be more perforamances of everything by Shawn Lane, of course, but this is EVEN MORE incredible than a lot of other Shawn Lane videos in my opinion, and this is the only live video I've seen of this particular tune.
MegaYoshitsune 8 months ago
Dayum! That's gotta be one of the best Shawn solo I've seen on youtube. Just gobsmacklingly awesome. :)
Zebula77 8 months ago
wow..... and also.. he's wearing a greatful dead hat. before the scene kids down the street did it..
Staplesz 8 months ago
omg
valkour22 8 months ago
lol poor bassists looks as if hes surrendering Hes great too though.
BombsonBicycles 1 year ago 3
@MELanza ...funny scene in Pick Of Destiny! "...looks like they all use the same pick - wholy shit balls!" *lol* ...love that movie. Had a laugh in every scene.
19FLA69 1 year ago
sipe on drums, but not hellborg on bass. not sure when.
ChiZ712 1 year ago
sounds cool. but looking at lefties really hurts my eyes.
emmanuelrodulfo 1 year ago
Jeff Sipe on drums, what a bad ass
mandoplan 1 year ago 5
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pure rubbish
vinnothelizard 1 year ago
@vinnothelizard uhhh dumb ass.
agrov8tr 1 year ago
I bet you Shawn made that hat cost a million dollar.
shadowknight132 1 year ago 2
all hell breaks loose at about the 2 minute mark. watch this if you dare.
TheBoilerman1 1 year ago 2
RIP Shawn. You are a great loss to the world of music but you will live forever through it.
dirtydonki 1 year ago
The first minute is pretty painful...after that...the fastest guitar work i have ever seen...
Shawn is absolutely hands down the most talented shredder to walk the earth...
ebealienhead 1 year ago 5
WOW!!!!!!!!
Thetruthinall 2 years ago 2
This was Shawn with Jeff Sipe on drums, and Paul Taylor on Bass (the bassist from DDT), at AIM in Atlanta, in late April 1995.
This was Shawn's first ever live gig with Jeff Sipe.
MyShawnLaneVideos 2 years ago 6
@MyShawnLaneVideos Willjay is the man.
agrov8tr 1 year ago 4
@agrov8tr Thanks so much, really appreciate it!! :)
MyShawnLaneVideos 1 year ago 3
Lol at the Grateful Dead hat.
bongolow07 2 years ago
pokbacsi100 stop trying to be an elitist and trying to act like a musical genius. Nobody gives a fuck so just shut up.
DaveDenver 2 years ago 3
Um i just know this guy since 15 Minutes
i read his Name under a John Petrucci Video
And he´s really a great Musician and Guitar player reminds me on Mike Keneally
Zappafan1980 2 years ago 2
HOLY SHIT......HOLY SHIT.......HOLY SHIT
favorited and 5 stars
selectpaint 2 years ago 5
Shawn Lane = The Best.
RoadWarrior2006 2 years ago 13
I always thought that was incredibly obvious.
scarter180 2 years ago 4
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oilkills 2 years ago
Wait...what the hell has been going on and what does this have to do with Shawn Lane in any possible way? Whatever. I don't care. I am an American and I am aware of the strength of America's advertising of watered-down mainstream music. Saying that Americans know the least about music out of anyone is not necessarily true though. There is just an abundance of them who are ignorant about music. That is why next to nobody in America knows Shawn Lane despite him being the best at what he does.
scarter180 2 years ago
*did, hes dead now.
BigChadFerg 2 years ago
:( Don't remind me.
scarter180 2 years ago
That's called an ad hominem statement. It's what people do when they can no longer attack your argument, so they just attack you personally instead.
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Then again, he doesn't even need to do that. He can join the Hollyweird establishment and do the same thing through the typical Hollyweird brainwashing that the mainstream media is famous for. I'm sure he could get the CIA and others who don't believe in Freedom of Speech to fund his efforts. Oh sheesh, I better shut up, I'm giving the selfimportant dictator wannbe a way to make a good living and we really don't need any more brainwashing, especially not from another moron. Ha, ha!
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When I call soiledfrills moron, etc., it is because he is, not because I'm calling him names as he claims. This selfimportant "psych" needs to come off his high horse and realize not everyone wants to have his opinions and that everyone indeed has the right to have different opinions. And that's under American law as well as in most other countries today. His other option, if he can build a time machine: transport himself back into a KGB job where he could force people to have his opinions, ha.
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Of course the last sentence was purposely phrased with the words in the wrong sequence, to make the point which you probably already figure as most people with common sense do, but which "soiledfrills" would I'm sure never accept (pertaining to himself in any case), since Mr. Ego has already tried forcing his "authority" onto my consciousness with his bragging about being a psych, like it would make anyone care. Watch him call me names again.
pokbacsi100 2 years ago
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GDarkstar74, be careful with calling Zappa your favorite, because I did that with Django, and the moron oilkills hasen't stopped harrassing me since. He follows my coments around the Shawn Lane clips, because Lane happens to be his favorite and claims I'm lamblasting Lane, but I haven't even mentioned Lane lately. What a loser. He can't handle someone else having a different opinion than his own. But he has the gall to call himself a psych. Yeah right. A degree does not someone intelligent make.
pokbacsi100 2 years ago
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I have moron! Besides, I like the country, that is the nature, (woods, mountains, etc.), not morons like you. Why don't you get lost from the planet? Noone likes your bullshit artistry anyway. Funny, how you keep going back to that comment trying to recruit allies. You must also be the typical pussy trying to bully on the net. Go bully your mom. Ha, ha!
pokbacsi100 2 years ago
You do this cuz you DON'T HAVE A LIFE!!! GET LOST... go spread your ill-will elsewhere... I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WERE IGNORANT ENOUGH TO SAY, and I quote, "Americans know the least about music." YOU'RE A PIECE OF TRASH!!! Why don't you leave the U.S. if you do not like it?
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Oh boy, the sophist is back. Twist it whatever way you want, I never said I didn't like Lane, just that he's not the best ever IMHO, unlike yours. Opinions are like ..., everyone has one, remember? Now shove it up, neanderthal! (You can't phase me. I learned to bag from the best of the best. Delinquents. Ha, ha.
pokbacsi100 2 years ago
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Granted Malmsteen is not as versatile unfortunately, but is great at what he plays. I'd like to see you do it. In any case I play myself, so I knew exactly what I was talking about. Maybe you don't agree, but then just say so. You don't have to resort to trying to insult m intelligence in order to promote your faves. I'll take your opinions (as anyone else's) at face value, so to speak.
pokbacsi100 2 years ago
You are a joke... calling me names... you go around and de-face SHAWN LANE videos, AND come up with stupid statements like, "Americans know the least about music" and you want to call me names?! YOU ARE A LOSER PORKBACKSIDE... why don't you go hang out with people who are more like you... OKAY... we get it... you don't like Shawn Lane... now go away, and take all that name calling and negativity with you!
oilkills 2 years ago
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Whatever.Django wasn't Metal that's true,but he influenced all the the greats.He improvised on the spot so beautifully no matter what the speeds, that other famous Jazzers made comments like: "This man never played an ugly note". Or "Though he didn't read, he always knew what fit the best", etc. Django influenced your obvious idols too.
Zappa,like Page,and your other obvious idols
all specialized into one or twogenres,whereas Ritchie has specialized into multiple genres over time as did Django.
pokbacsi100 2 years ago
I'm actually not a fan of Jimmy Page at all. I'm more of a fusion person than a rock and roll person, plus Page isn't that great anyway. I prefer McLaughlin over most guitarists any day.
When it comes to Rock music Zappa is quite obviously to me, the greatest there ever was.
GDarkstar74 2 years ago 2
right on!
SEMICHUCK 2 years ago
Metal soloing involves minimal if any improvisation and is pieced together over long periods of time. Many guitarists don't even write their own solos. That's why Frank Zappa, The Grateful Dead, Phish, Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Shawn Lane, Pat Metheny, Steve kimock and many more are and will remain the far more skilled musicians.
GDarkstar74 2 years ago
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GDarkstar, there's nothing wrong with Yngwie's
idolization of Ritchie. R. Blackmore basically developed Metal soloing, it was all Blues and Country based Acid Rock, Psyvhedelic Rock, 60's Rock, and Rockabilly before he, Page, and Iommi developed the first generation of Metal. Besides Ritchie can play circles around
others in more genres than just about anyone. Perhaps the most versatile player, since the all-time greatest, Django Reinhardt.
pokbacsi100 3 years ago
I believe that jimmy page had just as much influence on metal soloing, and he was taught by John McLaughlin, if you have any idea who he is (arguably the greatest fusion guitarist ever).
OH YEAH..... and I could name at least 20 fusion guitarists off the top of my head who easily transcend Yngwie and Ritchie, leaving yngwie and ritchie with thousands morons emulating them.
GDarkstar74 2 years ago 4
Let's not forget Uli John Roth. Without a f-ing doubt the biggest influence on Blackmore and Yngwie. Checkout the Sails of Charon and anyone can see who Blackmore and Yngwie were chasing after. In fact Yngwie managed to get a hold of a Uli John Roth "Star" guitar... : )
donaldtillman 2 years ago
Frank Zappa, John Mclaughlin, Shawn lane, Pat metheny, and Derek trucks are easilly more versatile than any Yngwie, Ritchie Blackmore or Django. Frank
Zappa was around before Ritchie Blackmore and writing much much more difficult music in the early 70's and his soloing was the most melodically and rhythmically versatile of any rock guitarist ever. You simply don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
GDarkstar74 2 years ago 4
Cool Dead hat. I knew that shawn lane liked Zappa but i didn't know he liked the Grateful Dead.
GDarkstar74 3 years ago
that ending was stupid cool!!!!! 5 stars
DRGasMoney 3 years ago
Moron, learn to spell in your own language before posting in lieu of someone else. Especially, if as any halfwit can tell, you're only using the person to play get back.
pokbacsi100 3 years ago
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Puterefaction, I saw your profile. Evidently you're in a band? Good luck, but before you criticize Yngwye who you first label "good" then, a "one trick pony" (oxymoron there), you should learn how to play some of his material, and no, not just one hit piece. Try learning some of his instrumentals. Then you can talk. I know your playing for "2 years" does not a critic make.
pokbacsi100 3 years ago
#1) someone can be good AND a one trick pony
#2) you can't tell someone when they can talk or what to talk about... look at you and your ridiculous opinion... you're the weirdo that that said, and I quote, "Americans know the least about music"... that's just RETARDED, cuz you haven't met all Americans to know!!! He gave his opinion just like you, and now you are criticizing him for doing the same thing you do... HYPOCRYTE!!!
oilkills 3 years ago
Let's face it, yngwie sucks. He had two good albums, both in the 80's with rising force. Since then he hasn't done shit but deep purple covers. He looks up to Ritchie Blackmore for god's sake.
GDarkstar74 3 years ago
Haha!! Well said. Yngwie has no diversity.
billface 3 years ago 2
me too,
me too.
Putrefraction 3 years ago
that hat is from jerry garcias personal collection.
MrMestophiles 3 years ago
Wonder how much it cost. I think jerry was a great artist.
GDarkstar74 3 years ago
Incredible!
perromanchado 3 years ago
god im really starting to respect music more and more after listening to stuff by Shawn Lane
ketchupisevil 3 years ago 3
You can recognize the headstock of an Ibanez guitar almost instantly. But I can tell the Ibanez S sound even quicker. It has this special sound that comes out when a lot of notes are played fluidly.
GuillermoSmyser 3 years ago
The Vigier sounds better.
GDarkstar74 3 years ago
Shawn Lane is the greatest musician/artist EVER! A god on piano and guitar...he had more gifts than God ever bestowed on a single human being!!! rip great one, u r misd
oilkills 3 years ago
shawnfan, funny dude. My bro even "hates" me when he's drunk. But seriously, I being a musician myself I just call it like I hear it,
nothing to do with ego really. More to do with
lamenting the fact that schools in the U.S. especially, but elsewhere as well have been dumbed down enough to prevent kids (generally) from learning about real music. You know the
media hype for all the modern dance b.s., (C)Rap, Funk, R&B, Disco the precursor, and much of the modern Pop, Screamo, Emo, Shock Rock.
pokbacsi100 3 years ago
Sort of like the difference between the Gypsy versions of Hungarian and Romanian Folk vs. the traditionalist farmer's/peasant's style, only the difference is even more pronounced.
pokbacsi100 3 years ago
shawnfan, I listened to part of it again, and this piece has a Bluesy vibe, especially begoinning at 2:28, I don't have time to look for the Jazzy segment as well, but suffice it to say the whole thing is partly Jazz, the same way as The Trio's fusion pieces mix Jazz and Flamenco. Just becaues there's some quawwali in there doesn't eliminate the other two genres here. A traditionalist quawwali musician knows exactly what I mean.
pokbacsi100 3 years ago
DUDE, I'M SMASHED. BUT, I SHALL TRY TO RESPOND WHEN I'M SOBER.
YOURS TRULY,
EGBERT SOUSE
ps. you are an egomaniac. CHILL. hold the insults and insinuations.
shawnfan 3 years ago
dude, i'm sober now and i owe you an apology for the egomaniac remark. i'm sorry.
shawnfan 3 years ago
There by the grace of God goes Shawn Lane. Absolutely stunning. I'm so thankful that, while he was only with us a short time, there's a wealth of his music left behind for us to enjoy!
QAPete 3 years ago
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Sorry, but this was good for one listen. If I want to repeatedly listen to something that shreds like this in a Bluesy context , like Shawn does through much of this, I'll take Yngwie's Spacebo Blues. Much more melodic. And if I want to repeatedly listen to Blues combined with Jazz like Shawn plays toward the end here, I'll prefer Django on many pieces.
pokbacsi100 3 years ago
this song is based on pakistani quawwali music , not blues or jazz. if you ever heard the studio version you might understand.
shawnfan 3 years ago
Ywingie was a spandex wearing dunce compared with Lane.
i respect he was a good guitarist, but also a one trick pony, while Shawn has more than some sweeps and appegios memorised in his head, he was pure genius.
Putrefraction 3 years ago
Fellas, check out my Shawn vids on Adios73 - Hasta Luego.
adios73 3 years ago
he's got such an interesting and unusual approach to melody and music in general.
OwnedRL 3 years ago
This man was amazing he was so thought out and at the same time his improvisation is effortless and beautiful God Bless you brother!!!!!!!!!!
ydnalor 3 years ago
Folks can get so overawed with shawns technique they overlook the notes he plays. Never heard anyone else play melodies quite like that. Beautiful!
bazonics 3 years ago
Bravenworld.......that's all picking..
shredacuda 3 years ago
i think that was Jim Carrey.
divinegrinder 3 years ago
it isn't scat at all. it's inspired by pakistani qawwali music. shawn was a great admirer of nusrat fateh ali khan and other singers from that genre.
shawnfan 3 years ago 3
exactly
barbeq67 3 years ago
He's capable of 18 notes per second. Thats fster than basically every shredder ever.
rugerzandlugerz 3 years ago
Came back again to listen through this piece again. It looks like he's not even working. It's that Economy of Motion across the frets along with an incredible stretch that is really makin' it happen for him.I've played with a lot of talented guys...but his motion across the fingerboard is really unique!I'd say he might even have Christophe Godin beat on this one...And That's Saying A LOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BrimptonFopp 3 years ago 4
What can you say...if I was playin'drums, I was thinking...I better not be thinking!!!!
This is a most AWESOME display of innovative modern talent that has graced the Planet.Whoa!A monster player.Unique.
BrimptonFopp 3 years ago 2
this whole video is fulll of awesomeness
barbeq67 3 years ago 2
HOLY FREAKIN' CRAP! SPLENDID INDEED!
tubemyballs 4 years ago 3
This is from a clinic at Atlanta Institute of Music (AIM) with Paul Taylor on bass and Jeff Sipe on drums.
blackdiesel 4 years ago
the hammer-ons and pull-offs at 4:11......OH MY GOD!
bravenworld 4 years ago 3
yeah sorry to say m8 but he is picking every note...even more scary
hakanozelguitarist 3 years ago
Are you shittin' me Shawn? WTF! That was the most ripping musical display of spontaneous combustion I've ever seen!!! I just had a cool thought: Imagine if John Coltrane were still alive and he and Shawn traded improv/solos on this song!!! How FU&%ING COOL would that be?!? Anyways, I hope Shawn and Coltrane get to jam in the afterworld. Peace!
billmeedog 4 years ago 18
That's not Jonas Hellborg. I think they werw at Newby's in Memphis here. If I am not mistakend. He didn't get with Hellborg until a little later in his career.
trex257 4 years ago
According to the Almighty Wiljay:
"Here's Shawn Lane & DDT playing at Newby's, Memphis, TN. - 27th Jan 1995. D.D.T. was a band Shawn played with between 1994-1995 that consisted of : Luther Dickinson - guitar Cody Dickinson - drums Paul Taylor - bass DDT took their name from the initials of the three band member sirnames (two of them being brothers). DDT later became "North Mississippi Allstars"... Shawn played on 3 tracks on their 2003 album "Polaris".
nickwellings 4 years ago
That doesnt look like Hellborg. Still it may be him. Shawn may have cut down on his guitar antics because he is using an Ibanez. Later on he preferred "Vigier" guitars over other brands because of the really low actions on them. Thanx for putting up one more of this underrated but unforgotten guitar hero who is such an inspiration to all of us. RIP Shawn........
achaarpickler 4 years ago
Definitely NOT Hellborg (Jonas is not a lefty)on bass, but is, without a doubt Jeff on drums.
scrapingteeth 4 years ago 3
un extraterrestre ce mec
ce soir je me mais une mine rien que pour ecouter cette zik en etant fonsdé
meegobuckethead 4 years ago
Oh jeez ... Quel talent !
Ludohjeez 4 years ago
im just about 100% sure that thats Jeff Sipe on drums and if thats the case, it's most likely Jonas Hellborg on bass.
mexicanstorm 4 years ago
baap baap baaap baa baqap baaa baaap lol he's so innovative R.I.P
cr3w1n 4 years ago 3
hasnt anyone heard the abstract logic recording?
scottbos68 4 years ago
king of guitar!
mosesposes 4 years ago
Holy shit. Shawn blows me away yet AGAIN! Great soloing in this one. The guy was truly untouchable. :)
ElectrickFingers 4 years ago
what the tone... god damn!
dyrenh 4 years ago
i never saw a guitarist transcend as many feels and techniques as shawn - i mean hes brilliant, the feel and power of a blues/rock guitarist, technical ability of a jazz cat on steriods meshed with holdsworth x10 some hendrix and pure adrenaline and you have this monolith of guitar player. and he can shred like no other, amazing.
Juxtapolice 4 years ago 5
The "talking" is scat singing, baisically just singing a melody without any actual words...
He's a legend, rest in peace
AdamDallas 4 years ago 2
I think shawn had a very excited guitar stuck inside his body...
mooktank 5 years ago
the talking this is a jazz thing, like what richard bona does, he was considered a jazz guitarist
PhatLarkin 5 years ago
Wow! Better than the CD version with Hellborg!
patrissimo 5 years ago
soooooooo awesome
tofuisfoodto 5 years ago
is it just me or does anyone else think shawn lane looks like a homeless guy? lol
awesome post
redwrangler63 5 years ago
thanks for the post!
death666metal 5 years ago
they aren't non-sensicle syllables and they weren't as inspired so much by be-bop, but more by pakistani qawwali music. shawn was a great fan of nusrat fateh ali khan and other qawwali singers.
shawnfan 5 years ago
Poor bass guitarist playing a few notes while Lane launches into space, ahaha.
Despond 5 years ago
beautiful string skipping too
fuckyalife 5 years ago
finally someone rips it on an Ibanez!
fuckyalife 5 years ago
Was Shawn a deadhead?
wondersong1 5 years ago
The talking thing (nonsensical syllables) is just a characteristic of bebop, which Shawn was very influenced by.
ablazean 5 years ago
such a great song... we miss you shawn =(
mosesposes 5 years ago
Nice upload. I have that video too. Shawn is great.
EduardoLirani 5 years ago
The song is called Serpents and Pigs and its from the Abstract Logic album. Don't know what year it is though.
Holdsworth12345 5 years ago
Thanks Holdsworth! I updated the title.
laxballdmw 5 years ago