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deronruss Jun 18 2013 at 1:01 AM	I’m not sure what year it was but it was in the late 80’s at “The Strand Theatre” in York PA when I was sitting in the audience awaiting my first Pat Metheny concert to begin. The lights didn’t dim but yet I heard the sounds of snare drums. I looked behind me and marching down the aisles were band members pounding away. They marched up on stage and began to play “Forward March”. Then I believe, just like on the album right in to “Yolanda, You Learn”. I vividly remember “Last Train Home”, “The First Circle”, “Tell It All” and “(It’s Just) Talk”. Then it gets blurry from there. Please Pat, do one last tour doing all the old classics for us old heads. Can you recall your first Pat Metheny concert?
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franksexton Jul 08 2013 at 4:35 PM	this is ffom Q&A and addresses this very issue. http://interact.patmetheny.com/qa/questionView.cfm?queID=12806
franksexton Jul 08 2013 at 4:31 PM	bucky, I think Pat will always play his classic songs like AYGWM , just in new ways along with all the new stuff he is always doing. I just don’t see him doing a total nostolgia gig at all, sorry.
deronruss Jul 07 2013 at 12:44 AM	I agree with bucky1960....:)
HAMBONE Jul 02 2013 at 12:33 PM	MarcNebo, this was late winter 78, they were so raw then. I saw the original quartet again 2 years later at another small club in Philly during the AG tour. I was only feet away from Lyles keyboards and they were LOUD. I met Pat afterwards just standing at the bar, no one seemed to care who he was. But I knew then that this was something speecial...
MarcNebo Jul 01 2013 at 10:34 PM	Hambone, I can relate I saw the first Quartet in 1978 or maybe in 1977. Wish I could pin down the exact date or even year. I know it was at Amazingrace in Evanston IL.
bebe Jun 29 2013 at 9:53 PM	Amen yossarian! I had not listened to Pat for 20 yrs. I turned on his music to let my kids here. It was like my youth rushed toward my face and into my head. It was a good thing though.It was just the boost i needed.
bluepno Jun 29 2013 at 10:42 AM	First time I saw Pat was in the Gary Burton group alongside Mick Goodrick at Kingswood prep school in West Hartford Conn..1974-75... Then in Bushnell Park free summer concert with the Pat Metheny Group performing the White Album probably one year later...great days...good times...unforgettable memories.
bebe Jun 28 2013 at 1:40 PM	The first time was in 1992 the day before election day. The concert was in DC or northern Virginia. I planned to go the concert and travel home to vote.The concert was so good that my friend and i bought tickets for the next show. I took the train home,stood in line to vote,and got right back on the train to see the second show. Pat announced that Bill Clinton was elected president. He also said something like it was the end of 12 years of artistic oppression or something like that. i don’t quite remember.It was a great moment and one of my greatest memories.
yossarian Jun 28 2013 at 3:07 AM	PMG gigs over the years have all been fantastic but yes, those late 80s gigs were something special because we still didn’t know quite what to expect. After that, the bar was set very high but PMG always reach it. I think the problem is where to go after The Way Up. I was lucky enough to see the Songbook tour in Europe in 2010 - they played Phase Dance, Naked Moon, AYGWM, To the End of the World, James, Jaco etc. It was great. I think the real issue here though is that you can’t have your youth back!
hman01 Jun 26 2013 at 2:43 PM	Pat should follow his muse and we are all on a journey.Bon Voyage.....
CJ Shearn Jun 26 2013 at 12:54 PM	I also miss PMG, I don’t think it serves much purpose to want him to go back. We need to be in the now, and for jazz to progress it has to move forward. Within the tradition of the music, in the output of artist there is their own tradition. Pat simultaneously uses his own tradition while moving forward in his unique language along with absolutely new (for him) vocabularies ("Tap") along the way. Jazz fans who love Pat move forward easier it seems, while some fans who like PMG but more casual jazz fans, they bring an arena rock mindset where they wanna hear "the hits" done the same way, each time. The records and concert videos exist for anyone who wants to relive those moments in time, as others have said. I picked up the new Wayne Shorter record upon release with the full knowledge that it would not sound like his classic Blue Note sides from 1964-69. I know that band’s music from previous records and accept them for what they are. I think many people buy Pat records with the unfair expectation it will sound like (x) album and they get dissapointed. People’s tastes cannot be argued with, but I think accepting where an artist is important. When I saw my first PMG show in 2002, I was struck by the absolute rudeness of people getting up and leaving when they realized Pat wasn’t going to play "Still Life (Talking)" all night. They weren’t interested in the new music, which is now classic. People let right in the middle of Pat’s acoustic intro to "Another Life" after "Scrap Metal" which was very inconsiderate. They were not prepared for his multiple facets, and to me that’s a shame. I am thoroughly invested in being prepared for anything when I see a favorite player live. I think the SoN tour had the seeds of what was to come with old tunes being played in new ways, such as how the Unity Band plays live.
J.T. Jun 24 2013 at 9:10 AM	Yes I miss the PMG but Are lives have been full of Pats wonderful music since then with his solo,trio,Unity band music.Next year when Pat Methenys Unity Group comes to my town maybe they will dust off some PMG classics.Cant wait to see whats ahead.
bluepno Jun 23 2013 at 6:44 AM	The albums and dvd’s are beautiful snapshots of the journey because as we all know...you can never go back. Just ask the Stones...
wright Jun 21 2013 at 7:27 AM	Pat is on a musical journey and is allowing us to join him. No artist should let their fans stagnate them. As Kooltrane said, he watched Pat play AYGWM 33 years ago. Even though this tune always gets the heart pumping, imagine playing it at a high level for three decades. Pat should go where his imagination takes him, and continue to add or lose fans, depending on his product’s acceptance.
hman01 Jun 20 2013 at 9:42 PM	"NewSchool"-I’d love to see Pat do a CD called "Pat Metheny Plays the American Song Book",all the greatest standards ever written.He did a great arrangement of "Summertime" with Jim Hall,and he’s also done a great rendition of "All the Things You Are".Rod Stewart had great success with doing a CD of standards.I think Pat would too!
thehague Jun 20 2013 at 5:13 PM	Lots of great, fantastic and unerasable memories. Yes, love to hear it again. I guess Pat can’t though. He moved on.
HAMBONE Jun 20 2013 at 3:15 PM	1978 at Ripley’s in Philly with the original quartet playing the white album and a few from the BSL trio album.Place held less than 500. The came right out with Phase Dance and Pat was playing a harp-guitar on a stand. Jaco Pastorius’father was in the audience and Pat introduced him before they played Jaco.Remember it all so well...I was hooked from the first note.
Tom Rudd Jun 20 2013 at 12:12 PM	I don’t believe there is any thing wrong with looking back on Pat’s music. Pat Metheny music has been great right from the start. There is no going back with new music by Pat Metheny. My first Metheny show was at the Jazz Workshop on Boylston St. Right around the time Bright Size Life dropped.
franksexton Jun 20 2013 at 11:00 AM	Pat has stated that he isn’t into doing that, they he is into what’s ahead.
Kooltrane Jun 20 2013 at 6:32 AM	Sure; 1980 Town Hall NYC. They played "Are You Going W/Me" and the crowd flipped out. But I agree with the previous blog/no looking back, keep up The Forward March...
NewSchoolID4 Jun 19 2013 at 11:25 PM	Pat, PLEASE do not do this! Do not look back!! What you are doing on records like TAP and UNITY BAND and ORCHESTRION is exactly what you should be doing right now and the best music of your amazing career. Do not cater to the old fans, build new ones, like me! Or better yet, do whatever the f**** you feel like doing. Which by the way seems to be exactly what you have always done from the beginning.
Chris Digger Jun 19 2013 at 5:24 PM	Hey, it was just in 2008/2009 when he made a tour with the quartet of PMG.
hman01 Jun 19 2013 at 8:15 AM	"deronruss"-I remember that opening to the concert with the snare drums and "Forward March".I was like WTF?????? Then,I remember Pat said"Seeing that this is a Friday night,that’s what we decided to open with".Everybody was cracking up! That happened to be my 2nd PMG concert of many yet to come...
bucky1960 Jun 19 2013 at 7:01 AM	The first PM concert I attended was during the Travels Tour. The concert was performed at the Milwaukee County Zoo, of all places. The concert was in a tent. The day was a hot humid day. The coolest thing was during the concert, towards the end, a natural fog occurred and entered the tent around the stage. I don’t think this fog was produced by a fog machine. Great concert! Anyone else there and remember this? YES Pat, please go on tour again and play the oldies, and some of the new stuff. Nothing wrong with this.
fuller Jun 19 2013 at 6:57 AM	I first saw PMG in July 1987 at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, England when they started the same way with Forward March, was certainly an interesting start to the show ! And what a fantastic concert that turned out to be, some great memories and all that classics from the PMG from the previous 9 years, would be great to hear those again !
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