Pat Metheny Group - Beat 70 - 1989

[@patriotstalk4164]

I swear Pedro is GOATED at everything he does

[@a.s.vanhoose1545]

Letter From Home is my favorite Pat Metheny record. I got it right before I made my first trip to Florida. I was 12. My mind was washed in the deepest pleasure imaginable while I listened to that record with headphones on while seeing the beautiful blue water and the tropical plants and the bright sun.

[@stoxarecool763]

I love how everyone who comments about PMG has such vivid descriptions like this! It's truly amazing how profoundly this music has touched ALL of us... I know of no other contemporary artist whose fans are as poetic, vivid, in the moment...in a word, human. AND they take the time to write comments like yours! 💙

[@walterlopez4347]

The argentinian Pedro aznar was Metheny oil moving this huge emgine Aznar was everywhere playing anything even he was singing...damn Great ... El musico Argentino Pedro aznar era el aceite moviendo la maquina de Metheny ..el tocaba casi todo i se daba el lujo de hasta cantar . estupendo Aznar..

[@aralsea1]

Pedro always did an amazing job. So important in this band.

[@amduenas]

Listening to the Pat Metheny Group for over 30 years. Just as inspiring today as it was then.

[@TheTwangKings]

Nothing approaches the ambience of this very trippy Jazz Festival show. Pat Metheny Group delivered the goodies to a huge crowd of very happy (and many a bit high) Montrealers. I was there!

[@Nethanel773]

Thank you for putting this up. I didn't know of Pat Metheny and his crew until a couple of years ago. Wow, what a sound! Especially Beat 70!

[@Yowzoe]

This song and the group’s music in general makes me feel better than any other kind of music and has for 30 years!

[@silversurfer647]

I've never seen this group at all. But I heard of Pat Metheny thru the Weather Channel years ago. I used to always wonder who is doing this therapeutic music? Then thru my smartphone years later, Pat metheny shows up, and the rest is history.. I'm glad I came up in his era.😄😄😄

[@gmcummings]

Wow, they sound amazing playing live!

[@arandomyoutubechannel2940]

I love this song, it is awesome

[@lilibee1255]

It was such a beautiful summer night in Montréal...100,000 showed up....everything felt just right..

[@nikbuckingham1132]

Saw them in San Antonio in 93. Very awesome

[@rocketman71863]

Don't get me wrong....love Pat, but there will sadly never be another PMG and I feel blessed to have seen them 3 times!

[@ScottAllenFinance]

I love the bridge section...goes to 5/4 for a few bars...super hip! Starting at 2:10

[@clicks59]

According to Steve Rodby, the piano solo section is in 3/4. I beat my head against the wall trying to figure it out. I reached out to Steve. He was easy to contact being he’s the head of a music department at a college. He’s actually dropping the one (but not all of them) in the studio version. I found it easier to count it in 6 in this version. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gYjbZ6ttqrCnapI

[@ScottAllenFinance]

@@clicks59 The Metheny Songbook shows it in 5/4..but it's definitely hard to hear the meter in this live version, but take a listen to the studio version. Maybe Steve thought of it in 3 with a bar of 4 at the end? Lol, that's awesome you got in touch with him though!

[@anguspodgorny8211]

So what can't Pedro do?

[@DeathGhostX]

wow!!! MUSIC!!! been a long time no heard MUSIC!!!

[@ramonawalker5473]

Lovely Mr. Mays, and Mr. Metheny, I love a man in short shorts.

[@pintorifrancesco]

marvelousssssss.......

[@clicks59]

Rare Rodby on electric bass. I saw PMG live in 95. This was the only tune Rodby used electric bass. Pure genius performance and songwriting.

[@justsomeguy7042]

I really only listen to blues/blues-rock guitar players... But this guy right here can play...

[@RudeBoy-hx1fn]

You should hear him play blues. "Question and Answer" is a tune of his that's a minor blues waltz with trane changes in the bridge. It's awesome.

[@benjaminrussell7481]

yes mate

[@MRCSSTVZ]

BEAUTIFUL VOICE AND INSTRUMENTAL OF PEDRO AZNAR

[@jorgenavarrete2348]

Good so good music

[@OsvaldoBarco419]

My guitar Hero Is Pat Metheny !!

[@TSteaktheNilla]

I love this. Especially the fact that my band director used it for a marching piece

[@onemanmatt]

8 years later........I saw this incarnation LIVE back then :-) I played in HS Band 1964-66 on clarinet, and we marched in the Fall Football games playing Sousa Marches ;-) Are you telling me that your Band Director wrote the charts for this for the band? OMG! College or HS? PS I guess to boast: I saw them then, and then every time they came around to the NYC Metro after that ~ 5 times in all till they broke up.......... just THE best ! !!!! Still Life Talking and Letter from Home, still my favs as were those tours !!! Also saw them do First Circle LIVE! OMG!

[@Yowzoe]

@@onemanmatt Lucky you :-)

[@patscircle8051]

I LOVE YOU PAT 12 VI 2015 MWÁH AND WE ARE SO VERY MANY A BUNCH JAJAJA THAAAAAAANK YOUUUUU JAJAJAJ XXXX XXXX XXXX JEJEJ MWÁH

[@laneyAAA]

Not sure about the choice of shorts, Pat!

[@KevinMichaelCallihan]

Global top flight musicians that ran beside the better strategy architects of staying to what they were as individuals. Smart, saavy, and intelligent blends of so many modes of the multiple ways to be happy without lyrics; the music equates to lyrics according to Einstein...

[@postusinterruptus]

At :46 that looks like a melodica being played. Very cool addition to the sound.

[@stellademattei5361]

Se postergó su actuación en Buenos Aires para abril 2021 por la pandemia 😷

[@xAToGbV2fl]

Where is the video of Slip Away? Want to see Pedro singing.

[@antiNSP]

5 stars

[@jesuscordero918]

Que nombre tienen los dos instrumentos que toca pedro aznar

[@clicks59]

One of the very few tunes with Rodby on electric bass...... No passengers on board in this band.

[@pawlowski6132]

Oh God.

[@li__suarez]

y está haciendo como 20 cosas a la vez !

[@RyanSlatkoMusic]

@Fredriksodegaard That would be a harmonica. Sounds more like a melodica though

[@ethansmith7608]

this sounds like mario kart music tf

[@0rganfarmer]

It’s insane how much Nintendo is inspired by Pat Metheny’s music. You can just tell without having to dig into it.

[@TNVOLS97]

Check out a Row Loff composition of this. My band director, Edward Freytag helped write it.

[@ScottAllenFinance]

That is literally the un-coolest setting of a PMG tune! Ugh!

[@Hettbone1]

@zanehuggins5 it looks like it....

[@xaluephire1859]

My mom has good music taste.

[@phoebeastewart1979]

It WAS the 80s, Andrew!!! LOL!!!!

[@davidlungu446]

Whaaat.steve rodby on electric bass?I don't believe this.

[@xs10z]

Is that a kielbasa you're hiding in your pants, or are you happy to see me?

[@pawlowski6132]

Really?? 1989 When was this song written? Why wasn't it on any of his early albums????

[@drummerflex]

It was written in 1988 and appears on Letter From Home (recorded and released in 1989) and The Road to You (recorded 1991, released 1993.).

[@fortyfootfurby]

here because The Crossmen turned me onto Pat M.

[@jmosur]

Are those super short shorts on Pat?!?

[@carolfutrell8351]

Does it really matter ?

[@cobblewright]

@@carolfutrell8351 Yes.

[@davidarbelaez4395]

What the heck is Pat Metheny wearing? 🤦🏻

[@federipal]

So inmersed in music that he seems not to have seen on the mirror before entering the stage...such awful pants he wears!!!!

[@benjaminrussell7481]

haha, peep the date, homie.

[@xs10z]

Richard Simmons laughs at those shorts

[@marinasoto7429]

Why not george michael sing like black men😅

[@billriley8763]

Just heard this in a coffee shop. I'm always torn by smooth jazz, they seem like such talented artists who fell in with a bad crowd and, unfortunately, produced a self-indulgent pile of crap. This is the kind of thing you'd expect to hear in a nautical themed doctor's office waiting room on a Thursday afternoon surrounded by 80 year olds. Clearly talented musicians, terrible music.

[@WaffleWiz]

That's quite the bash on smooth jazz as a genre, mate.

[@LWOPP]

@Bill Riley And you're listening to it because…?

[@atalex7370]

Bill Riley The Grammy voters would seem to disagree with your assessment.

[@fretbuzz59]

+Bill Riley This isn't smooth jazz, not by a long shot. And if you hadn't referred to it as "a self-indulgent pile of crap," I'd have been nice. Instead, I'll tell you that you're an ignorant fool. Granted, you're not the only person who mistakes the beauty, warmth, & airiness in this music for fluff. This is heavy duty stuff. Just ask any jazz musician. While there's a lightness that allows it to appeal to listeners that might not be hardcore jazz fans, this music is incredibly deep and thoughtful. Nothing self-indulgent about it. While it could be played innocuously in a waiting room, and those "80 year olds" might not understand what they were hearing, clearly you don't either.

[@rozaygh]

You don't know what u are talking about.