| Contact: Jerry MacLast Update: 7/09/2004Post Comment |  Shawn Lane was a member of the band, The Time Bandits. See Shawn Lane in a way that few music fans have seen Shawn Lane, as a working member of a band.
We have a special section of our site dedicated to Shawn Lane located at http://www.countrymusicplanet.com/shawn.htm . Shawn was a good friend of all associated with The Country Music Planet. The owner of The Country Music Planet, Jerry Mac, worked with Shawn on many occasions. Shawn was in a band that was composed of Jerry Mac's brother, nephew, and great nephew. Shawn was one of the greatest guitar players that ever lived. He passed away at to early an age in 2003. We miss him and his music. Alex Masi is heralded as the finest guitar player to emerge from Italy. When he sends folks to the web site of Shawn Lane from his through a link, this is what he says, "Official site for the most exciting guitar player alive, Shawn Lane". Here is what Heptagon Records, Sweden's most prestigious record label has to say about Shawn Lane at their web site, "Shawn Lane was born in 1963, in Tennessee. He joined the band Black Oak Arkansas at age 15 and toured extensively in the US, ! despite his tender age. He soon achieved legendary status due to his amazing, high-speed precision solo work. In parallel with his career as a Memphis session player, he has been studying the piano and continually developing his writing. Soon his demos and recordings spread through the underground cassette tape copying network, and he was a worldwide celebrity among guitar players without even having released a record. He has written columns in guitar magazines and made guitar instruction videos, and he finally recorded a solo album (Powers of Ten on Warner Brothers) in 1991. He is a big fan of Liszt, Scriabin and other late-romantic piano virtuoso composers and a diehard movie connoisseur." Just go to any search engine on the Internet and type in Shawn Lane. you'll discover how talented this individual was. |
