Pat Metheny

Pat Metheny Group

Pat Metheny Group
1982 July 13

Location unknown, but somewhere in the midwest U.S.A.
(PMG play Rochester, MI the next night.)

SBD > ? > SHN

Total time 122:20
680 MB

Pat Metheny: guitars, guitar synthesizers
Lyle Mays: piano, organ, keyboard synthesizers
Steve Rodby: acoustic and electric basses
Dan Gottlieb: drums
Nana Vasconcelos: percussion, berimbau, voice 

Disc 1 (64:39)
01. (announcer intro) / Phase Dance  8:49
02. Broadway Blues  8:35
03. James  8:40
04. Offramp  11:39
05. "It's For You"  7:47
06. Are You Going With Me ?  8:06
07. The Bat part II > (solo berimbau) >  6:31
08. Ozark  4:28

Disc 2 (57:41)
01. K. C. Blues  9:52
02. Solo guitar medley: (unidentified) > Omaha Celebration > September Fifteenth  5:47
03. (solo Synclavier guitar) > Close To Home  16:23
04. Jaco  6:03
05. Song For Bilbao  8:25
06. (Pat's remarks)  0:16
07. (Cross The) Heartland  7:05
08. American Garage  3:47

Pat's remarks before "Offramp" are missing.
Cut in "Are You Going With Me?" at 1:17.
Static in "Jaco" 0:08..0:11 and 1:35..1:36.

Pat Metheny Group
1982 July 14
Meadowbrook Amphitheatre
Rochester, Michigan

SBD > Reel-to-Reel master > TDK SA-X Cassette > Sound Blaster Extigy Sound Card > WAV > SHN > SANDE > SHN

Pat Metheny: guitars, guitar synthesizers
Lyle Mays: piano, organ, keyboard synthesizers
Steve Rodby: acoustic and electric basses
Dan Gottlieb: drums
Nana Vasconcelos: percussion, berimbau, voice

Total time 122:13
701 MB
 
Disc 1 (63:25)
01. (announcer introduction) / Phase Dance  8:37
02. Broadway Blues  7:28
03. James  7:32
04. (Pat's remarks)  1:48
05. Offramp  10:06
06. "It's For You"  7:29
07. Are You Going With Me ?  8:51
08. The Bat part II > (solo berimbau) >  6:19
09. Ozark  5:12
 
Disc 2 (58:47)
01. K. C. Blues  8:33
02. (solo guitar)  5:53
03. (solo Synclavier guitar) > Close To Home  16:45
04. Jaco  6:01
05. (Pat's remarks)  1:20
06. Song For Bilbao  8:13
Encore:
07. (Cross The) Heartland  7:29
08. American Garage  4:31


Pat Metheny Group
1982 July 21
Midland Music Hall
Kansas City, MO

Source: SBD > best cassette available, unknown gen >
  extensive digital cleanup > SHN

Metheny Audio Archive Project MAAP #2
Not for commercial use.  Trade this recording freely.
http://www.mas-alla.com/

Pat Metheny: guitars, guitar synthesizer
Lyle Mays: piano, synthesizers, autoharp
Steve Rodby: acoustic bass, electric bass
Dan Gottlieb: drums
Nana Vasconcelos: voice, percussion, berimbau

Total time 129:38

Disc 1 (72:49)
------
01. (introduction) / Phase Dance  08:13
02. Broadway Blues (Ornette Coleman)  08:23
03. James  07:19
04. (Pat's remarks)  01:35
05. Offramp  11:37
06. "It's For You"  06:39
07. Are You Going With Me?  08:23
08. The Bat part II >  04:17
09. Solo Berimbau >  02:10
10. Ozark  04:52
11. K.C. Blues  09:17

Disc 2 (56:49)
------
01. (It's Just) Talk  05:32
02. Solo Guitar  05:44
    (incorporating elements of Midwestern Nights Dream, Goin' Ahead,
    and September Fifteenth)
03. Solo Synclavier Guitar >  04:47
04. Close To Home (a.k.a. Mars)  12:50
05. Jaco  07:17
06. (Pat's remarks and band introductions)  01:22
07. Song For Bilbao  07:56
08. (Cross The) Heartland  07:31
09. American Garage  03:48


Pat Metheny Group
1982 July 21
Midland Theater
Kansas City, MO

master audience tape > wav (24 bit/48 khz) > flac

Pat Metheny: guitars, guitar synthesizer
Lyle Mays: piano, synthesizers, autoharp
Steve Rodby: acoustic bass, electric bass
Dan Gottlieb: drums
Nana Vasconcelos: voice, percussion, berimbau

Total time 83:59
549 MB

01. Phase Dance  7:41
02. Broadway Blues  8:14
03. James  7:17
04. (Pat's remarks)  1:27
05. Offramp  11:23
06. "It's For You"  6:52
07. Are You Going With Me?  8:19
08. The Bat part II >  3:40
09. (solo berimbau) > Ozark  7:45
10. K.C. Blues  10:03
11. (It's Just) Talk  5:35
12. Solo Guitar (incorporating elements of Midwestern Nights Dream, Goin' Ahead, and September Fifteenth)  5:37

Missing from this recording:
- Mars (Close To Home)
- Jaco
- Song For Bilbao
- (Cross) The Heartland
- American Garage

I think that everybody who collects Pat Metheny shows knows about the MAAP#2
project for the Midland Theater show in 1982. It's a very nice soundboard show
of the 7-21-1982 concert. It's dated wrong, I know because I was there and have
the tape and ticket stub to prove it. I was very excited when I found about it
myself because I had a second gen copy of the soundboard tapes as well as my
audience tape and the production was a cleaned up and complete version. The
concert was a great show filled with many new songs at the time. 

I was back in Kansas City over the holidays and had the opportunity to return
to the Midland Theater to see the Nutcracker ballet from the second row. I was
marvelling at the beauty of the theater, so ornate, so baroque, so SMALL! I
couldn't get over how small it seemed, maybe 1200 people could fit in there.
It's hard to believe the PMG was playing there because not too many music
events happened there to my recollection. Downtown Kansas City is full of such
fine theaters - the Folly, the Capri, the Midland, the Empire (still not
refurbished), the Music Hall and further uptown is, of course, the Uptown.
These were all built in the 1930's and 1940's during KC's heyday as a jazz and
social mecca. They are all still in service and in great shape. 

When I came home I was inspired to take my master tape of this PMG concert that
I had recorded and finally convert it to digital. I took the opportunity to
convert it to 24 bit/48 khz format just to make it sound as good as possible. I
never really did like the soundboard version because I had this tape and
listened to it quite alot. This is the REAL DEAL - a fine sounding master
audience tape of Metheny in his early days playing basically at home in a
beautiful theater. There's just one thing wrong - I didn't get the entire
concert recorded and here's why: 

I sat in the center of the loge, very near the entry door. I did record the
entire concert up to the encore. While everybody was applauding like crazy
prior to the encore I was checking the tape to see how much was left. I had to
flick my bic to see the tape. The usher must have thought I was puffing and
came to investigate. He saw my tape deck and asked me to come out into the
lobby. I thought quickly and slipped the first tape to my girlfriend and told
her not to let them have it under any conditions. I went out and listened to
the usher/goon try to scare me about taping. I had to give up the tape that was
in the recorder. I basically just gave him the evil eye and didn't say a word.
I was finally let back in to see the encore. 

It's too bad because the Closer to Home section that was on that tape was
brilliant. It was dark on stage and I couldn't see just what was going on and,
for the life of me, couldn't tell how they were making all of those noises.
It's one of the larger disappointments of my taping career that I had to
relinquish that tape but I was glad I managed to keep the other tape containing
the first 90 minutes. 

So here it is, the apparently only audience tape of the famous Midland Theater
concert, never before been circulated, and in glorious hi-resolution 24 bit
format. Get this and rejoice in my good fortune and bad luck and reflect on the
joys of Metheny music from back in the early days. 

NOTE: I'm not going to be seeding a 16 bit version of this. If somebody else
wants to then that's fine with me. If you want to convert it for audio CD use
I'd suggest getting dbPoweramp, it's free and easy to use. Please note, though,
when you convert it to 16 bit you have to check for SBE's. I don't do that in
24 bit format since it isn't intended for CD sector sizing. 


Pat Metheny Group
1982 July 22
Norman, OK

Early show (first of two)

SBD > ? > SHN

Pat Metheny:       electric 6 & 12 string guitars, synthesizer guitar
Lyle Mays:         piano, synthesizers, autoharp
Steve Rodby:       electric bass
Dan Gottlieb:      drums
Nana Vasconcelos:  voice, percussion

Total time 114:39
745 MB

Disc 1 (63:17)
1. Phase Dance  8:25
2. Broadway Blues  7:53
3. James  8:39
4. Offramp  10:43
5. It's for You  7:28
6. Are You Going With Me?  8:43
7. The Bat (Part II) > (solo berimbau) >  6:28
8. Ozark  4:54

Disc 2 (51:21)
1. (Pat Speaks)  1:43
2. K.C. Blues  8:18
3. Pat's Solo  5:20
4. Close to Home (a.k.a. Mars)  15:26
5. Jaco  7:40
6. (Pat Speaks)  1:29
7. Song for Bilbao  7:06
8. American Garage  4:16

Pat Metheny Group
1982 July 22
Norman, OK

Late show (second of two)

SBD > ? > FLAC

Pat Metheny:       electric 6 & 12 string guitars, synthesizer guitar
Lyle Mays:         piano, synthesizers, autoharp
Steve Rodby:       electric bass
Dan Gottlieb:      drums
Nana Vasconcelos:  voice, percussion

Total time 113:39
651 MB

Disc 1 (61:22)
01. Phase Dance  8:16
02. Broadway Blues  6:05
03. James  7:26
04. (Pat Speaks)  1:23
05. Offramp  9:34
06. "It's for You"  7:59
07. Are You Going With Me?  9:06
08. The Bat (Part II) > (solo berimbau) >  6:18
09. Ozark  5:10

Disc 1 (52:17)
01. K.C. Blues  10:09
02. (Pat's Solo)  4:57
03. Close to Home (a.k.a. Mars)  15:38
04. Jaco  7:39
05. (Pat Speaks)  1:08
06. Song for Bilbao  8:24
07. American Garage  4:19


Pat Metheny Group
1982 October 28, Late Show
Agora Ballroom
Dallas TX

Recorded by Randy Louk using Recording Walkman and Shure microphone
sitting about 4th row (there were tables and I was real close).  The Agora was an extremely small club-like venue with tables on the floor section and slightly raised tiers with seats around the outside.  It held maybe 500 people.  This was one of the concerts recorded for the PMG Travels live album.

Total time 133:58
860 MB

Disc 1 (71:52)
01. Phase Dance  7:37
02. The Windup  7:34
03. April Joy  4:13
04. (Pat's Intros)  1:39
05. 6 and 11  8:13
06. Extradition  6:02
07. Farmer's Trust >  5:53
08. Goodbye  8:39
09. Straight on Red  8:02
10. Travels  6:39
11. Turnaround (cut)  7:17
  
Disc 2 (62:05)
01. Are You Going With Me? (beginning cut)  6:55
02. The Fields, The Sky  10:08
03. James (digital guitar)  4:16
04. Goin' Ahead >  2:17
05. As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls  12:49
06. Jaco  3:51
07. San Lorenzo  12:50
- encore -  
08. (Cross the) Heartland (cut)  5:36
09. American Garage  3:20

converted from analog first-gen cassette >
Sound Forge 4.0 >
tracked using CDWAV >
edit and joined using Sound Forge 4.0 >
sector boundaries checked with shntool >
converted to shn using mkwact

No digital audio extraction!

Someone in the band management saw me taping and came out and sat down next to me and asked to see my tape deck.  I was a bit freaked out and handed it to him.  He looked at it and asked me whether I knew that this wasn't allowed and I just nodded.  He looked at it again and handed it back to me and walked off.  I just turned it back on and went on with the show.  I guess that he thought that it wasn't going to be much competition for the official release.  I have held on to these tapes for 20 years before converting to CDR and distributing it.


SHNID	Date	Venue	City	State
109290	1982-07-13	Stanley Theatre	Pittsburgh	PA
SBD > ? > SHN 680 MB, 122:20
107294	1982-07-14	Meadow Brook Music Theater	Rochester Hills	MI
SBD > Reel-to-Reel master > TDK SA-X Cassette > Sound Blaster Extigy Sound Card > WAV > SHN > SANDE > SHN 701 MB, 122:13
12196	1982-07-21	Midland Music Hall	Kansas City	MO
Pat Metheny Group: SBD > best cassette available, unknown gen > extensive digital cleanup > SHN MAAP 2
12206	1982-07-21	Midland Music Hall	Kansas City	MO
Pat Metheny Group: SBD > best cassette available, unknown gen > extensive digital cleanup > SHN (seeking) MAAP 2 Identical to the other MAAP 2 seed but this one's SHNs have seek tables appended.
109293	1982-07-21	Midland Music Hall	Kansas City	MO
master audience tape > wav (24 bit/48 khz) > FLAC 549 MB, 83:59
109325	1982-07-22	Unknown (Early Show)	Norman	OK
SBD > ? > SHN 745 MB, 114:39
109326	1982-07-22	Unknown (Late Show)	Norman	OK
SBD > ? > FLAC 651 MB, 113:39
100669	1982-10-28	Agora Ballroom	Dallas	TX
Recording Walkman and Shure microphone > analog first-gen cassette > Sound Forge 4.0 > CDWAV > Sound Forge 4.0 > mkwact > SHN Recorded by Randy Louk 860 MB, 133:58

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