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When i was 17/18 yrs old in 1978, my brother came back from Miami University and told me about a guitarplayer he lived with for 1 semester named Pat Mentheny. back then all i listened was Blues.rock.southern rock. I wanted to play lead guitar like Dicky Betts! My brother said this guy was going to put an album out any day now. Well every moring before i would go to high School my brother would play the Pat metheny group Album, the one with Phase Dance on it. Now relize my brother was not a fan of jazz, but was a big fan of 70's rock.Well he fell in love with that album and played it everyday, i refused to like it..then one day it hit me what an amazing guitarplayer he was. We went to go see him at the Bottom line probably that same year, i think 10 people were there...lol Afterwards he came out to talk with my brother and hung with us for like 1/2 hour. Over the last 30 yrs my brother has seen him play 100 times probably. he still remembers my brother..sometimes...lol More to follow
KenLast edited by guitarplayer007; 02-09-2011 at 01:47 PM.
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02-09-2011 01:13 PM
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02-09-2011, 01:34 PM #2Baltar Hornbeek Guest
that's kul. was that back when miami vice was on?
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BH, you crack me up.
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ummm yes
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I always liked Pat but didn't get that into him, until recently. Now I'm really listening to a lot of Pat and have read his book and sounds like a real down to earth guy, but a musical and music business genius.
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02-09-2011, 02:08 PM #6Baltar Hornbeek Guest
I heard about those days, miami sound machine were on fire. Quite the scene, so I'm told.
I new a dude who went to that school the early 80s and man, that guy could rock. He had talent for making the rest of the band sound really good.
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Originally Posted by Baltar Hornbeek
Joe Diorio talks about those days down there as when he learned a lot. He said it was great he had a steady club gig getting to play Jazz all night five days a week. He said they could play anything they wanted and did. Something that doesn't exist much anymore.
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When i think back that my brother lived with a jazz legend, its pretty crazy
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Very cool story!
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I 've always appreciated that Pat Metheny had a unique style that was his voice. "James," was the first song that really put the hook in me ("Offramp" album).
I kind of lost touch when he had a few albums featuring synthesizer guitar/trumpet smooth jazz stuff (before there was even smooth jazz radio stations), but plugged back in at about "The Road to You."
My wife and I caught the "Orchestrian" show last year at our lil' ol' Civic Auditorium. Really inspiring! The guy is like a National Treasure at this point.
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Yes he is an amazing guitarist, you always know its him playing with that unique style. And he was comes up with so many amazing melodies!
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I posted this elsewhere on the net and because I'm feeling lazy today I just copied it:
The latest Orchestrion tour just brings me further to the conclusion that there are few modern musicians who are as forward thinking, restlessly creative and open minded as Pat Metheny.
I have followed his work since the 1976 Bright Size Life album. Over the ensuing 34 years, he has pushed the concept of jazz, sometimes hitting incredibly high marks, sometimes falling short. But he has always been true to his own muse and has been very successful doing it.
Write brilliant songs at age 14? String up Ibanez solid body 12 strings in strange and wonderful tunings and make exceptional music with it? Explore the dissonance of Ornette Coleman, the folk/pop of Joni, the straight ahead styles of Brecker, Hancock, The Heath Brothers, the “outside” music of Derek Bailey, the minimalism of Steve Reich and, the pop/rock of Bruce Hornsby? He’s done all of that. He has done it all at a level that most never reach in one genre.
From the smooth jazz of the album “We Live Here” to the Americana of “New Chatauqua” to the sound of The Ventures meet Nine Inch Nails meet Stravinsky in songs like The Roots of Coincidence, the guy has visited musical places most of us will never reach. I’ve heard him quote Dirty Water and Wipeout in concert, yet seen him just completely get off playing nothing but the rhythm of First Circle and heard him just blow over standards like Stella and How Insensitive.
There are guys who play as well, maybe some better in some styles, but it’s hard to find somebody who’s done so much in so many musical areas.
I think that the guy writes his own definitions of what music is.
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yes he is Brillant!!!
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Originally Posted by Flyin' Brian
From reading his book it comes down to his definition of what real Jazz is, to Pat (and many others) real Jazz is about being on the cutting edge always looking for new sound and musical ideas. You hear it in the his playing, composition, and sound. He says its fine if you want to play Wes or Parker or someone or something else passed, that is a tribute to that player or style, but real Jazz is about constant exploration.
He truly is a national treasure.
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yes truly amazing
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Did they live in the towers? I have a friend who remembers a lot of the musicians around campus in the 70's like Metheny and Steve Morse. The weather was beautiful and she always saw them outside playing. They performed at the Rat, which is the campus bar and is still fifty feet from the music school. The music dept hasn't changed at all. The old richety buildings are the same. Those huge towers are still right next to it, as is the Rat. I went there in the 90's.
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I remember years ago, Bootsy Collins had pulled off the interstate into a filling station to put some gas in his car. Later that same day, my Aunt Willow used the same gas pump that he used.
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I met Dr. Martin Luther King in 1962 in Memphis, Tennessee. I was walking down the street minding my own business, just walking on. Feelin' good. I walk around the corner, a man walks up & hits me in my chest, right? I fall on the ground, right? And I look up and it's Dr. Martin Luther King. I said 'Dr. King?' and he said 'Ooops, I thought you were some body else.'
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