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From: donn@utah-gr.UUCP (Donn Seeley)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: A little more on Pat Metheny
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Date: Sun, 13-Jan-85 19:41:03 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 13 19:41:03 1985
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Metheny made the cover of the January Down Beat magazine...  The
interview is not exactly deep but it does contain a few interesting
items.  There is a good deal of information on digital synthesizers
(the article is titled 'Pat Metheny's Digital Manifesto'); apparently
Metheny is so enthusiastic about the Synclavier that it has become his
main compositional tool, and he now does seminars on it for New England
Digital.  Metheny has now done a number of movie soundtracks, including
UNDER FIRE (with Jerry Goldsmith), THE FALCON AND THE SNOWMAN (with
Lyle Mays) and LITTLE SISTER (all by himself with a Synclavier
guitar).  Metheny discusses his band members, both from the Group and
from the 'Rejoicing' band; despite the discussion here not too long
ago, he's very supportive of Lyle Mays, and he's clearly in awe of
Charlie Haden.  He talks about musical influences:

	I really didn't make a stylistic distinction between Ornette
	and the Beatles and the Beach Boys and Miles.  The only
	category I was sure of was 'music my parents didn't like'.  It
	wasn't marching band music, which my family was into, and it
	wasn't country and western, which was in the air around Lee's
	Summit.  It was this other thing that I'd listen to by myself
	down in the basement.

This helps explain why he's such an incredibly eclectic composer...
The article mentions the possibility that Metheny might tour with
Higgins, Haden and Ornette Coleman himself...  That would sure be
interesting.

The same issue has a review of FIRST CIRCLE which gives it 5 stars
(highest rating),

Donn Seeley    University of Utah CS Dept    donn@utah-cs.arpa
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