Nzinn73 I was scrolling through the comments and I'm like hey That's Brett Garsed! How cool is that. Nzinn73 I have kept up with your playing since the Nelson Days, Brett. You are a amazingly good guitarist.

Nzinn73 Cool story about Shawn, I remember when powers of ten came out. I love this song by level 42. As I recall the guitar player who did this solo also played with Mike and the Mechanics. I know he died a while ago of illness. Very sad.

@@alzinn8231 It was Alan Murphy, who played guitar for Level 42 after departure of Boon Gould, who did solo for Something About You.

@@radimslapal5678 Nzinn73 thanks, Radim. Didn't Healy with Mike and the Mechanics too? I recall reading Mike Rutherford saying he didn't play fast, like The other guitarist, who must be Allan.

Nzinn73 Something about You is a pop masterpiece, imo

@@JuniorFarquar ok....

@@FunkadelicPancho you're clearly not a pianist if you think his piano playing is on par with his guitar playing

Allan Holdworth played piano well too. So did Kieth Richards

@@DookiedoohdahPRO Holdsworth played piano?

@@JuniorFarquar my opinion is that your moms opinion is stupid, no offense. Shawn was an incredible pianist.

i made a similar comment, i don't understand the alchemy of it.. i don't know how he squeezed so much emotion in to fast notes, i played for 30 years myself but he is a one off eh lol.

True, just like what paul GIlbert said about Shawan Lane : "The most terrifying guitarist ever. And he got amazing blazing phrasing."

Nzinn73 Shawn was amazing. The speed thing bets to the point where it like how much faster can we go? I'm not knocking speed by any means, I used to play and I liked playing fast like anybody else would. But you have to be able to do more if you want to keep people interested. I liked playing other instruments like saxophone and violin that had naturally unlimited sustain, because it helped me think melodically.

Yeah, I thought Yngwie was as close to as good as you could get at shredding, but listening to him after listening to Shawn makes Yngwie sound mechanic. Shawn was just a level or two beyond anyone on electric guitar.

More than anything he showed us the Future of electric guitar

I must have seen him around same time/tour. I saw him in Boston with Jonas Hellborg. What a show, just insanely incredible musicians. But Shawn didn't look like he was in good health. I feel very lucky to have seen him.

what a beautiful song - thanks

Not enough allan holdsworth footage for the future generations specially with high image quality is depressing.

Mark King another genuine legend. I never seen this one before didn't know he even did a level 42 jam on guitar to, how cool is that!. Lanes speed and efficiency and technique is borderline supernatural it is so stupid absurdly impressive I swear lol, when i see certain clips of prime prime like maybe 17-22 year old Paul Gilbert he did what I still consider to this day to be arguably also some of the if not tied for the fastest most technical amazing just perfect speed/ shredding /playing in history, and he absolutely is/was, and yet with Lane I think he is the only fellow great/legend who I can actually say with absolute near certainty that he was objectively somehow legitimately even faster then peak peak prime Paul Gilbert! and maybe even by a significant margin well at those levels "significant" anyways from anywhere from 7-15 percent faster to put a rough subjective number on it, but point is the top top elite shredders like them I think ya know your prime Gilberts/Petrucci's/Buckethead maybe/ Jason Becker/ Rusty Cooley- who I think has nearly flawless just pure shred technique as well, but in my opinion is nowhere near the general musicianship/melodic player/writer that the aforementioned shredding legends are by comparison with all do respect of course to a player like him. But I really think Lane just might be the only true stand out from anyone on a top 10 all time greatest/fastest/most technical/ pure speed shred/playing list- who is objectively better and faster then the rest!.

I saw level 42 at the Hammersmith Odeon with Allan playing, and whilst he looked a bit uncomfortable grooving his solo's were genuinely of such a different level that he defied comparisons to 'normal' guitarists.

do you happen to have a link for that?

@@owenedwardsguitar7094 It's a shame that the only audio recording of that concert online has radio station advertisements dubbed over top of one of Allan's best solos of the show. Absolute blasphemy.

Wow! Great story! Do you have more Shawn stories? I wish I could have seen him too.

@@tusharsharma5924 , that was the only time I saw him play live..I learned later who he was since he was just starting out. Being a guitarist in a local band myself, I was very impressed at his abilities and never forgot that experience!

Levi has Work ethic. Excellent quality control. He's great. I'm glad he's getting more attention. Woyld love more Michael Romeo, Eric Johnson transcriptions. For Holdsworth stuff & maybe Lane as well my first option would be Derryl Gabel. Please check him out. DERRYL GABEL

Very cool. I’ve known Derryl since 2003. I met him trading Shawn Lane bootlegs way back in the day.. He lived in Pensacola back then.

"Musical genius"? No. Just another shredder who thought lots of notes = better.

@@victoza9232 name a few Shawn Lane songs that are unmusical

@@victoza9232you’re really clueless if you think that

@@gabrielbrunet5598 So, just because my opinion doesn't jibe with yours, it makes me clueless? If you think that, you're the one who is clueless.

@@victoza9232 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n62cbN2Tytiwo58.html I haven't heard shredding like this, too few notes = best

practice all the numbers like they do in indian classical, i agree.

When somebody plays just the very same 16th notes it sounds... like a boring exercise, dull, without any emotion or freedom. Flexing the speed, while being linked to tempo, generates more a flow to me. Many great players actually do this (Guthrie G., Yngwie M....) Here's a thought: Write a rhythm exercise first. Next, try to use it in a fast phrase. Train jumping between those different tuplets.

Same reason I'm Not into modes anymore. Average guitarists. Play TYPEWRITER MODES gets old Quick. Spread it out all the greats Do Edward started it. Jake E Lee and Demartini. Went from there

Yng is great BUT Not groovy just smart

Of course this works amazing because the rhythm/phrasing has always been the king. Just look at basically any jazz solo. It's there no matter what bar you look at hahaha. Syncopation, triplets, chord/approach tones on up/downbeats, mixing staccatos and legatos...

and I've bought your Guided Practice. I was playing the guitar last night thinking... "I need to practice, I'm not even as good as I used to be!" I've got to such a plateau now that I just don't know what to play or where to start with it - should I do finger exercises, should I try and learn arpeggios, should I try and shred as fast as I can over some songs because it's fun? You know what I mean. I'm going to try and follow it to a routine. I'll let you know if I get results from it. Cheers mate

How many times I've gotten into arguments over this. I've always said "he's not in my personal top 3 FAVORITE guitarists, but he is better than ANY guitarist to ever play." So many people think that their favorite player is automatically the case, but that isn't the case. I absolutely love Paul Gilbert, but Shawn makes him look like a beginner in how he handles a guitar.

@@billymcguiremusic Correct Billy. It's an objective fact.

@@andrewkeen3129 Finally glad to see other people agree!

@@billymcguiremusic Amen to that! And you can’t debate with Kiss fans when they go on about Ace Frehley. If they only knew 🤣😂

Holdsworth was Shawn's hero.... Just sayin'.

If your list went to 11, hope Buckethead was there.

@@mook2478 Oh, Yeah!🤦‍♂ Why did I forget Bucket!, he's in the top 10 for sure, I just included the "pioneers and innovators", Maybe I should remove Danny Gatton.😅 also Buckethead idolizes and respect Shawn Lane a lot so that really tells something. Cheers!

and he suffered from arthritis, which shortened his life to only 40 years.

I am also in the 100+ listening club for Temporal Analogues of Paradise, often the only CD in my car and just repeat.

Noice