Pat Metheny Group- Better Days Ahead

[@andreascotto4638]

This is the "dream team" of Travels.!!. Pat Lyle Steve Danny Nana Great early version of my favourite Pat tune. Thanks.

[@duendeguitar]

I remember this show, I missed it but a friend of mine was there. I caught the PMG from this tour later in the Fall that year in Detroit. This lineup was truly remarkable and it was the best show I have ever seen Metheny play. I got to meet him, Lyle and Nana before the show.

[@carolynrodriguez7404]

RIP Lyle and Nana. I was fortunate to see this same lineup in 1982!! This brings back lots of smiles!!

[@crome2194]

Damn. Didn't know they had this in their quiver even before I started listening as a teen. Nana, Lyle, here's to ya. Life is finite. Thanks for making a part of mine memorable.

[@paloportugal]

Lyle Mays Rest In Peace ❤️ 1953-2020

[@tonyfato7635]

Beautiful improvisation from Lyle Mays.. RIP

[@davidrose5293]

Daaamn - had absolutely NO idea this gem originated that far back! Truth be told, I prefer the studio version from Letter From Home, but this is still phenomenal! One of MANY favorite Metheny and Co. pieces.

[@jjsc4396]

How fortunate are we to have been in the time of Lyle Mays?

[@scotthallgren]

Holy crap - great performance from 7 years before its release on Letter from Home! Lyle with the solo improvising unisons on two keyboards at once - wow.

[@pablomeneses1205]

Beatiful song. Anyway, I enjoy the same song with Pedro Aznar singing.

[@PabloVestory]

YES! at first I thought it was a mistake, lol. Then this could be the primigenious vesion, fantastic

[@dmfike1]

Wow! This is just Fantastic to hear... because he didn't record this until 1989 on Letter From Home. Awesome to hear it in the context of his playing in 1981. It just goes to show that some musicians' compositions are TIMELESS!! Thank you!!

[@herrfriberger5]

Brilliant Most (good latin) jazz is timeless.

[@tiffanydouglas2686]

Nice version of this song! Loved it!

[@cesaresusa]

This is beyond beauty.

[@kilamnamron3280]

Love it!

[@Dakers11]

Brilliant !

[@gupta76]

Wow, I never heard this version! Thanks man!

[@christianugolini8493]

exceptionnel !

[@World-birder]

Wow rare clip! Didn’t know they had it all done so early

[@Lachenmann7]

Isn't this really significant because it features an actual "quasi" synthesizer solo from Lyle? A hybrid of sorts

[@cesaresusa]

¡Qué rico!

[@hankluvsdagny]

Dude, if you have the recording of "James" from this concert I'd kill for it.

[@mrbulkyc1]

Of course I do you tube took it down

[@hankluvsdagny]

I wonder why they took that one down, and not the others. That song at that concert made a Lyle Mays fan out of me. After they play Offramp, before he plays the next song, a guy in the audience yells, "Play it weird!" That's me.

[@Lachenmann7]

@@hankluvsdagny KZbin is beyond arbitrary. I stopped trying to make sense of anything.

[@benjaminrussell7481]

@@hankluvsdagny And did they indeed play it weird, sir?

[@nathanaelng521]

@@mrbulkyc1 Hi sir, just wanna ask if you have the recording of James at some other platforms? Would love to have a listen to it.

[@jime6353]

Sounds like Egan on bass.

[@brightottervancouver]

look close, it's Steve

[@AndreaZzzXXX]

Pat Metheny was 27 years old on this video ... so young :-)

[@markdavid3076]

Lyle. Would have been 26.

[@timesquare5473]

@@markdavid3076 Uh wrong way; 28.