EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 52, Issue 07 This issue's topics: Pat Metheny (2 messages) Your EMUSIC-L Digest moderator is Joe McMahon . You may subscribe to EMUSIC-L by sending mail to listserv@american.edu with the line "SUB EMUSIC-L your name" as the text. The EMUSIC-L archive is a service of SunSite (sunsite.unc.edu) at the University of North Carolina. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 09:03:17 EST From: Steven Cantor Subject: Re: EMUSIC-L Digest - 24 May 1993 to 25 May 1993 well, as someone who is fortunate enough to have known pat metheny and lyle since they first came to boston, and who is even more fortunate to have worked in a production capacity on several recordings of theirs, it is very enjoyable to read the comments from fellow list members about this music. by the way, the numbers on wichita are indeed timing cues, and it is lyle's voice. s. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steven Cantor SLC@HARVARDA.HARVARD.EDU ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 13:23:15 CDT From: John Eichenseer Subject: Pat/Lyle stuff >100% agreement. I understand "55 42 38 3" are (were) the "seconds" part of >the amount of time into the song.... This has indeed been confirmed by many people... but you have to get the order right: 38, 42, 55, 3. I will add my voice to the chorus of recommendations for Witchita. Great stuff, hands down. Side 2 has a great piano solo on "Ozark" which was partially transcribed in an old issue of KEYBOARD. I transcribed most of the piano part from the ballad (the title was "August 16, 1967" or something like that). Nice, nice. Lyle's 20-minute title track to his second solo album, Street Dreams, is a really great piece of music that I think most of you would enjoy. Try to find it. He pulls off some of the most musical incorporation of synths and acoustic instruments that I have ever heard. The third movement is a beautiful orchestral setting with synth parts that merge seamlessly with the orchestra's textures. Nice Englidh horn solo over it all. This was one of few albums where I heard sounds whose origin I could not determine. He uses some brilliant orchestration. Oh, I guess a few pieces are sort of elevator-ready. But it is easily worth it for the great ones. Lyle's first album has some really nice stuff as well, and his latest, an acoustic trio set, contains some fresh approaches to a venerable group format. Witchita, Street Dreams, and Peter Gabriel's "Passion" have been three of the most influential recordings for me. The single greatest common factor among them is that they all use electronic instruments and sounds in a very MUSICAL way, and skillfully incorporate them with acoustic instruments and sounds. No gosh!wow! factors here; just sincere, great music. Steve Cantor writes: >well, as someone who is fortunate enough to have known pat metheny and lyle >since they first came to boston, and who is even more fortunate to have >worked in a production capacity on several recordings of theirs, it is >very enjoyable to read the comments from fellow list members about this >music. by the way, the numbers on wichita are indeed timing cues, and it >is lyle's voice. Ah, so it is! Which projects did you work on? I suppose that neither of them spend much time in Boston these days, now that Lyle has moved back to Wisconsin... regards, jhno ( () )) ( ((( )) ) ))))) ( )((()) ( ( )) ( ) ) ( ((( ) (()((() John Eichenseer Delicate Ear eichen@trilogy.com (512) 458-6474 ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************