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.
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...
Summer 1979 driving west on Hwy 128 thru the redwoods on the way to Mendocino, the cool fog, the wine, the leaf, and this magnificent music playing on the car sound system. I will remember it always, Michael and Carol. Love you forever.
When my (now ex) wife was pregnant with our daughter in 1991, I made a cassette tape of some of her favorite relaxing music to play in the delivery room, and of course I included several Pat Metheny tunes. In the middle of delivery, the OBGYN looks up from between my my wife's legs and says through his mask "Isn't that Pat Metheny?" I said "You can deliver my babies any time!!!" (I think it was "Phase Dance" that was playing at the time...)
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!
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.
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....
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 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 heard this song on WUOG in Athens, GA when it first came out. It was pouring down rain on a cold winter day....I bought the album and is one of the best albums I have ever heard.....I could play that album 24/7 and not get tired of it!!!!!!!!!!!
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 🎉 ❤
¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡Gracias por compartir este video!!!!!! Yo escuche esta hermosa melodía en el año de 1991, todavía en el sonido característico de un disco LP. Un amigo me lo grabo en un cassette de 90 minutos.
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.
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.
1979, Petersburg AK at 11:30pm I stepped of the MV Leconte. The only attendant for the AK Marine Ferry that night allowed me in to use the phone. This song he had playing over the PA system for only he and I to hear! EPIC.
You gave the song another meaning, you put it in another level with this video.. thanks! Still my best, together with au lait, minuano, episode d azur, till the end of the world, last train home... etc 😀😀💗💚💙🌴🌴🍍🍓🍒🍹🥂🧋🏖🏝🏝
Thanks for turning me on to Pat all those years ago Will. Your gone now, but through his music you live on. In my memories of the fun we had... I Love ya Brother...
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!
This is an amazing music I listened to her as a jingle at the beginning of the broadcast on the polish radio when I was maybe 15 years old. Beautiful images - thanks
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 !!
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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 ! 🎉 ❤
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
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.
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.
Where I discovered who and what I thought were the absolute coolest white dudes in the world, Pat Metheny and the late great Lyle Mayes may he forever rest in the same beautiful peace his keys brought to my soul . ❤❤Real Talk! This cut is were I forever became a Jazz Fusion fan. Love me some Pat Metheny Group!❤❤
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.
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 🎉
Wow. I saw these four guys perform together in the '70 at a college in Queens, NY with my buddy Dom who turned me on to this kind of music. Thank you Dom.
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!
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.
Was going to say "Hey I liked ths tune when it came out too, but C'mon, fave of all time?!?!" but halfway through (and with the memories it jogs up) I'm going "YEAH!!! When you're right, you're RIGHT!"
Amen - Atlanta College of Art 1978 The Jazz Album countdown on an AM station no less... Doing Serious art homework to this was easy!!! This is my favorite too!! Other Worldly... and artsy too -Smile ~~~~
its amazing how you say at 17............i was in junior high school listening to pat, jean luc, special efx etc etc and this was in the mid 80's with my walk man. then highschool. oh man i don't know i just love jazz music and this happenes to be my favorite as well. it's so well composed, so beautiful .........incredible. thanks for sharing.
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.
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 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.
I have been following Pat's music since 1978. The music has taken me on a journey like a time capsule. I hear a song, and it just brings me to that stage in my life. I love him for that. Thank you Pat. You are and always will be a huge part of my life. Sal from Jersey
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 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
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 🎉 ❤
Great solo by Lyle Mays! Pat Metheny's guitar harmonies and harmonics are sublime. The bass and percussion are great too!
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
Summer 1979 driving west on Hwy 128 thru the redwoods on the way to Mendocino, the cool fog, the wine, the leaf, and this magnificent music playing on the car sound system. I will remember it always, Michael and Carol. Love you forever.
Wish I had heard this song, years before now, but I'm glad I found it and listen to it a lot.
When my (now ex) wife was pregnant with our daughter in 1991, I made a cassette tape of some of her favorite relaxing music to play in the delivery room, and of course I included several Pat Metheny tunes. In the middle of delivery, the OBGYN looks up from between my my wife's legs and says through his mask "Isn't that Pat Metheny?" I said "You can deliver my babies any time!!!" (I think it was "Phase Dance" that was playing at the time...)
❤ it ! 🎉 ❤
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
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.
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.
This hard! How am I only just discovering this song. My childhood consisted of pat metheny.
Mine also ! 🎉❤
This was the first Metheny tune I ever heard - summer of 1980. Been a big fan ever since. Awesome musician.........
Chanson magnétique, d'un pays où je n'irais pas. Merci Pat. Bon anniversaire
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 instrumental is one of my favorite music pieces..Thanks Pat !!!
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....
I feel sorry for anyone who has never heard this
🤣
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 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 heard this song on WUOG in Athens, GA when it first came out. It was pouring down rain on a cold winter day....I bought the album and is one of the best albums I have ever heard.....I could play that album 24/7 and not get tired of it!!!!!!!!!!!
This song enhanced the pouring rain and cold winter day ! Thanks for sharing! Beautiful scenario 🎉 ❤
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.
¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡Gracias por compartir este video!!!!!! Yo escuche esta hermosa melodía en el año de 1991, todavía en el sonido característico de un disco LP. Un amigo me lo grabo en un cassette de 90 minutos.
I am 62 and love this song
Best album ever, bar none. Could not stop playing when it came out. Still love it! Thank you, Pat and Lyle for this masterpiece ❤️
I’m 46 and remember this being played by my father on Saturday mornings
Beautiful music, it goes back to magic places.Thanks for sharing
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.
Thank you for upload this great song and also for sharing us the awesome photos
Great and relaxing mixture for chill out.
Thanks again
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.
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.
1979, Petersburg AK at 11:30pm I stepped of the MV Leconte. The only attendant for the AK Marine Ferry that night allowed me in to use the phone. This song he had playing over the PA system for only he and I to hear! EPIC.
Memories like those are what matters.
My first Pat Matheny album, been hooked ever since
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
You gave the song another meaning, you put it in another level with this video.. thanks! Still my best, together with au lait, minuano, episode d azur, till the end of the world, last train home... etc 😀😀💗💚💙🌴🌴🍍🍓🍒🍹🥂🧋🏖🏝🏝
RD🇩🇴
Lyle mays Piano uuff ... no words , It's amanzing.......
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!!
Thanks for turning me on to Pat all those years ago Will.
Your gone now, but through his music you live on. In my memories of the fun we had... I Love ya Brother...
Beautiful 🎉❤
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!
This is an amazing music I listened to her as a jingle at the beginning of the broadcast on the polish radio when I was maybe 15 years old. Beautiful images - thanks
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
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 !!
There will never be another Pat Metheny.
And we have to give it up for Mr. Lyle Mayes on keyboards. Another genius. He and Pat were like birds and feather.
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 am happy and grateful that I have seen Pat Metheny twice, both in Toronto. I hope that I get to see him perform (at least) once more
Ive seen Pat Metheny 6 times and with Lyle Mays. What loss an incredible musician. I love this song.. San Lorenzo!
1 of his best tunes! folks of the world listen to the early tapes of p. metheny are the best! believe me!1
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 first heard this tune fresh out of Basic training. I have been a fan of his ever since. Memories galore. Thanks for the ride.
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.
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 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.
Pat has been around since the stone age and is just that much more better. Lots of style, imagination and just plain well arranged bars of magic.....
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.
TIMELESS .... TAKES ME BACK TO SIMPLER TIMES ....
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 💜
As much as I love pat and lyle, I missed this track somehow. Now I will let this one melt into my memory.
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 ! 🎉 ❤
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
If there is anyone more musically, Creative I do not know whom it would be? I am 81 years young and Pat Metheny et al does it for me?
Beautiful, makes me travel without moving....something which only instrumental music can do.. Pat does it best...
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!
Merci pour cette magnifique composition musicale !! Et ces belles images !! Thank's so much
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 🎉❤
Escuchar este tema es como subir a lo más alto y bajar poco a poco. Insuperable!
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.
You’re not forgotten Ronnie Dean Woods! Best concert memories ever!
Hard to believe this was done in 1978! Truly timeless!!!
oh my god what marvelous sensations of pleasure and peace always instills in me this marvelous song that, in an instant, brings me back to my 20
Where I discovered who and what I thought were the absolute coolest white dudes in the world, Pat Metheny and the late great Lyle Mayes may he forever rest in the same beautiful peace his keys brought to my soul . ❤❤Real Talk!
This cut is were I forever became a Jazz Fusion fan.
Love me some Pat Metheny Group!❤❤
Laughter is the greatest medicine.... But, Music sure soothes the Soul...
This song brings me to another decade. Grateful!
Pat put the Lorenzo in the overriding threshhold of a magnificence..
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.
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.
Wow. I saw these four guys perform together in the '70 at a college in Queens, NY with my buddy Dom who turned me on to this kind of music. Thank you Dom.
Simply Beautiful 🎶🎵 this piece makes
Me feel like I am chillaxing on an island enjoying all the beauty around me
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!
Excelente. LYLE, te extraño 😢. RIP
this song changes my life, and opened the door to Jazz.
Sorry should say 'changed' my life. As it should (change my life).
What is this beauty!!! i just jammed to it and i didn't even now this existed!.....truly well done piece!
......... It was like nothing we ever heard, and still is like nothing we ever heard !!!!!!
That sound of those times..... It was Godlike
When I heard the material on this album, it changed things for me a most miraculous album!
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.
Was going to say "Hey I liked ths tune when it came out too, but C'mon, fave of all time?!?!" but halfway through (and with the memories it jogs up) I'm going "YEAH!!! When you're right, you're RIGHT!"
The tune that converted me.....Summer 1978....
It's never been the same since.....thank you Pat and Lyle!
Amen - Atlanta College of Art 1978 The Jazz Album countdown on an AM station no less... Doing Serious art homework to this was easy!!! This is my favorite too!! Other Worldly... and artsy too -Smile ~~~~
its amazing how you say at 17............i was in junior high school listening to pat, jean luc, special efx etc etc and this was in the mid 80's with my walk man. then highschool. oh man i don't know i just love jazz music and this happenes to be my favorite as well. it's so well composed, so beautiful .........incredible. thanks for sharing.
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.
Pat your music is truly "Mesmerizing". Just listening takes my mine to far away places.
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.
Definitely Their Best Work And I Too Was There In My Fathers Place In '78 AMAZING!!!!
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.
Beautiful arrangement, one of the best keyboard Jazz songs ever produced
"You heard, Now listen to A Memory Pleaser by Pat Metheny it's called "San Lorenzo on jazz 106 WJZZ"
- Rosetta Hines
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😍
I have been following Pat's music since 1978. The music has taken me on a journey like a time capsule. I hear a song, and it just brings me to that stage in my life. I love him for that. Thank you Pat. You are and always will be a huge part of my life. Sal from Jersey
J'adore j'adore j'adore !!!!!!!
I got the heaven when I listen to this son.
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