Love the 1, 2, 3 punch of Lyle’s piano opening “Here to Stay.”
Rest in peace, Lyle.
I know him from Joni Mitchell’s SHADOWS AND LIGHT tour DVD (which had Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, Michael Brecker, and Don Alias as well).
RIP Lyle, you guys were great.
Thank you for letting us know and for the youtube. Pleasant sounds and memories I had lost, but will now revisit.
Love the 1, 2, 3 punch of Lyle’s piano opening “Here to Stay.”
RIP, Lyle.
Must admit, I knew nothing about The Pat Metheny Group until hearing their music for the first time through the early days of The Weather Channel...
RIP Lyle.
Yes, Pat and Lyle worked well together. Sad that Lyle died so young.
Damn. First Neil Peart, now Lyle Mays. We’re losing the great ones.
One of my faves is “As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls.”
Here is a track from that album https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mIaU94SXj9Y
Damn that’s sad news. I guess we’re going to have a lot of this now. I don’t remember when I found PMG, I’m just glad I did. Mays’ pieces apart from the group are also wonderful, some haunting.
I’ll dig out what I have and fill in more from the ether.
Lyle’s playing made up a great deal of the PMG sound back at that time, in their prime.
R.I.P.
FMCDH(BITS)
Your post evokes a musical kinship between us heretofore unknown. PMG w/Mays is music I have held in highest esteem for decades. Beyond words.
The first time I ever heard Pat Metheny was on an old record player we had in my dad’s small equipment repair shop. One of our staff was a music buff (he went on to work as k.d. lang’s soundman). He asked if he could put something different from the old-school R&R and country that were the cliched selections of the day.
I was amazed and loved it. Thanks Grant, for opening my eyes to a whole different world of music.