Guthrie Govan vs Shawn Lane!

A battle between probably two of the greatest Electric Guitarists of all time.

Shawn Lane:

Mainly known for his insane alternate picking skills. and crazy intervalllic stretches.

Shawn Lane was born in Memphis, Tennessee. At the age of eight he accompanied his sisters on the piano, but did not play guitar seriously until he was ten. Lane progressed very rapidly on the guitar, and he found it to be his natural instrument. At thirteen, he began to practice heavily, developing his technical abilities. Word began to spread around Memphis about a talented young guitar player, and at fourteen he auditioned for the lead guitar spot in Black Oak Arkansas. Black Oak Arkansas had been a popular country rock band but at the time when Lane joined the band's popularity was declining. At age fifteen Lane saw Allan Holdsworth perform at a UK concert and was inspired to develop his own method of playing guitar. Shawn toured with Black Oak Arkansas for the next four years. As the original band members dropped out, Lane began recruiting players from his high school days and began to play a style closer to fusion than the country rock style for which the band was known.

At eighteen Shawn Lane was married and burnt out from touring with Black Oak Arkansas so he decided to take a break and learn more about music. Over the next eight years he studied music and composing on his own and mainly worked on playing piano. Much of the material on Powers of Ten was written on his piano as Lane considered it his main writing instrument.[1] [2] He quickly developed his technique on keyboards as well, taking influence from pianists like Liszt,Tatum and Cziffra. [3] He began to create demo tapes which garnered interest from Warner Brothers Music and Lane was offered a recording contract. Except for one cover song, Lane wrote all the material and played all the instruments on his debut album. The album did well and earned several magazine awards.[4] During the production of the album Lane continued to play live shows and did session work. He also performed on the Mark Varney Project's Centrifugal Funk album along with Brett Garsed and Frank Gambale.

Lane released two more solo albums following his debut. Powers of Ten Live!, recorded live in 1993, and The Tri-Tone Fascination.

When Lane met Jonas Hellborg a musical relationship was formed. They both enjoyed classical, rock, Pakistani, and Indian music. Lane and Hellborg played with drummer Jeff Sipe in a jam band commonly referred to as HLS (Hellborg, Lane, Sipe). Sipe was already well known in the jam band scene as the original drummer for Aquarium Rescue Unit, and helped HLS get exposure all over the world.[citation needed] Later, Lane and Hellborg formed an East-West fusion band with Indian musicians V. Selvaganesh and Umamahesh. In February 2003, Lane and Hellborg toured India with drummer Andrea Marchesini. Lane's last concert performance was at Smilefest in North Carolina with Hellborg and Jim Britt.

Guthrie Govan.

An incredibly versatile guitarist with absolute control of the instrument.

Govan began playing guitar aged three, encouraged by his father but initially learning mainly by ear. At the age of nine he and his brother Seth played guitar on a Thames Television programme called 'Ace Reports'[1]. He then attended King Edward VI Grammar School (Chelmsford) where he was exposed, via older classmates, to shred guitarists of the time.

After leaving school, Govan read English at the University of Oxford, though he left after a year to pursue a career in music. Around this time (by Govans own estimation, 1991[2]) he sent demos of his work to Mike Varney of Shrapnel Records. Varney was impressed and offered him a record deal; ultimately however, Govan declined. Regarding his reasons he has explained: it was as though all I really wanted to know was that I was good enough [] I found I was getting a bit wary of the shred movement[3].

In 1993 he won Guitarist magazines Guitarist of the Year competition with his instrumental piece Wonderful Slippery Thing (a version of which would eventually appear on his debut solo album); the demo of the track earned him a place amongst several other entrants in the live final, which he then won. Subsequently, he submitted a sample transcription (of a Shawn Lane piece) to Guitar Techniques magazine; this earned him a job as a contributor to the magazine, ending a spell working in fast food.[4]

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[meadowvideos]

The last song is a Eric Johnson song. Are you sure that's Guthrie playing it? Can't see why he would record an identic version of it.

[Orbit91]

@meadowvideos Positive, he did it for a guitar magazine, listen to both versions back to back, Guthrie is known for his ability to imitate people flawlessly :P

[valhalla666]

And a stupid made this video..

[Orbit91]

@valhalla666 "A stupid person made this video", stupid.

[Cetnik77]

This "vs" videos suck big time!! Two great guitar players that cannot be compared. Guthrie always admired Shawn's music, why argue?? Shawn was simply amazing, totally out of this world, Guthrie is fabulous also!! Instead of comparing these two geniuses why can't we simply enjoy their music and learn something about it??

[Orbit91]

@Cetnik77 It's YouTube, if you were expecting mature and constructive comments, you came to the wrong place :P

[09whatsupwhat]

Guthrie Govan......hands down.......no questions asked.......

[SASLEAD666]

Why all the negative comments? This person respects both guitar players enough to want to compare their greatness and isn't "bashing" on anyone.

[TheXPrisoner]

@Nathankthanks This is the "get you back " version as on the album " Powers of Ten" Studio version.

[TheXPrisoner]

Comparing these two guitarists would be like comparing Wolfmother with Led Zeppelin. Who the stupid uploaded this stupid comparision anyway??

[jimmyleppard6]

@treyguy09 the thing is, there can't be any debate because music is subjective. period.

[treyguy09]

God I am so sick of seeing the "Oh you cant compare these two their both great guitarist" in every vs guitar video i want to see the debate i dont care about your shaolin temple honor. if you dont like it GTHO!!!

[guitarnukka724]

i dunno why people bitch about guitar battles and how comparing two great guitarists is stupid.. it's basically a compilation of great music, look at it that way.

[nepotiums]

It's better as us musicians, to learn from them rather than comparing their musical reach. They too lack some greatness somewhere in between, because music itself is hard to explore. The sea of musicality is unfathomable.