#Lonely woman pat metheny pdf full#

In aВ 1978 interview for Downbeat magazine,В Pat Metheny expressedВ his reservations about the restrictions imposed on him by Manfred Eicher: вЂњIf Manfred had his way, every album he did would be six ballads and a bossa nova for an up tune. After non stop touring, including Joni MitchellвЂ™s Shadows and Light in September of 1979 and with his group early in 1980, he was ready for his next project. The tasteful reverb they applied in the studio is now part of the legendaryВ ECM sound, and it worked magic on the fresh style andВ sound Metheny was creating in the late 1970s. The first two Pat Metheny Group records and the fantastic solo New Chautauqua followed,В also recorded by the legendary producer/engineer duo of Eicher andВ Kongshaug. His first recording at Talent Studio in Oslo, with engineerВ Jan Erik Kongshaug, was in 1976 for Gary BurtonвЂ™s quintet albumВ Passengers for which he also wrote some of the material. The following year he recorded back to back the album Dreams So Real with Gary Burton and his first solo album Bright Size Life. Back in 1974, when he was part of Gary BurtonвЂ™s band, he met Eicher during the recording of the album Ring. Metheny was not new to the recordingВ location, nor to the ECM label and its manager Manfred Eicher. This is the story of Pat MethenyвЂ™s album 80/81 on the ECM label. After just over one day of recording, the sessionВ yielded a double LP album for the ages. What ensued was one of the most productive and inspiring recording sessions in modern jazz. The session was the brainchild of the youngest among them, aВ 26 years old guitarist whoвЂ™s dream was to bringВ some of his most admiredВ musicians to playВ together for the first timeВ as a group.

#Lonely woman pat metheny pdf full#

They were jet-lagged from red eye flights and had a full day of recording ahead of them. A great little fucking number.On May 26 in 1980 five jazzВ musicians convened at Talent Studio in Oslo, Norway. вЂњIt makes me want to grab the missus, have a little dig and light a cigarette. This song because it reminds me of an infinite space вЂ“ the fact that there is nothing else but the energy just moving. вЂњIвЂ™ve got, upstairs in a box put away, man. I would rather have my knees drilled out by some really horrible cunts from Croatia or Latvia. IвЂ™ll tell you everything you fucking need to knowвЂ¦ just fucking do not put me in a chair and fucking listen to that record. Just no gentrified drum and bass music anymore, please! ItвЂ™s not good for your health. Just give me fucking two bars on an electric heater, a rope and an ice block. вЂњI just canвЂ™t hear another Sigma record or else IвЂ™ll top myself. How very Freudian, right? You canвЂ™t get away from that.вЂќ

PepperвЂ™s Lonely Hearts Club BandвЂ™ on a 16-track. There were like 13 to 15 kids crammed into a mini bus driving through Bakewell to the Derbyshire Hills with the fucking smell of hot plastic and puke while listening to The BeatlesвЂ вЂSgt. вЂњ comes from a trip in 1977 that the childrenвЂ™s home organised to Derbyshire. You canвЂ™t get up and do Stone Roses or anything mad, IвЂ™d like to, but I could probably squeeze a вЂSpandau BalletвЂ™ out.вЂќ

Usually itвЂ™s a very limited selection over here. You walk into a place and badly sing something. Karaoke is a big thing in Asia, I mean, it came from here really. вЂњIf you look on my Instagram, I just did it with my girl in the car. I said: вЂњFuckвЂќ вЂ“ and he stopped, opened his eyes and went: вЂњ Goldie, whatвЂ™s up? Tell me what you want to hear?вЂќ And of course I said: вЂњItвЂ™s that track Lonely Woman.вЂќ He played it right there on the spot for me.вЂќ I canвЂ™t remember the track he was rehearsing at the time, but he was just going through it with his eyes closed. I snuck up to the front of the stage and sat down on a chair with no one there, apart from his guitar tech. I went back on the Friday an hour before the doors had opened and he was rehearsing. вЂњWhen Pat was playing at Ronnie ScottвЂ™s, I left my hat at the venue. You knew they were fighting for you, and thatвЂ™s all that mattered.вЂќ I used to have a boombox on the back shelf, pumping out Public Enemy вЂFear of a Black PlanetвЂ™. I was a bit of a lone wolf back then so I went on my own in a juiced-up Toyota Corolla, wearing my tracksuit and Task Force jacket. Flavor Flav was there riding a unicycle on stage.

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