Shawn Lane - Live 1998-the best

[@KevinSmithdc]

Pure stream of consciousness improvisation. No physical limitations, no musical limitations. What a monster talent.

[@thejamnasium6447]

fantastic comment

[@mezzy238]

Understatement

[@hallucinatedovens8414]

He was playing mostly Schofield licks in the beginning, Shawn wasn't an old school jazzer, so he often reverted to that style in those situations

[@chevy11786]

Nobody sounds like this because nobody can. The absolute king of electric guitar.

[@CesarClouds]

For me, he's the greatest electric guitar player of all time.

[@ToneIrv]

No doubt.

[@ToneIrv]

@Andy Butler Yeah, you are right about that. I prefer Shawns music though. It connects with me more than Allans does.

[@blackburnn.]

He and Buckethead are aliens...

[@harrykadaras9459]

For me too...Nobody comes close..

[@SamuelBravo]

With Guthrie Govan

[@GuiTarIdIoT07]

Shawn lane is the the highest score you have to beat to win guitar.

[@lessevdoolbretsim]

Ain't that the truth.

[@alexjackson8841]

you know it’s true when there’s 110 likes and not a single person is arguing about the lack of feel lol

[@eljefe8564]

He was on a whole different level.

[@ianleonard3264]

Guthries the closest runner up but goddamn

[@joelamir1971]

Shawn Lane makes Yngwie look like he is playing in slow motion.

[@stevenmaddock4237]

Shawn had amazing speed and musical mastery, him and Holdsworth are players that really are untouchable

[@Haroun-El-Poussah]

I can't tell about Shawn, but you could absolutely touch Allan and even get drunk with him

[@user-sg2vv3gw2e]

Shawn played with melody, just listen to Hey T Bone from Centrifugal Funk. Alan was on the previous MVP CD, Truth in Shredding, with Frank Gambale (who is on both), not memorable like Centrifugal Funk. Also, Bret Garsed is brilliant on Hey T Bone.

[@danielhicks4826]

Its freaky stuff his speed, something different about it even comparted to the usual like Paul Gilbert, Petrucci, Al Dimeola, John McLaughlin, Jason Becker even, I think Lanes is literally objectively the fastest, the closest I have heard would be prime Gilbert from one of his like 85-57 sessions but even that as freakish robotic and perfect as it was somehow Lanes is still a level above even that, yeah again just freaky freaky stuff man. I know he's more than that to its just also amazing on top of everything else he may be the literal fastest in history to top it.

[@JohnDoe-sz3lz]

Dude was like John Coltrane mixed with Jimi Hendrix.

[@Cordova4444]

yes he was. Shawn and Coltrane will always be my favorite improvisers. genius.

[@snuppssynthchannel]

HOldsworth Cough Cough!

[@RG-ms1ou]

Snuppeluppen søppelsopp Agreed! I don't get the post comparing him to Hendrix. A better comparison is he's a mix of McLaughlin and Holdsworth (especially the latter)

[@seanruiz3357]

Oh big time,..shawn would tell you that himself, I mean allan IS THE ONE who sent shawn back to the drawing board when shawn heard allan in 1980,..i was trying to do a shawn lane lick,..the crazy outro to get you back,..and if you just play that lick without the music guess who it sounds like,...allan holdsworth! lol,...I steal ANYTHING I can from allan and shawn when it comes to playing,..and I cant steal much..lol,..but the little that I can makes me a %100 better player,.....

[@RG-ms1ou]

Hahaha, I hear you there! I play the blues, mostly, but now and then I try to play some more challenging stuff like jazz-fusion or thrash metal. Certain players you can figure out fairly quickly. Allan Holdsworth is not one of those players, lol! Even if I had 100 more years on this earth, I probably wouldn't be able to crack his code. Pure genius. As for Shawn, another total genius. It's unreal how fast yet melodic he was. I wish they were both still around today...so much more to give.

[@thomasjdigennosr7370]

This guy makes Mclaughlin sound like slowhand!RIP to a master

[@BoomerBends]

@ 2:03 These descending pentatonic flourishes are simply superhuman in their speed. This guy's nervous system was truly "freakish" as he was once quoted when asked about his speed.

[@gaggle57]

Shawn Lane is the among ultimate expressions of creation. Like the Sistine chapel. Saw him in '97, mind blown. Was an atheist. Not anymore.

[@jiminylummox9352]

Which God did you decide to start worshipping?

[@recipoldinasty]

Jiminy Lummox shawn lane ofc

[@oilkills]

Well said my friend!!! oilkills aka Don Rose, btw, do you like my Picture here? lol, Peace!

[@davederoux3361]

@@jiminylummox9352 lol

[@a.nobodys.nobody]

But really though??

[@nogoogleplus]

2:05 the drummer was like" oh crap I don't think I can play that fast"

[@essinga1]

:) :) :) :)

[@NeilRaouf]

felix sabal-lecco inthink you are an incredible drummer mr sabal-lecco! How was your experience of playing with shawn?

[@NeilTurnbull007]

Shawn Lane left the world a better place & thankfully we are still appreciating him now in 2021. Super upload.

[@davepugh2519]

Lots of KZbin videos have "the best" in the title. This one deservedly so.

[@chevy11786]

2:28 - 2:34 is single handedly the most furious combination of picking and hammerons i have ever witnessed a guitar player do. The speed is inhuman, the note volume is equal on every note. Probably the strongest left hand in guitar history and with out a doubt the most complete well rounded guitarist ( in my own humble opinion of course) I have ever witnessed here on youtube. Scotty Anderson, Guthrie Govan, and Frank Gambale are the only ones who come close as far as being well rounded IMO.

[@jamesspooner5487]

And it is absolutely horrendous to listen too, verging on non-musical...

[@PaulGideon-di2hw]

❤

[@a.nobodys.nobody]

Dig into Julian Lages catalog and live videos

[@beelz6739]

0:02 insane bebop improvisation 1:49 evil holdsworth be like 2:03 pentatonics from hell (eric j / zakk wylde kinda) 2:16 other madness ? 2:50 black market (weather report) 3:32 teen town (weather report)

[@agnesthedrugstoreownersdau3577]

Probably the best clean tone I've ever heard on a Les Paul, along with Les Paul himself. This man could play some crazy shit with incredible ease and seemingly complete lack of effort.

[@PistolsPlayground]

1998 was the year I was introduced to Shawn's playing. I was 14 years old, and a guitar playing friend loaned me Powers Of Ten. That album totally recalibrated what my brain thought was possible on a guitar.

[@COTG666]

Shawn Lane was and is the greatest. Super shredder and great note selection.

[@OZRIC1985]

Shawn definitely had a freakish nervous system (as he quoted himself). His brain must have always been going at light speed. What an incredible guitar player he was. I still mourn his death. :( RIP Shawn

[@bachicg207]

I think Shawn Lane reached "Godlike" level on guitar .

[@u.v.s.5583]

"Don't reach, youngblood!" (Shawn Lane to god)

[@comaproductions3288]

And that's why God plagued him with health problems.

[@MetalSupporter95]

ComaProductions Really unfair..

[@comaproductions3288]

It's always the insanely talented ones that get taken away too soon. I don't know why but it's true.. I think it's someone upstairs saying.. you have done your time and have become an amazing musician.. now it's time to move on to the next challenge... A bit less darker way to think about it, regardless at least he was around long enough to grace people with his music while he was here.

[@ExternalTooth]

ComaProductions More like you just don't notice as much when extremely talented musicians grow old, and notice more when they die in their prime because it's truly tragic. Regardless, there is no doubt that Shawn Lane died long before he reached what would've been his peak.

[@NeoGodHand]

Even despite his condition and health, he still played this show with such passion and skill.

[@douglashall4050]

Just when I thought that I was playing pretty good lately, I had to go and see this from '98 and well, I'm going to sleep.

[@gep2771]

Shawn will always be the most mind blowing guitarist, nobody can touch him and his piano skills were amazing too. This is ferocious.

[@rogeradams7286]

the older I get I realize that it's personality and image that make you famous; guitar playing is secondary; this guy was obviously in the rarest of airs; And at least if he didn't get famous as he should have he always seemed to love what he was doing and listening to his interviews knew more about music than anyone I can think of

[@biggils8894]

Roger Adams he had a autoimmune disease that ruined his life, which made him overweight. He was actually very good looking in healthy years.

[@scottwaszak698]

No, it's also accessibility; this kinda music is way over the top of most people's appreciation. Way more people would rather listen to Clapton or SRV, myself included. I can appreciate his mastery but it's just ugly, atonal noise for the most part.

[@garymorris3611]

Famous musicians have famous songs; without the songs you wind up as a great musician admired by musicians. You will find no none musician who knows of Lane, Holdsworth, Stern but who hasn't heard of Hendrix, Santana, Van Halen?

[@davederoux3361]

@@scottwaszak698 and Clapton is rigid, predictable, stationary and colorless..horrible shit

[@scottwaszak698]

@@davederoux3361 not in his prime.

[@richardsguitarstudio]

I am fully convinced the Shawn Lane could literally play anything at any speed in any style on any guitar.

[@ByronWerner-qw5sh]

And he played keyboards just as fast!

[@fender68able]

I used to live in Memphis. I heard he was buried at poplar st. cemetary. God i wish he was still with us!!

[@steeefin]

+David Jones he is buried at Memorial Park which is on Poplar. His gravestone is just opposite the grotto area not too far from the entrance. Only a few feet from Isaac Hayes :)

[@fender68able]

+stevo0914 Oh, OK. Thanks. Man, I wish he was still with us.

[@edrodrigues9456]

+stevo0914 He should be burried on mahogany tbh

[@dylanswint1795]

+David Jones I wish he were with us in body as well as spirit and music. At least the latter two live on!

[@Prossdog]

Gotta love the internet where a video of a fantastic fusion jazz guitarist can spawn dozens of people arguing about useless mundane crap.

[@brianlehrer6700]

Don’t know if anything can be labeled “the best,” but if you want to argue about it this would be a great place to start. He’s unreal. I never tire of listening to the Utube posts of his playing. Thanks for posting.

[@williamallen9697]

I would highly recommend anyone watching this listen to his opening run at half speed. Guthrie Govan, talking about Shawn, mentioned that "this wasn't just a guy who practiced his scales a lot." This dude was a genius to invent such passages at this tempo with actually interesting notes. Listening at half speed really highlights this.

[@davidsmith6976]

On the videos ,when he shows how to play the licks ,they are MORE melodic !!!!

[@troublesome07]

This is an amazing tip. haha. I'm doing this now and it feels like a whole new world of amazing phrasing and note choices. But of course at full speed it's hard to discern what's going on. Thanks!

[@har9020]

He was a voracious reader, too. He'd read up to 10 books a week.

[@babalonworking6]

He actually read 3 to 10....a DAY...INSANE!

[@rediryou]

And a hell of a piano player too.

[@NovelMeetsEvilPodcast]

He also walked five miles to school barefoot uphill both ways 🤣

[@jakemitchell1671]

@@NovelMeetsEvilPodcast No....really. I knew Shawn. By the time he was a teenager he'd read the majority of books in the Memphis Public Library. I'm not proclaiming him a god. But he was a rare human being. Intellect and talent not often seen.

[@NovelMeetsEvilPodcast]

@@jakemitchell1671 I just shake my head and laugh when I see/hear him switch from guitar to keyboard and back. Really inspiring if you’re a savant. Demotivating for some of us normals 😊

[@Auen73]

My God, what amazing player. Off the charts superhuman.

[@rjc7289]

The way the guitar and bass locked in at 3:35 was just mind boggling! That was some seriously tight musicianship!

[@maxrico6660]

Monster! Coltrane on the guitar and beyond!

[@richarddalbis3323]

While the audio tech figures out the bassist amp problem, Shawn delivers the goods.

[@DanielVerberne]

Is that the context of this improv occasion? Bass was temporarily off? Oh, yeah moments after typing this the bassist is back up and powering

[@orion681]

This is the best tone I have ever heard out of him. Probably because it's rare that you see him with a Gibson...especially into a Soldano.

[@logancayon2381]

Late to reply, but I’ve read his usual guitar was lost in transportation (checked bags at airports), so he borrowed someone’s guitar. I thought I read it was an Epiphone Les Paul, but I might be wrong. I don’t know much about guitars

[@jimmyc5498]

Gettin my Shawn dose before my gig, RIP brother

[@NeilRaouf]

Proud to carry on his legacy and tell people about him! Jawdropping musicianship!

[@pauldsheppard126]

You know, what i love about this guy is everything. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@bevocjohnson]

how has this not hit a million views? What a shame!

[@thomasjdigennosr7370]

Because people think Taylor Swift and her ilk are real music!😢

[@zedddddful]

I just can't wrap my head around how he played like this it's totally beyond my comprehension it's almost alien.

[@davejackson88]

0:02/0:06 This man will never be matched

[@ferox965]

What I like here is how (and what I think sets Lane apart from other "shredders") is his picking hand. You can hear the pick hitting every note as opposed to the left hand doing all the work.

[@GuitarInfrastructure]

man I would give anything to be able to sit down and have a conversation with Shawn

[@stevencross6189]

It is also definitely worth noting that he reportedly read from 3 to 10 books a day. A true genius.

[@awckzsel]

More like a freak... But in a good way!

[@SanctumZero]

steven cross Do you have any idea how long it takes to read 10 books? Don't believe everything you see on the interwebz.

[@stevencross6189]

I didn't read it on the internet friend. i read it in a posthumous magazine article and was said by multiple friends and members of his family including his wife. They said his house would literally be filled with stacks of books and that he would go the library and check out dozens of books at a time on a given subject. Just cause you couldn't comprehend someone elses ability to do something doesn't mean they can't. That's why we have words like "genius" which unfortunately are grossly overused and therefore removed from their true meanings. That being said i did not know him personally and can't say with certainty either way on the subject that's why i used the words "reportedly read 3 to 10 books a day". thanks for your concern

[@Claymor621]

steven cross 10 books a day? Can't be done. And how can you, in the real world, check out 'dozens of books at a time' from a library, to any practical end, especially 'on a given subject'? I can well imagine he was a voracious reader and very intelligent but the silly fan boy myths that get built around people because they can play fast are ridiculous.

[@stevencross6189]

fine dude. you know it all. how exactly can a six year old whos never played a piano be able to play mozart by ear? some peoples minds are different from yours. And i personally go to the library quite often and they let you take up to 20 books at a time and recheck any of them out up to 3 times. There's easily hundreds of books of on most subjects. And if you think that what makes Shawn special is the speed at which he plays you're clearly not listening.

[@billgates5458]

This is the example of total mind flow. What he thinks, he plays and all is totally correct, in key and in time. this is an example of someone who is a total prodigy and showing what he can do anytime at the drop of a hat. Perfect! So glad this and whatever is out there of being Shawn recorded is available to see here. He is/was such a special musician who many are unaware of his talent.

[@KickflipGnasty]

Man. The dude was just cash money. Love Shawn Lane.

[@CuttingEdgetools]

Astro SAX Guitar. Total mind blowing improv. Be bop & beyond. Wowzer!!!RIP Brother

[@U2WB]

Why are there trolls here who feel they're actually competent enough to make negative comments about this man ? Obviously they have not scratched the surface of what he was capable of, the depth of feeling he could pull out of a guitar when he wanted to. Yes this was a shred fest, but I'll retract my statement if anyone can produce even one player who can shred like this. Shawn was a genius intellectually as well as musically, and had so much to say that he had to rip out like this now and then. But man, oh man, he could make you cry with a simple phrase when he wanted to.

[@aphexlane]

The trolls here are unbelievable. Rules of the game has some of the most emotional melodic content ive ever heard.

[@gray-pianos-flying4756]

Thunderous improvisation and teen town, Beyond description!

[@capellaguru]

Turned a few students on to this, and others as well. I was there, being a professor at the University of Warsaw. I did not know who Shawn Lane was at that time--I got some lesson I will never forget. RIP to a wonderful soul who was a guitar giant!

[@somethewiserchristianband4998]

Miss my fellow MemphIan.always a treat to watch him play.

[@ShadowNinjaNoah]

I see now where buckethead got his atonal tap stuff, but its incredible cause shawn is doing it with one hand

[@rickariche]

Hahaha Lmao!

[@rickariche]

Buckethead based his style, or part of it, on a record that Shawn wrote in the style of Conlon Nancarrow.

[@ShadowNinjaNoah]

On Buckethead's guitar lesson he said he heard it on a Shawn Lane bootleg, and Gilbert helped him out with it, regardless of why he did it or who inspired him, its pretty freakin cool

[@person2954]

ShadowNinjaNoah Its a very interesting story actually. Bucket was trying to imitate something that was meant to be impossible to play, yet he did it!! haha This is what Shawn said on an interview "What that is was, I have been pretty obsessed for a little while with the music of Conlon Nancarrow, so I wanted to try to express something like that with the guitar and I wanted to do note combinations that I didn't think could be done on the guitar. So actually what I did is constructing it by recording every note separately. So I actually just would play a note and then record however long I wanted the tone to be. If I wanted it to be longer I'd record longer, for shorter notes I just recorded for a second. And I literally just constructed it note-by-note over a couple of night's time. Thousands of notes. I wanted to make combinations of notes that couldn't be played, I was pretty convinced they couldn't be. So I did that as a stand-alone loop about 8 years ago and a bootleg tape of it got in the hands of buckethead. And nobody told him that I didn't play it, that it was assembled on tape with guitar. And so he tried to sound like that by tapping and based a lot of his style on that tape. So it's Conlon Nancarrow influencing me influencing Buckethead. It became it's own style. But I think it's funny because it was because of a misunderstanding. He didn't know that I didn't play it so he assumed that it could just be played. Well, when I constructed it, I constructed it specifically so it could not be played. And he didn't know that, so he achieved something going (imitates Buckethead playing fast) by tapping them in wide intervals. It's a weird story (laughs)" www.richardhallebeek.com/interviews/lane.php

[@FatPeaceman]

Dimitri808 crazy shit i didn't know that

[@mannyfragoza9652]

freaking no words to describe Shawns playing

[@pjost6643]

at the end - Teen Town !!! Jaco Pasorius forever!!

[@harrykadaras9459]

Paul Gilbert, Bucket, and Guthrie always pay homage to this man

[@kipponi]

Unstoppable playing and so fast.No one is comparable to that speed. He had unique nervous system.

[@talsophos]

A jam with him and Guthrie would have been Epic. 2 of the most complete guitar players to ever exist.

[@williamcompitello2302]

It's sad how many guitar videos I saw before I stumbled across Shawn.

[@foxybrown2]

Back again 9 yrs later and he is still the king of the hill. It looked like Jonas was getting his praise dance going.

[@U2WB]

Shawn was the best guitarist who ever lived. Period.

[@gipsy2376]

Indeed!!!

[@ronstephens1564]

U2WB he is phenomenal....wish i could hear more

[@gipsy2376]

Yeeees

[@gipsy2376]

☺☺

[@davidluiz389]

+U2WB jason becker...period

[@mikeparsons1657]

Shawn, the greatest!!!!!

[@justintyme2764]

Shawn was a genius.

[@kennyfoster655]

First time I've seen him play a Kes Paul... usually Vigier... amazing... wish there was more quality footage of him than there is...

[@jonmyers7485]

Name one who has the Soul Technique God given talent. Answer nobody. Miss you

[@pedroleal7118]

Thank you Shawn!

[@Lucid_Projection]

Mesmerising, unbelievable groove and terrifying licks!

[@wadesharp11]

All the legends love Shawn Lawn and respect him very much! So amazing nek level. God bless

[@gaggle57]

saw these guys in '97. the 90% of the show sounded like the part that starts at 4:20. 420. I like that. Shawn smoked alot of weed. Spent alot of time in Amsterdam. Medical. (Psoriatic arthritis. He didn't have good health insurance. he probably "got big" from the steroids. He died(20 years ago) when it spread to the lungs. a godman, he was.

[@jakemitchell1671]

Most of Shawn's best playing was done on an obscure Roland synth guitar with the synth stuff taken out, through a MORE obscure Holmes Mississippi Bluesmaster solid state amp. I saw him dozens of times in Memphis, TN just ripping the world up. His soulful playing was more mesmerizing than his blistering ripping stuff. A true genius. RIP.

[@b.ar.m4251]

it blows my fucking mind. it's just unbelievable what this person did on this instrument especially with the health problems he had.

[@chrisbailey9377]

You can clearly see how.mucj he influenced Buckethead.... Both are amazing. This dude was just unearthly.

[@chrisbailey9377]

Much*

[@luigicannizzo2669]

" Very Special Sounds and Great Stuff Musician ". .. Mr. Lane Great ( Talent ). So' Nice .... ☺😊😀/💙💙💙/👍👌👏👋

[@marbananta]

Finger power that no one ever has except the great Shawn Lane.

[@psychokannibal]

The best shredder that ever lived. Even if you slow his playing down is so detailed and well articulated.

[@pizzaboynizzaTV]

I’m gonna have to watch this on repeat for weeks to wrap my head around it entirely. I’ve been a casual fan of Shane for years but I didn’t realize the extent of his genius; never put a dude in my top 10 after one performance. This may be the single best guitar performance I’ve ever seen - beating out Gatton and Buchanan. He’ll never be my favorite guitarist (Hendrix) but he’s officially a contender for greatest guitarist of all time.

[@fieldingmellish6856]

What an inspiration ! realistically an impossible aspiration, but none the less an absolute inspiration. I hope he enjoyed his time on this planet because musicians like him show us instrumental Giant Steps

[@MaXaNoMaLoUs]

Trying to show my wife and kids the original of Teen Town and the godly ness of JACO. I love Shawn because of his humble nature and how he was a fan of everything musical. I strongly recommend that everyone go check out Lane’s REH video where he talks about the first time he saw Allan Holdsworth was by accident and forever changed his life. Same thing happened to me;)

[@paulobianquini]

Shawn Lane was a incredible and perfeccionist guitar player .

[@jaydee3137]

this guy is unreal.

[@joaquinodriozola4963]

They are playing black market

[@海王-t4n]

And then teen town at the end. Mad weather report mash up, I had no idea who the tune was when I was 16, found out years later when I went to uni and studied jazz :D

[@MaXaNoMaLoUs]

So glad someone picked that up. Trying to show my wife and kids the original of Teen Town and the godly ness of JACO. I love Shawn because of his humble nature and how he was a fan of everything musical. I strongly recommend that everyone go check out Lane’s REH video where he talks about the first time he saw Allan Holdsworth was by accident and forever changed his life. Same thing happened to me;)

[@BA-wt1gl]

Literally a freak of nature when it comes to guitar. I believe Shawn was the most technically proficient guitar player to this day. I think it would be difficult to find any guitarist that recognizes his level and doesn't hold it in high regard. It's very sad that he passed away so young.

[@polymathing]

There are many times in his live videos where his left hand moves noticeably faster than any guitarist I've ever seen. A True Legend with a Gift 🙏

[@rickariche]

2:50 The first thing that popped into my mind was "Black Market" despite the fact the main theme is not even developed, just some intervals. Seconds later, Shawn plays it. What kind of sorcery is this?

[@u.v.s.5583]

The man was a genius for sure.

[@JoeandAngie]

My fave is 85-89 Memphis with The Willys. Saw them sooo many times...he used to sit with my buddy and me btwn sets a lot. Wed talk fish/aquaria lol

[@PeteCastellano]

I often wonder how the guitar world would have evolved if monstrous players like Shawn Lane, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Randy Rhoads, Chuck Schuldiner, and even Django Reinhardt lived longer lives. Shawn was a true casualty. I still revisit his music from time to time and it is beyond comprehension how much of a genius he really was. Such a shame about his health. :/ We can only hope that modern players like Rick Graham, and Guthrie Govan realize their impact on the community, and continue to pass the torch to the next generation of players like Plini, Aaron Marshall and Nick Johnston.

[@oopsydaizi3s824]

Matteo Mancuso and Max Ostro are really coming into their own right as well.

[@harryalderman1345]

Love hearing Shawn with a Gibson!

[@asintobasi2137]

Epiphone 😉

[@MrGuruYoda]

he's ripping on a Soldano slo-100, great rig!

[@misaelalejandrohenriquezhe339]

Un cabezal de maestros. Una reliquia. Yo amo ese cabezal.

[@scarletvonalisha]

1:50 at 2:00 remember buckethead atonal licks tapping

[@huskopeshroud8682]

Israel tanker yeah me too

[@fernandomoreno7753]

Huskope Shroud except he does it with one hand lol

[@thiagowolfgrann93]

who do you think buckedhead got that from? it's all shawn lane

[@atlantaguitar9689]

Long ago, a friend of mine's band shared a bill with Black Oak and he wouldn't shutup about "this kid from Memphis" who was a "total monster". As this was before the wonders of the internet and youtube I just took his word for it but I thought it odd that a guitar virtuoso would be playing with a band like Black Oak (nothing against them) - and then I more or less forgot about it. A few months later, someone gave me a grainy cassette of Shawn's playing with a cover band and I was blown away (like most people were). Even though the tape was like a second or third generation copy, full of hiss and random drop outs, you could definitely hear that he not only played the tunes with great precision and respect but he had his own unique thing happening and at such a young age. Of course the rest is history but he deserved more credit.

[@xtarminator3]

He was, is, and always will be a legend!

[@MichaelMaxwell747]

Mind blown, again!

[@TruthSurge]

I think Steve Vai would have a blast transcribing this. Or Guthrie. Hey, any covers of this on YT?

[@davederoux3361]

I don't think anyone could play it even with a transcription but I wouldn't put anything past Matteo Mancuso.

[@TruthSurge]

@@davederoux3361 yeah, he's really good, too. I watched a few of his vids. Picking classically and being that clean just amazes me.

[@davederoux3361]

@@TruthSurge Ridiculous talent. To cover Holdsworth, Mason and Govan as clean or cleaner than them without a pick is scary. But I noticed he never took on Lane. Like Clint says...a man's got to know his limitations.

[@oopsydaizi3s824]

Guthrie once transcribed one of Shawn’s solos and sent it to Guitar World Magazine. Pretty sure thats how he got picked up by the magazine to do lessons.

[@TruthSurge]

@@oopsydaizi3s824 Probably Get You Back. or some easier one. There's vids where Shawn is beyond belief in speed and doing it all with left hand and picking with right hand. I suppose you can slow it down and figure out the notes but boy, what a chore to try and do that w/o any video to help. Guthrie and Vai are gluttons for punishment!!

[@sparkspark2314]

I’m late to the game with him, but at the moment he is the only guitarist I’m paying attention to.

[@bobdobbs4407]

Wow no comments on the drummer? He was doing great too

[@jcanavan50]

I sadly only discovered this guy after my formative years. I was influenced by all the typical shredders from the 80's. This guy was awesome.

[@waikikirod]

Baddest Man in the land Memphis Kine... RIP bro Shawn Frayser Style

[@alexnash12345]

Shawn Lane played at the NAMM Jam with Steve Vai and Joe Satriani in 1993 along with Andy Timmons, Paul Gilbert, Rob Beach and Alex Skolnick.

[@Mike-oj1tm]

Thank you for posting this video.

[@givemeajackson]

shawn was a guitarist everywhere from jazz to shred to neoclassical to speed metal. and he was a god at all of it

[@ArtGuitarLTX]

I HAD TO PAUSE WHEN HE TURNED ON THE OVERDRIVE 😂… WTF Shawn!! Jeeeeeeeeesus Chrissssssssst! I’m crying at how amazing this is! 🥹😅

[@davidperezgonzalez1839]

Great! Shawn playing "black market"and "teen town"

[@om13nrv]

Shawn Lane.... Le Dieu de la guitare tout simplement. RIP. 🙏