Shawn Lane - Once Upon a Time in the West (17th April 1993)

Shawn Lane playing the theme to "Once Upon a Time in the West", by Ennio Morricone, at the Radisson Hotel, Memphis, TN, on the 17th April 1993.




You can buy a selection of Shawn's live gigs on DVD from Shawn's mum, Diane, at ShawnLane.com

You can mingle and post with other fans of Shawn at : lanesblitz.com

You can read back through litterally hundreds of cool and very informative posts at the Shawn Lane Yahoo group (dating back to 1999) here :
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/shawnlane/
(you have to join up)

You can still read lots of interesting posts at the old Shawn Lane message board here :
http://www.voy.com/88684/
and
http://www.voy.com/88684/1/

Thanks to Mick for supporting Shawn over the years, as well as taping (and organising the taping of) many of Shawn's shows!


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[RobGordon07]

I'm getting goosebumps listening to this

[MyShawnLaneVideos]

Check out the version he did in Paris in 1994.

[Th1sWasATriumph]

The last 90 seconds of this renders all other guitar playing entirely obsolete.

[Saidice]

Shawn lane has to be probably the most influential guitarist ever.

He is one of the ONLY shredders with feeling, and this song is testimony to the fact that his musicianship was and still is unmatched.

RIP, a fantastic player lost to the world much to early.

[GeneralGuitFiddle]

Fuck, why do they sell guitars to us mortals anyway?

[flowerFOG]

nothing is essential or obsolete.

[Nic0051]

Caramba!!! Isso sim é que é tocar guitarra!!!

[steveg8r1]

wow wow wow wow.....insane feeling and emotion to make that music...genius

[Hoffletrof456]

This is beautiful, but can that not be said of everything this man has done? I think that if he'd also covered ecstacy of gold by morricone it would beat the shit out of the terrible metallica cover. He has a specific gift for making really cinematic emotional music. Not to mention a gift for being a ridiculous guitarist.

[ialmostbowlverywell]

@tmh1717 Actually, he was octave tapping. Its when you tap the harmonic of the string that you're playing. For instance, the harmonic of an open string is at the 12 fret, so when you lightly tap the string there, it creates the harmonic. So if you were on the 1st fret, you'd tap the 13 fret, 2nd, then 14, 3rd then 15, etc.

[jemdave13]

@Th1sWasATriumph Brilliant comment, I love it. Such a great player, sadly missed.

[ctvyy]

Shawn Lane was a god sent from Heaven to show us, The humans, How guitar is really played, He has left a great influece on many guitar players, I know his music has greatly influenced my own as well, Now that he's shown us how it done, he's gone back to heaven so that new guitarist may take wing and shine as he did. R.I.P. Shawn Lane, March 21, 1963 - September 26, 2003

[dannyhood66]

Back in the 80's i used to listen to all the shredders..Vinnie more, Jason beckar, Friedman, joe satriani, etc..And i never heard of shawn lane? Until i read guitar player 2005? The cover shows yngwie, and buckethead on the cover..And buckethead mentioned his name saying there were a lot of ''shawn lane cassete tapes floating around the coop from early 80s when buckethead went to G.I.T in the mid to late 80s,''But i think paul gilbert showed bucket an idea taken from shawn lane..Bucket loved it

[tmh1717]

was he using an octave effect towards the end?