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sk8eduardosk8 Apr 03 2012 at 4:42 PM |
So guys,I like pat metheny pretty much!But i realize that the majority age is kinda older than mine(19) so i’d like to know if there are anyone with same age!Thanks! =) |
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brightsize May 02 2012 at 12:22 PM |
46. Introduced to the music in 1985 or
so. A friend had Bright Size Life and
First Circle on vinyl. My first purchase
was, strange but timely, The Falcon
and the Snowman on vinyl. First CD
was First Circle. Although I had
purchased a few discs before then, I
bought FC with my first CD player.
Worked backwards and forwards from
there.
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franksexton May 02 2012 at 11:28 AM |
this reminds me of the question "how do you know when you are old ?".
1) when you are pleased that someone thinks you are younger than you are.
2) when you list your age in hex !
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homeslice1479 May 01 2012 at 5:27 PM |
I am 23 and love everything
Pat’s ever done. Also love di
Meola, Weather Report, Return to
Forever, all those fusion greats
:)
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thehague Apr 28 2012 at 5:43 AM |
Great to have the new generation here.
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Abstrakt Apr 27 2012 at 5:14 PM |
I’m also 19
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healthy_scratch Apr 26 2012 at 11:22 AM |
I am 39 soon to be 40 got into Pat when I was 21 and heard the Road To You, another post Dead apocalypse and a musical awakening like none other.
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Stewy Apr 24 2012 at 11:51 PM |
nearly 53
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DCTWMT Apr 24 2012 at 1:55 PM |
Yes, I listed my age in hexadecimal. Not as painful as looking at the real number. :) On the other hand, in octal I’d be 76. Not good. And don’t get me started on binary.....
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thehague Apr 23 2012 at 3:28 PM |
Love to check that one out, Fred. Thanks for the heads up.
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franksexton Apr 23 2012 at 11:11 AM |
DCTWMT, you’re doing your age in hex, right ? That makes me 39, like Jack Benny !
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fredsimon Apr 22 2012 at 2:29 AM |
thehague, check out Keith Jarrett’s version of My Back Pages. Trio with Motian and Haden.
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-m Apr 21 2012 at 2:46 PM |
DCTWMT: Me too! Well this August.
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Arlie Apr 21 2012 at 8:49 AM |
53. First heard Pat Metheny Group as a freshman in college in 1977 (told that story several times in this space before). I was thrilled when my 17 year old son texted me recently that he was "jammin to pat metheny last train home on the bus [to lacrosse camp], very cool." Another generation of listeners.
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fendweller Apr 19 2012 at 11:29 AM |
Although I’m not legally required to answer that question (in fact, no one at work knows how old I am, which is good because they’re all much younger) I am 46. I first collided with Pat in summer 1981. I was staying with my sister’s ex in Amsterdam. I guess I was more than a little in awe of him - the older brother I never had - so when he put As Falls Wichita and then American Garage on the Technics turntable, it was always going to be my Four and More moment. (He got me into Joni and Shostakovich as well).
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METHenyaddicted Apr 19 2012 at 10:46 AM |
Do you thing we scared ’sk8eduardosk8’away? Come back, Educardo, come back!
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thehague Apr 18 2012 at 2:48 AM |
Lovely story, Seadog. I hope you’ll enjoy Newport. I’m sure you will. And you a little bit extra this time.
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seadog Apr 17 2012 at 3:42 PM |
56...not quite as old as dirt, but probably old enough to fart dust. Into Pat since 1976. My hope for the future of jazz was recently uplifted when attending my 15 year old son’s big band jazz concert at his high school. Until then all I ever got were curious looks and sighs of dismay for "the old geezer" when it came to what he considers my obsessive PM/PMG music collecting behavior. To my delight when we arrived, Phase Dance was on the program for the jazz/rock ensemble and a really nice performance. But what really got me was the question from my son afterwards. "Dad, do we have Phase Dance on the network music library at home? That was a really cool song." To which embarassingly overjoyed, geezer dad repied in all of his uncoolness, "Of course we do son! In fact I think we have about 8-10 different versions of it." The immediate pleasure of knowing we had it was pretty quickly replaced with a sigh of dismay over the fact that his dad had 8-10 versions of the same song by the same artist. "What the heck do you need that many for? I guess it will help you kill time when we send you to the home." On the upside, he’s joining my wife and I at the Newport Jazz Festival in August for his first dip in this vast musical pool. The dream lives on, oh, how I hope he cherishes the journey!
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mountain Apr 16 2012 at 4:13 PM |
I discovered Pat and company in 1982, graduating High School. It continues to be an interesting journey. Amazing to look back to see PMG and Pat’s music as part of the soundtrack of my life. Thru college, two marriages (second one going strong!), two beautiful daughters, career and volunteer experiences, I routinely turn on Pat’s music through good times and bad times. Lookin’ forward to more great music and new life adventures ahead.
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DCTWMT Apr 14 2012 at 12:16 PM |
If you’re a real IT person you’ll get this: 3E
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Dazedcat Apr 13 2012 at 7:02 AM |
I hope Pat is a Byrds fan. I would think if you’re a certain age you’d have to be? Gene Clark was cool as hell.
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hman01 Apr 12 2012 at 6:10 PM |
fitty-two
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thehague Apr 11 2012 at 2:46 PM |
Sweet memories, Fred. We do go back a long time, don’t we? I wonder if Pat loves the Byrds (I didn’t look in the Q&A section).
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tokeyozi Apr 11 2012 at 1:20 PM |
Same over here, Oystein. Many
hours of playing cassettes in
the car at the time. My little
daughter used to call it my
car music. There I could
listen to PMG freely, as at
home there weren’t any other
fans around. Fred, there’s
something about Dylan’s quote
“I’m younger than that now”
that is so strong that it’s
been my motto for a lifetime.
Even though the mirror tells
me otherwise...
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mulsch Apr 11 2012 at 12:34 PM |
mugsy, I must have crossed paths with you in Northern California. I’m 62 (in a few weeks) and was turned onto Pat around 1980. There was a TV show in the Bay Area (Evening Magazine) that used some of Pat’s music in their opening and closing of the show, checked it out and have been a fan ever since.
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djangocat Apr 11 2012 at 6:10 AM |
Almost 57 years young. Started lstening to Pat when I was about 30. I’ve seen him numerous times: with the PMG, Gary Burton, Brad Mehldau, different Trios, alone (Orchestrion), etc. I’ve seen him in St. Louis, KC, Ravinia.
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Oystein Apr 11 2012 at 6:05 AM |
Been a pathead since -78, when I was 19. I also got my driving license that year, so I spent manymanymany hours in the car with my PMG cassettes the following year(s)...
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franksexton Apr 10 2012 at 10:35 AM |
58, same age as Pat.
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-m Apr 10 2012 at 9:36 AM |
I’m not 19 but I do like Pat Metheny...does that count?
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fredsimon Apr 09 2012 at 11:25 PM |
"I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now."
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Jazz_Soul Apr 09 2012 at 1:54 AM |
Im 19 too! But Pat Metheny is
the most important inspiration
since i was 12 years old!
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dgaw59 Apr 08 2012 at 3:14 PM |
Addendum : seen pm 4x in 4 cities
in 2 separate countries over 4
different decades
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BobSmith Apr 08 2012 at 9:12 AM |
sk8eduardosk8--I was a year
older than you when I
discovered Pat via San Lorenzo
while listening to a radio
station sign off every morning
at 4am. 54 now. Didn’t know
who it was at the time, had to
call the radio station and ask
what is that incredible music
you sign off with every
morning? Saw him for the first
time in Aug 82 during the
Offramp Tour, 11 dollars
general admission.
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METHenyaddicted Apr 07 2012 at 5:16 PM |
Well, Skate Eduardo Skate, Pat is thoughtful, creative, inspiring oh, and then there’s the music. You can learn a lot about a lot including music, through exploring the world of Pat and hanging with the Metheny-addicts here. And through association, about many other artists. The musical tentacles have a large reach.
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zargb5 Apr 07 2012 at 4:23 PM |
Been a fan since Joni Mitchell’s
’shadows and light’ (1980?)
first real album of Pat’s i got
was ’Travels.’ I am 52 and i
really don’t know where the
time’s gone to. First tour i
saw was the ’letters from
home’in manchester UK.
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sednaej Apr 07 2012 at 2:41 PM |
41. In my teens I listenend a lot to symphonic rock. At that time Genesis was the best music to me. A brother of a friend of mine, who also was a Genesis fan, had some albums of PMG. I copied First Circle and Letter From Home to a tape (this was before the digital era...), but didn’t really listen to it... Until a few months later, I must have been about your age, sk8eduardosk8. I put this tape in my walkman and went delivering newspapers. That morning I was really struck by the music of Pat Metheny and I still think it’s the best there is! Now my 15 year old son listens to the music of Genesis, which was already ’old music’ in my days! (BTW: still great to hear that music again!) He has no interest for PM yet. But I’m pretty sure he will discover his fantastic music in a few years :) Really good music is timeless.
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Bikenjazz Apr 07 2012 at 9:42 AM |
56 Youngster and still so much to learn and to listen to in the expression of the jazz art form.
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tokeyozi Apr 07 2012 at 9:07 AM |
19? Wow, I really thought one
had to be way over 50 to be
seriously into Pat with or
without the Group. I was
wrong, obviously ;) I didn’t
get to know Pat’s music until
I was about 30; American
Garage, which appeared to be
his fifth album already (still
don’t understand how I’d
managed to miss the previous
ones). My musical references
as to when I was your age –
apart from the Beatles’ Abbey
Road – are the very first
albums by Jethro Tull, Free,
Crosby Stills Nash, Joni
Mitchell, Cat Stevens,
Traffic, Yes and Genesis; oh,
and Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew,
the first genuine jazz album I
owned at the time; not a bad
lot, I suppose. Btw, I’m 60+,
but you guessed as much. Still
listen to music made by the
‘young ones’ though, even play
music with some of them still.
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marshall Apr 06 2012 at 11:54 PM |
28 here. Joined the PM
bandwagon in 2001 after I heard
him live in NY. Question and
Answer blew me away (was during
his trio tour) and I’ve seen him
every time he’s come through
since.
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foxesfred Apr 06 2012 at 5:00 PM |
Be 62 in May. Joined the ranks of Metheny fans in the early 80’s. A post DEAD apocalypse for me. By the way each yeaR HE GETS EVEN BETTER!
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Dazedcat Apr 06 2012 at 11:49 AM |
Good God collectively we really are....not young lol.
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dgaw59 Apr 06 2012 at 9:05 AM |
None of your damn business. OK-53
just like the rest of these guys. You
need to carry on the PM legacy...
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thehague Apr 06 2012 at 6:44 AM |
Almost 59 and an even more miserable fart than Dazed :). But enjoying good music of course, lots and lots of it (just like Dazed and everyone else here).
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bluepno Apr 05 2012 at 7:58 PM |
I first heard Pat in Gary Burtons’ "Dreams So Real" band...I was 15 Pat was 18.It’s been a great time in between then and now.
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mugsy Apr 05 2012 at 7:19 PM |
I’m 62 and have been a fan since
1980 something...
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Dazedcat Apr 05 2012 at 9:27 AM |
I’m 57 and turning into a miserable old fart. Not really but I am 57.....
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bucky1960 Apr 05 2012 at 9:15 AM |
According to my wife, old enough to know better. Young enough at heart to still believe in the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus but not young enough to keep up with my teen aged son doing sprints but I’ll die trying. 51.
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Tom Rudd Apr 05 2012 at 6:03 AM |
Same age as Pat.
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bluepno Apr 04 2012 at 7:49 PM |
I am not a teenager anymore...but it sure was fun while it lasted.
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alan2461 Apr 04 2012 at 7:43 PM |
I’m 51. I got into Pat when I was 20.
Hopefully when you are the age I am
now, and I am in my 80’s Pat will still
be making beautiful music. : )
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HAMBONE Apr 04 2012 at 11:37 AM |
You’re right,sk8eduardosk8. Most of us here are old Pat fans, but it’s good you joined in to balance it out. Welcome.
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