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shredguitar



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 11:03 pm    Post subject: Shawn Lane Reply with quote

I just wanted to start a thread on one of the very few musicians on par with Guthrie. Shawn may very well be my favorite guitar player ever. If you're not already a member, you should check out the Shawn Lane Forum. There's alot of great people and musicians there. Any other Shawn fans here?
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 3:47 am    Post subject: Re: Shawn Lane Reply with quote

shredguitar wrote:
I just wanted to start a thread on one of the very few musicians on par with Guthrie. Shawn may very well be my favorite guitar player ever. If you're not already a member, you should check out the Shawn Lane Forum. There's alot of great people and musicians there. Any other Shawn fans here?


Lane was certainly a monster and is definitely one of my all-time faves as well. His life and career was so tragically short with his vast potential now forever unrealized. He had such an original singular style of playing that will never be equaled IMHO.

I'm sure that Lane was a big influence on Guthrie. Guthrie did an article and transcribed one of Shawn's solos for the Guitar Techniques magazines. If you look around the net, you could download the article in PDF. Guthrie uses a lot of Lane's techniques like single-note per string runs using pick and fingers and other runs and patterns that Lane was fond of using.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 9:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

love lane... possibly the scariest guitar player of all time. but i think that may have been his downfall or the lack of appreciation and the recogntion he deserves or deserved. his playing and music is just way over too many people's heads.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 11:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I might get a bit carried away here...

IF I was a technically more informed and capable player, I would be like Shawn Lane.

What I mean is, when I heard him for the first time, my jaw dropped - it was a man playing the guitar how I play the guitar, but a million billion times better! His approach to the instrument, his rhythm and - above all - his improvisation reminded me of me SO much.

But, you'd be hard pressed to hear it in my tunes, it's more that I relate to his playing in the way I relate to my own...I'm not explaining myself very well, I hope you catch my drift!

I tend not to listen to a lot of "guitar music for guitarists" (you know what I mean!) but Shawn Lane transcends that (with a few others) and he just creates beautiful, wonderful music, in which the fact that he's playing a guitar seems incidental!

He was one of the very, very best.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 11:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Strange that Dave, when I hear Pat Metheny play I often think 'yeah that's what I would do there given the ability' so I know where you are coming from.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 3:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

he is indeed one scary player

a few bootlegs and he's just Shocked
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 9:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Shawn who? Wink
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 13, 2004 9:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't know if Guthrie ever met Shawn, but I bet Guthrie's sad about Shawn's passing and not being able to have to chance to sit in with him at least once. If there are just a few guitarists alive who could have held their ground on stage with Shawn technically and musically, I agree with Donnie B. that it probably would have been Guthrie and Allan Holdsworth. There are plenty of blazingingly fast guitarists out there, but the type of lines these three played and the advanced musicianship they commanded can be matched by a very, very few.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 8:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

lane's lines weren't just super fast, they had this propulsive velocity to 'em that i haven't heard anyone else match. Shocked
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 7:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

shredrulez wrote:
lane's lines weren't just super fast, they had this propulsive velocity to 'em that i haven't heard anyone else match. Shocked


VELOCITY - perfect way to describe it.

Hey Shred, just noticed you're from Tempe. I lived there for 4 months back in 1997 - April thru July. What a great town! Hotter than hell during the summer but it's a dry heat. I had also visited once in January and it's beautiful weather then. Anyway, I found the people there to be so unpretentious and FUN! Going out after work, drinking beers and shooting pool was a fave pastime. Downtown Tempe also has the BEST Hooters on the planet!

My craziest Tempe memory was the night this new club opened and they ran a 5 cent beer promotion! Yup, 20 beers for a buck! Everyone was buying rounds for the entire house ALL night. By the end of the evening the floor was littered with bottlecaps to the point it was hard to walk! (or maybe it was because of the number of beers drunk) Shocked
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 8:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Donnie B. wrote:
shredrulez wrote:
lane's lines weren't just super fast, they had this propulsive velocity to 'em that i haven't heard anyone else match. Shocked


VELOCITY - perfect way to describe it.

Hey Shred, just noticed you're from Tempe. I lived there for 4 months back in 1997 - April thru July. What a great town! Hotter than hell during the summer but it's a dry heat. I had also visited once in January and it's beautiful weather then. Anyway, I found the people there to be so unpretentious and FUN! Going out after work, drinking beers and shooting pool was a fave pastime. Downtown Tempe also has the BEST Hooters on the planet!

My craziest Tempe memory was the night this new club opened and they ran a 5 cent beer promotion! Yup, 20 beers for a buck! Everyone was buying rounds for the entire house ALL night. By the end of the evening the floor was littered with bottlecaps to the point it was hard to walk! (or maybe it was because of the number of beers drunk) Shocked


yep, lane's lines seem to be turbo-charged! Laughing

dry heat over most of az south of sedona. lived in phoenix most of my life but had to move here a few years ago because of job matters. like it here a lot more. phoenix had been growing faster than it could handle and became a bit of a tough place to hang. yeah, the people in tempe are sorta isolated and are down to earth, or should i say down to sand! Laughing great food here all around. some of the best restaurants anywhere! and lively music scene although no one is really interested in my shredding... Sad Wink if only i could play like lane or guthrie! Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 4:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've been to the States a few times but never to Arizona. However, out of all the places I've been to it's the place I most want to go. I will one day. Hire a car and do the Arizona, Utah up to Montana trip that a lot of Brits do. Doesn't Rob Halford ex Priest live in Phoenix?
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 6:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This Lane thread has taken a detour to the deserts of Arizona, eh? Wink

Well, I need to chime in since I lived in Scottsdale (northeast adjacent to Phoenix) for 3+ years when I used to work for Fender, where their headquarters are located. Enjoyed my stay there, but that amount of time was just about enough for me and I really wanted to move back to Southern Cal (besides getting absolutely fed up with the corporate politics at Fender).

Arizona is a state with some amazing natural beauty scattered all about and a place that everyone should visit at least once in their lifetime. Obviously, Grand Canyon is the granddaddy of them all and is certainly worth seeing. I've been there at least 10 times. It's always wondrous and never ceases to amaze every time I visit. Then there is Sedona with its beautiful huge red rocks and, supposedly, some mystical earthly energy that flows through the area which has made it a haven for spiritualists and the New Age type.

Then there is the Monument Valley - the quintessential Western movie backdrop. It's definitely another thing worth seeing. There are also various Indian ruins and other canyons where Indians dug out huge dwellings along the canyon walls. There is the largest meteor crater in the world about an hour east of Flagstaff. Down south near Tempe, there is the Sahuaro National Park with its "farms" of majestic cacti that stretch as far as the eyes can see. Southeast of Tempe is the famous Tombstone town with its OK Corral where Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday shot it out with the thugs of the old days of the Gold Rush. Didn't get to go there, though, but will have to do that someday. Loved that movie, "Tombstone". To this day, I think Val Kilmer's role as Doc Holiday in that film was the best that he ever played. So go check out Arizona! Wink

Now getting back to Lane, what are some of your favorite albums? My fave is Temporal Analogues of Paradise. Then Powers of Ten, Powers of Ten Live, and Time is the Enemy. The only Lane album worthy of note that I don't have is Tritone Fascination. What's that one like compared to Powers of Ten?
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 9:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i love it out here in az. summers can get brutal, but i'd rather soak up the dry heat than sweat like a pig in humid muggy weather.
but getting back to lane, i must say that i like lane's stuff on centrifugal funk the most. pot (eh? Confused Laughing ) is cool, too. but stuff he did with hellborg are a little too far out there for me.
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