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"Song For the Boys" contains entire Metheny Sound
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FLATPICKTODAY
Apr 03 2013 at 1:59 PM
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I listened to this the other night
closely on headphones. I heard,
clearly, the entire Metheny group
sound, the singing, the background
lines, the melodies. EVERYTHING is
there, with this one person sitting
alone strumming a guitar with no
overdubs. Tell me, how is this
possible? Is Pat’s conception of sound
and music so powerful that he can
impose it on any situation? |
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bluepno
Apr 11 2013 at 8:26 AM
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Perfectly expressed sunship..now
that explains the Coltrane tag.
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sunship
Apr 09 2013 at 9:06 AM
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I think a wonderful guitar or piano
produces harmonics that actually let
us hear more than we are actually
playing. Even for myself, when I play a
really good acoustic, there are so many
overtones coming from that
soundhole, even though I may be
playing just 3 strings at once. We know
Linda makes some of the best
acoustics on the planet, so it does not
surprise me at all that we are hearing
so much on the "One Quiet Night"
recording. The production on that
album is one for the ages, it is
remarkable that he recorded it at
home, there are so many details.
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fredsimon
Apr 08 2013 at 9:43 PM
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FLATPICKTODAY, as far as the weed is concerned, it was 1969 or so ... you do the math and I’ll take the 5th.
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fredsimon
Apr 08 2013 at 9:30 PM
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BobSmith, I know that James has used a reel-to-reel deck for background vocals on Shower the People off and on since as early as 1976, and have heard him do so myself, but the concert I’m referring to was earlier, sometime between 1969 and 1971, and he was playing mostly songs from his first album at the time, the eponymously titled record on The Beatles’ Apple label (a wonderful and woefully under-appreciated album, one of my all-time favorites). It had brief string quartet interludes between songs (some also had harp, harpsichord, woodwinds, etc.), and also accompanied James on a few songs, such as the beautiful Sunshine, Sunshine. I’m pretty sure that was the song I heard with its string accompaniment, but no strings (or tape deck) in sight.
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FLATPICKTODAY
Apr 08 2013 at 9:16 AM
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Fred, I think then maybe it was you
who using the weed! What I am
hearing is something that is really
particular to this song, even as
someone who is familiar with lots
of guitar playing and music
(including the excellent
fingerpicking Mr. Taylor), I have
never heard anything like this. In
fact this whole recording One
Quiet Night seems to be full of a
kind of implied orchestration that
on technical terms must have to
do with the unusual method of
tuning and the extended range of
the Baritone instrument. But the
real focus for me is on the
musicianship and conception that
could create such a thing.
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BobSmith
Apr 07 2013 at 10:46 AM
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Fred--Didn’t JT travel with a reel-to-reel in those days to fill in the songs?--Early 70’s. I seem to recall a friend mentioning this having seen one of his concerts back in the day. You might notta been hearing things!
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fredsimon
Apr 07 2013 at 1:41 AM
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Actually, FLATPICKTODAY, I didn’t mean Pat, I meant you! But I was just teasing ... all in good fun. Although I will say that when I was 17 I was at a James Taylor concert, just him and his guitar, but I heard a string quartet playing with him.
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FLATPICKTODAY
Apr 05 2013 at 1:55 PM
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From what I understand, Metheny
does not use any drugs or alcohol so
I don’t think that is it. I think it is
simply that his conception of music
is so strong that he can impose or
conjure it in any situation or any
context. To me that is also his
genius.
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fredsimon
Apr 03 2013 at 7:18 PM
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"Tell me, how is this possible?" ... lots of good weed. (insert emoticon here)
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Arlie
Apr 03 2013 at 2:22 PM
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I always like to listen to "So Much Magic Everywhere" from the Mehldau Quartet CD and "Make Peace" from Metheny/Mehldau after "Song for the Boys", along with the first three tracks from "Map of the World" and "My Song" from "One Quiet Night". And that leads me into the last two tracks from the Orchestrion CD, "Soul Search" and "Spirit of the Air". From there, "September Fifteenth" and "Ozark" from AFWSFWF. And it goes on from there....
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