I remember in 1978. I got the album ECM records listening to it on my concept turntable with about $4000 worth of stereo equipment.Tile floor and wood paneling. The acoustics were totally amazing never to be duplicated again definitely one of my favorite song of all times. 😢
Hi Larry, Somehow, my older brother was introduced to Pat Metheny in the mid 70's. To this day, when I hear this intricate, smooth, and exquisitely beautiful song, I think of my youth. Higgins Lake, Traverse City, and the rural back roads of Michigan! You're right, it's a great feeling!
AS YOUNG MAN HEART BROKEN, IVE CRIED MANY TEARS TO THIS SONG, AS A MAN LIVING LIFE, ITS THE PERFECT MUSIC TO LIVE LIFE, ITS REALLY SPECIAL TO ALOT OF PEOPLE, TO ALL OF YOU, WHO KNOW
I was gonna say, "50 years? You're crazy!" But, damn you are right. Wow, how time flies. I first discovered PMG in the early 80s when I lived in Miami. Every Sunday morning on radio station Love 94, it was jazz just like this. I would put in a fresh cassette tape (remember those) to record something to listen to all week until the following Sunday. Peace to you brother! Keep listening!
@@jazzer770 There is a great little Australian jazz ensemble which is bringing the younger generations into the world of jazz through brilliant jazz covers - in a variety of jazz styles - of video games music (vgm). Although livestream audiences are small (we are often in daytime when elsewhere it is night), the global following is approaching 80,000 and the livestream audiences go wild in the chat when the boys solo. Be assured - the kids are getting it. They have covered around 400 tunes and this is a small taste of what they can do ruclips.net/video/1O1Cf62P_X8/видео.html (they also like to change 4/4 to odd meters like 7 or 11 eg ruclips.net/video/YsDP9DppmRw/видео.html - guitarist subbed in last inute when the regular guy got covid)
I was born in 59, and raised on rock and roll,and hung around mainly with my older brothers friends. One day in the late 70's, a friend of ours brought over the album I will never forget. Yes it was this one... San Lorenzo,Phase Dance,etc. I played this album over and over, I couldn't get enough of it. I owe my thanks to Pat and Lyle to this day! I love jazz because of them...I have all their music on remastered C.D.'s of course... They play with other talented musicians...Wow,I love them all...
I heard this for the first time when I was having dinner at Jumbo's drive-in restaurant in mid-1978 after completing an experiment in the RF lab. It may have been on Jazz Album Countdown. Every time I hear it I see picnic tables and fluorescent lights, and I smell steamed rice and charbroiled ribeye. It would be nearly 20 years later that I would meet the woman I married. I wish she had been there with me.
My Puerto Rican neighbors has a tag sitting on the dashboard of his car that reads San Lorenzo and it immediately made me think of this song ! I 1st heard this in the summer of 1978 ( What an innocent time compared to now) So here I am in 2024 recapturing the beauty and joy of this song ! This song brings nostalgia , innocence ,❤ and joy ! GOD BLESS ALL Pat Metheny Group lovers ! Smooth Jazz for life 🎉 ❤
SAME HERE!!!! I loved this album, but lost track of Pat Metheny. I think this whole sound was closely linked to the light and easy 70's sound. It was where the California sound was going and then suddenly in the 80's music took a completely different turn.
someone likes it, someone doesn't. World is the sum of the parts. I think is absolutely pointless to use the thumb down: if you don't like stop listening and we are all in peaceful life. Beautiful decision stop to show the counter about dislike.
Around 1980, I was 17, and had never been to any concerts. My brother was into Pat and had me come along with some other friends. I had no idea what to expect, nor did I expect anything. Pat opened with this song, and my brain exploded. I was mesmerized. Today, at almost 62, I think he is the best. Nobody does what he does.
I was 18 when I first heard Pat Metheny Group, in an instant Pat and Lyle's dynamic duo was my favorite. I will be 53 next week and they still give me goose bumps when I listen to their tunes. More Power.
These guys were still pretty young here, and it amazes me how they could write, arrange and perform a piece like this and make it sound effortless. WOW!
This music connects strongly with so many people. I like that so many folks describe "the first time I heard it." They remember just where they were! It was over 40 years ago but I can remember clear as a bell walking down a common hallway in college and a guy was sitting at a table with the record playing and selling tickets to their concert that night. Wow...that unique, new, positive sound! I bought a ticket to the show and the rest was history. They made transporting, incredible music. Lyle was a major loss.
I am so blessed to have seen this performed live right after it came out at a small university coffee house with my girlfriend at the time. We were seated 2nd row center, about 8 feet from Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays in a venue that seated about 250 people. This song was their opener. An unforgetable experience! I can see it in my mind today at 67.
This song brought up in me how I want to feel on this hot Sunday here in June 2024 in upstate SC . ❤ It ! Been a huge fan since college of 1978 ! Music today is TRASH ! These guys were and are some of the COOLEST White guys on the Planet ! My hat's Off to you my dear , Jazz brothers ! 🎉 ❤
His music puts me in a place that is hard to describe, but it feels like a safe place, a beautiful place and perhaps more significantly a place of inalterable PEACE!
This song has one of the greatest piano solos I've ever heard. The way it builds and builds and then the rest of the band comes in afterwards. It's incredible.
In 1989 I drove with my crew from Moron AB near Seville, Spain to Torremolinos on the Costa Del Sol. It was a sunny Friday morning and I was listening to San Lorenzo on my Sony Walkman. As we neared the coast our route took us through the hills above town. The hillsides were dotted with white, stucco homes sporting terracotta roofs. As we reached the top of one of the hills I looked out and there in the distance was the big, blue Mediterranean Sea. The picture is etched forever in my memory and it's what I think of every time I hear this great work by Pat Metheny.
BRILLIANT composition! First heard it on the radio by chance in 1978.I was all alone in the afternoon and a thunderstorm was raging. I just stared out the window and listened in total awe.
Yes- most of us here are mid 60's now....and yes I was in my late teens discovering this beautiful song and music- still today I am a BIG Pat M fan !! And yes I now recognize the influence of Lyle Mays a lot in my piano playing of today....
Metheny is such a relaxing breath of fresh air. We have lost Charlie and Toots, but the Great Pat metheny just keeps on playing works of art and therapies for the soul. PRAISE THE GOOD LORD ALMIGHTY FOR PAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a life altering experience!! This is the first Part Metheny song and LP I ever heard. Beautiful. Intellectual yet childlike. Uplifting and inspiring. Thank you Lyle Mays for you musical genius and Kenny Hylton, Jr for introducing this to me!!
First heard his music on WJZZ radio in Detroit, MI. Rosetta Hines brought me to jazz and Pat Metheny Group. Been a follower ever since. Sad that we lost Lyle but his music and influence lives on.
As I recall, I started listening to the Pat Metheny Group in 1985. Around the time "The Falcon & The Snowman" came out. I have a very good friend that I attended DeVry Tech with in Phoenix in the 70's and he'd already been listening to him. He turned me on to "First Circle", "Travels" and "Offramp". I've been HOOKED since then. I've seen the group in concert 5 times and once I went to Oahu to work and listened to "The Way Up Pt.1-4" during a rainstorm. OMG.
Thank you something real I'm 67 and I wish there was a way to tell him how much his music meant to me My wife never heard of him but when I played some of his music she was amazed as I was when I first heard him anyway sending good love vibes out to you and to him 🙏💖💖💖💖🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁 I almost forgot to add that she took me on a cruise for my 50th birthday and some of those scenes are almost exactly where we were think it was St Thomas or St Martin but it was a once in a lifetime experience she gave to me
I believe this was the first Pat Metheny song I ever heard and I have been hooked on his music since then. Wow that was 1978!! Almost 46 years ago! For some reason I associate it with skiing, the beauty of an untouched blanket of snow, clean, crisp and pure. Thanks Pat, for filling my life with your wonderful music!
i remember 1979 sitting in a tiny rented room in petaluma, ca. listening to pat metheny's new chatauqua album thinking "i could have written this" and then when i tried to learn it the subtilty of the timing completely confounded me and i realized that i was listening to a musical genius.........its 2015 almost 2016.........36 years later........still amazed by it all
+first; - I was attending College in Santa Cruz, CA. Lightly raining, a few leaves blowing around, an introspective Autumn day at the coast. Had just opened the door to the ?record store at the outdoor Pacific Garden Mall and stepping inside, - the sound of the needle coming down at the beginning of a record, and THIS began... sorry, a few tears... and I walked right up to the cashier and asked what was this incredible music?!? He picked up the record cover and handing it to me said, "It's the newest album from Pat Metheny. It just came in". So I immediately bought the first 'Pat Metheny Group' album sold in Santa Cruz, 1978. A vivid memory. Still my absolute favorite piece of music, period.
I first heard this on my honeymoon in Hawaii in 1979. I was on Maui driving a rented Toyota with a broken radio antenna from Lahaina back to our resort. Trying to stay awake, I searched for something on the radio and landed on this song - the only thing the radio would pick up. A full moon and the ocean on my left, sugar cane fields and mountains on my right-it seemed like the stars were talking to me through the radio. My first exposure to jazz and to Pat Metheny and still a favorite today.
This song is so Happy! I just love it. It always reminds me of my wife's Aunt and Uncle who lived in San Lorenzo, Ca. . R.I.P. Uncle Tony and Auntie Mary.
It's a shame that people don't listen to this today like we did in the 80's with GREAT BIG STERIO COMPONENTS and a/d/s SPEAKERS, played LOUD. I still get CHILLS !!
Bret Willmott and I were fortunate to know from friends that had been at Coral Gables Pat was coming to Berklee when I was 22. I was there at the time just starting school in an excellerated 1-2 (2 semesters at once, finished 4 semesters in one school year). No one knew who this kid with the big smile and incredible talent was. I asked to be the bass player in a guitar ensemble he was teaching. I am so incredibly lucky to say I played with Pat for that whole semester and do another class he taught. That ensemble was where he brought in a series of exercises that were to become tunes on many of his early albums. I am 67 and he still brings forth the same joy as he did back then. At the time I discerned a very midwest sound to his tunes. To this day I hear that influence, his roots. I love this man and his music. He shaped the player I am today. He was to jazz what the Beatles were to pop music. A new sound for a new generation of musicians that held in respect the roots of their music. David Sahadi
Back in 1978 , radio station WRVR , in NYC turned me on to The Pat Metheny Group and I have been a fan of their music ever since. San Lorenzo open the foodgates for me and that flow continues to this day.
This song and album also has special memories for me. Back in early 1978, before this album was released Pat Metheny came to American University and essentially rehearsd this album live for it seemed like hours and charged us $1 to attend. I can still remember him standing on the stage with his eyes closed and these long flowing melodies pouring out of his guitar. Also his keyboard player who was brilliant, sitting at the piano with his long hair and extremely skinny face. My favorite moment was when he opened his eyes and said "I realize I haven't been telling you any of the song titles. it's because most of them don't have titles yet." Funny how so many other events in life get lost but that one remains seared in my memory.
At the time this album came our I was living in Manhattan. Jazz all over the place. Late breakfast. Bang & Olufsen turn table. In love with my wonderful future wife - married now for 37 years. And at every step there as been a Metheny song. Thank you Pat for a wonderful music score.
same here,just moved to Manhattan back then, college student--WRVR was THE station to listen to in the late 70's as progressive jazz really took off then
I whole heartedly agree with you all that this song is as if "Angels are singing to us all"- God bless whom ever came up with this song in there heart to share with US ALL...😘🥰😂
Pat Metheny is a genius and a blessing to the music world loved listening to him yesterday today and the tomorrows of my life God Bless you Pat Metheny Diane Wills
My day dad taped the entire album on eight track. I hauled that monster on the "E " train going to central park, making sure that every lucky soul on the same train car as me listened to that album. No one minded , either.
Weirdly I had a vision growing up and pictured myself on a dock about to set sail for adult life and the main message I recieved was that, "I can drive the boat," which was to say I am ready for adulthood. This song has taken over that feeling for me. I have set sail for San Lorenzo
I first got the tape of this back in the 1980s. It's as fresh and beautiful as the first day I heard it! When I stored this song on my computer, I gave it 6 stars. That's as good as it gets.
Heard this track live in Toronto when these young punks stole the show at a jazz festival, Ontario Place, maybe '80 or '81, not sure. Been a huge fan every since. Genius. Pure art. Never get tired listening to Mr. Metheny.
saw him there at the Molson Ampitheater. It was awesome...met him after the show. He was so nice to me, gave me a guitar pick and signed his name on a piece of paper with the word "Best" on it.
Me Too! WRVR was the best jazz radio station on the planet....you would hear Pat Metheny group, and Count Basie, Ellington, Mangione, ALL jazz...new and old, with knowledgeable DJays. I really miss that station....just seeing the call letters brought back memories of my life in NYC. Yes, the '70's were great...for jazz especially, and music generally
This song has got to be one of the best pieces of music ever written. (OK that's maybe over the top.) It goes through several distinct phases so naturally, it's almost like it chronicles a lifetime. The piano-centered part starting around 5:00 and going to about 8:20, when the theme picks up again, is so beautiful that it almost brings tears. The Pat Metheney/Lyle Mays collaboration yielded so much musical gold.
This song played in the very 1st car I ever owned ! A Triumph TR7 ! A young black male kid in my junior year of college ! Beautiful car ! Beautiful girlfriend , beautiful music ! Thank You GOD ! 🎉 ❤ I'M GRATEFUL ! 🎉 ❤
Back in October, 1978, I was in my dorm room on a Sunday afternoon in Apt. C-3, at the Triad Apts, on the campus of Glassboro State College listening to Radio Station WDAS Philadelphia and San Lorenzo started playing. My LIFE changed FOREVER!!!! THANK YOU Pat Metheny Group!!!!
When in college in the late 70s I listened to mostly pop and rock. I never cared for jazz. My brother-in-law played this LP starting with this song. I will never forget it. I loved the Beatles Yes Led Zeppelin pink Floyd ELP etc but none of them took me to places Metheny and Mays did with their sublime transcendent sound. PM and PMG albums became instant purchases on release for the next 15 years.
One of my all time favorites from Pat, Lyle and the gang. It has followed me through a very happy life and it has contributed to alot of happiness for me. I am grateful for this peice.
It is a great coincidence, but "San Lorenzo" was the first song I heard from PMG in 1977 and after this moment, it really CHANGE my entire life...!!! The sound from Pat & Lyle was so unique and cautiveting that I immediately call to the Radio Station asking for information about the musicians (group) to run to the record store to get it asap...!!! It happened 37 years ago and since then Pat, has been the biggest influence in my whole life, learning from his infinite talent, sensibility, professional approach to music and of course for the unlimited inspiration that his music and performance mean to me since then..... Thanks for all the great music you have share with all us.....
I don't know how Pat Metheny manages to compose songs that remind me of my child hood...but it does...all the way back to when I was 6 years old...magical.
I was about that age too when I listened to it first. it was so different to what we were used to. almost 40 years later I still love it. it kinda opened a door to a whole new world.
I am floating , at 40 000 ft , flaps and gears extended , throttle levers in the pocket , both airspeed indicators in the coma , close to the stall speed , but this music is my paradise !!
This was the first Pat Metheny song I ever heard. It was a late night in New York, lying in bed with my headphones on in early 1981 and I was so amazed at how beautiful it was. I went out and bought the vinyl the very next day. I have bought every album of his since and been a dyed-in-the-wool Metheny fan from that day forward. My life has sounded so much better as a result.
First introduced to me when I was in high school. Could not believe what I was hearing. It was truly a musical inspiration and journey for me. It was like finding a missing puzzle piece in my life. Incredible the mix of talent between Metheny and Mays. I am a drummer and would play to this music for hours loosing my self in it. Playing to a journey that I wish would never end. For many of you, you understand what I mean. The truth is his music is electrifying. It will grab you, but you will not want to let go. Shut your eyes and let the music take you to a perfect world........crashing waves, the sun set, and a journey that only you can end. Enjoy.
Recommended music program for an instrumental celebration of life (or a drive up the coast on a clear day, literally or in your heart: "Misty" by Erroll Garner Trio (from Plays Misty); "Sea of Tranquility" by Brian Auger; "Poinciana" by Ahmad Jamal live at Oil Can Harry's; "Skating" by Vince Guaraldi Trio; "Nubian Sundance" by Weather Report; and THIS.
Just heard this for the first time in my life on nyc's 88.3 WBGO, had to save! Such a amazing piece, I will remember this moment fondly forever! Everyone have a blessed lifetime 🎉
Ok here is my story on the 1st time I heard this song. I was driving home from Mammoth Lakes Ca after a week long backpack trip with my mom and dad. It was late about 9pm and I am driving down the 241 toll road in OC ca, and it's dark but off to the right I can see the lights of the city and this song comes on, and I was simply mesmorized by the tranquility and peacefulness I felt at that moment. It sent chills through my body and hence what I believe these guys were feeling when they 1st played this song. It remains one of the best songs I have ever heard in my life. Thanks PMG for this masterpiece!
This song was my first Pat Metheny song i ever heard, I heard WRVR which was our main Jazz station in the 70s iv'e been hook ever since it opened up a lot of great music in other areas (Weather Report) Jaco, Stanley Clark Return to forever, Jean Luc Ponty and many many more Pat Metheny stood out more for me, Life journey music i call it this music has been with me all my life, and when i want to go back in time this music is my guide........................for ever and ever Mark Price
I got to meet Pat Metheny in Boston while he was still in his late teens/early twenties. He was one of the guitarists in Gary Burton's Quintet. I went to see them at the Jazz Workshop on Boylston Street. Had to use the restroom but when I got in there, I heard an unplugged electric guitar being played nearby. I pushed open a stall door and there was Pat, leaning against the wall, rehearsing. He smiled and said there wasn't enough room in the warm up room for the whole band. I thought it a bit odd but hey...They were fabulous. I have been a huge fan ever since.
+mikekavanaughdotcom Very cool Mike. I worked for (and am dear friends with) Fred Taylor, the owner/officianado of the Jazz Workshop and later Scullers Jazz Club. Fred and his clubs have touched so many lives by bringing wonderful music to the forefront in intimate settings. Doesn't get much more intimate than this! Great story!
+mikekavanaughdotcom Never saw Pat the Workshop, wish I had. But did catch Ornette there one night, I arrived a bit late and the only empty seat was at a table in the front a few feet from the band. Wow.
One of the greatest pieces of music I know. When I first heard 'Bright Size Life' at 20 yo in 1976 I was totally struck by the beauty of Pat's music. In July of 1980 I saw them live at my university and it was one of the most memorable concerts I ever was until this day. After that I went to their gigs whenever the were in germany. The PMG influenced my development as a musician (bass & guitar) from the beginning until this day. I played all kinds of music since then from metal, blues, world music, fusion to jazz in the last 50 years and liked them all, but PMG and all other Metheny projects were always a constant inspiration for me. Funny to read, that so many people have chosen one of their songs for funeral. I thought I was alone, I told my children to chose one or two from 'Secret Story' album, e.g. 'The truth will always be'
It was during this era -- the 80's when I connected the most with him. As with many creative people, he has ideas all over the map (a great quality) -- Trio work, solo work, quartet work, Pat Metheny Group (my all-time favorite incarnation of his ideas), orchestrion, Unity Band, and the list goes on and on and on. This is probably my favorite of all his tunes, along with a few on Speaking of Now...
Oui,tu as raison Thara! Presque toutes les musiques de Pat sont tellement belles qu'elles te hantent, te poursuivent mais surtout t'accompagnent toute au long de ta vie! J'ai moi aussi écouté ce morceau lorsque j'avais 18ans! Quel choc!!!
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Listened to this as a 22 year old overlooking Lake Huron at night with thunder storms and lightning approaching the shore line. What a feeling at 67.
Beautiful memories 💜
I remember in 1978. I got the album ECM records listening to it on my concept turntable with about $4000 worth of stereo equipment.Tile floor and wood paneling. The acoustics were totally amazing never to be duplicated again definitely one of my favorite song of all times. 😢
Hi Larry,
Somehow, my older brother was introduced to Pat Metheny in the mid 70's. To this day, when I hear this intricate, smooth, and exquisitely beautiful song, I think of my youth. Higgins Lake, Traverse City, and the rural back roads of Michigan! You're right, it's a great feeling!
Sweet brother.
Love it. I grew up in Port Huron, Mi. so I can relate brother
AS YOUNG MAN HEART BROKEN, IVE CRIED MANY TEARS TO THIS SONG, AS A MAN LIVING LIFE, ITS THE PERFECT MUSIC TO LIVE LIFE, ITS REALLY SPECIAL TO ALOT OF PEOPLE, TO ALL OF YOU, WHO KNOW
71, and it's resonating happy times in 19 f-ing 82. Joy AND sadness for what wasn't.
This is nearly 50 years old. But it will never be surpassed. Some of the best stuff ever written. Listen up kids.
sadly, almost all don't get it.
These were men with talent on loan from God.
I was gonna say, "50 years? You're crazy!" But, damn you are right. Wow, how time flies. I first discovered PMG in the early 80s when I lived in Miami. Every Sunday morning on radio station Love 94, it was jazz just like this. I would put in a fresh cassette tape (remember those) to record something to listen to all week until the following Sunday. Peace to you brother! Keep listening!
@@jazzer770 There is a great little Australian jazz ensemble which is bringing the younger generations into the world of jazz through brilliant jazz covers - in a variety of jazz styles - of video games music (vgm). Although livestream audiences are small (we are often in daytime when elsewhere it is night), the global following is approaching 80,000 and the livestream audiences go wild in the chat when the boys solo. Be assured - the kids are getting it. They have covered around 400 tunes and this is a small taste of what they can do ruclips.net/video/1O1Cf62P_X8/видео.html (they also like to change 4/4 to odd meters like 7 or 11 eg ruclips.net/video/YsDP9DppmRw/видео.html - guitarist subbed in last inute when the regular guy got covid)
Amen 🎉 ❤
I was born in 59, and raised on rock and roll,and hung around mainly with my older brothers friends. One day in the late 70's, a friend of ours brought over the album I will never forget. Yes it was this one... San Lorenzo,Phase Dance,etc. I played this album over and over, I couldn't get enough of it. I owe my thanks to Pat and Lyle to this day! I love jazz because of them...I have all their music on remastered C.D.'s of course... They play with other talented musicians...Wow,I love them all...
I think Pat was gateway drug for many rockers to get into jazz. I was one. 😁
c'est le propre des chefs d'oeuvres, inusables même après des milliers d'écoutes
I heard this for the first time when I was having dinner at Jumbo's drive-in restaurant in mid-1978 after completing an experiment in the RF lab. It may have been on Jazz Album Countdown. Every time I hear it I see picnic tables and fluorescent lights, and I smell steamed rice and charbroiled ribeye. It would be nearly 20 years later that I would meet the woman I married. I wish she had been there with me.
Aah ! Beautiful memories ! 🎉 ❤ God Bless ! 🎉 ❤
this is music relaxing intellectual musician musician oh yeah
I’m 69 I’ve loved Pat and Lyle for a long time. RIP brother
I'm 80 years old and stll listening to this music
My Puerto Rican neighbors has a tag sitting on the dashboard of his car that reads San Lorenzo and it immediately made me think of this song ! I 1st heard this in the summer of 1978 ( What an innocent time compared to now) So here I am in 2024 recapturing the beauty and joy of this song ! This song brings nostalgia , innocence ,❤ and joy ! GOD BLESS ALL Pat Metheny Group lovers ! Smooth Jazz for life 🎉 ❤
Thanks from the ❤
brother!!!
This evokes joy and simultaneously sadness. Its beauty almost breaks my heart with nostalgia.
I heard this first in 1978, when I was 18 years old. And I'm listening to this marvelous piece after 40 years.
Wow.... ! ! ! Just Wow... ! ! !
SAME HERE!!!! I loved this album, but lost track of Pat Metheny. I think this whole sound was closely linked to the light and easy 70's sound. It was where the California sound was going and then suddenly in the 80's music took a completely different turn.
I find it very hard to believe that anyone
would click on the thumbs down on
this song. It is a masterpiece in music.
Some people don't have the patience to listen to a song of this length, complexity, and depth.
someone likes it, someone doesn't. World is the sum of the parts. I think is absolutely pointless to use the thumb down: if you don't like stop listening and we are all in peaceful life. Beautiful decision stop to show the counter about dislike.
Some people like junk food, some people like gourmet.
@ Guillermogouldburn763 Dom Perignon all day, all night.
Around 1980, I was 17, and had never been to any concerts. My brother was into Pat and had me come along with some other friends. I had no idea what to expect, nor did I expect anything. Pat opened with this song, and my brain exploded. I was mesmerized. Today, at almost 62, I think he is the best. Nobody does what he does.
Lyle's solo never fails to bring tears to eyes
for real. This kind of music makes me cry too. The relationships......
'Cause it's timeless!!
I get lifted every time I hear this and I thank God for this opportunity of pleasure.
I am 62 and love this song
In my living will that this be played as they lower me into the grave-and this version...Music as I knew it never sounded the same to me after this.
Penny Gaiser aw shoot...hit a +1 but it said flag...sht..sorry man...
Play Pat Metheny at my wake!
Wow. I get goose bumps.
I will - what time do you wake? :-)
Fred Sanderson It was played at my wedding. That was kinda like a funeral....no....it was a wonderful, happy day! This was our song.
I was 18 when I first heard Pat Metheny Group, in an instant Pat and Lyle's dynamic duo was my favorite. I will be 53 next week and they still give me goose bumps when I listen to their tunes. More Power.
These guys were still pretty young here, and it amazes me how they could write, arrange and perform a piece like this and make it sound effortless. WOW!
Absolutely indeed... True talent never dies.
2024 and still as amazing as ever!
I feel sorry for anyone who has never heard this
🤣
This music connects strongly with so many people. I like that so many folks describe "the first time I heard it." They remember just where they were! It was over 40 years ago but I can remember clear as a bell walking down a common hallway in college and a guy was sitting at a table with the record playing and selling tickets to their concert that night. Wow...that unique, new, positive sound! I bought a ticket to the show and the rest was history. They made transporting, incredible music. Lyle was a major loss.
This was the first Metheny tune I ever heard - summer of 1980. Been a big fan ever since. Awesome musician.........
I am so blessed to have seen this performed live right after it came out at a small university coffee house with my girlfriend at the time. We were seated 2nd row center, about 8 feet from Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays in a venue that seated about 250 people. This song was their opener. An unforgetable experience! I can see it in my mind today at 67.
The late keyboardist Lyle Mays at his mind-blowing best. And me being a drummer, I live in Dan Gotlieb's head as he jammed here.
Wish I had heard this song, years before now, but I'm glad I found it and listen to it a lot.
This song brought up in me how I want to feel on this hot Sunday here in June 2024 in upstate SC . ❤ It ! Been a huge fan since college of 1978 ! Music today is TRASH ! These guys were and are some of the COOLEST White guys on the Planet ! My hat's Off to you my dear , Jazz brothers ! 🎉 ❤
I’m 46 and remember this being played by my father on Saturday mornings
His music puts me in a place that is hard to describe, but it feels like a safe place, a beautiful place and perhaps more significantly a place of inalterable PEACE!
This song has one of the greatest piano solos I've ever heard. The way it builds and builds and then the rest of the band comes in afterwards. It's incredible.
In 1989 I drove with my crew from Moron AB near Seville, Spain to Torremolinos on the Costa Del Sol. It was a sunny Friday morning and I was listening to San Lorenzo on my Sony Walkman. As we neared the coast our route took us through the hills above town. The hillsides were dotted with white, stucco homes sporting terracotta roofs. As we reached the top of one of the hills I looked out and there in the distance was the big, blue Mediterranean Sea. The picture is etched forever in my memory and it's what I think of every time I hear this great work by Pat Metheny.
landshark2903 Beautiful.
Great solo by Lyle Mays! Pat Metheny's guitar harmonies and harmonics are sublime. The bass and percussion are great too!
BRILLIANT composition! First heard it on the radio by chance in 1978.I was all alone in the afternoon and a thunderstorm was raging. I just stared out the window and listened in total awe.
Yes- most of us here are mid 60's now....and yes I was in my late teens discovering this beautiful song and music- still today I am a BIG Pat M fan !! And yes I now recognize the influence of Lyle Mays a lot in my piano playing of today....
Metheny is such a relaxing breath of fresh air. We have lost Charlie and Toots, but the Great Pat metheny just keeps on playing works of art and therapies for the soul. PRAISE THE GOOD LORD ALMIGHTY FOR PAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a life altering experience!! This is the first Part Metheny song and LP I ever heard. Beautiful. Intellectual yet childlike. Uplifting and inspiring. Thank you Lyle Mays for you musical genius and Kenny Hylton, Jr for introducing this to me!!
@@chrisclermont456 You are in for such a treat. Truly soul lifting music.
First heard his music on WJZZ radio in Detroit, MI. Rosetta Hines brought me to jazz and Pat Metheny Group. Been a follower ever since. Sad that we lost Lyle but his music and influence lives on.
My son is only one month old. Loves Pat Metheny Group, he stops crying and starts listening. Keep working on those new ieas guys for the baby sake
What a great comment 🙏💖 a true father
Very happy that this song is back on RUclips again. One of the best songs I’ve ever heard..
REALLY OUT OF THIS WORLD😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
As I recall, I started listening to the Pat Metheny Group in 1985. Around the time "The Falcon & The Snowman" came out. I have a very good friend that I attended DeVry Tech with in Phoenix in the 70's and he'd already been listening to him. He turned me on to "First Circle", "Travels" and "Offramp". I've been HOOKED since then. I've seen the group in concert 5 times and once I went to Oahu to work and listened to "The Way Up Pt.1-4" during a rainstorm. OMG.
Beautiful memories 🎉❤
Thank you something real I'm 67 and I wish there was a way to tell him how much his music meant to me My wife never heard of him but when I played some of his music she was amazed as I was when I first heard him anyway sending good love vibes out to you and to him 🙏💖💖💖💖🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁 I almost forgot to add that she took me on a cruise for my 50th birthday and some of those scenes are almost exactly where we were think it was St Thomas or St Martin but it was a once in a lifetime experience she gave to me
I believe this was the first Pat Metheny song I ever heard and I have been hooked on his music since then. Wow that was 1978!! Almost 46 years ago! For some reason I associate it with skiing, the beauty of an untouched blanket of snow, clean, crisp and pure. Thanks Pat, for filling my life with your wonderful music!
i remember 1979 sitting in a tiny rented room in petaluma, ca. listening to pat metheny's new chatauqua album thinking "i could have written this" and then when i tried to learn it the subtilty of the timing completely confounded me and i realized that i was listening to a musical genius.........its 2015 almost 2016.........36 years later........still amazed by it all
+first; - I was attending College in Santa Cruz, CA. Lightly raining, a few leaves blowing around, an introspective Autumn day at the coast.
Had just opened the door to the ?record store at the outdoor Pacific Garden Mall and stepping inside, - the sound of the needle coming down at the beginning of a record,
and THIS began...
sorry, a few tears... and I walked right up to the cashier and asked what was this incredible music?!?
He picked up the record cover and handing it to me said, "It's the newest album from Pat Metheny. It just came in".
So I immediately bought the first 'Pat Metheny Group' album sold in Santa Cruz, 1978.
A vivid memory.
Still my absolute favorite piece of music, period.
45 years later and still beautiful.
I first heard this on my honeymoon in Hawaii in 1979. I was on Maui driving a rented Toyota with a broken radio antenna from Lahaina back to our resort. Trying to stay awake, I searched for something on the radio and landed on this song - the only thing the radio would pick up. A full moon and the ocean on my left, sugar cane fields and mountains on my right-it seemed like the stars were talking to me through the radio. My first exposure to jazz and to Pat Metheny and still a favorite today.
What a beautiful evening and occasion and memory ! Your description was beautiful ❤️ Thanks for sharing !🎉❤
Wish I had been there. Sounds like awesome nature!
You created a vicarious experience ! Great memories 💜
This song is so Happy! I just love it. It always reminds me of my wife's Aunt and Uncle who lived in San Lorenzo, Ca. . R.I.P. Uncle Tony and Auntie Mary.
It's a shame that people don't listen to this today like we did in the 80's with GREAT BIG STERIO COMPONENTS and a/d/s SPEAKERS, played LOUD. I still get CHILLS !!
Getting ready to re-foam and refurbish a pair of AR-2ax's. Can't wait to play this whole album through them...
JBL-100's were studio speakers of choice from about 1975 till almost 1990. Nothing wrong with the AR's except a might to bright on the high end.
Who said that people don't listen to this today?
Don't forget the 901's by Bose or Klipshe, either.
Or Magnaplanars
Bret Willmott and I were fortunate to know from friends that had been at Coral Gables Pat was coming to Berklee when I was 22. I was there at the time just starting school in an excellerated 1-2 (2 semesters at once, finished 4 semesters in one school year). No one knew who this kid with the big smile and incredible talent was. I asked to be the bass player in a guitar ensemble he was teaching. I am so incredibly lucky to say I played with Pat for that whole semester and do another class he taught. That ensemble was where he brought in a series of exercises that were to become tunes on many of his early albums. I am 67 and he still brings forth the same joy as he did back then. At the time I discerned a very midwest sound to his tunes. To this day I hear that influence, his roots. I love this man and his music. He shaped the player I am today. He was to jazz what the Beatles were to pop music. A new sound for a new generation of musicians that held in respect the roots of their music.
David Sahadi
INCREDIBLE ! WHAT A GREAT EXPERIENCE ! 🎉❤ Thanks for sharing !🎉 ❤
Hard to believe this was done in 1978! Truly timeless!!!
Back in 1978 , radio station WRVR , in NYC turned me on to The Pat Metheny Group and I have been a fan of their music ever since. San Lorenzo open the foodgates for me and that flow continues to this day.
This song and album also has special memories for me. Back in early 1978, before this album was released Pat Metheny came to American University and essentially rehearsd this album live for it seemed like hours and charged us $1 to attend. I can still remember him standing on the stage with his eyes closed and these long flowing melodies pouring out of his guitar. Also his keyboard player who was brilliant, sitting at the piano with his long hair and extremely skinny face. My favorite moment was when he opened his eyes and said "I realize I haven't been telling you any of the song titles. it's because most of them don't have titles yet." Funny how so many other events in life get lost but that one remains seared in my memory.
At the time this album came our I was living in Manhattan. Jazz all over the place. Late breakfast. Bang & Olufsen turn table. In love with my wonderful future wife - married now for 37 years. And at every step there as been a Metheny song. Thank you Pat for a wonderful music score.
same here,just moved to Manhattan back then, college student--WRVR was THE station to listen to in the late 70's as progressive jazz really took off then
Beautiful memories ! Bang & Olufsen beautiful ! 🎉❤
I whole heartedly agree with you all that this song is as if "Angels are singing to us all"- God bless whom ever came up with this song in there heart to share with US ALL...😘🥰😂
I don't think I would still be alive without his music
Pat Metheny is a genius and a blessing to the music world loved listening to him yesterday today and the tomorrows of my life God Bless you Pat Metheny Diane Wills
I just turned 83 and love this song. And many other Metheny-Lyle works as well.
I've played thousands of hours of Pat Metheny music in my office over the years. He has a song for every life moment.
Marc L. Watts Yes!!! I've been saying all week his music is the sound track to my life. Never get tired of listening to his music.
Wish I worked in your office.
Ive seen Pat Metheny 6 times and with Lyle Mays. What loss an incredible musician. I love this song.. San Lorenzo!
There will never be another Pat Metheny.
Lyle's piano solo at 4:40 is some of the best stuff I have ever heard. The way it builds and cascades is phenomenal.
Lyle Mays finds a way of bringing excitement to a song.
it`s a rolling stone!
And, arguably, Lyle brings an even more emotional build to his solo on the "Travels" live album version of "San Lorenzo."
My day dad taped the entire album on eight track. I hauled that monster on the "E " train going to central park, making sure that every lucky soul on the same train car as me listened to that album. No one minded , either.
Weirdly I had a vision growing up and pictured myself on a dock about to set sail for adult life and the main message I recieved was that, "I can drive the boat," which was to say I am ready for adulthood. This song has taken over that feeling for me. I have set sail for San Lorenzo
I was in college when I first heard this, sounds even better today than it did back then!
I first got the tape of this back in the 1980s. It's as fresh and beautiful as the first day I heard it! When I stored this song on my computer, I gave it 6 stars. That's as good as it gets.
Pat Metheny fan to this day, he is brilliant guy...
If there was ever a tune you would want stuck in your head, it is surely this one!
Thank you! For almost 40 years I've only known this music by it's signature riff. I heard it on tv in 1978... I'm celebrating!
I first heard this in late 70's and grew into it till now.
Never, ever, ever gets old.
Heard this track live in Toronto when these young punks stole the show at a jazz festival, Ontario Place, maybe '80 or '81, not sure. Been a huge fan every since. Genius. Pure art. Never get tired listening to Mr. Metheny.
saw him there at the Molson Ampitheater. It was awesome...met him after the show. He was so nice to me, gave me a guitar pick and signed his name on a piece of paper with the word "Best" on it.
I was there. I think it was 81. I was introduced to Pat's music in 1980. Never regretted that introduction.
@@CultureDivisionTT Me too..!! '81 your right..Pretty sure UZEB opened for them..Ontario Place with it's revolving stage..nice memory..
I was introduced to Pat Metheny by a Lebanese friend while we were living and working in Kuwait in the early '80s. I'm still a fan.
Me Too! WRVR was the best jazz radio station on the planet....you would hear Pat Metheny group, and Count Basie, Ellington, Mangione, ALL jazz...new and old, with knowledgeable DJays. I really miss that station....just seeing the call letters brought back memories of my life in NYC. Yes, the '70's were great...for jazz especially, and music generally
This song has got to be one of the best pieces of music ever written. (OK that's maybe over the top.) It goes through several distinct phases so naturally, it's almost like it chronicles a lifetime. The piano-centered part starting around 5:00 and going to about 8:20, when the theme picks up again, is so beautiful that it almost brings tears. The Pat Metheney/Lyle Mays collaboration yielded so much musical gold.
Best album ever, bar none. Could not stop playing when it came out. Still love it! Thank you, Pat and Lyle for this masterpiece ❤️
TIMELESS .... TAKES ME BACK TO SIMPLER TIMES ....
This song played in the very 1st car I ever owned ! A Triumph TR7 ! A young black male kid in my junior year of college ! Beautiful car ! Beautiful girlfriend , beautiful music ! Thank You GOD ! 🎉 ❤ I'M GRATEFUL ! 🎉 ❤
Back in October, 1978, I was in my dorm room on a Sunday
afternoon in Apt. C-3, at the Triad Apts, on the campus of Glassboro State
College listening to Radio Station WDAS Philadelphia and San Lorenzo started
playing. My LIFE changed FOREVER!!!! THANK YOU Pat Metheny Group!!!!
Me to brother, me to. :-)
I think all of us have one of those "What IS that??" Pat Metheny moments
:-)
mara byrd Many of those moments. Remember your first time hearing Last Train Home?
WAER, Syracuse University- August 1978....Ditto you comments. Life changing!
September '78, visiting my friend Terry O'Brien in Ocean Beach, CA. He put this on the turntable and it changed my life, too!
I used to play Pat Metheny Group cds(yeah kids,I said CDs😄) at work before I retired and the work days always seem to just slide on by😍
My first Pat Matheny album, been hooked ever since
Me too. I was 20. I'd just come back from Africa in college, driving along 101 in Mill Valley from Petaluma, boom! love it.
When in college in the late 70s I listened to mostly pop and rock. I never cared for jazz. My brother-in-law played this LP starting with this song. I will never forget it. I loved the Beatles Yes Led Zeppelin pink Floyd ELP etc but none of them took me to places Metheny and Mays did with their sublime transcendent sound. PM and PMG albums became instant purchases on release for the next 15 years.
Am a Pat Metheny fan, too, from the time I first heard him in the 80's till today.
This instrumental is one of my favorite music pieces..Thanks Pat !!!
Ive been studying and playing the guitar for thirty years. i rarely listen to guitarists anymore; except for Pat Metheny.
One of my all time favorites from Pat, Lyle and the gang. It has followed me through a very happy life and it has contributed to alot of happiness for me. I am grateful for this peice.
Exactly!! Russell Ferrante and The Yellowjackets pay homage to this composition on their very fir LP.
he and his band made such a wonderfull tunes,you can even beleive life is beautifull and I am sorry for those who do not like those tunes
Amen 🎉❤
RD🇩🇴 Without words , Amazing…!
theres gold to be had when you keep Your pleasures simple.one way is to listen to pat Metheny
It is a great coincidence, but "San Lorenzo" was the first song I heard from PMG in 1977 and after this moment, it really CHANGE my entire life...!!! The sound from Pat & Lyle was so unique and cautiveting that I immediately call to the Radio Station asking for information about the musicians (group) to run to the record store to get it asap...!!!
It happened 37 years ago and since then Pat, has been the biggest influence in my whole life, learning from his infinite talent, sensibility, professional approach to music and of course for the unlimited inspiration that his music and performance mean to me since then..... Thanks for all the great music you have share with all us.....
❤
I don't know how Pat Metheny manages to compose songs that remind me of my child hood...but it does...all the way back to when I was 6 years old...magical.
One of my all time favourite albums since the day it came out...
I was just a bit older and doing radio at UCSC. I made a promo piece with this music as the bed. Great memories. Thank you.
I was about that age too when I listened to it first. it was so different to what we were used to. almost 40 years later I still love it. it kinda opened a door to a whole new world.
Gonzalo Herrera the same for me. Life changing.
and it's a big new world..:)
The year was 1976 listening to www4 in Detroit when I heard this. had a buzz to the greatest song of that year.still one of the greatest song ever...
I love this song! This takes me way back in 1978. This is one of my favorites.
I am floating , at 40 000 ft , flaps and gears extended , throttle levers in the pocket , both airspeed indicators in the coma , close to the stall speed , but this music is my paradise !!
I have shivers everytime I listen to this beautiful pictures full of hope
This was the first Pat Metheny song I ever heard. It was a late night in New York, lying in bed with my headphones on in early 1981 and I was so amazed at how beautiful it was. I went out and bought the vinyl the very next day. I have bought every album of his since and been a dyed-in-the-wool Metheny fan from that day forward. My life has sounded so much better as a result.
This song just wets my eyes every time... In a good way. I can't seem to help it. One of my all-time favorite pieces of music.
First introduced to me when I was in high school. Could not believe what I was hearing. It was truly a musical inspiration and journey for me. It was like finding a missing puzzle piece in my life. Incredible the mix of talent between Metheny and Mays. I am a drummer and would play to this music for hours loosing my self in it. Playing to a journey that I wish would never end. For many of you, you understand what I mean. The truth is his music is electrifying. It will grab you, but you will not want to let go. Shut your eyes and let the music take you to a perfect world........crashing waves, the sun set, and a journey that only you can end. Enjoy.
Recommended music program for an instrumental celebration of life (or a drive up the coast on a clear day, literally or in your heart: "Misty" by Erroll Garner Trio (from Plays Misty); "Sea of Tranquility" by Brian Auger; "Poinciana" by Ahmad Jamal live at Oil Can Harry's; "Skating" by Vince Guaraldi Trio; "Nubian Sundance" by Weather Report; and THIS.
Just heard this for the first time in my life on nyc's 88.3 WBGO, had to save! Such a amazing piece, I will remember this moment fondly forever!
Everyone have a blessed lifetime 🎉
This song reminds me of my first real love. It played during our wedding and takes me back. Most beautiful song ever.
Ok here is my story on the 1st time I heard this song. I was driving home from Mammoth Lakes Ca after a week long backpack trip with my mom and dad. It was late about 9pm and I am driving down the 241 toll road in OC ca, and it's dark but off to the right I can see the lights of the city and this song comes on, and I was simply mesmorized by the tranquility and peacefulness I felt at that moment. It sent chills through my body and hence what I believe these guys were feeling when they 1st played this song. It remains one of the best songs I have ever heard in my life. Thanks PMG for this masterpiece!
Beautiful 🎉 ❤
This song was my first Pat Metheny song i ever heard, I heard WRVR which was our main Jazz station in the 70s iv'e been hook ever since it opened up a lot of great music in other areas (Weather Report) Jaco, Stanley Clark Return to forever, Jean Luc Ponty and many many more Pat Metheny stood out more for me, Life journey music i call it this music has been with me all my life, and when i want to go back in time this music is my guide........................for ever and ever Mark Price
I got to meet Pat Metheny in Boston while he was still in his late teens/early twenties. He was one of the guitarists in Gary Burton's Quintet. I went to see them at the Jazz Workshop on Boylston Street. Had to use the restroom but when I got in there, I heard an unplugged electric guitar being played nearby. I pushed open a stall door and there was Pat, leaning against the wall, rehearsing. He smiled and said there wasn't enough room in the warm up room for the whole band. I thought it a bit odd but hey...They were fabulous. I have been a huge fan ever since.
+mikekavanaughdotcom cool story....
+mikekavanaughdotcom Very cool Mike. I worked for (and am dear friends with) Fred Taylor, the owner/officianado of the Jazz Workshop and later Scullers Jazz Club. Fred and his clubs have touched so many lives by bringing wonderful music to the forefront in intimate settings. Doesn't get much more intimate than this! Great story!
+mikekavanaughdotcom Never saw Pat the Workshop, wish I had. But did catch Ornette there one night, I arrived a bit late and the only empty seat was at a table in the front a few feet from the band. Wow.
LOL I remember walking in one night wondering who the hell Oregon is...
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One of the greatest pieces of music I know. When I first heard 'Bright Size Life' at 20 yo in 1976 I was totally struck by the beauty of Pat's music.
In July of 1980 I saw them live at my university and it was one of the most memorable concerts I ever was until this day. After that I went to their gigs whenever the were in germany.
The PMG influenced my development as a musician (bass & guitar) from the beginning until this day. I played all kinds of music since then from metal, blues, world music, fusion to jazz in the last 50 years and liked them all, but PMG and all other Metheny projects were always a constant inspiration for me.
Funny to read, that so many people have chosen one of their songs for funeral. I thought I was alone, I told my children to chose one or two from 'Secret Story' album, e.g. 'The truth will always be'
There's something about Metheny's tunes....they are haunting...never seem to leave you.
neverrr
Absolutely but a goooood haunting:-)!!!!
It was during this era -- the 80's when I connected the most with him. As with many creative people, he has ideas all over the map (a great quality) -- Trio work, solo work, quartet work, Pat Metheny Group (my all-time favorite incarnation of his ideas), orchestrion, Unity Band, and the list goes on and on and on. This is probably my favorite of all his tunes, along with a few on Speaking of Now...
Oui,tu as raison Thara! Presque toutes les musiques de Pat sont tellement belles qu'elles te hantent, te poursuivent mais surtout t'accompagnent toute au long de ta vie! J'ai moi aussi écouté ce morceau lorsque j'avais 18ans! Quel choc!!!
PMG was Pat at his best. He and Lyle were the McCartney and Lennon of Fusion.