Pat Metheny Group - Unity Village (Berlin 1978)

[teddypantelas]

Thanks for posting this gem.

[Yanzazzzz]

Pat Metheny animal! genio! monstruo!!!! esta cancion es una de mis favoritas! mucha sensibilidad musical tiene este man!

[Hoontasan]

Many of my experiences are time stamped with Pat's music. I remember buying Bright Size Life when it came out. Since then I've been an avid follower, and enjoy most of the music he creates. But I have to admit, the early stuff is my favorite. I still listen to the first PMG recording all the time. There was a purity in that music that matched my youthful outlook on life. I was in college at the time. My women friends really liked that music as well ;-).

[huntercalgary]

@Hoontasan

twerp....lol

[MaggotBrain123]

I love this tune so much, and I like his sound in this video

[EmilianoC70]

@HuLiXD

Sorry, i'm not your enemy of course but i'm not agreeing with you, at all.

[christophermayers1]

that's just about the most orgasmic metheny ever right there, for real yo

[hgsbnt]

@HuLiXD I also much prefer when Pat plays his Gibson ES175 rather than his current Ibanez. His Gibson had such an unique sound which his Ibanez does not have I believe still you can tell it is Pat playing.

[AlphaSounde]

nice changes 2:11



[melantoriano]

Pat said that the Mark Egan's sound was too much influenced by jaco.

Pat wanted a bass player with more musical personality,moreover Egan played only electric bass while pat searching a double-bass player....and so....Steve Rodby was the right solution..

[kwakky]

@melantoriano rodby sucks. i have a bootleg from the "offramp" tour and his playing is beyond tacky and annoying.

[hgsbnt]

@melantoriano Except Jaco who remains out of this world in terms of bass playing, but Mark Egan was and remains such a great musician by far the best after Jaco bass player Pat ever played with. No disrespect to Christian McBride.

[melantoriano]

@hgsbnt I have only reported what Pat has said in an interview that i read in a book

.It is not necessarily a my opinion, but i think that Steve Rodby was more adaptable to the Pats musicl project

[theaugustine4]

Mark and Danny left." They" didn't get rid of  them

[dgmquito]

Does anyone know Why they got rid of Mark Egan and Danny Gottlieb?.........

[gebass6]

@dgmquito Don't know.Sometimes it's not that members are "gotten rid of".Sometimes the leader decides on moving in a different musical direction and so they change the lineup.Sometimes they leave on their own accord.

[CloneTrooper74]

@dgmquito its possible Mark and Danny had families and wanted to spend more time with them. Pat has a wife and kids as well but for some reason continues to tour yearly.

[jeboccuzzi10]

I saw the PMG in 1978 for the first time at Toads Place in New Haven, CT. This song and many others still sound fresh today. Have I have I been blown away with everything that Pat, Lyle with others have created? No, but you can't argue with 18 Grammy Awards and well Rap just does not do it for me.

[whooizit]

most musical geniuses have a peak period where their inspiration, life position and musicians around them all create magic. Some, like coltrane, Hendrix, Marley, leave the planet when that period is done. Some, like Miles Davis, continue to do new things and refuse to wallow in the material from their peak period. I agree with many of you that 70's -80's PMG was magical, butwe are still blessed to have them around to try new things and to give us new takes on their "standards"

[NJlo]

You wanna know what happened?

The 80s.

[SonicArchives]

The probably peaked around Off Ramp -- but there last 2 CD were very good. As musicians you can see improvement in there playing but I miss the fretless bass. The best line up would have been with Nana Vasconcelos and Mark Egan but I not sure if they played together.

[markwjazzguitar]

I agree, great sound in this line up. I always liked Egan cause he was so close to Jaco. It's cool hearing the band play this, On BSL it was Metheny playing two guitar tracks multi tracked.

[Aggromerchant]

It's more than nostalgia. The Group material was better then. Recent PMG material, with the exception of The Way Up, has been weighed down by influences, cluttered arrangements and sentimentality. And at that time, Pat, though impish, was less inclined to deliver pronouncements. BTW, The Way Up, despite being a "step in the right direction," is an expanded and updated take on a theme that Pat and Lyle had come up with in the late 70s. This video is awesome, though.

[dfwgator3]

FYI this is "Unity Village" originally on Pat's solo debut "Bright Size Life".

I really miss the original PMG lineup.

[Jazzguitman]

You must be old like me...lol...I like the old line up too...I saw them a few times back in the late 70s and early 80s..I like the new line up too....Its a nostalgia thing I think.....

Chris

[Jazzguitman]

The old Metheny tone too is missed...it might be dated now but I still like it..

[cb041764]

I remember the first time I heard it - I had just gotten the record with phase dance and jaco and put in on at a midwestern beer party in '79, and all these drunken farm boys and girls literally stopped what they were doing and listened. Now that's a sound.

[Qpidon]

evergreen stuff....

[teddypantelas]

@Jazzguitman I'm with you but I think it's timeless. If you hear him on the Gary Burton live cd he still has delay and some other things going on that he doesn't on his cds.