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10-11-2004, 12:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: San Francisco, CA (finally!) | | | Pat Metheny's 'Secret Story'
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anyone else just love this record?
It is definitely my favorite Pat record...one of my top overall too.
Great songwriting...I get chill bumps when I listen to it.
And, of course, Pat is playing guitar!
Bassists: Charlie Hayden, Pat Metheny, Will Lee, Steve Rodby
I just love 'Always and Forever', 'Finding and Believing', and 'Rain River'.  |
10-12-2004, 02:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: San Francisco, CA (finally!) | | | he's done a million different things...for example
trio records with people like Bill Stewart, Roy Haynes, Dave Holland, etc.
duo(s) with Charlie Hayden
weird stuff with Ornette Coleman
solo records on his 42 string Pikasso guitar
and, of course, the Pat Metheny Group.
I like his trio recordings (especially Trio 99 -> 00) and early PMG stuff best, other than Secret Story.
I think he is one of the best living American composers, right behind Wayne Shorter. |
10-12-2004, 02:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: San Francisco, CA (finally!) | | | I saw that tour and it was great. I wish I'd seen the trio live...Pat goes nuts in trio setting. |
10-12-2004, 02:57 PM
|  | I Know Nothing | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Columbia River Gorge, WA. | | I saw the SS tour, and it was great. As far as live performances, the Shadows and Light tour was one of my favorites (I've seen maybe 25 or so). The PMG used to play frequently in little bitty bars in VT, can't really beat the club ambiance plus a killer band like that.
For recordings, Song X wins in my book, hands-down. Not really weird at all, by Ornette standards. |
10-12-2004, 03:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: NYC | | | Not to pick nits, but H A D E N.
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10-13-2004, 11:03 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Kohlman Bassworks | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Hampton Roads, Virginia | | | Steve Rodby is one of the best URB players I've ever heard. I like Pat Metheny's more contemporary stuff with PMG. He also puts out some avantgarde style music that I just can't get into. |
10-13-2004, 12:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: San Francisco, CA (finally!) | | | the Secret Story concert in Atlanta was just mind-boggling. I've seen Pat several times, and always have a good time! |
10-13-2004, 12:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Metro Atlanta, GA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by peteroberts the Secret Story concert in Atlanta was just mind-boggling. I've seen Pat several times, and always have a good time! | I was at that show at the Roxy Theater. The power went out about mid-show and Pat invited everyone back the next night. |
10-13-2004, 12:52 PM
| | Workin' up a black sweat. | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Andover, MA | | | I LOVE PAT!
Seriously, just his style of playing and the people that he plays with.. He makes the guitar talk like no one else.
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10-13-2004, 10:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: San Francisco, CA (finally!) | | Quote: |
I was at that show at the Roxy Theater. The power went out about mid-show and Pat invited everyone back the next night.
| I dont rememeber that. Did he play 2 nights or something? |
10-14-2004, 06:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Metro Atlanta, GA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by peteroberts I dont rememeber that. Did he play 2 nights or something? | It's been a while, but if I remember correctly, he came through Atlanta twice on that tour. Once at the beginning and once toward the end. I don't think that he was supposed to play a second show the night the lights went out in Georgia, but they did anyway. I saw all three shows. You were probably at the first show (first time through town) and I think his (Pat's) parents and girlfriend at the time were there too. |
10-14-2004, 04:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: here I am,you're looking at me | | | Anybody who can listen to Antonia and The Truth Will Always Be back-to-back and not be shaken afterward by the fury needs to check his pulse. What a one-two punch.
That said, Facing West has been flitting in and out of rotation in my mind's radio station the last couple of days, because I've been doing that quite a lot now that the winds are kicking up at night.
Metheny is jazz's answer to Aaron Copland, and one of the few artists whose work I will buy without need to preview it first. |
10-14-2004, 06:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: San Francisco, CA (finally!) | | | Fulcrum, right on with the SS statements! The Truth Will Always Be sends a chill up my spine. |
10-15-2004, 04:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2002 Location: Kunsan AB, South Korea | | | Jaco...
Bright Size Life is my favorite Metheny CD. Unreal playing and just GOOD music. |
10-15-2004, 04:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: San Francisco, CA (finally!) | | | I just listened to that yesterday...great record. |
10-20-2004, 03:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: here I am,you're looking at me | | | You Metheniacs will appreciate this: New PMG album coming out January 11-- one sixty-odd minute piece of music called The Way Up.
Well, I'm stoked. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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