Pat Metheny Group - Phase Dance (1978)

Yes.. your eyes aren't deceiving you.. the earliest video there is of PMG as far as I am aware.

Live at the Berlin Jazz Festival in 1978.... the classic line up from the "white album"...

My favourite Metheny period without any doubt.... I could be mistaken but the outro to Metheny's solo sounds like this was the take (the guitar part that is) that ended up on the "Travels" release that was released in '83... unless its a 'canned' part

Enjoy!

the orange

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[kth42]

By the way, even earlier PMG footage exists from December 1977 when the group performed on the US TV show "Every Tub on its Bottom" for approx. 26 minutes. It was shared some time ago on DimeADozen in MPEG1/VCD format, but I think the accompanying info text is right on calling the video & audio quality "pretty poor but it is worth getting a copy for a look at Pat with quite short hair". ;)

[orangefunk]

Wow... never saw that.. and I'm on dime too...

Any chance of an upload to youtube?

[BioBiro]

I was actually going to request the '77 video show in the comments section for this show on Dime, but it's interesting that it's been brought up by you guys here. If I remember correctly the 1977 show was in Texas, and they were backing 'Freddie Hubbard'(?) - i've seen it on lists as an MPEG/VCD, and also as an NTSC VHS as the original source i'm guessing.

[orangefunk]

Yeah I just read a newspaper article on this from back in the day... if you type the following into google it should be the first hit!

pat metheny every tub on its bottom

[kth42]

Superb and rare footage! Here's an English translation of the intro read by the German TV announcer:

"In any music shop worth its salt, you can buy some guitar gear that is able to produce Metheny's pleasantly reverberized tone. What you can't buy is his goose-like sure-footedness in terms of melody and rhythm. In 1978, NDR (public TV and radio broadcaster for Northern Germany) recorded the Metheny band at the Berlin Jazz Festival."

[orangefunk]

so could be that it was broadcast much later than 1978 right? Perhaps after Pat was a bit more well known than he was in '78...

[mcufre]

Metheny´s DNA is not from this world, Im serious.

[ThatOneDude88]

Metheny's DNA is sacred.

[samsamba08]

lol, from the FIRST note in his solo he's doing the "Metheny slurs" all over the place.

[mrselfdestruct009]

@pbanders Couldn't agree with you more about the Howe comment! There's definitely some common elements there. Yes and PMG are by far two of my favorite bands ever.

[Multiac]

Look at this incredible slurs

[Blanylower11]

Eran grandes desde chiquitos!!! Geniales Todos!

[Inglejuice]

best phase dance performance video on here. beautiful and flawless. no matter how many times i hear this song whether live or on record i still get that same feeling. if anything it only gets stronger. a real hair raiser.......

[couch63]

@jonpaulmoen Yes a dream or fantasy we share

[couch63]

@soup2nuts1 What do you think he meant by "I'ts all wrong"? Did he elaborate?

[couch63]

@CribNotes I love stories like that. What would life be without music as it's theme?

[CribNotes]

Was 16 years old when this album came out in 1978. Two blizzards in Massachusetts had us out of school for about a week. I can vividly remember listening to Phase Dance and San Lorenzo over and over while looking out the window watching the unending snowfall.

[MrWoodnail]

The way he walks up chromatically into that opening solo kills me. Where does he get that? What's he, 25 in this video? Dude.