Pat Metheny: Rainy Days & Mondays (The Carpenters)

[MegaNormalhuman]

<3

[gillyarchtop]

Dear Pat, thanks for saying nice things about where real beauty lies in music and not being a jazz snob. There is beauty in that too.

[lexiebiggs]

yOU ARE WONDERFUL! JUST KEEP ON PLAYING, THANKS FOR THIS CD YOU CREATED.



[apil87]

Just gorgeus! Pat Metheny is so inspiring, these songs sounds very good on guitar, and I love this recording!

[tubeyoube66]

I love the way he plays these song, but why does he like these mediocre song?

The selected songs were a disappointment. Play beatles, cat stevens or even some hendrix. But I just dont want to hear these daggy outdated, overplayed, beatnick, pop songs again.

[apil87]

@tubeyoube66 just think about how overplayed, less musical, lower than mediocre hendrix's songs IS. That's a fail to comment Metheny's choice of songs in your way. This album is a pure joy of music for all!

[tubeyoube66]

@apil87 you've obviously never heard that Pat loves Hendrix. And Hendrix is not overplayed because the oldtimes radio station only play poppy shit like the carpenters and Bee gees. You're just a fan boy.

[apil87]

@tubeyoube66 You're obviously live in a cave if you said that Hendrix is not overplayed. I've heard it enough, along with even more covers that sounds awful.

[DougGershuny]

Beautifully done. Thank you.

[bowiedj]

beautiful.

[Carole37hey]

Been into Pat Metheny for many years, been into The Carpenters for even longer. All good things come to those that wait and wait. This is beautiful.

[RobertDays]

Maestro!!!

[gty0171]

Beautiful!!!!!!

[lefpage]

There are a few --very few-- gods of guitar; Pat Metheny is one of them! I was surprised when a new friend and I were talking, and Pat's name came up...I think I have a nearly complete discography since American Garage, and the musicianship just keeps getting better, even past the point of perfect already. Thank you, Mr. Metheny and godspeed...

[ThatOneDude88]

Whether there is a God or not does not matter in music because this is truly inspirational. Pat Metheny's DNA is sacred, God or not.

[bejolechill]

Now I can die peacefully

[germanbalaguer]

Carpenters,Williams,Nichols y Pat...:GENIOOOOOSSS!!!!!!...GR­ACIAS por tan bella música!!!!!!... Abrazos. Yerman. :-)

[HeidiMMantere]

I have been such a long time Carpenters fan (thanks to my mom) and a little bit longer Pat Metheny fan (seen him few years ago in Helsinki (Espoo), Finland live) - so thank you for this amazing "new" version of Rainy Days and Mondays..

[DrMickaelleDougherty]

Exquisite/ 

[Aggromerchant]

Great stuff.

But I wonder why, with the homages to The Carpenters and Burt Bacharach, Pat found no room for Brian Wilson.

[fendweller]

Blurb says 10 carpenters songs. Pat says 6. End of pedantic observation.

[Mattspaiser]

Nobody has mentioned Paul Williams and Roger Nichols for writing this wonderful song!

[copaseagull]

Music that comes from the soul...

[FreeGuitarLicks]

I don't believe in God, therefore I dont think there are any gifts from him to be understood.

[Thefaze100963]

@FreeGuitarLicks No worries.

[thrunobulax1]

Pat's music always makes me want to write something that somehow captures just how incredibly it touches me, but words really can't do that.

Thanks Pat, your work is a simply wonderful gift to us all.

[Thefaze100963]

@thrunobulax1 I too agree with you.

[ssur55]

Wow!! This is really beautiful - great playing !!

[Autumnseer]

The CD is on it's way and I cannot wait for it to get here. I am such a big fan and have seen guitar master Pat many times in concert, but these songs have such a special meaning to me as I grew up with most of them and Pat puts so much more beauty on them. I know this will be my new fave CD. Thank you for creating this!

[RaerY1959]

angenehmer Klang.

[MikeKearton]

nice one Pat, beautiful. When do we get to jam :-)

[Thefaze100963]

Sounds great. Thanks for sharing your talents, and gifts. I read the liner notes. Does Pat have a daughter now?

[FreeGuitarLicks]

@Thefaze100963 Do you see how saying that what Pat has has been given to him could be offensive to him? He worked his ass off to get to the level he's at, nobody gave him anything.

[Thefaze100963]

@FreeGuitarLicks For what human being knows what is truly human except the human spirit that is within? So also no one comprehends what is truly God's except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the gifts bestowed on us by God.

1 Corinthians 2:11-12

Not a sermon, just a thought.

[patscircle]

GRACIAS PAT POR EL CULTIVO DE LA ATENCIÓN, POR EL CULTIVO DE NUESTRO OÍDO.

THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH PAT FOR CULTIVATING OUR EAR, THUS TEACHING US HOW TO FOCUS ON THE INTERPLAY FLOWING AND EBBING FROM CHORD TO CHORD, IN THAT INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP BEING ESTABLISHED BETWEEN THE MELODIC PHRASE AND THE HARMONIC ONE

LOVE AND RESPECT FROM MEXICO CITY*

Minerva

[wirmeth]

I am a big fan of Pat and a big fan of The Carpenters too. Having Pat playing "Rainy Days and Mondays? ....speechless. Thank you, Richard & Karen, thank you, Pat!!

[snouter]

I hope Pat does more of these kind of projects. Also, a Pat Metheny instructional DVD would be awesome..

[wirmeth]

I am a big fan of Pat and also really into The Carpenters. IMHO, The music of The carpenters are truly beautiful and great musicality.. Very nice to know that Pat recorded this, and found out that Pat's also a big fan of The Carpenters. Thank you, Pat!!

[Hippieluver0]

I hope your music will live on for a thousand years. You are my inspiration and the track to my childhood.

[DaleCampbellAcoustic]

Sounds Like a fun arrangement to play!