Pat Metheny/Jack DeJohnette/Larry Grenadier

[CJ Shearn]

what an amazing show, I just got back home after much bus travel this

AM. Pat played the best I've ever heard, my friend and I were in the

front row, I was right in front of Pat's GR300 synth console and his

Digitech pedal board. The interplay with Pat and Jack was on another

level, they played a searing "I'll Remember April", where Pat started

playing 8 bar exchanges with Jack for several choruses, Pat got real

outside, and Jack responded with volcanic playing of his own, at tunes

end Pat went over to Jack, slapped him five, then Jack slapped Larry

five and they all laughed. Q&A of course was great, Pat went into

some heavy shredding a la live versions of "Offramp", and he even did

some filter sweeping which was very cool. The last tune of the night,

"Broadway Blues" was a blast. Pat was rhythmically displacing the

melody, engaging everyone in some free improv, and hilarious false

endings, doing some real C&W finger style picking omn the fretless 12

string, at one point referencing loosely "The Star Spangled Banner"

before going right back into the head.

After the gig, after I asked the crew if the guys were coming out also

b/c as some ppl here may know from my mentioning in passing the

wheelchair access is real tough back stage. Larry came first to pack

his bass, what a great guy, he signed Mehldau's "Trio Live" and loved

my Pablo records tshirt. Jack came out, I met him, got a few pics, and

he signed "Saudades" and "Pilgrimage" for me, he was very tired but

soo hip, and I finally after 5 years met Pat! Jack graciously brought

the discs I wanted signed to Pat. At first he was carrying around my

Mehldau disc by accident, I said "Jack, you got the wrong disc, the

Mehldau, not the Brecker" and he was like "oh!!!!!!!!!!!! let me see

here" it was really funny. Pat came out, brought the discs to me, I

introduced myself, thanked him and told him how I saw him on the SoN

tour in Purchase and how I had an email interview with him, he

remembered! we were talking a few mins, what a great generous human

being, totally genuine. He was totally interested and not looking at

someone in a wheelchair as many people are apt to do. Pics coming

soon, what a great night, met some ppl from the "American Garage" board too, and we were all

talking with Pat. I need to nap now hardly got much sleep!

[RDK]

Metheny always put on a great show. Lots of people knock him for his more commercial endeavors, but he's been a favorite of mine since I first heard "As Falls Wichita..." almost 30 years ago. By all accounts (includng yours) he's a great guy too.

[Joe G]

Way to go CJ!

I've always liked what DeJohnette's playing brings out in Pat's.

Looking forward to the pics.

[CJ Shearn]

Joe, the sort of out stuff Pat was playing was like, the crazy shit on the last chorus of 12's with Bill Stewart on "Soul Cowboy" on "Trio Live". After the gig we talked about youtube a bit, Pat said youtube is a "troubling phenomenon in our society" apparently someone shot a vid of him dropping his kids off at school, really strange and kind of creepy. I can understand it too with all the low quality camera phone shot vids from gigs and such

[CJ Shearn]

pics finally!

[CJ Shearn]

[Parkertown]

Great pics! And very nice to see you CJ...don't think I've seen yer pic before. Your smile makes me smile.

Pat and Jack are looking well. Hey, Pat got a new shirt!

[Jim Alfredson]

Very cool, man!

[CJ Shearn]

lol on the shirt Scott. Pat actually was wearing a really cool black long dress casual long sleeve shirt (with the sleeves rolled up) with a hood during the gig. Only thing is you can see my tooth needs to be capped as its shorter than my other front tooth, it was bonded but it got broken off last year and it was rebonded. I love Jack in tht pic, we look like old buds. He added me to his myspace afterwards, I sent the request, I know he checks it so I sent him a heartfelt message of thanks.

Edited September 3, 2008 by CJ Shearn

[7/4]

Cool photos!

Pat was rhythmically displacing the

melody, engaging everyone in some free improv, and hilarious false

endings, doing some real C&W finger style picking omn the fretless 12

string, at one point referencing loosely "The Star Spangled Banner"

before going right back into the head.

I'd love to have a fretless 12string...

[7/4]

also...I'd really love to hear Pat record with DeJohnette more often.

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