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Dudely Apr 04 2022 at 10:59 AM |
One of my favorites; Girls Next Door |
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Dudely Jun 18 2022 at 3:44 PM |
And who could forget this one
https://youtu.be/5TOCNvrIezY
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Dudely Jun 15 2022 at 11:19 PM |
Zorn Metheny Masterna is
another fave.
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facing west Jun 10 2022 at 12:17 PM |
No one dances, but here’s a street guitarist improvising on This Is Not America for an hour. Funking awesome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAUCmeuKDqY
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Dudely Jun 08 2022 at 6:03 PM |
Ivan lendl believe it or not.
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Dudely Jun 06 2022 at 11:53 PM |
Certainly I will meet you on the
dance floor for Beat 70!
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tiny_tim Jun 06 2022 at 6:31 AM |
Dudley, I will go out on a limb and say.... John McEnroe...:)))
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Dudely Jun 04 2022 at 1:09 PM |
First one to guess which
professional tennis player
practiced to P.M.G. gets my
eternal respect.
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MarcNebo Jun 02 2022 at 10:02 PM |
Dudely, thank you for the kind words and encouragement. I have always been a positive thinker and always say I am
doing okay. There are people a lot worse off than me, but this year has been a challenge. Music, as always is the best
medicine. Give me 20cc’s of Pat Metheny music.
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Dudely Jun 01 2022 at 5:54 PM |
And if you can’t dance to its jus
tawk then stay home.
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Dudely Jun 01 2022 at 1:35 PM |
You tube "Dad hysterically dances
as daughter does art".
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Dudely Jun 01 2022 at 1:33 PM |
Just think pat at high school and "
failing" cause he was spending
"too much time" on his
guitar/music.
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Dudely Jun 01 2022 at 1:00 PM |
Oh,and I forgot. You can never
have too much time on your
hands. Here’s to better days
ahead for your health.
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Dudely Jun 01 2022 at 12:55 PM |
Sweet,Marc. A thousand thank
yous and a pizza of your choosing!
A real conundrum this no dancing
at the shows.
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MarcNebo May 31 2022 at 10:43 PM |
I just Found a shortcut to my Pat & Montreal Ballet. Right here at PM.com. Go to Media and scroll down to Scores and
Click on Adieux and you can watch and listen to all three movements. Also there are clips from 14 movies and a
Christian Dior commercial. Second movement audio is a little garbled. Third movement is excellent.
Anyone who thinks I have too much time on my hands is right. After recovering from Acute Appendicitis in February
(Feb 1st to March 14th I had Rotator Cuff Surgery on April 8th. I may return to work in early July. What better way to
use my free time than listening to Pat’s music.
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MarcNebo May 31 2022 at 10:15 PM |
I just did a Google search and found it. From 1988 Montreal Jazz Festival, Pat Metheny & Le Jazz Ballet of Montreal
1988 - Movement 1. I read the Notes and learned a lot. Pat played all the "instruments" with the Synclavier Guitar
including drums and his trusty Gibson ES-175. Very cool, more Modern Dance than Ballet. Pat playing projected on
large screen behind the dancers. Another person said he saw a broadcast of the performance and said Antonia and
The Truth Will Always Be Revealed were the other "movements". Looks like several more Videos from the show
available online.
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MarcNebo May 31 2022 at 9:40 PM |
I thought I once read somewhere that Pat has composed music for dance (ballet?) company(s). Anybody ever see
this?
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facing west May 28 2022 at 11:54 AM |
Not sure if I’ve ever danced. But PMG music is definitely about movement. I used to run every day to PMG, and my
music of choice was Still Life (Talking). I can maybe see dancing to something like This is Not America.
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Dudely May 28 2022 at 10:41 AM |
Call me old fashioned but if some
part of your body doesn’t move
it’s not funky.
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Dudely May 27 2022 at 2:49 PM |
So I ask has anyone ever danced
at a live show and what song? We
Live Here, the song, is one for me!
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Dudely May 24 2022 at 11:20 PM |
I just want to remind everybody
why I started this, to put the k in
fun.
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MarcNebo May 23 2022 at 4:46 PM |
The Girls Next Door and the previous track from We Live Here, And Then I Knew are both funky. Much of that record
is funkier than normal. Also The Red One from John Scofield (with Pat) I Can See Your House From Here. Another is
Straight On Red from Travels.
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d'Heat May 18 2022 at 9:03 AM |
I’ll complete my sixtieth trip around the sun this year. 40 of those years (plus or minus one) have involved Pat’s music. Before discovering Pat I was a Led Zeppelin, Yes and Rush fan. I don’t listen to that music much nowadays, but I still appreciate it.
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MarcNebo May 17 2022 at 11:32 PM |
BobSmith1 : What’s "When I’m Sixty-Four" . Thank you for your input, I don’t expect it to dip below 60. I am feeling
old, being the oldest so far. I am holding out until June to close the poll. Hopefully so more AG followers will respond
by then.
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BobSmith1 May 16 2022 at 2:34 PM |
Marc Nebo- I’m a certain age from a certain song from a certain Beatles album I bought in the summer of 1967. I predict this will not move the needle one iota from your current Garage average age stat! Regarding Funkiest Metheny Track--It’s hard to say, there are so many, but from the White Album I’ll pick Jaco.
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MarcNebo May 15 2022 at 11:50 AM |
aloc, I agree that AG is a great forum, I am to old for the other platforms. Are you over sixty years old? Dudely, what’s
your last known age? I am trying to prove my theory that the average age of posters at AG is 60. So far four
responses and average age is 64 years old.
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aloc May 14 2022 at 5:55 AM |
I guess I’m one of the "younger" mainstays here at the garage. Been following the Garage regularly since the early
2000s and continue to do so, even though I don’t post that often. It’s nice that this place still exists despite the
dominance of social media platforms.
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Dudely May 13 2022 at 5:31 PM |
I’ve forgotten how old I am but I’d
like to second seadog on nine
over reggae.
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hman01 May 13 2022 at 8:45 AM |
1959 Dodge Coronet here!
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MarcNebo May 12 2022 at 11:14 AM |
seadog and facing west : I am waiting for molesoulsandal to post his age, but so far my theory checks out. I expect
that most of the "cars" in the American Garage, are Classics from the 50’s. Me a 1954 Corvette, still runs right but
needs bodywork and has some rust. Convertible top shows signs of wear normal for it’s age. Radio only plays Jazz
music. seadog, you beat me. I would have loved to be at the ECM concert and seeing Pat with the Gary Burton
Quartet. I did see a "reunion" Gary Burton Quartet (Gary, Pat, Scott Colley and Antonio Sanchez) at the Detroit Jazz
Festival about six years ago. Great show, but not the same as Gary Burton Quartet at that time.
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facing west May 12 2022 at 8:13 AM |
Yeah, Seadog, Union Pacific is a great track from Sound of Summer Running, a record that maybe flies a bit under the
radar. Man, I can barely imagine what it must have been like to encounter Pat for the first time in the context of Gary
Burton & friends. Life changing for sure. Marc, I’m the same in that I rarely listen to any of the records that I thought
were great back in the day -- with the exception of Steely Dan. But I’m still checking out stuff I overlooked when I was
younger. Stevie Wonder’s run of classic albums is an example. Now that stuff is funky.
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seadog May 11 2022 at 8:59 AM |
Just turned 66 in March. Growing up in Boston there was an early buzz about Pat. I first saw him in St. Louis with
Gary Burton on Oct 31, 1976. Needless to say, a life changing show. It was the ECM Festival of Music with Gary Burton
Quartet, Eberhard Webber, John Abercrombie, Jack DeJohnette, Ralph Towner and more. Truly a musically life
changing evening. Since then I’ve seen Pat over 35 times in so many settings. From PMG, solo acoustic, sitting-in with
Roy Haynes’ band in a jazz club to large outdoor sets from Boston Common to Newport. Can’t wait for the next one.
As far as funkiest tracks: I’d go with Union Pacific from Marc Johnson’s Sound of Summer Running with Pat and Bill
Frizell doing a remarkable impression of a Hammond B3. Or, from the Live Parallel Realities Concert, either 9 Over
Reggae or Cantaloupe Island. Just a thought.
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MarcNebo May 10 2022 at 11:32 PM |
facing west : I have a very difficult time listening to the Rock bands that I used to listen to (before I saw the light). I
have no interest in re-visiting that music. It was great at its time, but now doesn’t do anything for me. I still have my
favorites Jazz groups and records from every decade since I started listening in the mid-70’s. I still can enjoy listening
to the records and I believe Jazz is not dead (it was on life-support several times). Every decade we loose some Jazz
legends, but along come new future legends. I am very excited to be embedded in an exciting time to be a Jazz fan.
I hope some more AG posters come forward and add there ages to my list. I assume that the median age is sixty
years old. I feel sorry for the younger people who thing current pop music is good. I was spoiled by how good Rock
and Pop music was when I was a teenager. I saw the best live and continued until the mid 70’s.
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facing west May 10 2022 at 12:41 PM |
I’ll be 64 in a few months. It’s funny, but many older people I talk to just want to listen to the same music they
listened to in their teens. Even stranger, I talk to some younger people who think all the great music was made in the
late 60s and early 70s. To me, that’s not cool. There is great music in every era. But the most interesting music is
often the music that speaks to what’s happening now (Speaking of Now is a good album title!). It’s really about
seeking and finding that one per cent of music that is the real treasure of every age.
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MarcNebo May 09 2022 at 8:14 AM |
facing west : I am guessing you’re approaching sixty years old? About seven years ago I got two photos of me with
Pat backstage at a Chicago gig. Pat is about a week older than me, but looked many years younger. I think he still
stays in shape by running.
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facing west May 06 2022 at 8:41 PM |
I also go back about 45 years with Pat. Which is weird because he looks about 17.
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MarcNebo May 05 2022 at 10:59 PM |
molesolesandal : I just checked and Pat Metheny Facebook Likes is at 579,809 and Twitter Followers 74.3K. Me I am
happy here with a real forum with real fans. I wonder what the median age is users of Facebook and Twitter for Pat.
Also curious about median age at American Garage. I have noticed a lot of posts here from fans that have been
following Pat for forty years. I have been following him for 45 years and I am 67 (68 in August and still have my own
teeth). Anyone else want to participate?
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molesoulsandal May 05 2022 at 10:22 AM |
nay - not happening is simply not happening . . . . if it was happening then it would be the ’new’ happening . . . . but if it’s not happening, that’s all she wrote.
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hman01 May 05 2022 at 8:57 AM |
Mole- Back in the 90s when I had my WebTV unit, this place was happening. And back then, they had the basement
with politics and stuff. It got pretty brutal, so they took it down. That was another forward thinking move from Pat. I
couldn’t imagine the lack of civility that would happen in a basement thread now!
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MarcNebo May 05 2022 at 8:30 AM |
Mole & facing west : I agree, I assume many younger Pat fans and some older ones are talking about Pat on
Facebook, Twitter or the other anti-Social platforms. I am Old School (and old) so I much prefer using American
Garage. I may be wrong, but I think the really hard-core Pat fans are on this site. There is a short list of frequent
posters here , but are big fans of Pat. My addiction started in 1977 and do not plan to go to rehab (24/7 of Kenny G).
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facing west May 04 2022 at 3:27 PM |
You know what they say, Mole. Not happening is the new happening.
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molesoulsandal Apr 26 2022 at 6:52 PM |
i don’t really have anything to say, but just wanted to add a post cos it seems so kind of sad that this site is so not happening these days. nobody comes on here. so i just wanted to list a post because i can. cheers, mateys, near and far!
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facing west Apr 18 2022 at 5:10 PM |
The most consistently ’funky’ stretch of PMG music may be the last four tracks of First Circle:
Tell It All, End Of The Game, Mas Alla (Beyond), and Praise. Dream Of The Return on Letter
From Home has a similar quality. Soul music.
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yossarian Apr 15 2022 at 7:42 PM |
Girls Next Door, yeh, maybe. But for me there are elements of The Way Up, final part, I found funky strange to say.
Otherwise I’ll take Jaco. But often with Pat, funkiness is kind of there but not there. Draws you in.
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patsfan Apr 07 2022 at 8:34 PM |
Another pick for The Daily Doug. …… Sounds simple, but maybe it isn’t
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hman01 Apr 07 2022 at 8:44 AM |
And I love that smoove Mark Ledford trumpet solo in the middle.
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Dudely Apr 07 2022 at 3:13 AM |
And one for global warming; The
Heat of the Day
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Dudely Apr 07 2022 at 3:05 AM |
I’ll bet you they were dancing!
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molesoulsandal Apr 05 2022 at 10:54 AM |
yea, i pretty much agree that ’the girls next door’ is perhaps the ’funkiest’ pat tune, but the tune ’jaco’ is pretty funky, too!! kinda like a ’funky chicken’!!
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hman01 Apr 05 2022 at 8:58 AM |
As soon as I saw the title of this thread, I was going to say the same song.!
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