Shawn Lane - Fretless Improv (NAMM, Anaheim - 18th Jan 1997)

Here is Shawn Lane playing a Fretless Guitar Improv, with Jonas Hellborg (on Fretless Bass) and Jeff Sipe, at NAMM, Anaheim, on the 18th Jan 1997.




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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[stillborn61]

wiljay; its kenny from the MAB forum ;) thanks for posting this vid! really helping in my research, also really wants to make me play fretless!

[MyShawnLaneVideos]

Hey there... cool, glad to have been any help at all. :-)

[Phrygian12]

is this the video that Steve Vai saw Lane and was amazed and took some ones camera and filmed it?

[MyShawnLaneVideos]

No, that was the Ibanez Allstar NAMM Jam on the 15th Jan 1993, the one with Shawn, Paul Gilbert, Joe Satriani, Vai, Andy Timmons, Reb Beach and Alex Skolnick (or Alex Scofield as the guy at the end of the video calls him, hehe). I've uploaded that video on one of my other accounts "MyGeetarVideos".

[Despond]

You listen to all these talent guitarists and iconic "shredders", but your heart just sighs with comfort when you go back to Shawn Lane.

Not a guitarist but a genius mind and musician.

[zoso0987]

I imagine you love him for the same reason I do:

Because he played for no other reason to release that internal music that resides within us all. With his genius he was able to connect with it on a higher level then most, and blessed with a "freakish nervous system," as he puts it, he had the dexterity and technical ability to express it on the fretboard.

I am sure that, along with that freakish nervous system, he also had the genius to know how to practice, which is a skill in itself.

[shredboy5000]

i was at this namm show and actually played this guitar for a couple hours when i took Shawn back to his hotel room to get ready ( Shawn didnt drive ) to go play with Stanley Jordan . Shawn never played the guitar and got on stage and played it like he owned it his whole life . it was RIDICULOUS . Frank Gambale was there at the Hilton ( I think ) and bunch of other great guitarists and everyone ( including Stanley Jordan ) was trippin on the stuff Shawn played . like I said , it was RIDICULOUS

[Iluvbuckethead1]

Ten times better than Steve Vai's fretless guitar solo

[fobsternd]

I remember PG describing Lane as the most terrifying man on guitar or something along those lines.

[killer1016]

I skipped the bass part.

[Em7arpeggio]

i was born on this very day and shawn lane rocks r.i.p

[sowhatdude1]

Not only are there no frets- there aren't any markers that I can either.

The saddest thing ever is what this guy did, letting himself go like he did, straight into the grave. With the immense talent that this guy had, it's a crime against us all~

[D61664]

Does anyone know he is playing Indian Classical Sitar Style !! Fucking Awesome !!!

[andarcalabar]

Everywhere @ once, beautiful......v

[Kebzicum]

just for 9 minutes there, i think he lost himself