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 th-cam.com/video/1O1Cf62P_X8/w-d-xo.html (they also like to change 4/4 to odd meters like 7 or 11 eg th-cam.com/video/YsDP9DppmRw/w-d-xo.html - guitarist subbed in last inute when the regular guy got covid)
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 🎉 ❤
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 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...
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 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.
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!
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.
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 ! 🎉 ❤
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.
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!
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 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.
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.
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.
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!❤❤
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.
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
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.
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.
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 ! 🎉 ❤
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.
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!!
San Lorenzo es para mí uno de los mejores temas de Pat Metheny Group. Los teclados suenan geniales.....Vamos Pat debes volver a realizar música con Lyle Mays.
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.
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.
I have probably listened to Phase Dance and San Lorenzo thousands of times since this first came out. Spectacular. This tune is so amazing with it's "journey-of-life" feeling. At the 8:58 mark - Lyle comes in with that long sustain note on his Oberheim that carries us to the end of the tune - while Mark Egan lays down some of the warmest bass playing I've ever heard. Mesmorizing.
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.
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.
awesome song, from a great record, there is not to many people that really appreciate the full extent of Pat´s Music, and how it can actually make someone feel relaxed and at peace, been listening to P.Metheny since i was about the same age (15) and now at age (37), a great album for riding a bike on a Saturday morning is " Watercolours " (1977)...
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 !!
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.
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.....
Without a doubt, one of the most beautiful piano 🎹 passages around... BRAVO 👏 👏 Lyle This album set me on my PMG voyage RIP 🙏 Lyle... Aloha Kimo Hawaii Strong
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.
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.
HERMOSA PIEZA ARTISTICA DE PAT Y SU GRUPO, ME TRAE BELLOS RECUERDOS DE1980, VEZ PRIMERA QUE OI SAN LORENZO EN RADIO BEETHOVEN EN FM, SANTIAGO DE CHILE. DESDE AHI EN ADELANTE QUE HE ADMIRADO Y SEGUIDO SU OBRA, SIEMPRE INNOVADORA EN ESTE VARIADO Y BELLO GENERO QUE ES EL JAZZ. GRANDE PAT Y TODOS SUS INTEGRANTES SIEMPRE POR SIEMPRE
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.
living in L.A in the mid 80'ties a radio station emerge by the call signs 94.7 the wave and at that time I met Pat Metheny, Joni Mitchell, Randy Goodrum and I found a different type of music
Ohhh yesss!!!! I was born in December 1972. I heard it first time I think in 1982 and since this time its my favorite...Its the live version taken from the Album ,, Travels". Thanks God he sent two men on earth called Pat and Lyle!
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!!!
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 ~~~~
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.
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!
Craig Roulhac I'm with you on that one brother! I bang on the PMG early stuff right through the Vasconcelos, Aznar phases, take the roof off my SLK and hit the road without a care in the world! I love it! It's for you, Have you heard - fantastic driving tracks!
Oh Yes! You are bang on! There's so many to mention! I was just flicking through you tube just now and I must say that my preferences lie with the stuff 70's to 90's and when he had the South American influences. They're my favourites. They're all roof down tracks! Even in the English winter, people must think I'm nuts driving through London with my coat and scarf on with PMG blasting out with the roof off! Y'know what, I don't give a S### ha ha! Is there a UK fan base?
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!!!!
Back around 1980 HBO used to play this and other jazz songs before they started their daily broadcast (back before they were broadcasting for 24 hours a day). I have been searching for this song since then, and just found it today! Sounds just as sweet (even better) that it has sounded rolling around in my head the last 35 years. Amazing. I almost cried! (but don't tell anyone!)
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.
This is the album that turned me on to Pat back in 1979. I went back and listened to Bright Size Life and Watercolors and a love affair was born! But this album (I call it The White Album) is still my favorite almost 40 years later. It's one of my "desert island" albums! Few musicians have touched my soul like Pat.
Oui! J'écoute ce morceau depuis mes 18ans (1979) j'ai toujours de grandes émotions chaque fois que je l'entends! J'ai eu l'occasion de l'écouter en live lors d'un concert de PM Group à Toulouse (France) en 1987!!!
This album had a profound effect on me musically. I thought this album was ground breaking because it combined acoustic and electronic sounds so seamlessly. This album is probably my all time favorite.
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.
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.
I'll never forget this beautiful song. My best friend and I went to see PTG in 1977 in Nashville at the Exit Inn. It was their first tour, no one really knew who they were, and then they started with this; we were instantly transported into the new world of Pat Metheny. It was amazing. We went to the 7:00 show and, afterwards, Pat addressed the fairly slim crowd and said, "We haven't sold alot of tickets for the 9:00 show, so anyone who would like to stay on, you are welcome you to do so." Man, we so DID stay for the second show! Pat Metheny is not only a fantastic musician, but a very gracious person, as well. I truly believe that part of the greatness of his music is his sincere heart.
Many artists were generous like that, back then, both sharing with each other, and with us. I went to some concerts that lasted till sunrise, we gave love and appreciation to them, they gave back to us.
Pat's work has been the soundtrack to my life. I bought "the white album" in 1979, after listening to all of American Garage on a late night college radio program. I know of no other musician that has the range of emotion, dedication, amazing skill, and creative soul that Pat does. Lyle is almost right there with him in talent and depth. Their music has enriched my life in more ways than I can describe. And this is one of their pieces together that can still bring me to tears, listening to it in a dark room. Thanks, SomethingReal. Chat any time.
Had the great pleasure of meeting him while standing in line at Catskill Art and Office Supply in Woodstock,NY years back. I asked him if he had any plans to play locally,and he said he didn't think so. A few months later,I saw him play the Secret Story album in Albany,NY. One of the most amazing concerts I've ever been to. He's probably my favorite musician of all time.
I went to the Solomon Islands this year and this song still sums up my feelings about it perfectly. A beautiful song and a beautiful place that fits in perfectly.
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 th-cam.com/video/1O1Cf62P_X8/w-d-xo.html (they also like to change 4/4 to odd meters like 7 or 11 eg th-cam.com/video/YsDP9DppmRw/w-d-xo.html - guitarist subbed in last inute when the regular guy got covid)
Amen 🎉 ❤
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.
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!!!
I’m 69 I’ve loved Pat and Lyle for a long time. RIP brother
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.
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 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. 😁
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!!
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 62 and love this song
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
This was the first Metheny tune I ever heard - summer of 1980. Been a big fan ever since. Awesome musician.........
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 ! 🎉 ❤
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 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.
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 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.
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!
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!
Great solo by Lyle Mays! Pat Metheny's guitar harmonies and harmonics are sublime. The bass and percussion are great too!
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.
this song changes my life, and opened the door to Jazz.
Sorry should say 'changed' my life. As it should (change my life).
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.
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.
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!❤❤
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.
......... It was like nothing we ever heard, and still is like nothing we ever heard !!!!!!
That sound of those times..... It was Godlike
Never, ever, ever gets old.
It still astonishes me that this guy was in his early twenties when he did this. Its mindboggling.
He and Lyle Mays are musical GODs- and whoever they choose to play with are too,
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
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."
I feel sorry for anyone who has never heard this
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.
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.
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 ! 🎉 ❤
I heard this tune when I met my wife. Beautiful! Thank you Pat for your wonderful music.
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.
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.
This song brings me to another decade. Grateful!
San Lorenzo es para mí uno de los mejores temas de Pat Metheny Group. Los teclados suenan geniales.....Vamos Pat debes volver a realizar música con Lyle Mays.
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.
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.
I have probably listened to Phase Dance and San Lorenzo thousands of times since this first came out. Spectacular. This tune is so amazing with it's "journey-of-life" feeling. At the 8:58 mark - Lyle comes in with that long sustain note on his Oberheim that carries us to the end of the tune - while Mark Egan lays down some of the warmest bass playing I've ever heard. Mesmorizing.
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 🎉❤
Very happy that this song is back on TH-cam again. One of the best songs I’ve ever heard..
REALLY OUT OF THIS WORLD😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
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.
awesome song, from a great record, there is not to many people that really appreciate the full extent of Pat´s Music, and how it can actually make someone feel relaxed and at peace, been listening to P.Metheny since i was about the same age (15) and now at age (37), a great album for riding a bike on a Saturday morning is " Watercolours " (1977)...
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
Still one of most profound piece of jazz music, thanks for the music Lyle Mays,😎😎😎😎😎🎧
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.
WHEN I first herd this song, I knew there was love and joy.
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.
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.....
❤
Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Danny Gottlieb, Mark Egan.
Perfection Personified!
Without a doubt, one of the most beautiful piano 🎹 passages around...
BRAVO 👏 👏 Lyle
This album set me on my PMG voyage
RIP 🙏 Lyle...
Aloha Kimo
Hawaii Strong
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.
I love this song! This takes me way back in 1978. This is one of my favorites.
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.
HERMOSA PIEZA ARTISTICA DE PAT Y SU GRUPO, ME TRAE BELLOS RECUERDOS DE1980, VEZ PRIMERA QUE OI SAN LORENZO EN RADIO BEETHOVEN EN FM, SANTIAGO DE CHILE. DESDE AHI EN ADELANTE QUE HE ADMIRADO Y SEGUIDO SU OBRA, SIEMPRE INNOVADORA EN ESTE VARIADO Y BELLO GENERO QUE ES EL JAZZ. GRANDE PAT Y TODOS SUS INTEGRANTES SIEMPRE POR SIEMPRE
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.
living in L.A in the mid 80'ties a radio station emerge by the call signs 94.7 the wave and at that time I met Pat Metheny, Joni Mitchell, Randy Goodrum and I found a different type of music
You and me both, I still love it to this day.
Ohhh yesss!!!! I was born in December 1972. I heard it first time I think in 1982 and since this time its my favorite...Its the live version taken from the Album ,, Travels". Thanks God he sent two men on earth called Pat and Lyle!
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.
I'm pretty sure I'll be hearing this on my way to heaven on sweet day!
I hope we both do.
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 ~~~~
Il più bel pezzo di Pat. Arriva dagli anni 70 con la stessa freschezza del primo momento. Ciò significa che è un pezzo immortale.
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..:)
This timeless piece is so worth coming back to. And Lyle’s solo (4:45..) is just otherworldly good.
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 🎉 ❤
Pat Metheny Music is like a religion to me"""
Amen! Fernando.
Me to. 🙏🏻
TO ME TOO!! AND MY BROTHER!!
I totally agree.. We are missing Lyle!
. loving San Lorenzo now
The ultimate top down, sun glasses on, wind in your hair & I don't care about s##t jam. Love this!
Craig Roulhac I'm with you on that one brother! I bang on the PMG early stuff right through the Vasconcelos, Aznar phases, take the roof off my SLK and hit the road without a care in the world! I love it! It's for you, Have you heard - fantastic driving tracks!
Yes indeed, Long Train Home, Jaco, but my favorite is Eighteen from the Offramp album
Oh Yes! You are bang on! There's so many to mention! I was just flicking through you tube just now and I must say that my preferences lie with the stuff 70's to 90's and when he had the South American influences. They're my favourites. They're all roof down tracks! Even in the English winter, people must think I'm nuts driving through London with my coat and scarf on with PMG blasting out with the roof off! Y'know what, I don't give a S### ha ha! Is there a UK fan base?
I have a Pat Metheny Group playlist on TH-cam and Spotify.
I'll subscribe to both. Can you send me the links please? Or how do I go about it? I'm a premium user on Spotify so should be able to do it
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 always loved this title, but with the photos it becomes more and more... LOVE. ❤
Pat's creativity is boundless.
Back around 1980 HBO used to play this and other jazz songs before they started their daily broadcast (back before they were broadcasting for 24 hours a day). I have been searching for this song since then, and just found it today! Sounds just as sweet (even better) that it has sounded rolling around in my head the last 35 years. Amazing. I almost cried! (but don't tell anyone!)
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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This is the album that turned me on to Pat back in 1979. I went back and listened to Bright Size Life and Watercolors and a love affair was born! But this album (I call it The White Album) is still my favorite almost 40 years later. It's one of my "desert island" albums! Few musicians have touched my soul like Pat.
when ever you listen to this you are transported to a blue ocean and all your troubles are forgotten
+Tony Romo he always has a hook at the end of all his songs.. brilliant
An absolute masterpiece!
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Oui! J'écoute ce morceau depuis mes 18ans (1979) j'ai toujours de grandes émotions chaque fois que je l'entends!
J'ai eu l'occasion de l'écouter en live lors d'un concert de PM Group à Toulouse (France) en 1987!!!
he takes me where I want to be.
Your spot on sir without getting too lovely......
Amen 🎉❤
I first heard this tune when I was only 17 years old. A million years later, it is still my favorite song of all time. That's right for me too.
This album had a profound effect on me musically. I thought this album was ground breaking because it combined acoustic and electronic sounds so seamlessly. This album is probably my all time favorite.
His music is so mellow
Lmao!
This is, of course, the greatest ever Metheny/Mays piece. And it's from the greatest Metheny/Mays album.
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 !🎉❤
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.
I'll never forget this beautiful song. My best friend and I went to see PTG in 1977 in Nashville at the Exit Inn. It was their first tour, no one really knew who they were, and then they started with this; we were instantly transported into the new world of Pat Metheny. It was amazing. We went to the 7:00 show and, afterwards, Pat addressed the fairly slim crowd and said, "We haven't sold alot of tickets for the 9:00 show, so anyone who would like to stay on, you are welcome you to do so." Man, we so DID stay for the second show! Pat Metheny is not only a fantastic musician, but a very gracious person, as well. I truly believe that part of the greatness of his music is his sincere heart.
Yes indeed, the man IS the Real Deal- Both Big Heart & Soul!
Many artists were generous like that, back then, both sharing with each other, and with us. I went to some concerts that lasted till sunrise, we gave love and appreciation to them, they gave back to us.
Ppl
That is a great story!
Cool Story Man
The Greatest Traveling music EVER!
Ive seen Pat Metheny 6 times and with Lyle Mays. What loss an incredible musician. I love this song.. San Lorenzo!
Lyle Mays solo in this tune is my all time favorite!
Pat's work has been the soundtrack to my life. I bought "the white album" in 1979, after listening to all of American Garage on a late night college radio program. I know of no other musician that has the range of emotion, dedication, amazing skill, and creative soul that Pat does. Lyle is almost right there with him in talent and depth. Their music has enriched my life in more ways than I can describe. And this is one of their pieces together that can still bring me to tears, listening to it in a dark room.
Thanks, SomethingReal. Chat any time.
Had the great pleasure of meeting him while standing in line at Catskill Art and Office Supply in Woodstock,NY years back. I asked him if he had any plans to play locally,and he said he didn't think so. A few months later,I saw him play the Secret Story album in Albany,NY. One of the most amazing concerts I've ever been to. He's probably my favorite musician of all time.
I would love to travel around with them here in 2024 ! Now he just has the trio ! Still good though but the Group was INCREDIBLE !🎉 ❤
I just turned 83 and love this song. And many other Metheny-Lyle works as well.
One of the best songs i had heard in my life,Thanks.....I love Pat Metheny songs.
Metheny's music always has this ethereal quality, timeless and captivating - yes, even Song X. Truly one of a kind.
Pat is one of a kind,he did the soundtrack to the movie Fandango,truly a great artiist..
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 went to the Solomon Islands this year and this song still sums up my feelings about it perfectly. A beautiful song and a beautiful place that fits in perfectly.