Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site mhuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxr!mfs From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Re: about Pat Metheny Message-ID: <161@mhuxr.UUCP> Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 17:00:58 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxr.161 Posted: Wed Dec 12 17:00:58 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Dec-84 03:12:46 EST References: <15900008@hpcnoe.UUCP> <1263@utah-gr.UUCP> <157@mhuxr.UUCP> <1114@druny.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 15 > Personally, after seeing the Pat Metheny Group live three times as well > as hearing many of his albums (solo as well as with his groups), I feel that > Lyle Mays is a large asset to Pat Metheny's music. I quess its all in how you > hear the music. That is why I have always found it crude to say someones > music is bad instead of just saying that it is not the type of music YOU > enjoy. > Pat Metheny live is far more enjoyable than on LP, even when he plays with Mays. I have never heard a Mays composition that I or anyone of my friends likes, and I have never heard him play an interesting solo. Seeing as how I enjoy almost everything Metheny has done without Mays, and almost nothing he has done with Mays, I have to conclude that Mays is the problem. Marcel Simon ..!mhuxr!mfs