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Can anybody give me some info about this guy? I've read abit about him and what I have read has kind of freaked me out. The guys wierd. What's with the hole persona?
Anyone who can play something the great Shawn Lane considered unplayable is a major freak...too bad the dude is so obscure.Shawn Lane said:What that is was, I have been pretty obsessed for a little while with the music of Conlon Nancarrow, so I wanted to try to express something like that with the guitar and I wanted to do note combinations that I didn't think could be done on the guitar. So actually what I did is constructing it by recording every note separately. So I actually just would play a note and then record however long I wanted the tone to be. If I wanted it to be longer I'd record longer, for shorter notes I just recorded for a second. And I literally just constructed it note-by-note over a couple of night's time. Thousands of notes. I wanted to make combinations of notes that couldn't be played, I was pretty convinced they couldn't be. So I did that as a stand-alone loop about 8 years ago and a bootleg tape of it got in the hands of buckethead. And nobody told him that I didn't play it, that it was assembled on tape with guitar. And so he tried to sound like that by tapping and based a lot of his style on that tape. So it's Conlon Nancarrow influencing me influencing Buckethead. It became it's own style. But I think it's funny because it was because of a misunderstanding. He didn't know that I didn't play it so he assumed that it could just be played. Well, when I constructed it, I constructed it specifically so it could not be played. And he didn't know that, so he achieved something going (imitates Buckethead playing fast) by tapping them in wide intervals. It's a weird story (laughs)
Where did you find this? Where can I find more info on his guitars and gear?JTM45 said:He plays a couple of cool and unique Gibson Les Pauls which have oversized 'fat' bodies and a momentary kill-switch.![]()
I think he's one of those guitarists who doesn't like talking about his gear.Cozi101 said:Where did you find this? Where can I find more info on his guitars and gear?