>>127008095
Shawn was utterly unique. There's the old guitarist joke that goes "How many guitarists does it take to change a light bulb? 20 - 1 to change the bulb, and 19 to stand around saying 'I can do that.'" No one who heard Shawn ever said "I can do that."

Even Guthrie Govan, one of the planet's best guitarists, was in awe of Shawn's abilities.

The most mind-bending thing I ever saw Shawn do was at a sound check. He was playing the keyboard parts to a song from "Powers of Ten" on the master keyboard controller. But then he pressed a patch change button and suddenly started playing all the guitar parts - *on the keyboard*. And *then* he switched patches again and started playing *all the drum parts - again on the keys*. And he kept doing that, going through all parts of all the songs in the set. He could simply rewire the parts that needed to be played - guitar, piano, drums - through his fingers to whatever instrument happened to be in front of him.

I've been a professional musician for a long time, and seen and appreciated most of the greats (either live or on video), and what Shawn was just casually doing as part of his warmup was the most amazing musical thing I've ever seen.