What the f*ck did I just listen to? No way..!! This is the best shred I’ve ever heard.. Shawns playing is still 100 years in the future from anyone else..!!
I had the exact same reaction. This is shred taken to another level and the fact that it was released in 1991 makes it the tip of the top of guitar shred
Im a lane fan since I was 19. Im now 41. But i belive Brett and shawn both deserve praise on this song. I won't ever pick a winner. Both fucking ruthless on this song
Listening again . Shawn is humble. Ill say it for him. I have a favorite sound in music its called complete fully developed. Shawn is this . Where do you go from here. He is a completely polished musician in every fathomable imagined way. Hes free. And one of the kindest spirits ever.
Garsed's solo is incredible. The phrasing, the timing, the note choice, and the impeccable legato and hybrid picking technique which is still awe-inspiring in 2022 - it hasn't dated.
Brett is criminally underrated and has such a great variety to his playing. He's really tasteful and has great timing. He has a really nice ability to be able to come right at you when he wants to without it being overpowering..... But then Shawn starts and it's like a 4 handed alien is playing. He is completely out of this world and is the only man in history who played fastest of all but still threw in that killer tone and those small fills in between runs that makes all the difference. What a FUCKING album this is!
Apparently, Shawn HATED his solos on this album, because he was only provided the backing tracks to record over without being around any of the other musicians or hearing any of the other players' solos. Kinda explains why there's such an enormous contrast between Shawn, Brett and Frank. Had Shawn known what his fellow players were doing, he would have synced up his playing to better fit the material. Still, his solo on this track is, without a shadow of a doubt, my favorite solo ever for reasons I could dig too deeply into, but not now. I've listened to it literally about 13,000 times and I'm still not sick of it.
I don't know details of the release of this record. But without a doubt it's got to be among the all-time most bad-ass fusion guitar albums of all time. Solid gold.
He did...I remember him bitching about it over at his grandmothers.....I really dig Garsed here....if you ever saw Shawn live....and I did many times....he would just melt the stage...even when playing with Garsed...he would adjust. Once I saw Lane play in quadraphonic...four Holmes amps all separated by tiny milliseconds delay..all around you. We all just melted as well.
I don't think words could really describe what happened on Shawn's solo.Flat out amazing.Wow,I've listened to this song 1,000+ times and it still blows my mind everytime.No other guitarist has ever come close to his level of genius on the guitar.
I think holdsworth exceeded what lane has done in musical terms, although not technically! Lane is without the shadow of a doubt the technique king of all time.
Brett’s solo on this tune has just about everything I could possibly need for hybrid picking/legato technique transcribing, as well as fusion phrasing. Slowing down his solo is like taking an advanced class. And opening up Shawn’s solo gives me endless inspiration for crazy, over-the-top techniques. This is a monster of a guitar tune.
Imagine Shawn playing Woodstock instead of Hendrix. I'd love to see the look on people's faces. Especially @ 3:58 - 4:29, they're all tripping on acid and they hear that!
Just imagine a bunch of dirty stoned hippies yawning at the guy onstage playing at a millions miles an hour yet making them feel nothing and you’ll have a good idea.
Steve Vai is an amazing composer and totally and utterly unique and one hell of a guitar player but these fusion cats put every rock player to shame with their insane over the top improvisations!!!! Total monsters!!! Scary
2:52, Lane couldn't have chosen a better few introductory notes to frame his entrance - dark, brooding, full of menace, excitement, what an awesome, blistering solo.
252 dam wtf Shawn? It's God dam strange it's just filthy talking on the guitar. I'm floored. Love the other guys playing too. Just can't believe what Shawn through down.
Shawn lane's solo is sick , crazy stuff out of this world , was he really human ? Face melting solo at the speed of light. Shawn was and still is in a league of his own. RIP legend.
Unbelievable, Centrifugal funk might as well be considered the apex of shred guitar. Released in 1991, this literally topped most of the 80s shred guitar material and is a great summing up of the golden years of the shred era. Garseds, Lanes, Gambales playing styles are totally unique and redefined guitar playing, there were almost no guitarists who played like this back then. Another apex of shred guitar is Truth in Shredding of Gambale and Holdsworth, Holdsworth being another one who totally redefined guitar playing back then. Today you have a lot of remarkable guitarists that are carrying the torch and are able to shred but in my humble opinion it's very hard to top Centrifugal funk, this is the kind of record that is the blueprint for all modern fusion players and guitarists in general of every genre. Some of the best and most groundbreaking guitar playing ever recorded, it's not just typical shred in the end, it's one over the top unpredictable improvisation that reaches often lightning speeds and at the same is melodic, it keeps you interested. So inspirational, every guitarist will benefit from listening to this
@@a.s.2426 It's true these albums are very much unknown in the music world in general, maybe a more correct statement would be saying Centrifugal funk it's the blueprint for contemporary fusion guitar players and not all guitarists in general. At the same time I think we all can agree on the fact that Centrifugal funk it's like the thesaurus for lead guitar players regardless of what genre you play
@@masterblaster365 Thanks for clarifying. It's an amazing album for sure. I got it when it came out back in the day but also have about 90 other records from Shrapnel, Legato and Blues Bureau. "Cetrifugal" and "Truth" were never known widely even among shredders in my experience in those years. My sense is that the fusion shred sound that is popular today (and for the last decade) with instrumental shredders can more so be traced back to Greg Howe's sound from his "Introspection" album and forward. My hypothesis is that one of the main points of spread was via Guthrie. It's not widely known but Guthrie wrote a lot of "Erotic Cakes" in the early 90s and some of it even appeared along side Greg's music on "Guitar On The Edge - Vol. 1 No. 4". If you listen to the demo of "Waves" there, Guthrie's style was very different back then. I think Guthrie modified his style somewhere in the mid-90s based on Howe's influence and then blew up in the 2010s and influenced the new generation (Mancuso and all those guys). Obviously, there were others like Holdsworth, DiMeola who pioneered the entire space but their sounds and those of Lane and Garsed are in my view not as audible in subsequent shred-genre fusion players.
@@a.s.2426 Thanks for the info, I wasn't aware of the fact that Guthrie Govan's Erotic cakes was already recorded in the early 90s. Regarding Centrifugal funk, I'm surprised that this album is not more popular in guitar circles especially since it was released at the beginning of the 90s when guitar music was still quite popular before moving to the underground in the later years of that decade. Frank Gambale and Allan Holdsworth became household names in the guitar community, especially in the jazz-rock one. Brett Garsed and the late Shawn Lane still remain in relative obscurity, yet they have both very personal styles that are very distinguishable and both are master shredders. I consider myself lucky to have discovered this album, I'm an amateur guitarist and Brett Garsed made me adopt a legato playing style that I prefer a lot more than picking every note. This kind of jazz-rock shred I believe takes a lot more effort, apart from mastering technique there are many other aspects, such as a jazz vocabulary, solid sense of groove and ability to improvise. Going back to what you mentioned, I agree on the fact that Govan after the 2000-2010s inspired the current fusion guitar movement
In my opinion, Shawn Lane was his own man... in that he didn't try to play like anyone else. He wasn't a top 40 shredder, but I think he just loved playing out of this world cosmic fast. I can relate to that. I think he competed against himself, and had so much fun playing. Isn't that what playing guitar is all about? Having fun doing your own thing.
It’s really a description that encapsulates Shawn’s playing. His musicality really was on another level. I’ve listened to hundreds of amazing guitar players in my life and 99.9% of them fall into the category of “if I would have started early and practiced enough, I could play like that”, and that’s not a negative description of any of them. Guys like Shawn, Allan Holdsworth, Jason Becker, etc just transcend that “thousands of hours of practice” thing. Musicality on that level is just something you are born with IMHO.
Brett Garsed is a genius. Shawn Lane is a virtuoso. Shawn Lane is the greatest guitar player to ever strap on a guitar. No one compares. These recordings don't reveal his total virtuoso. Untouchable. No one ever in the history of modern music had his total virtuosity.....speed....technique....theory....giftedness.......other worldly.
There are shelters for guitars that go through what happens after 4.04. They can share their stories and feel save from men like Shawn. Correction. There are no men like Shawn. There was Shawn. Then there is the rest.
A while ago I used amazingslowdowner and got Lane's solo parts down to pretty much the same ball park. But even knowing the notes, to play it @ that speed and effortlessly is crazy.
I know I am an above average player, can play many of the same techniques Shawn used, but the way he played them, linked them together, the speed he played them in, all without missing a beat or note, is just beyond comprehension to even those of us who have played for years. I mean, shit, I have played longer than Shawn did, and I will NEVER be to his level. Also, remember, he had pretty bad arthritis since the age of 12!!! Just let that sink in: the best there ever was had arthritis! Imagine what he could have been without it!!!!
+kc8ntp To make it even more amazing he said he stopped developing his technique by the age of 14! Just imagine if he kept going lol. Shawn was easily the most gifted technician on guitar and possibly the most gifted technician in music history period. I've heard people play and match Bach, Paganini etc. but I still have yet to see someone match Shawn technically. Even more amazing is the fact that he was able to use his technique for musical purposes and not just for the sake of technique. Technically unmatched and musically as good as any. Shawn was a true genius. R.I.P.
***** And, remember, much of his composition was done on the piano, never practiced, and played on stage as if he had been playing it for years! When he wasn't performing, he rarely played the guitar. I am Facebook friends with his mother, and I have picked her brain a little bit about him. He was also in the top 10 greatest pianist of all time, something else that the majority of people don't know.
Jayzus!!! I've listened to this a thousand times and my brain still explodes every time. It is a wonder I can think or write a two syllable word still. Brett Garsed's solo is just F-ing blazingly beautiful and stratospheric, and Shawn's is too deep for words -- a celestial collision yielding ravishing nebulae.
it should be something like 9-groupings at about 104 bpm and about 16 nps ... a straight guess. Did somebody else measure it :) ? However, this is about two times as fast as an already admirable, solid guitarist would play similar lines ... incredible.
@@WalrechtfuerAale I couldn't even start to calculate what it is Lane is doing, but I know that one thing that gives his playing such an otherworldly sound is the wide intervallic spacing in many of his lines.
@@DanielVerberne yes that`s true, in some instructional videos you get a rough clue what he's doing. Some Pentatonic 3-notes-per-string things in 5 groupings, or string skipping dimished lines in 9-groupings. I just gave up before trying as my fingers are way too short and stiff for such exercises. It is a miracle to me... sometimes I just imagine that he was trying to make something fit to his physiology to play fast and then he put some theory around calling it outside scales and fusion stuff, and then he plays also just other non-geometric stuff the same freakish way, it's just incredible... for him some paganini piece seems like for us to play the melody of "bonanza" or "silent night, holy night" ... he is just really the most frightening guitar guy ever :D...
fritz guitar - I’ve transcribed his solo and that particular spot you’re both speaking of contains a combination of 32nd note triplets, 32nds, 5:2 16th’s after it hits the 20th fret and descends, and ends with 32nd notes. It all occurs at around 106 bpm and crawls to 107 at some point. Therefore, it’s around 17.7-18 nps at its fastest. Also, based on flairs and other movements Lane performs in the solo, it’s clear that he’s very comfortable with at speed and chooses not to extend beyond it. There are a couple of exceptions where Lane plays - and picks - 64th notes in this, which jumps past the 20nps realm. It’s clear he has the solo under control throughout once he finds his groove in the beginning. The only cut and re-taped part of the solo is at the very end with his diminished lick.
I did the math guys. The arpeggio lick Shawn plays at around 4:03 is played at a speed of 19 notes per second. Edit: There is a slight change of speed at a certain part where it hits a maximum of 20 notes per second.
I prefer the Garsed's guitar solo because he is not only a virtuoso guitarrist (a bit less than Shawn) but also a melody maker. Brett is capable to compose music with a lot of tecnique but conserving melody and taste.
Actually 2:50 is Brett. Shawn's solo is the second solo. The first phrase of Shawn's solo is a tip of his hat to Jeff Beck. He was a huge Beck fan. Shawn and Brett did get to play together live in Memphis at a guitar clinic Brett was giving at The Stage Stop in Rockin' Raleigh (area of Memphis, not in NC) Mike Varney's brother Mark produced this album and another similar album that had Allan Holdsworth.
While I do dig Shawn's solo on this tune I feel Brett really tears it up here! One of my all time favorite guitar solos - after Devil Take the Hindmost, that is. . .
yup...Shawn Lane starts at 2:51 Totally sounds like a 1st take solo. Brett Garsed definitely has more musicality and better phrasing. Two absolute GIANTS of the genre.
2:50 is where the guitar changes and the second solo starts. You can also hear the style and phrasing change from what brett would do to what Shawn would do. Garsed actually has the best solo on this thing.
I think Shawn still had the mind set of playing as if he used five fingers, and accomplished that. I don't know if there's many out there that go beyond "maybe" sounding like they got four fingers because they are or are playing that way (besides tapping). But everyone's cool. Imagine if Shawn had an 8 string. He really needed one lol Everyone here likes good music, keep the positive vibes going and never think you can't do what these guys do some day if even in your mind creating music. Peace.
That first extended low lick is the most Shawn thing ever hahahaa its so good I rewind it laughing every time. He destroyed Brett with one tasty outside line.
@@penkima4923 Brett is an amazing player, and his solo is awesome. Shawn is the master. That first line had more character and personality than Brett's entire repetitive solo.
@@penkima4923 You're right-it's not a competition. The best example I have to offer is from Guthrie's live show, where he played Smoke OTW and he let that Korean guitarist solo first... Have you seen? The Korean guy goes pretty crazy, but not much about his solo really catches you off guard or stands out. Then Guthrie breaks the ice by making silly noises rather than beginning his solo... then all of a sudden he starts playing and finds a way to be more creative and tasteful with his first few slow notes than the other guy got close to doing in his entire solo. Shawn did the same thing here in my opinion. Other examples of Shawn doing this are when he plays Going Down live with all the 'guitar gods' , or when he plays 'One way out' wth Gambale and others, or when he plays little wing live in 1992 (I think) and the other player plays an amazing solo to which Shawn answers appropriately! Shawn stands out among stand outs. Every player that has been around Shawn or seen him play knows he is the most advanced player all around.
@@zaccyo I think instrumental string collaborations have had an element of competition since dueling banjos. I have no problem you saying Shawn winning the duel with his first lick, now that you said it's your opinion.
@oilkills I just learned how to post my stuff. Most of my stuff is "old" or is already posted on the tube. Some I tried to post where blocked, violation of copyrights and such.
+UM i think yes, they can, Shawn Lane (+) and Bred Garsed are very versatile guitar players, if you research more of Shanw Lane you can see him playing Hindu music and other things.
***** I hope you did not take me seriously, because that was a joke. I like Shawn's technique and fast solos but his music does not appeal to me, Brett's music on the other hand has a certain appeal. This MVP album is just insane, it's a bible for lead guitarists.
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What the f*ck did I just listen to?
No way..!!
This is the best shred I’ve ever heard..
Shawns playing is still 100 years in the future from anyone else..!!
We’ll have you listened to that Italian kid? Matteo Mancuso?
Mancuso doesn’t compare on any level.
I had the exact same reaction. This is shred taken to another level and the fact that it was released in 1991 makes it the tip of the top of guitar shred
There are shreders, and there is Shawn Lane!!!!!!!!!
Im a lane fan since I was 19. Im now 41. But i belive Brett and shawn both deserve praise on this song. I won't ever pick a winner. Both fucking ruthless on this song
Listening again . Shawn is humble. Ill say it for him. I have a favorite sound in music its called complete fully developed. Shawn is this . Where do you go from here. He is a completely polished musician in every fathomable imagined way. Hes free. And one of the kindest spirits ever.
Garsed's solo is incredible. The phrasing, the timing, the note choice, and the impeccable legato and hybrid picking technique which is still awe-inspiring in 2022 - it hasn't dated.
He always have that tasty phrasing
Brett is criminally underrated and has such a great variety to his playing. He's really tasteful and has great timing. He has a really nice ability to be able to come right at you when he wants to without it being overpowering..... But then Shawn starts and it's like a 4 handed alien is playing. He is completely out of this world and is the only man in history who played fastest of all but still threw in that killer tone and those small fills in between runs that makes all the difference. What a FUCKING album this is!
Shawn Lane is just the best ever. He remains several dimensions ahead of everyone... still.
Brett Garsed is ridiculously good. I don’t even need to mention how great Lane was.
Brett Garsed remind me a lot Michael Brecker. A lot dymanics
Apparently, Shawn HATED his solos on this album, because he was only provided the backing tracks to record over without being around any of the other musicians or hearing any of the other players' solos. Kinda explains why there's such an enormous contrast between Shawn, Brett and Frank. Had Shawn known what his fellow players were doing, he would have synced up his playing to better fit the material.
Still, his solo on this track is, without a shadow of a doubt, my favorite solo ever for reasons I could dig too deeply into, but not now. I've listened to it literally about 13,000 times and I'm still not sick of it.
A shame this album wasn't recorded properly, could have been on of the greatest fusion guitar albums to grace the earth.
I don't know details of the release of this record. But without a doubt it's got to be among the all-time most bad-ass fusion guitar albums of all time. Solid gold.
for what it's worth, shawn was a fan of what brett played...
Shawn said to me he just hate "Lane's Blitz" because they recorded him with his opinion. He was just practicing at this moment.
He did...I remember him bitching about it over at his grandmothers.....I really dig Garsed here....if you ever saw Shawn live....and I did many times....he would just melt the stage...even when playing with Garsed...he would adjust. Once I saw Lane play in quadraphonic...four Holmes amps all separated by tiny milliseconds delay..all around you. We all just melted as well.
Lane breaks the sonic barrier
I don't think words could really describe what happened on Shawn's solo.Flat out amazing.Wow,I've listened to this song 1,000+ times and it still blows my mind everytime.No other guitarist has ever come close to his level of genius on the guitar.
Words cannot explain what just happened.
I think holdsworth exceeded what lane has done in musical terms, although not technically! Lane is without the shadow of a doubt the technique king of all time.
Shawn recorded this solo at home. He was a bit upset, that he didn't recorded it like B. Garsed, in the studio.
Brett’s solo on this tune has just about everything I could possibly need for hybrid picking/legato technique transcribing, as well as fusion phrasing. Slowing down his solo is like taking an advanced class. And opening up Shawn’s solo gives me endless inspiration for crazy, over-the-top techniques. This is a monster of a guitar tune.
Imagine Shawn playing Woodstock instead of Hendrix. I'd love to see the look on people's faces. Especially @ 3:58 - 4:29, they're all tripping on acid and they hear that!
Word! For real.
@Esuard Leder 🤣🙌🏾
Just imagine a bunch of dirty stoned hippies yawning at the guy onstage playing at a millions miles an hour yet making them feel nothing and you’ll have a good idea.
@@AntwhaleNearfar Yeah, they were too stupid to know what great musicianship was, same as a lot of idiots today.
His version of Purple Haze warrants it.
I got the CD of this right when it came out and it was my first exposure to Shawn. Oh man, the look on my face must have been hilarious.
#metoo
Shawn Lane will never be matched...contextually...He was one of a kind. Other worldly
He was fucking supernatural.
May he rest in peace.
Not to diminish BG in the slightest btw
@@RobotChampionSC I prefer Brett Garsed....but still love Lane.
@@cerveshred I dig them both...R.I.P Shawn...such a loss, he was a force of nature
@@RobotChampionSCHe was supernatural on guitar and piano.
Shawn Lane dominated regardless what anyone else was doing.....this proves that he was on another dimension....
That Shawn Lane solo is one of the most insane solos ever! Man he was fast!!
this trio made pyrotechnic solos that will make your jaw drop. simply awesome.
this album is a bible for lead guitarists
@@bradejensen a must of course, along with some others...
Yes!
Steve Vai is an amazing composer and totally and utterly unique and one hell of a guitar player but these fusion cats put every rock player to shame with their insane over the top improvisations!!!! Total monsters!!! Scary
@@merrittmussorgsky2937 Steve Vai cannot compete here.
2:52, Lane couldn't have chosen a better few introductory notes to frame his entrance - dark, brooding, full of menace, excitement, what an awesome, blistering solo.
Well said, nice entrance yours too! 🎶
252 dam wtf Shawn? It's God dam strange it's just filthy talking on the guitar. I'm floored. Love the other guys playing too. Just can't believe what Shawn through down.
I seriously think Shawn's playing at times on his solo is at the edge of what the ear can discern.. astoundingly fast... one of my fave solos of his
I was so blown away by the incredible melodic first solo...and then I heard the second and outro solo...
to me the most impressive (tech and harmony) guitar performance ever recorded.
I'm with ya on that.
Shawn lane's solo is sick , crazy stuff out of this world , was he really human ? Face melting solo at the speed of light. Shawn was and still is in a league of his own. RIP legend.
Never get tired of this one. Godly lines from Brett and Shawn. No words to describe it.
Unbelievable, Centrifugal funk might as well be considered the apex of shred guitar. Released in 1991, this literally topped most of the 80s shred guitar material and is a great summing up of the golden years of the shred era. Garseds, Lanes, Gambales playing styles are totally unique and redefined guitar playing, there were almost no guitarists who played like this back then. Another apex of shred guitar is Truth in Shredding of Gambale and Holdsworth, Holdsworth being another one who totally redefined guitar playing back then. Today you have a lot of remarkable guitarists that are carrying the torch and are able to shred but in my humble opinion it's very hard to top Centrifugal funk, this is the kind of record that is the blueprint for all modern fusion players and guitarists in general of every genre. Some of the best and most groundbreaking guitar playing ever recorded, it's not just typical shred in the end, it's one over the top unpredictable improvisation that reaches often lightning speeds and at the same is melodic, it keeps you interested. So inspirational, every guitarist will benefit from listening to this
You’re starving things in terms of you wish they were not how they are. These two albums are virtually unknown and hence not very influential.
@@a.s.2426 It's true these albums are very much unknown in the music world in general, maybe a more correct statement would be saying Centrifugal funk it's the blueprint for contemporary fusion guitar players and not all guitarists in general. At the same time I think we all can agree on the fact that Centrifugal funk it's like the thesaurus for lead guitar players regardless of what genre you play
@@masterblaster365 Thanks for clarifying. It's an amazing album for sure. I got it when it came out back in the day but also have about 90 other records from Shrapnel, Legato and Blues Bureau. "Cetrifugal" and "Truth" were never known widely even among shredders in my experience in those years. My sense is that the fusion shred sound that is popular today (and for the last decade) with instrumental shredders can more so be traced back to Greg Howe's sound from his "Introspection" album and forward. My hypothesis is that one of the main points of spread was via Guthrie. It's not widely known but Guthrie wrote a lot of "Erotic Cakes" in the early 90s and some of it even appeared along side Greg's music on "Guitar On The Edge - Vol. 1 No. 4". If you listen to the demo of "Waves" there, Guthrie's style was very different back then. I think Guthrie modified his style somewhere in the mid-90s based on Howe's influence and then blew up in the 2010s and influenced the new generation (Mancuso and all those guys). Obviously, there were others like Holdsworth, DiMeola who pioneered the entire space but their sounds and those of Lane and Garsed are in my view not as audible in subsequent shred-genre fusion players.
@@a.s.2426 Thanks for the info, I wasn't aware of the fact that Guthrie Govan's Erotic cakes was already recorded in the early 90s. Regarding Centrifugal funk, I'm surprised that this album is not more popular in guitar circles especially since it was released at the beginning of the 90s when guitar music was still quite popular before moving to the underground in the later years of that decade. Frank Gambale and Allan Holdsworth became household names in the guitar community, especially in the jazz-rock one. Brett Garsed and the late Shawn Lane still remain in relative obscurity, yet they have both very personal styles that are very distinguishable and both are master shredders. I consider myself lucky to have discovered this album, I'm an amateur guitarist and Brett Garsed made me adopt a legato playing style that I prefer a lot more than picking every note. This kind of jazz-rock shred I believe takes a lot more effort, apart from mastering technique there are many other aspects, such as a jazz vocabulary, solid sense of groove and ability to improvise. Going back to what you mentioned, I agree on the fact that Govan after the 2000-2010s inspired the current fusion guitar movement
@@masterblaster365 Thanks for sharing! ... Check out Garsed's albums with Helmerich if you haven't already. Especially "Quid Pro Quo".
brett garsed = vegeta, shawn lane = goku
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@@gorz859
Agree 💯 percent
Nice.
In my opinion, Shawn Lane was his own man... in that he didn't try to play like anyone else. He wasn't a top 40 shredder, but I think he just loved playing out of this world cosmic fast. I can relate to that. I think he competed against himself, and had so much fun playing. Isn't that what playing guitar is all about? Having fun doing your own thing.
Shawn's ending lick at 5:21 is just so fucking sick. Sounds like two stars colliding
I love your description.
It’s really a description that encapsulates Shawn’s playing. His musicality really was on another level.
I’ve listened to hundreds of amazing guitar players in my life and 99.9% of them fall into the category of “if I would have started early and practiced enough, I could play like that”, and that’s not a negative description of any of them.
Guys like Shawn, Allan Holdsworth, Jason Becker, etc just transcend that “thousands of hours of practice” thing. Musicality on that level is just something you are born with IMHO.
I remember first hearing the Lane solo on this track and then wiping my melted face off the floor. Lane must have burnt plectrums recording this.
Brett Garsed is a genius. Shawn Lane is a virtuoso. Shawn Lane is the greatest guitar player to ever strap on a guitar. No one compares. These recordings don't reveal his total virtuoso. Untouchable. No one ever in the history of modern music had his total virtuosity.....speed....technique....theory....giftedness.......other worldly.
yes sir! 100%
"his total virtuosity.....speed....technique....theory....giftedness.......other worldly." Yah, plus his emotional Itness - like on "Get you back."
Matthew Mills pissed all over Lane
Lane and holdsworth are the best. They are both the pinnacle
Holdsworth is betten then Shawn , and Shawn said it !!!
holy shit, 4:06 sounds like one of those gambling mashines when you hit the jack pot
There are shelters for guitars that go through what happens after 4.04. They can share their stories and feel save from men like Shawn.
Correction.
There are no men like Shawn. There was Shawn. Then there is the rest.
Every one of your words is correct sir...
A while ago I used amazingslowdowner and got Lane's solo parts down to pretty much the same ball park. But even knowing the notes, to play it @ that speed and effortlessly is crazy.
I know I am an above average player, can play many of the same techniques Shawn used, but the way he played them, linked them together, the speed he played them in, all without missing a beat or note, is just beyond comprehension to even those of us who have played for years. I mean, shit, I have played longer than Shawn did, and I will NEVER be to his level. Also, remember, he had pretty bad arthritis since the age of 12!!! Just let that sink in: the best there ever was had arthritis! Imagine what he could have been without it!!!!
+kc8ntp
To make it even more amazing he said he stopped developing his technique by the age of 14! Just imagine if he kept going lol. Shawn was easily the most gifted technician on guitar and possibly the most gifted technician in music history period. I've heard people play and match Bach, Paganini etc. but I still have yet to see someone match Shawn technically. Even more amazing is the fact that he was able to use his technique for musical purposes and not just for the sake of technique.
Technically unmatched and musically as good as any. Shawn was a true genius. R.I.P.
***** And, remember, much of his composition was done on the piano, never practiced, and played on stage as if he had been playing it for years! When he wasn't performing, he rarely played the guitar. I am Facebook friends with his mother, and I have picked her brain a little bit about him. He was also in the top 10 greatest pianist of all time, something else that the majority of people don't know.
Yeah man...
Insane!!!!!!!!!!
And spontaneously
Omg Shawn. Chill man.
The master. Best I've ever heard.
Shawn Lane genius,gentleman,but a sincere humble Legend. Sorely missed but will never be forgotten!!!Rockin in Valhalla 😎
Shawn Lane's lead here is the best I've heard.
2:30-247......seriously Brett.....
Mikey Sanderson Mind-blowing.
This is definitely ahead of its time
Shawn in the fast Lane!
wow mind blown
Simply amazing !
Super !!!!!! Shawn Lane !!!!
Thanks for posting,
markatier
Remember both these guys cited Allan Holdsworth as their guitar inspiration !!!!!
Jesus H Christ, Shawn Lane will never be equaled!!!
Jayzus!!! I've listened to this a thousand times and my brain still explodes every time. It is a wonder I can think or write a two syllable word still. Brett Garsed's solo is just F-ing blazingly beautiful and stratospheric, and Shawn's is too deep for words -- a celestial collision yielding ravishing nebulae.
Magic!
Shawn Lane = MASTER MONSTER N1
my god, fastest fingers in the world. shawn lane
Shawn Lane pulled the trigger and didn't let go until the magazine was empty. Shit was murderous!
Sick comment.... I'm stealing it.
Yup. I like his at-the-limit intensity here. Reminds me of Brad Gilis but just times ten.
OMG there is some serious guitar playing going on here!
BRETT GARSED (g - 1st solo), SHAWN LANE (g - 2nd solo), Freddy Ravel (keyb), Steve Tavaglione (sax), Jimmy Earl (b) and Joey Heredia (d) in 1991.
Awesome badazzzz
2:50 is definitely Shawn Lane...that's when you feel like you've just bumped into a giant wasps nest...and they ARE pissed. Chills.
Love this album so much
love shawns voice on the guitar. garsed is just a wizard
3:27 notes per second level = Lane.
it should be something like 9-groupings at about 104 bpm and about 16 nps ... a straight guess. Did somebody else measure it :) ? However, this is about two times as fast as an already admirable, solid guitarist would play similar lines ... incredible.
@@WalrechtfuerAale I couldn't even start to calculate what it is Lane is doing, but I know that one thing that gives his playing such an otherworldly sound is the wide intervallic spacing in many of his lines.
@@DanielVerberne yes that`s true, in some instructional videos you get a rough clue what he's doing. Some Pentatonic 3-notes-per-string things in 5 groupings, or string skipping dimished lines in 9-groupings. I just gave up before trying as my fingers are way too short and stiff for such exercises. It is a miracle to me... sometimes I just imagine that he was trying to make something fit to his physiology to play fast and then he put some theory around calling it outside scales and fusion stuff, and then he plays also just other non-geometric stuff the same freakish way, it's just incredible... for him some paganini piece seems like for us to play the melody of "bonanza" or "silent night, holy night" ... he is just really the most frightening guitar guy ever :D...
fritz guitar - I’ve transcribed his solo and that particular spot you’re both speaking of contains a combination of 32nd note triplets, 32nds, 5:2 16th’s after it hits the 20th fret and descends, and ends with 32nd notes. It all occurs at around 106 bpm and crawls to 107 at some point. Therefore, it’s around 17.7-18 nps at its fastest.
Also, based on flairs and other movements Lane performs in the solo, it’s clear that he’s very comfortable with at speed and chooses not to extend beyond it. There are a couple of exceptions where Lane plays - and picks - 64th notes in this, which jumps past the 20nps realm. It’s clear he has the solo under control throughout once he finds his groove in the beginning.
The only cut and re-taped part of the solo is at the very end with his diminished lick.
This is dope 💙
In this track Shawn Lane surpasses the resonance frequence of the guitar strings.
"Where we're going there is no need for resonance" Shawn Lane...probably ;-)
Shawn Lane N1
I did the math guys. The arpeggio lick Shawn plays at around 4:03 is played at a speed of 19 notes per second.
Edit: There is a slight change of speed at a certain part where it hits a maximum of 20 notes per second.
i've never seen anyone measure by notes per second so this means nothing to me
@@Kurtster600 In other words, it's very fricking fast
And calculations?
JUST INSANE !!!!!!!!!!
I prefer the Garsed's guitar solo because he is not only a virtuoso guitarrist (a bit less than Shawn) but also a melody maker. Brett is capable to compose music with a lot of tecnique but conserving melody and taste.
If Brett is tasty, Shawn is spicy
Gengis Kant Shawn Spicer?
The Tab is a phonebook...
5:07 You can really hear shawns soul
Good!
fuck ... just like in heaven .. eargasmic .. that licks just like thousands of bullets .. awesomeeeeeeeee
Actually 2:50 is Brett. Shawn's solo is the second solo. The first phrase of Shawn's solo is a tip of his hat to Jeff Beck. He was a huge Beck fan. Shawn and Brett did get to play together live in Memphis at a guitar clinic Brett was giving at The Stage Stop in Rockin' Raleigh (area of Memphis, not in NC) Mike Varney's brother Mark produced this album and another similar album that had Allan Holdsworth.
The timing is confusing me a bit. Where do you have Shawn coming in exactly?
Thats a Real Centri-Fugal FUNK ME DEAD !!! Both Awesome wisg Frank had ago too
While I do dig Shawn's solo on this tune I feel Brett really tears it up here! One of my all time favorite guitar solos - after Devil Take the Hindmost, that is. . .
F...... Awesome 👑
Most amazing funk tune in my opinion! Thanks for posting =)
in-fecking-sane!
yup...Shawn Lane starts at 2:51 Totally sounds like a 1st take solo.
Brett Garsed definitely has more musicality and better phrasing. Two absolute GIANTS of the genre.
rapidtranq I agree. I liked Brett’s tone better too. Shawn comes with the biggest guns, of course, though.
Brett was in the pocket.
@@danyeo Agreed. Perfect timing and phrasing. One of Garsed's best solos I think.
2:50 onwards...strap yourself in and check your diapers :o
its like a machine with feelings
Like you need to say when Shawn comes in
jesus christ this is good
Priceless mojo bag
massive shredding
3:46
"A good tune" the description says? How about one of the greatest shred tracks of all time.
Nice!
We all know Shawn was god, but Brett has some super tasty licks too.
Jajaja increibleeeee
YESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!
2:50 is where the guitar changes and the second solo starts. You can also hear the style and phrasing change from what brett would do to what Shawn would do.
Garsed actually has the best solo on this thing.
Nah. Lane leaves everyone in the dust.
Does anyone have time breakdown of who plays which solo when? Thanks!
@philippeioutioub Thank you! :)
Lendaryyyyyyyy!!!!!!!
4:04-4:15 is just absolute fucking madness....like really Shawn?
Hello guys, does anyone know where to find the backing track ?
At 3:50 Shawn showed off a blues lick using whammy bends with the exact same flavour and attack from power solos. So fucking nice.
wow.
they should provide the f***** backing track...I would pay for this... :)
I will admit that he is probably the closest to Shawn than anyone else, besides Holdsworth and Gambale. Guthrie Govan is also pretty damn good too.
Don't forget Mclaughlin ;)
Old-ass comment, but check out Marshall Harrison
hampstershat123 SWYBRYD CITIZENS! Marshall Harrison is GOD!
I think Shawn still had the mind set of playing as if he used five fingers, and accomplished that. I don't know if there's many out there that go beyond "maybe" sounding like they got four fingers because they are or are playing that way (besides tapping). But everyone's cool. Imagine if Shawn had an 8 string. He really needed one lol Everyone here likes good music, keep the positive vibes going and never think you can't do what these guys do some day if even in your mind creating music. Peace.
I always thought this was Holdsworth/Gambale... lul :cheers:
That first extended low lick is the most Shawn thing ever hahahaa its so good I rewind it laughing every time. He destroyed Brett with one tasty outside line.
Not really.
@@penkima4923 Brett is an amazing player, and his solo is awesome. Shawn is the master. That first line had more character and personality than Brett's entire repetitive solo.
@@zaccyo Both of them held their own. That's why you had to admit Brett's solo was awesome. Brett didn't get destroyed.
@@penkima4923 You're right-it's not a competition. The best example I have to offer is from Guthrie's live show, where he played Smoke OTW and he let that Korean guitarist solo first... Have you seen? The Korean guy goes pretty crazy, but not much about his solo really catches you off guard or stands out. Then Guthrie breaks the ice by making silly noises rather than beginning his solo... then all of a sudden he starts playing and finds a way to be more creative and tasteful with his first few slow notes than the other guy got close to doing in his entire solo. Shawn did the same thing here in my opinion. Other examples of Shawn doing this are when he plays Going Down live with all the 'guitar gods' , or when he plays 'One way out' wth Gambale and others, or when he plays little wing live in 1992 (I think) and the other player plays an amazing solo to which Shawn answers appropriately!
Shawn stands out among stand outs. Every player that has been around Shawn or seen him play knows he is the most advanced player all around.
@@zaccyo I think instrumental string collaborations have had an element of competition since dueling banjos. I have no problem you saying Shawn winning the duel with his first lick, now that you said it's your opinion.
@oilkills I just learned how to post my stuff. Most of my stuff is "old" or is already posted on the tube. Some I tried to post where blocked, violation of copyrights and such.
But can they play "Smoke on the water"?
+UM i think yes, they can, Shawn Lane (+) and Bred Garsed are very versatile guitar players, if you research more of Shanw Lane you can see him playing Hindu music and other things.
***** I hope you did not take me seriously, because that was a joke. I like Shawn's technique and fast solos but his music does not appeal to me, Brett's music on the other hand has a certain appeal. This MVP album is just insane, it's a bible for lead guitarists.
same here