Pat Metheny Group @ My Father's Place Roslyn, New York 1978-09-30 (FM)

 

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Pat Metheny Group
My Father's Place
Roslyn, New York
1978-09-30

Pat Metheny- guitars
Lyle Mays- piano, synthesizer, electric organ, autoharp
Mark Egan- bass guitar
Dan Gottlieb- drums

source/lineage-cd-r trade of pre-FM> EAC for disc extraction> Audacity as mentioned below> TLH> DIME
 
1-WLIR Intro 1:40
2-Phase Dance (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays) 8:16
3-April Joy (Pat Metheny) 4:27
4-PM Announcement 1:03
5-Unity Village (Pat Metheny) 4:48
6-Guitar Solo 1:45
7-The Windup (Keith Jarrett) 2:56
8-PM Announcement 0:50
9-The Epic (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays) 15:55
10-Hermitage (Pat Metheny) 5:43
11-Lakes (Pat Metheny) 4:49
12-Metheny-Gottlieb Duet 7:42
13-Jaco (Pat Metheny) 4:37
14-San Lorenzo (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays) 12:02
15-PM band kudos 1:04
16-Lone Jack (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays) 6:38

This is an absolute beauty of a PMG show that hasn't seemed to circulate as often as a few others dating back to these early days for the group. They were obviously hustling in those days trying to make a name for themselves, so there are a few radio shows from those early years, and you'll also find the odd professional recording possibly made for ECM live release, but then shelved. This is a really fine one among all of the captures from this era. It's a pre-FM supposedly direct from the WLIR van outside of My Father's Place, and not the house board. WLIR did a lot of live broadcasts in those days, and My Father's Place was the site for several of them. LIR was mainly a "rock" station, but something like this (or the Bruford band from My Father's Place a year later-with what came to be released as The Bruford Tapes) sat pretty well within their programming.
This show (or parts of it) may have been here on DIME in 2005 from TaperAdvocat, but their notes on the dimebot archive show a bit of a mash-up of tracks from the Bottom Line in NYC (about 20 miles from MFP) and Hofstra University (about 5 miles from MFP), but also with an incorrect 1979 date. That makes it unclear about whether any of this was a part of that particular share. Therefore, this might be the first time this has actually been up here. My copy came to me in a snail mail cd-r trade about 20 years ago, so many thanks to the trader who sent it to me. It too was labeled with the 1979 date, and that had always troubled me because there was another WLIR broadcast from Hofstra slightly less than a year after the correct date of this show (Hofstra-September 17, 1979). Pat was getting popular, but not that popular! Looking at Marc Morvan's PMDB and doing a little digging on etree got me to the date of this show being what's indicated above. That places this show at about the halfway point between the January 78 recording of the Pat Metheny Group album and the June 79 recording of American Garage. 
My copy of this show sounded terrific, but it was missing the final track, Lone Jack along with a short "Goodnight, and thanks..." at the end of it. That set me searching for a copy from someone that included what I was missing. It didn't seem that many folks had it. To the rescue came a few DIMEr's ethiessen1, goody, waterwheel, and metamarc who all helped with cheerful interest, and varying degrees of information and detective work. ethiessen1 successfully tracked down a copy of the entire show from Jim Leonard, and goody then checked out my version and the one provided by Jim to see that there were no speed issues or wow and flutter problems. My copy sounded a little better than Jim's (slightly better bottom end and space), so everything here is from that version with Lone Jack added in from Jim's. I opened the last few tracks of my version together with Lone Jack in Audacity and got the level of Lone Jack to match what I had. I'd also made some tracking decisions enacted in Audacity before getting Lone Jack that makes this share slightly different from the tracking in Jim's. That mainly had to do with where stage announcements fit in, and whether Unity Village was a long tune or divided up into components, as I have it here.
What we're left with is a fine artifact of the band at this point, and I have to say that I'm always particularly struck by how good they all sounded and played back then. I did see them around this time sharing a bill with Jaco Pastorius at the Kool Jazz Festival in NYC, but I wasn't that into them. That all changed for me when As Falls Wichita and 80/81 came along leading into all that followed from Pat and his group members. That makes me particularly grateful for these great sounding shows that still date back to this time so I can freshly hear what I was missing. Huge thanks again to those who helped me get this share going, to the trader who got this to me so long ago, and even back further to whoever might've connected with the people in the WLIR van in Old Roslyn.