First heard The Pat Metheny Group c. 1984 as a teenager..........now I am 56 years old and this is as good as it gets....! Seriously raw talent from tbis band and at such a young age back then. Great to have such gifted people play music for us.....I'll die happy listening to Metheny...........
One of my favorite tunes by the Metheny Group. One of the first songs I ever heard by them, still takes me back to great times to hear it today. Man, their will never again be a duo like Mays & Metheny, a once in a lifetime deal. *RIP Lyle Mays!*
From the American Garage record. I saw them perform this entire record live onstage at the Paradise rock club in Boston early 1980's. I love that record, it was recorded here in Massachusetts at Longview Farms studio. RIP Lyle Mays.
In 1978 I was a high school kid, a pretty good guitarist, playing the Hollywood venues like Gazzarri's and The Whisky, and a couple of the epic mansion parties in South Pasadena and Flintridge. Eddie Van Halan was the The One; he could scarf handfulls of qualudes and drink Jack lDaniels until his gaze was disconjugate and he could barely stand, but he could shred like nobody before; it was clear that he was a conduit, and his fingers were being moved by another force. Then one day while hanging out at a record/head shop in Glendale called The Sound Experience , the owner put on a record called The Pat Metheny Group. I currently own about 30 Metheny recordings. I have never purchased a Van Halen record.
@@johnthurlow8431 I was a huge Return to Forever fan and I saw Al front row center at the Santa Monica Civic opening for Weather Report. Al and Eddie and Pat are the reason why I went to college. Who could compete with those guys??
It's kind funny that I first heard Pat Metheny when I sent in for one of the $1.00 records that advertised on the inside record jacket of another album. One of the songs was Airstream. I listened to that and I have been hooked on the Pat Metheny Group ever since.
I really enjoyed how Egan's aggressive bass sound kind of dominated the music, back then, but I can also understand why Metheny later decided he'd rather have the sound of an upright bass for his jazzier music.
This was the band that when we were all listening to Boston in college (78 or 79) we heard this long haired band and said "Wow...What a cool sound"......that simple....actually thought it was some new R&R format....We all went to see the the PMG in Buffalo NY......American Garage tour....it was LOUD....and awesome...and rockin...but soon the bassist left, drummer left, vocals came in...and many of us abandoned ship..
I saw them play this in 1977 in Charlotte North Carolina at ovens auditorium. Shortly before that became my love affair with all things all groups of Pat Matheny.
My first Pat Metheny concert was in 1980 at the chapel on the UVermont campus in Burlington. He played this, Unity Village, Phase Dance, San Lorenzo - and an early version of As Fall Witchita, among other songs. Breathtaking - changed my musical life for good and I've seen Pat nearly 20 times in concert - Waltham, Philadelphia, Seattle, Raleigh....The Way Up, to me, is the peak of his art. I so hope that the PMG reunites, though the Unity Group is wonderful as well.
When did you see him in Waltham? I saw him there in about '81 at Brandeis. I also saw him at the Telluride Jazz Festival in 1978....with Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker and Billy Cobham. I'm with you man!
If someone were to ask me to “Express ecstasy, but without using words,” I would dial up this extraordinary video, sequence forward to Metheny’s brilliant solo, and tell him to watch Metheny’s face as he seduces one joyous melody after another out of his guitar. “There,” I would say. “That’s ecstasy.” Ecstasy. Mystical exaltation. Oneness with the _Tao._ Joy.
And do you wonder, as I do, WHY everyone doesn't see this, hear this, in the music? It seems so beautifully apparent to me, to you . . . . yet others miss it completely. A wonder indeed.
My first PMG concert was with this lineup of musicians, Pat, Lyle, Mark Egan (bass) and Danny Gottleib (drums) in Missoula, Montana of all places. Back in the day, PMG rocked it a little harder with their compositions like Airstream and other tunes in the PMG book and they never disappointed with their powerful, forceful, outstanding music and musicianship. Sure wish Pat would return to "group mode" again, their early performances were so fresh and astounding.
The PMG was fresher then, for sure. I hate to say it, but after 1983 - I'll give you 85 - the shows ceased to be interesting. Anyway, I'm glad to celebrate this video and the good old days.
This is not a good gig, the song goes wrong (Pat's amp goes wrong?) yet Lyle and Pat turn it into an incredible improvisation. These Cats were on the road 250 nights a year, there were some klunkers and yet in the midst of 'that night in Berlin when everything went to shit' they brought out some fantastic live music. Metheny probably loathes that this performance is on RU-vid for the world to see but it's actually an example of the best of what live improvised music can be. This is a special moment in time.
This gig was in Hamburg - 1980 - at a local club that I used to go see dixieland bands in on Sunday afternoon. Literally a local hang that attracted some good names including Al Jarreau - this is the place that launched Al. The music sounds good to me - even thought they would probably find piles and kaka - but what a gift to have been there. To have played this stuff - written it - and just been in it.
stupid question maybe but was Pat and Lyle influenced by Yes at all? A little bit here and there of this tunes sounds like it could be Yes playing on stage Anyway this tune is awesome and so cool to see them as young guys just out there playing their hearts out and tearing it up
Hi! Love this - but where is AIRSTREAM? Does anyone have a link to Airstream from this same performance? I'd be so grateful. I watched it once but can't find it anymore 😭 x thanks
A few more lessons and that guitar player will be pretty good. LOL Pat has a unique way of holding his pick, he looks like he could drop it at any second. Remarkable musicians.
Loved this album and followed PM afterwards, although I believe he said he hated the album because they were corralled into commercially viable songs by the label.
they could have branched out towards weather Report's special Fusion recipe, but expanded, outside the very small American Jazz industry. South America, Europe, the world became his playing ground, and also worldly influences.
Tony Escano ...i bought tickets here in oslo to see his group this may 2017..yes every group with pat is good enough for me..solo, trio, quartet, unity...just miss his group with lyle mays and steve rodby.. :)
I'm so jealous! If things break my way soon I may find myself at the barcelona gig a week later...just not sure if i could get tickets by then...my son was at the temecula ca show in mid-sept and he was so glad he made it...
Kinda felt like they were struggling to stay in the pocket. Personally , I think the choice of a shower of cymbols throughout the song got in the way of Pat's chiming guitar. Would a bit more snare and kick drum helped?
That was most likely at Pat's instruction. Later, on First Circle and Roots of Coincidence Paul Wertico never hits a skin - it's all cymbals (though the percussionists do play some drum notes) for both those 9-min+ compositions.
There is something rubbing a bit with Pat’s and Danny’s timing, that’s for sure. But it’s a cool kind of tension I think. It’s a signature thing of the first PMG.
I have watched both of those brilliant men play from 3 ft away because I know Steve because we opened up for the Dixie Dregs and 1981 when I was a terrified college student I never played a concert. We met Pat Metheny in 1982, and 10 years later I was working seven nights a week and couldn't go to his concert in Tampa so I went to the soundtrack and watched him play in the dressing room from 3 ft away so I kind of got a lesson even though he didn't say it was a lesson watching how he holds the pick, everything then I went and sat in the theater by myself and watch them soundtrack and could have played the drums cuz Paul Wertico for some unknown reason didn't make it to the soundcheck I feel very blessed to have had up close and personal times with all of them including watching Steve in the studio for 6 hours over building parts for one of his albums I'm looking at the Frankenstein telecaster and wanting to play it but I knew he was working and didn't want to be impolite since he was so nice to allow us to hang out while he's working
@@bobbyohanesian4228Didn’t Steve and Pat go to Uni together in Miami? There’s some connection there. Anyways, extremely thin picks held sideways bent around the thumb. Have a few of his at home actually.
