Comments on: The late great Shawn Lane… http://fusiongroovin.com/blog/2007/02/01/the-late-great-shawn-lane/ The music. The artists. Your thoughts. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:30:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: RichM http://fusiongroovin.com/blog/2007/02/01/the-late-great-shawn-lane/#comment-18 Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:00:26 +0000 http://fusiongroovin.com/blog/2007/02/01/the-late-great-shawn-lane/#comment-18 I saw Shawn twice. Once at the 1993 GIT show (I was a student there at the time, my friends and I hung out with him backstage after the show too), and again a couple of days later at a club in LA (I think it was the Troubadour). This was during the Powers Of Ten era, before he hooked up with Hellborg. I remember being struck by how effortless he made everything look. He was playing the wildest stuff I had ever seen, but it seemed like it was so easy for him. Just amazing. I remember he played Steve Morse's "The Introduction" and also an instrumental of "Purple Haze" at the club gig I saw. I don't think he played those at GIT, but I may be wrong. He was the best player I ever saw, and a cool guy too. Rich I saw Shawn twice. Once at the 1993 GIT show (I was a student there at the time, my friends and I hung out with him backstage after the show too), and again a couple of days later at a club in LA (I think it was the Troubadour). This was during the Powers Of Ten era, before he hooked up with Hellborg. I remember being struck by how effortless he made everything look. He was playing the wildest stuff I had ever seen, but it seemed like it was so easy for him. Just amazing. I remember he played Steve Morse’s “The Introduction” and also an instrumental of “Purple Haze” at the club gig I saw. I don’t think he played those at GIT, but I may be wrong. He was the best player I ever saw, and a cool guy too.

Rich

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