Happy 70th Birthday Pat Metheny!
Celebrating the acclaimed guitar virtuoso and composer… Thank You Pat!
Patrick Bruce Metheny was born on August 12, 1954 in Lee's Summit, Missouri (U.S.A.)
Pat Metheny and the Orchestrion Project at the Nokia in Grand Prairie, Texas (April 13, 2010).
Photo Credit: R. Steven Rainwater. Source: Wikipedia.org
“Procedural memory, including muscle memory, is also a key component to successful improvisation, a skill that acclaimed, multi-Grammy-award-winning Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, who happened to grow up only a few miles away from me and the local music store I frequented, regularly demonstrates.”
- Woodard, Anthony. “Muscle Memory…”. Mar. 2, 2023
Pat Metheny is an American jazz guitarist and composer. Over his storied carrier, he has won twenty Grammy Awards and is the only person to have won Grammys in ten categories. Metheny released his debut album, “Bright Size Life” in 1976, with the legendary, late Jaco Pastorius on bass guitar and Bob Moses on drums. His next album, “Watercolors” (1977), was the first time he recorded with the late pianist Lyle Mays, who became his most frequent collaborator. The album also featured Danny Gottlieb, who became the drummer for the first version of the Pat Metheny Group.
Pat's interest in guitar increased around 1964 when he saw the Beatles perform on TV. For his 12th birthday, his parents allowed him to buy a guitar, which was a Gibson ES-140 3/4. Pat Metheny's life changed after hearing the album “Four & More” by Miles Davis. Soon after, he was captivated by Wes Montgomery's album “Smokin' at the Half Note” which was released in 1965. As a young guitarist, Metheny tried to sound like Wes Montgomery, but when he was 14 or 15, he decided it was disrespectful to imitate him. In the liner notes on the 2-disc Montgomery compilation “Impressions: The Verve Jazz Sides”, Metheny is quoted as saying, "‘Smokin' at the Half Note’ is the absolute greatest jazz-guitar album ever made. It is also the record that taught me how to play." He cites the Beatles, Miles Davis, and Montgomery as having the biggest impact on his music.
Source: Wikipedia.org
“I never had a teacher who said, ‘Sit down and do this,’ but between listening to the records and then playing with the guys around Kansas City, it was better than any normal teaching situation I could imagine… The best guy in town was a guy named Monty Musa, who kind of took me under his wing and was a real enthusiastic supporter of mine. In fact, Herbie Hancock came to town when I was about 16, and this guy went to the club, picked up Herbie, and dragged him to this jam session that I was at, just for him to hear me. Which scared me to death. That was the most nervous I've been in my entire life. I was 16, playing with these guys, I look up and there's Herbie, in full "Mwandishi" garb checking us out. He ended up playing a tune with us, and it was the greatest…” - Pat Metheny
Source: Patmetheny.com
Pat Metheny with the Linda Manzer Pikasso guitar. It has four necks and 42 strings.
By PaulCHebert - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35576685
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