Pat Metheny - Jaco - live 1977
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- So, since I have read many messages referring to bassist Jaco Pastorius. write often: (this is not jaco) I repeat "jaco" is the title of the song on a Pat Metheny group album and the person playing in this video is Mark Egan, he was one of Jaco' s students. I hope I was clear once and for all. Thank you
I was a recording engineer at the time The Pat Metheny Group album was released. I was regretting my choice of career because the studio I worked in at the time had become the darling of the disco producer wanna bes. So that's all I got to work on.
Then I heard the Pat Metheny Group album. I ultimately went through three copies of the LP and two CDs. I just couldn't seem to get the album off my turntable. It was a revelation.
Several years later I found an address book which had been dropped on the sidewalk in Chelsea where I was living. I looked through it to see if the owner had put his or her name on the flyleaf. They hadn't, but I did find these three names: Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays and Danny Gottlieb. So I knew immediately it was Mark Egan's book. I got it back to him and eventually became acqainted with everyone in the group. That album had a generation's worth of talent in four young men.
Awesome story! Thanks for sharing!
Very cool story!
Ohhh yeah.
Mark Egan KILLING it.
Word up
Correct. Not Jaco.
Perfect pitch too!
@@rsnell22 I think everyone is missing that the name of the song is Jaco. Pat wrote it as a dedication. It is from the recording "Pat Metheny Group."
Jaco took the day off?
The OG Pat Metheny Group. They were like rock stars to so many of us in the late 70's and early 80's. RIP Lyle.
I am so sad I will never hear new work by Lyle!!! Or Jaco... but I have had decades to adjust. Metheny, and his work and crew, continue to raise the bar... Over and over.
Wait a minute. “LIKE” rock stars?
Very true.
Mark Egan had that BIG fat sound and was killin' it!
Jazz stars gettin paid to have a blast playing....@@jeffryphillipsburns
Mark Egan getting a great tone and playing excellent.
yeah....Egan became a hot bass player ....
yeahman, that tone is right on .. .
Absolutely incredible, yes.
and playing originally, not aping jaco,
@@jimmythebold589 3:28 says otherwise hahahaha
Just imagine the sessions and Pat says to Mark Egan (an amazing player himself) “Hey, I have this song called ‘Jaco’ “…
This is The Pat Metheny Group
Pat Metheny - guitars
Lyle Mays - keyboards
Mark Egan - bass
Danny Gottlieb - drums
thx, wouldn' t know who' s playing bass.
Yeah definitely not Jaco on bass lol. Thanks for correcting (video title says Jaco!) 😊
@@davidmrsmith1975 I bet it's the title of the song :) but I was mislead as well... I didn't expect Jaco with that hair :))
wow. I thought it was Rick wakeman on keys ! he looks a lot like rick =)))
This is an amazing band. Love the bass solo.
Wow, rare and important historic film material. Great.
The song is dedicated to Pat Metheny’s good friend and collaborator, Jaco Pastorius, who played on Metheny’s legendary album, Bright Size Life.
ok, ok...everybody know that.
Pffft....They were both in Joni's Shadows and Light band.
Jaco was also Mark's bass teacher at The University of Miami, and the influence is noticeable on Mark's grooves and solo.
@@tilurisoI did know this.
Bright Sized Life is cold 🥶
How lucky can a music lover be? On my way to pick up my HS Diploma in 1973 I heard the first release from Steely Dan's "Can't Buy A Thrill". HOOKED !! The Dan would serve as the soundtrack for my undergraduate days. In 1978 Metheny showed up in Gainesville to play a free concert. HOOKED. In 1979 The PMG performed again in Gainesville in support of The White Album. TOTALLY HOOKED. Metheny + Mays have provided the soundtrack for my adult life. How fortunate to have been walking the Earth while they were. I'm sure the folks who lived in Shakespear's or Beethoven's time felt the same way. PMG's music is still and will always be the soundtrack for my life. My Will decrees that September 15th be played at my Memorial Service.
IDEA: MAKE A FILM ABOUT YOURSELF.
Great ensemble!!! Makes me terribly nostalgic for my high school days when I discovered them and realized there was a world of music outside of rock.
Not THAT “outside of rock”.
Pats best band ever. Just so amazingly good!!.
Agreed 💯💯
unless you’ve seen him with Jack deJohnette, Dave Holland and Herbie Hancock ( videos onRUclips)… but then again, that was never an official band. He’s had slit of trios s as ms quarters that weren’t official touring bands. Last time i saw him quite a few years back he was playing with a group of jazz guys, mostly half his age- that he called the Unity band. Great players.. i gotta look at what he’s doing now… touring the world as always, i’m sure. Metheny is relentlessly and “compulsively productive” as Steve Rodby said. Metheny has added immensely to my life and inspiration as a person and musician. I imagine/ hope he’ll be going hard for a long time to come.
I saw the 80/81 tour here in Stockholm. Great record!. Pat somehow created his own world. Amazing talent and human being. One of kind.@@adamcrary1602
At UNT I took a bass lesson with Mark Egan once! I had just gotten into the jazz world on bass and was very green and had very little dexterity. Any ways watching Mark play right next to me was like watching an Olympic athlete perform a gold medal routine. I hope I was not a waste of his time. Such a nice guy.
I could listen to this forever.
Can't believe it's been 47 years ago when I 1st herd this cut...still listen to it 2day like it just came out...and I absolutely luv Mark Egan's sound...👌🏿
in 1977 I was 15 years old and, I confess, I still didn't know Pat... I only started listening to him with sublime pleasure 10 years later... but since then Pat's music has been in my life and in my soul 🥰
... A good day to you, What a coincidence, we have the same age, but I heard about Pat Metheny already in 1974 via a music cassette of my father, can you imagine (lol), who happened to be a big jazz fan. The next year in 1975 we went to Utrecht (Holland) to see a concert of the also great Gary Burton band, where the then 21 year old (... young I must say! ) Pat Metheny was a member of (PMG didn't even exist yet); it was an unforgettable evening (Steve Swallow, Dan Gottlieb, Gary Burton, Pat Metheny), and we also got the opportunity to chat a little bit with the musicians after the concert! From then on I followed Pat's music career very closely ... the forming of PMG with the late great Lyle Mays (RIP) later on ...etc...etc ... still having no regrets (lol) ... thank you for sharing your story... Best regards, Jan-W
SAME HERE \.. I'M 2 YEARS OLDER.. I KNEW PAT IN EARLY 90s... WOWWW I DISCOVERED A UNIVERSE....
Never too late ;)
@@jan-willemreens9010thank you, Jan! 👍👍
😉@@chrischaney9223
The Best Metheny Band!
Mark Egan is a BEAST on bass!!! I wish he would have stayed longer with the group.
He is a great bass player and critical to the early sound. Still, Pat wanted someone who was equally versatile with a double bass…so Rodby.
from UofM alumni, as Jaco, Will Lee & Steve Morse - infused a ton of 70s fusion bands
My favorite formation of the group. Things got too busy after this.
First time hearing Pat Metheny and I gotta say this song is just great. I'm a fan.
I first saw Pat Metheny live at the legendary venue, Amazingrace, in 1976.
It was a trio, about 40 people in the audience. I laid on the floor with my eyes closed.....had buried a friend earlier in the day...got to meet Pat after the show....
I have more Pat stories, but that's enough for now. Thanks for posting this.
I remember as a young kid playing that bassline over and over and over till I popped a string!!! What a great song that was. I recently heard it for the first time in years. What wonderful memories.
The groove, the fingers, the vibe, the HAIR 💪🏾👍🏾🙏🏾
the toothbrush!
The cocaine
The Mark Egan!
Questo brano è andato nella storia !! 👍👍
Still sounds fresh so many years later.
In January of 1977 Jaco and I began work on what, some years hence, became Word Of Mouth. Pat’s Bright Size Life featured great playing by Jaco and I could tell he was affected by its success as we would occasionally call him to let him hear some ideas. There was mutual respect and friendship between them. On the saddest day of my life, Pat came to Jaco’s home and expressed his loving thoughts with a strength I was still struggling to find. I’ll never forget the beautiful homage of his words and playing that day. What a lovely human being Pat Metheny is. 💙
Is that Jaco with long hear ?
jaco's student, mark egan @@selprocr
mark egan on bass @@selprocr
@@selprocr he looks like Pedro Aznar a little bit
This was mid-1970's. Jaco Pastorius never played in the Pat Metheny Group. This bassist is the great Mark Egan. The name of this tune is "Jaco" - hence, the long bass solo in homage to Jaco.
Yeah, the title made me think that Jaco was playing with Pat so thanks for clearing that up. Mark Egan is an INCREDIBLE bass player! I totally see how he was one of Jaco’s students. Thanks for the excellent video!
I saw Pat and Lyle in Burlington Vermont about 1983 - absolutely blew me away - I’m still getting over that show ! Such incredible musicianship by all of you - RIP Lyle 🙏🙏🙏🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼👏👏👏👏👏👏
That was a great era to see the group, and Pat was playing in Boston with trios all the time. I was living there and saw him dozens of times in Cambridge and the surrounding area. He was playing a lot with Roy Haynes and various upright bass players.
I remember being at a friend’s house when this came on. I was instantly mesmerized and when it was over, I immediately went out and bought the album. Best ever.
I'm Hearin Ya... Me To.. I Ran Right Out and Snapped Up a Copy ☺☺😎💯
I know what you mean. Looks like the same Austin City Limits episode I watched back in the late 70’s. I waited a few days later to watch it the repeat airing, but this time I was ready with my cassette recorder. Low quality audio perhaps, but it was better than nothing at all.
That is one of the best bass solos I’ve ever heard ever period. Tone for days
I can see how folks could make that mistake in reading your title. But it was so easy to recognize Mark Egan for me, personally. And his playing was like Jaco cloned himself. Knowing that Mark was Jacos student made it simple for me to understand the title of your video. And thank you for posting that. It was badass. Saved in Favorites.
Mark played absolutely nothing like Jaco. Not the faintest hint. In fact, his playing in this live version is, umm… unfortunately ambitious.
The song was an homage, a tribute to Pat’s dear friend from University of Miami days. They remained close to the very end.
Danny’s groove is unstoppable!
Thanks for posting this. What a treat to see this jewel from the past. I did not know Egan was a student of Jaco's. In this cut I can hear his influence. They all look like kids!
Great bass player.
Right!
I saw this band open for Stanley Clarke in 1977 at Kent State. A musician friend had told me not to miss Metheny but I couldn’t get my roommates (who only cared about Stanley) to put the bong down and get to the concert hall until their last song. Which was Jaco. Ouch. 😢
Haha! 😄 Never make time-sensitive plans involving stoners! I couldn't tell you how many events I've arrived late at because of stoner friends! At some point I just learned to say "I'll see you guys at the venue!"
And just like that: an (air)stream of sweet, fresh air...blows new life into Western Music.
So glad that people are keeping this music alive. ❤ pat Metheny Group, Pat Metheny created some of the most emotional, beautiful, ethereal world/jazz music ever created. So glad the people on this thread exist to pay homage and tribute to it. Thank you. 🙏
From my favorite PMG album. And it has Mark Egan highlights all over it. Smokin bass player. This lineup was supa tight!
The freshness of this first PMG frontline is amazing. It was a project full of ideas and the history confirms it. Egan comping was perfect and he played a tasty solo.
I still listen to this song, album, this group at the time was and still the best ❤❤❤
Fantastic Bass solo by Mark Egan. Supercool groove altogether.
Great, I saw this lineup in the early 80s…
Saw them at the Cleveland Agora
So did I around the Spring of 81..
I saw them in May 1979 in Hartford, CT. I couldn't believe my ears!
Man, this is priceless...Thanks for sharing it.
In 1975 my college jazz band went to the Wichita Jazz Festival. Gary Burton was one of the clinicians and he had brought along this skinny long-haired kid on guitar. They were great together but I just kinda forgot about it. In ‘78 I was listening to the late night jazz FM station in Atlanta and they were interviewing PM and playing cuts from Bright Size Life, and the new Quartet album and I nearly passed out when I realized this was the same guy! I haven’t missed anything he’s done since. His and Lyle’s music have brought me out of the dumps and transported me through the universe. I thank god that I’m sharing the planet with him, and RIP Lyle Mays!
Que grupazo!!! 👍👍👍
For those who don't know, this song, "Jaco", appeared on the first PMG album, "Pat Metheny Group", sometimes referred to as the White Album (with a nod to the Beatles).
White Album? I listen to his music and follow his career for 40 years now. I never ever heard or read that anywhere…
@@panorama4526 I saw him (Pat) call it that in person. It's easier to make sense of than calling it "Pat Metheny Group," which is technically the album's title.
Wow, I wasn't hip enough at that time being in high school. Rowdy rock and roll prog were my thing until I heard Al Di Meola when I was a Jr. That totally turned my head around because of the raw intensity and virtuosity that my ear slowly but surely went to jazz. We were luck to have lots of great radio stations that played an insane amount of bebop, hard bop, modern jazz, fusion, prog. So I started taking notes, building a collection, going to concerts. By the time I finally got to see Pat he was a superstar. But it was great and memorable then and every time since. He puts everything he has into a show, and then some, to this very day. The songbokk that he and Lyle created is astonishing in its beautiful depth and breadth. Amazing.
I turned 30 in 1977 and heard “Watercolors.” I was instantly attracted to the band’s sound, which was being called “fusion.” Long story short, I’ve been a big fan of Pat and his work ever since.
Mark Egan absolutely killed it! Wow!
The salad days of Metheny Group. Pat/Lyle/Dan tearing it up with more fusion/rock flair. Yes lots of critics called Pat "Carlton on acid". But that's why we don't need critics. People forget how much of Gottlieb's signature drum sound/playing helped shape later LP's like "Offramp".
The original rhythm team of Egan and Gottlieb were great live.
@@3340steve I'm partial to that rhythm section, they had a little more edge or something.
Woah!! All these guys are amazing!!!! Cool song and great performance!!! Thanks for posting and sharing!!!
Always upvote this incredible song!
Mark's no slouch at all. Great fretless work.
What a great band saw them at the Great American music Hall, SF, 1978 tickets five dollars 😮
Man for a moment there I thought we had some footage of Pat & Jaco .
We do, from a concert with Joni Mitchell
@@yobench Exclusive Footage , Not a massive Joni fan , But that Was some band.
Check out Joni Mitchell's Shadow and Light. Pat, Lyle, Jaco, Michael Brecker, and Don Alias. What a band. Joni knows it.....she's trying not to smile her ass off through the whole performance!
No cell phones, no distractions. True engagement
Loved this lineup of the PMG! Really miss Lyle😢
This was one of the greatest accidents of my life. In college my work study job was at our little 10 watt radio station. The guy that hosted the Sunday morning jazz show couldn’t make it, so I was asked to sub in. I had no idea about any of the music, so I randomly pulled out a collection of albums. One was the original Pat Metheny Group. One play of Phase Dance was all I needed. I was so delighted that my son later took on Metheny as well. Incredible.
Glad to have seen them live a few times! Mark had already switched to using Pat's bass. Talked to all of them except Lyle outside Avery Fisher Hall.
Oh Yess... This is One of My All Time Favorite Pat Methany Group Tunes... They Slayed This ☺☺😎👊💯
"...from a better, vanished time".
Mark Egan is an EXCELLENT bass player!
This is serious fingerstyle,solo jazz guitar, with improvisation over the changes and all,excellent execution..as complex as a classical piece.yet more interesting..all the best maestro!
Greetings from Havana.
Saw him in Minneapolis newly sober 1977 Changed my life at 22 years old
I just listened to this again. The bassist is just nuts. In a good way
That Egan guy does an INCREDIBLE impression of Jaco himself
That Egan guy is an INCREDIBLE bassist in his own right.
Masterful bass break!
Great musicianship...period. Respect and RIP to keyboardist Lyle Mays.
The track is called Jaco. That is Mark Egan on bass, playing a song called Jaco.
Once upon a time titles were _Underlined_And_Capitslized_
Thanks for the clarification
Its amazing how accurate Jaco was with his statement that "its all in the fingers", because even though Mark is playing a fretless Jazz of roughly the same era as the Bass Of Doom, and is utilising a lot of techniques and phrases that Jaco was known for, he sounds nothing like him. Fantastic playing though, that '64 Jazz sounds brilliant.
The “all in the fingers” retort came from frustration over ‘fans’ who couldn’t accept it was just a Fender bass.
Great!!! Thank you for sharing this video. Best wishes from Huenos Aires! - Christian
Wonderful tribute to jaco pastouris one of kind bass player. Forever eternal. Wolfen ❤😂🎉
This is so very nice to see and hear. I really enjoyed Lyle, Jaco and Pat backing Joni Mitchell for her Shadows and Light album. And what a beautiful video she made of that in a concert in 1979!
Los comienzos de la legendaria banda del gran Pat Metheny
This song debuted almost twenty-nine years before I was born, and yet it goes so hard. I wish I could've been there.
Mark Egan played bass in Sting´s "Nothing Like The Sun" album, but I cannot say in which song(s).
The magic that is Mark Egan.
Egan's work on What Child is this - GRP Christmas, Altiplano - Alex deGrassi and Arcadia and the Promise are all something else on that crazy Pedulla bass.
Molto bello
I saw this tour at West Chester University in PA. Jaco's father introduced the band.
Hometown for Jack.
Yes, listen to the band introduction at the end of the video. I agree with the other comments that the bass playing is excellent but not Jaco Jaco always plays "around" the changes not "with" the changes if that makes sense. He was a master of melody - as is Pat Metheny.
I saw the Group a.few times at small clubs in Philly in the late 70s. Jace and Phase Dance were always my favorites, and the Group's music I still enjoy regularly. Thank you for posting this.
WRVR radio station in nyc 1977 would play this jam from sun up to sun down! Pat Metheny and group my favorite jazz artist of the 70's bar none!
In the beginning 💃
I was 14 and loved weather report so all these guys, Zappa, Lee, Dixie Dregs and on were played a lot.
Thanks for posting this - have been a fan since the early 80s
Wow. From this time too. This is magnificent. Thank you so much!!
...magic sound❤
Remains a great tribute to the man to this day. Jaco says “play on boys.”
I Love Pat! One of my music heroes! A real musician as opposed to the overload of entertainers masquerading as musicians these days. I was only 10 years old when this album came out, and I really didn't start getting into the Pat Metheny catalog until undergrad. Why did such talented musicians like Danny Gotlieb and Mark Egan leave the band?
stop pretending you know anything about "music these days". I am a Pat fan and was around in these days and the ratio of pop to jazz was the same. Those comments just tell me you have done no looking and only base that off your car radio... lazy
Management forced them to use Peavey equipment, I would have quit to.
@@majorseventh2699Source?
Amazing!
My brother and I caught this same lineup back in '78 at Sea-Tac. We were pretty much overcome and stayed for the second show w/o leaving our seats. Truly a jazz feast!
I think the venue was called The Place. I saw that show as well as others. I remember at some point management put in a mechanical bull to cash in on the new country fad. The PMG show was awesome and they had so much youthful enthusiasm (I did too)!
Where was the venue? I live there now and wanna know!@@notablejourney
@@virgiljones4808 I wasn't driving, so I didn't pay attention. It was called The Place, and it went out of business in the early 80s. I also saw Bruce Cockburn band there.
@@virgiljones4808 OK I did a little google-fu and the address WAS 15221 Pacific Highway S Burien. 45 years ago. Place looks WAAAY different today.
@@notablejourney thanks apartments there now. Man im jealous- awesome to see a show like that!
Saw this lineup at the Joyous Lake in Woodstock, N.Y. in '78. Small club and you could hang with the band. Good times.
Very cool RUclips post. One of my very favorite tracks form that lovely debut Pat Metheny Group LP. Great live '77 performance.
A great tribute to Jaco
Mark Egan studied under Jaco at the University of Miami, in a department led by bassist Will Lee's dad, if I remember correctly..
Hey guys if you don't know "Jaco" then you don't know Pat Metheny music. :) Nice post !!!
Incredibil musical talent the 70 s. Incredibil times. Creative stuff
How lucky were we to have this in 77...NICE!!!!
There are numerous bassists that have influenced the instrument throughout the ages. In the 70s in jazz/fusion there are a few giants. Mark Egan IS amongst those giants and should always be mentioned as an innovator. Not many were able to play like the giants. The brilliance. Clarke, Pastorius, Egan.
Sublime...
For what it's worth I have several LP's by Mark and he plays a fretless bass