The Daily Tar Heel Friday, October 10, 19865
Pat Metheny Group amazes crowd with performance
The Pat Metheny Group came to
Chapel Hill on Wednesday night,
and they left a capacity crowd at
Memorial Auditorium lightning
struck and dumbfounded. This new
version of the group had only played
one night live before this, but the
members were already in fantastic
form.
At about 8:30 p.m., with the lights
still on, the audience was thrilled to
hear other-worldly sounds from
Metheny's guitar synthesizer. Then
he and the rest of the group went
into "Forward March.
The group members played unfa
miliar marching band instruments as
they came on. The bassist carried out
a bass drum, the keyboard magician
Lyle Mays brought out a horn, and
the two percussionists appeared
from the back of the auditorium
playing high school snare drums
down the aisles. Pat said he heard
folks liked sports here at UNC, and
he thought the marching band sound
might get him in good with the
crowd.
Silly Pat. All he had to do to get
in good with the audience was to play
two and a half hours of unbelievable,
uninterrupted, incredibly delicious
music, which he then proceeded to
do. '
The lights went out after that, and
the spotlight hit Metheny as he
became the inner workings of a tasty
guitar sandwich. He started off
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"Phase Dance" by playing the
acoustic guitar which was set up on
a stand in front of him. He alternated
that with the hollow-body electric he
had strapped to his back. He and
the purple-caped pale skeleton
known as Lyle Mays traded titillat
ing solos during this tune from the
group's self-titled album.
After sending the crowd off at the
speed of light, the group crawled into
a beautiful new untitled ballad. This
tune featured Metheny playing a soft
lead on his electric and the drummer
stroking his skins with the brushes.
Just when the crowd got a chance
to catch a breath, they launched into
Tell It All. The bass player used
a bow on his stand-up acoustic and
Mays stormed into his Kurzweil keys
that filled the auditorium with the
sounds of a magnificent grand piano.
Metheny manipulated and merged
the sounds of his guitar synthesizer
with the harmonies of their new
vocalist. Mays also managed to find
a third hand somewhere with which
to play the bells on top of his array
of keys.
After a new untitled tune featuring
a bass solo, they jumped into a funky
revamped version of "James" from
the album "Offramp. In this bouncy
tune that featured cowbells, maracas
and multiple camera flashes, it was
easy to see that Metheny thoroughly
enjoyed every note he played. "Dal
ton Lee" from the soundtrack of the
"Falcon and the Snowman followed
as Pat attached a synthesizer that
looked like a Pac Man game onto
his electric.
They played the title cut from
"First Circle," and then Pat actually
spoke to the audience! Some untitled
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free jazz and a strobe light drum solo
were next. "Farmers Trust," a soft
acoustic ballad which Pat played
while bathed in red light, led into
"Fandango," a bouncy salsa tune
which featured a lot of cymbals. "Are
You Going With Me" saw Metheny
go into various contorted positions
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rolling keyboards on "Extradition."
"Twice in a Lifetime" was a beautiful
ballad featuring Metheny's
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The final song and the encore were
sufficiently incredible to blow the
crowd completely away. They did
"San Lorenzo" with a vengeance, left
the stage and returned with their
original trademark hit, the title cut
from "American Garage."
Pat promised the night's set would
be a workout, and he lived up to
his word. The only thing to say in
conclusion to the Pat Metheny
Group is "thank you!"
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