HI to all ! and Hi and thanks br CD.
I follow Pat metheny/Lyle Mays group from the first LP. I wach them live in Athens in the summer of 1980, talked to Lyle at the sound check and see the Steinway on stage along with his set-up of OB4voice, Prophet5, Autoharp and Kurzweil 250 (before Synclavier came along).
There is an extremely good LP with the two of them "Wicthita Falls" with Nana Vasconcelos on percussion.
Their work before "first circle" is more inovative and fresh, maybe with the guidence of Manfred Eicher of ECM records. After that they created their label at Geffen, where Lyle made two solo albums, and I believe they copied themselves. Still very good music though.
I heard first time Pat Metheny before the group, as a session guitarist in Gary Burton's Lp's in ECM, "Music of Carla Blay" and "Passengers". Still got them along with almost all of Pat Metheny's Group recordings.
Nice link, full of youth memories...
Thanks Br.
Panos