It would have been easy for memories of Shawn Lane to fade away after his 2003 death. When he was still a teenager, Lane’s playing was being dissected on bootleg cassettes by emerging guitar stars like Paul Gilbert. In the Seventies, John McLaughlin became fascinated with Indian music and traveled to India and studied with Ravi Shankar. “He was playing notes that aren’t notes, which is the sign of a truly great musician,” says Herring. “Yes, he passed on early and that is a tragedy, but what matters now is his contribution to music and guitar playing.