Frownland

Watched about 10 minutes (after skipping the DJ). Kind of my same thoughts on Lane as usual: fine playing but the overall package doesn't do anything for me. There are moments where the drummer will do fills and they start to touch on something great before becoming more grounded to its detriment. I thought that the bassist could've been replaced with someone who's just as fast but also interesting. Let me know if that video evolves in a big way, but I'm still lukewarm on Lane.

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OccultHawk

Do you see a big separation between him and Holdsworth?

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Frownland

Well Holdsworth does have some of the same pitfalls in his solo work but it's a little less direct. I've never heard Lane in a context like Bundles where it's more...democratic amongst the musicians. I see what you mean though.

I'm guessing that Holdsworth was also a big figure for Lane.

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Chula Vista

When Lane started out his goal was to blend Holdsworth, DiMeola, McLaughlin, and Steve Morse.

Holdsworth was devastated when Shawn passed and even signed up to my forum to post his condolences.

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Akai

And now Holdsworth himself has past.

Rip two legends.

At least Al Di Meola, Steve Morse and John McLaughlin are still kickin.

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Chula Vista

Shawn was the reincarnate of the Dasa's.

He was treated like a God when they toured India.

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Chula Vista

You are simply the most pretentious snot I've ever encountered in my soon to be 58 years.



But he's not worthy of Frowny so all's for naught.

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Frownland

I really don't see anything wrong with what I said. His playing is simply dull in the part of that video that I watched. Don't ask for my opinions if you're just going to get pissy when I'm honest with you.

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Chula Vista

"His playing is simply dull".

Says the guy who publishes minutes upon minutes of random noises and then declares them as "music".

Here I go again......

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arousing pity, especially through vulnerability or sadness.
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Frownland

Are you asking me to lie to you? Because this is genuinely how I felt about his playing in that particular video. He's hella skilled, but all of the stuff that he played--especially the solo--just had me waiting for it to end as it felt pointlessly modal. How do you feel about the music? Let's actually discuss music instead of this stupid feud.

Seriously. Naptime methinks dude.

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