Pat Metheny — (Cross The) Heartland
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EXCELLENT! Thanx RP! 
cubsfreak wrote:
I hear the resemblance to this as well.
I thought it was the theme from "The Rockford Files" for a second..
I hear the resemblance to this as well.
RichardPrins wrote:
I concede Pat's a good musician, but I also confess I couldn't help but wonder when Chuck Mangione was gonna pipe in. :?
:) Another car review TV program song, somewhere...
"The exquisite details on the inside of this new SUV from Lada include...."
I concede Pat's a good musician, but I also confess I couldn't help but wonder when Chuck Mangione was gonna pipe in. :?
mig7 wrote:
That's Mighty Right of you.
What ultimately comes down to individual consumer choice is pretty damned different that citizenship or national identification, dude(tte). Unless you give it no thought whatsoever.
Ew. Cable TV weather report music. Only one step up from elevator music. Sucko-Barfo. Patiently waiting for the next song...
:) Another car review TV program song, somewhere...
"The exquisite details on the inside of this new SUV from Lada include...."
daveesh wrote:
amen! radio paradise: love it or leave it. if radio paradise had a flag, i'd wrap myself in it.
I wouldn't brag about it.
Frawg wrote:
No shit.
You don't like what gets played?
Go elsewhere.
s
amen! radio paradise: love it or leave it. if radio paradise had a flag, i'd wrap myself in it.
Frawg wrote:
No shit.
You don't like what gets played?
Go elsewhere.
s
That's Mighty Right of you.
mmmmm.... vanilla!
HockeyMike wrote:
......... ANY Pat is better than no Pat...
DITTO!
No shit.
You don't like what gets played?
Go elsewhere.
s
HockeyMike wrote:
Stop whining everybody...it's not Metheny's opus magnus, but it's a fun tune from his 'rocknroll' album American Garage. ANY Pat is better than no Pat...
Can I vote this a -1?
Ah... I'm just starting a really stressful day and this calmed me down a little...
8)
What's with this Morning Show Intro Bullshit?
"Pat suu-ucks". "There's no leeerrricccs!" "I haaa-aate songs with no woo-ords!" :)
HockeyMike wrote: :nodhead:
Stop whining everybody...it's not Metheny's opus magnus, but it's a fun tune from his 'rocknroll' album American Garage. ANY Pat is better than no Pat...
:nodhead:
We have a breakage on Aisle 5. I need a mop and bucket on 5.
memories of sitting in the doctors waiting room at my local surgery come flooding back 
I thought it was the theme from "The Rockford Files" for a second..
wow I can't believe how much this reminds me of Muzak. Too bad, I genuinely like about 90% of what gets played here, but just can't get into this.
Stop whining everybody...it's not Metheny's opus magnus, but it's a fun tune from his 'rocknroll' album American Garage. ANY Pat is better than no Pat...
Elevator music at it's finest. Boring.
Shawneeo wrote:
They play this on the innocuous local "smooth jazz" (not to be confused with Real Jazz) station that I avoid like the plaque. Please, no mas.
I adhere to the masses..no more crappy smooth jazz
well executed crap........great musician - bad music
They play this on the innocuous local "smooth jazz" (not to be confused with Real Jazz) station that I avoid like the plaque. Please, no mas.
Lame.
Snooze.
I vote that this come off the rotation. As far off and away from the regular rotation as possible.
toastee wrote:
guess we're on hold till the next song comes on...your call will be anwered in the order it was recieved, you're very important to us
Couldn't put it better. One of the few times when RP goes past eclectic to boring. Can't this go away to make room for new "adds" coming off the review channel?
Did this guy compose any 80s citcom songs?
Our local public radio uses this song as the theme song for the local news. So when I heard it I thought news was on the way. This is one song I'd like PR to drop.
Am I in an elevator ?! Am I still in bed dreaming of going shopping !? No ! I'm at work trying to start my day while this guy is trying to put me back to sleep...
guess we're on hold till the next song comes on...your call will be anwered in the order it was recieved, you're very important to us
pat methany must have a real brass set to slag kenny g when he's putting out drecky department store jazz like this...
I have the same feeling about this as I do about Chuck Mangione band in the '70s. So much talent totally wasted. You have to try hard to make music like this sound so monumentally generic.
I feel like I just walked into a JC Penney or something! Yick!
Great stuff from Metheny, Mays, Gottlieb and Egan. Especially love the fretless bass by Egan. Oh, they played it on the Weather Channel? So bleepin' what. It doesn't diminish PMG or this album in the slightest.
leathepea wrote: i'm quite sure they did use this piece on the weather channel....and now here's a look at your local forcast
Today partly cloudy with a chance of showers, low around 55 and the high around 72.
i'm quite sure they did use this piece on the weather channel....and now here's a look at your local forcast
great jazz act - but this is a little too much elevator music like
f64 wrote:
Pat's music has always been excellent...its no elevator music!! To a limited mentality, it may appear on the surface to be simplistic. Try listening deeper!!
To me, a limited mentality is what made the surface so simplistic.
Who gives a fuck if Pat can hide his genius in the depths, when he wraps the same ole sound around it everytime?
My kids can be comedic geniuses as well, but that doesn't negate the fact that eventually the comedy loses everything in the repetition.
just like this jazz riff
Listening to this brings to mind atleast two hundread failed 80s sitcoms...
Saturday morning and I'm at the office...what are you trying to do ? Remind me I have to go to the store to buy myself some socks? 
philarktos wrote: TWO Votes for First Circle Songs.
Samiyam
Pat's an all time fave and sure fire picker upper for me, I think this is the first time I've heard him on RP. Would request tracks from "First Circle" as well.
That's
BeeRadley wrote:
Geeez whats up with the elevator music? What's next? John Tesh & Kenny G. Come on guys I recommend this station to friends...you trying to embarass me? 
Metheny, Tesh. Yeah, they equate.
Too many people with ADD out there apparently. 
nyc_dude wrote:
BING... Next floor: Men's clothing....
actually i thought I was on the phone, on hold.
Yeah I just asked my co-worker if she was on hold with Montgomery Ward . . .
metheny sounds like that crap stock music you hear at tradeshows.
snoooze!
BING... Next floor: Men's clothing....
Definately more Matheny. You cannot play too much PM or PMG for me. I may have to just submit some...
I third the requests for more Metheny. First Circle and Still Life Talking were the peaks of his career, IMO. Songs like Minuano (Six Eight) are brilliant, and sometimes dip into rock territory for a moment.
And more Weather Report too! Not that Birdland crap that everyone associates with them, either. For example, the back side (showing my LP roots there) of Domino Effect is a work of art. :bananabanger:
f64 wrote:
Pat's music has always been excellent...its no elevator music!! To a limited mentality, it may appear on the surface to be simplistic. Try listening deeper!!
Amen! Pat's at the top of my list. Haven't heard this one in quite a while. Thanks, Bill!
Geeez whats up with the elevator music? What's next? John Tesh & Kenny G. Come on guys I recommend this station to friends...you trying to embarass me?
Today partly cloudy with a chance of showers, low around 55 and the high around 72.
enough with the muzak
Originally Posted by Eulogy:
This songs mediocrity is what makes it so hard to listen to... its not bad, but its not good either. It stradles the line and just makes me hate it with fury.
Don't be hatin'. :)
Originally Posted by steveruns26:
A nice change of pace. It doesn't have to be all classic or cutting edge. Pat Metheny has made some wonderful music over the years. There are a lot of other tracks worth hearing.
How about some Weather Report also on the jazz/fusion side?
I'm all for it
I\'d have to agree with the earlier comment stating Pat\'s guitar sound hasn\'t changed in 20 some-odd years. Still, I like hearing this type of stuff. (Beats the heck out of reggae if you ask me -- but I\'m sure you didn\'t ask.)
Originally Posted by steveruns26:
A nice change of pace. It doesn't have to be all classic or cutting edge. Pat Metheny has made some wonderful music over the years. There are a lot of other tracks worth hearing.
How about some Weather Report also on the jazz/fusion side?
pleasegodno.
This is akin to Muzak, not music. Shouldn\'t be on the RP playlist.
Originally Posted by BlueHeronDruid:
This is top-down, spring day, driving up the Delaware music. Excellent.
Does have a nice "driving" feel. I always bring some Metheny for road trips. At least until RP is available on Sirius or XM
;)
Athough I would like to hear more Metheny, you could \"lose\" this one.
Originally Posted by tom_tom:
Sounds like the theme music to some generic home improvement TV show :p
Perfect description. Not RP material!
Thanks Bill. When I was a little kid, somehow I I became convinced that this was a Hiroshima song, and spent many hours in various record stores looking for it. (Now that I\'m much older, I can tell it doesn\'t even sound like Hiroshima...) Great song.
Sounds like the theme music to some generic home improvement TV show :p
Brilliantly synchronous segue Bill !,
Pat\'s an all time fave and sure fire picker upper for me,
I think this is the first time I\'ve heard him on RP. Would request tracks from \"First Circle\" as well.
Hornsby and Metheny, a nice fresh dawn after a rather purgatorial set this AM
delightful!
This is top-down, spring day, driving up the Delaware music. Excellent.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Cleanses the \"palate\" nicely, doesn\'t it?
There is more going on here than the naysayer\'s often give Metheny credit for, but that\'s their isssue. Too bad for them. This is nice.
A nice change of pace. It doesn\'t have to be all classic or cutting edge. Pat Metheny has made some wonderful music over the years. There are a lot of other tracks worth hearing.
How about some Weather Report also on the jazz/fusion side?
mmmmmmmmm... anybody ever hear of Carl Filipiak?
this Metheny track reminds me A LOT of some of Carl's more mellow stuff. he is truly an unsung guitar hero.
Originally Posted by loveslave:
I keep hearing the Snoopy tune. Doesn't that sound pretty much like this?
That's a GOOD thing. Reminds me, I meant to upload some Vince Guaraldi ;-)
Originally Posted by Johray63:
Maybe decorative music is a good term for it.
I prefer "wuss jazz".
Technically wonderful, but boring.
God, I love this music!! :D
This sounds great on RP. 
I appreciate the music, but guys like Methany just don\'t know when to stop! Enough, already!
Ideal \"pause music\". The sort of music that gets played at a news station, when there\'s some time left before the commercials come in. Or, more positive, documentary music.
Very well played of course, but kinda meaningless. Maybe decorative music is a good term for it.
I keep hearing the Snoopy tune. Doesn\'t that sound pretty much like this?
yeah, i agree Shimmer. File under: Ho-Hum.
I used to love Pat Metheny, but every song he\'s done in the last ten years sounds the same. He has just that one guitar sound that he plays to death, and the band simply makes \"smooth\" jazz sounds in the background. Boring.
Brings back great memories!! More Metheny Please!
Wow, haven\'t heard this in a loooong time. Not since I had it on vinyl and certainly never on any broadcast medium. Thanks.
Seen him a half dozen or more times over the past 20 years. NEVER disappoints. The Pat Metheny Group selections are always good stuff. His new young horn player Cuong Vu has a really cool style. See this tour if you can. He played almost three hours a month or so ago in St. Louis, which I think was his first or second show on the most recent tour.
Pat also does some tremendous straight ahead jazz. Saw him with Ornette Coleman in the late 80\'s on the Song X Tour. The most amazing show I\'ve ever seen. Had Charlie Haden on bass and Jack DeJonette and his son on drums. Breathtaking.