This song reminds me of my father who used to lay on the floor in the living room of our home and close his eyes while listening to this song.. He would ask me if I could feel what the song was saying and to this day, I can still see my dad laying there totally immersed. May his soul rest and I give gratitude to this band for allowing me to the FEEL the words.
That's an awesome memory Tamika. My dad would do the same thing. Thank you for sharing that awesome memory. I know that our dad's are resting in heaven.🙏🏽🙌🏽
I totally feel the sentiment of your father. I cannot listen to this song without closing my eyes and listening deeply...not only to the main melody, but the background melody. This song totally absorbs me! Pat Metheny is my favorite musician over all genres. His music ALWAYS takes me somewhere else! Maybe this is morbid, but I've told my children that I want Pat Metheny's music played at my memorial service when I pass. I'm convinced that if there is a happy afterlife, Pat Metheny's music is played there!!
I was introduced to Pat Metheny Group in the mid 80's, this song in particular. A teenaged black kid from the "hood" but I am so thankful that my older brothers knew that music transcends color lines and merely wanted to expose me to appreciating the art form. I am a fan of all music genres and this song aided in opening my eyes and keeping them open.
Those who connect to this tune, get it, what is relays and what is being said. I believe my first encounter with this fabulous tune was from the live "Travels" album before the studio version from "Offramp." Travels will always has a special place for me!! Look up live video version on TH-cam of, "Are You Going With Me?," from Upojenie (English: Ecstasy) a 2002 collaboration between Polish Pop/Folk singer Anna Maria Jopek and guitarist Pat Metheny, recorded in Warsaw, Poland. The backing band/orchestra make this version special with her added vocals. I would love to get my hands on the live video concert disc of this performance, but only available in Europe in PAL format... contacted Pat's website for US release, but unfortunately no plans for stateside release.
This is a masterpiece! A jazz Bolero, only better. Pat Metheny and the late great Lyle Mays. I have played this at least 300 times over the last 30-plus years and it never gets old.
… it goes straight through me. Ever version does. and then there is Pat with Anna Maria Jopek. It matters not: I love it all. Gonna miss you, Lyle. I walked past the PMG in a hotel on 128 (Boston) and just stared... did not want to disturb.
Quando la moglie di Pat lo ha lasciato lui ha scritto questo grido di dolore, straziante alla fine , un capolavoro con un'intensita' fuori dal comune.Un artista arrivato eccezionale.
This was the song that bonded my wife of 39 years and me together in Columbus, OH. Pat Metheny was my favorite and this was our first real date. Thank you!
I used to listen to this song everyday taking the train into Chicago and listen to the rest of Offramp LP for the 9 block walk to my work. And, yes, I listened to it on my WALKMAN. I used to go through batteries every week, but it was worth it. Listening to Pat made my daily commute, doable. Pat Metheny will forever be seared into my brain until the end of time.
I believe there are times when music reaches a state of sublimation that goes beyond ... Then it becomes paradise ... This is one of those time. RIP Lyle 😓
I have seen Pat 4 times and really can't say which was my favorite. They all held something special. Best venue was the bandshell at UofF laying on the grass with my head on my bike sipping a couple of beers
My Mum who never took any interest or listened to any music , many years ago heard me play this in the car and this was the only time that she had ever asked me about any music " oh what is this music? ... I like it" It was one of only two tracks I played to her at graveside during her funeral years later.. The power of Pat Metheny and his group's music .. a perfect storm...always a shiver down my spine...
I can't imagine not being interested in any kind of music. I've always been fascinated by people creating and playing music. Then again, I'm a guy who doesn't care for sports, lol. I'm definitely in the minority in that department.
An iconic moment at the Montreal International Jazz Festival. I don't think it has met a match yet. I am 65 now. I was thirty three back then. It blew my mind. 1st time I ever heard Pat Metheny. I was hooked. Lyle Mays, we miss you. Gone way too soon.
RIP, Lyle: I talked with Lyle at a private party in my Wisconsin town of residence, and shook his hand with amazingly-long fingers, and but my greatest honor and amazement was and will continue to be simply being enriched by listening to his music, his musical genius. Experiencing PMG with Lyle several times in the past 20 years has become the soundtrack inside my head, and will be with me always. MDF in Columbus, WI
I heard Pat Metheny Group live in Porsgrunn,Norway in a little sports hall in 1985,and i was also a stage crew,so i meet all of theme in the group at a age of 18, :) and what a good show :)
You're right dear lady. IF I had known what was wrong with Lyle, I could have prayed and GOD would have healed him because GOD is a miracle working God!!! God bless you. I cried a lot when I found out that Lyle had passed away. Lyle played two studio sessions with Alex Acuna. Hopefully Alex shared the Word of GOD with him and he is with the Lord Jesus Christ now.
The Pat Metheny Group was never the same after Lyle Mays left it. Afterwards, Pat made some excellent solo CDs or with other great musicians like Charlie Haden, but the original group recordings and the compositions Pat made with Lyle are some of the best in my opinion.
I agree but pls do not forget the energy of danny gottlieb, Nana Vasconcelos . PMG was beyond what was out there in the early 80 s. RIP dear Lyle and Nana.
Bonjour de France. J'écoutes '' Are you going with me '' depuis 1982, et dans mon esprit, j'ai pensé, en entendant l'introduction, à des notes qui '' planaient sans jamais retomber ''. Je rêve que ce titre soit repris par une chorale, une cinquantaine de personnes, ne gardant que les instruments pour la rythmique. Un jour peut-être... ❤️🎶🥂
Same. For me, the rhythm is the rhythm of the tires on my beloved car going over the expansion joints between the concrete freeway slabs. It always takes me home to LA. First heard it 40-odd years ago. It never gets old.
Absolutely love reading everyone’s comments about memories of listening to PMG… My Dad was the one who introduced me… and we’d listen in our living room looking out over the Western Colorado Rockies, these very same glorious sounds emanating from a pair of Bose 901s back in the 80s. And today? My beloved father is gone, but the memories and the love live on… How does one fully express gratitude to talented gifts this amazing team still delivers for us all… a slice of heaven! I still listen to them nearly every day!
I will always thank to the friend who showed PM to me, more than 40 ago. PM is constantly with me musically. This song, many others, are able to transportate my soul I do not where to, but far away and to a deep concious state. As PM music will never be others at world music history.
+Daniel Caudy For me I had "Finding and Believing" in mind. 6:44 minutes of hectic, driving, beautiful cacophony representing our lives...then from there on it is like the beautiful wondrous afterlife we are all hoping for! Obviously, I think it is one of Pat Metheny's masterpieces!
1984. Had travelled from Scotland to the States and had just bought New Chautaqua in New Orleans Airport. the excitement of the new adventure of travelling in the States with that album playing as the backdrop as we took off was a feeling that will stay with me forever
Pat said himself that this was his personal favorite, that he could riff on this theme from Are You Going With Me for an entire 24 hours...Rick Beato just posted an incredible interview he had with Pat on TH-cam just a few days back....🦁💎
@@rBennich yes, the version from Travels is the best, followed by the one with Ana Maria Jopek. But the Travels solo is like this wonderful build, with melodic references back to itself multiple times. It's perfection.
@@cecilcharlesofficial I think what i like most from the Travels solo is it's raw animalistic energy. Like, before they had played the song too many times for the inspiration to fade into known working themes and licks.
That song gives me goosebumps every time I hear it, especially as it builds towards the end. Metheny is a guitar maestro. He has a unique sound that you can instantly identify. Only guitar greats get to that level. Except for Metheny, he is known in jazz circles and not in rock arenas. Lets not forget the rest of the group. Lyle Mays has a really nice solo at the beginning playing two synths at one time. Steve Rodby on bass replaced Mark Eagan around the '82 album "Left Turn" for which the song "Are You Going With Me" is off of. Newer members, Paul Wertico joined the group on drums in 84 after Danny Gotlieb left. Multiinstrumentalist and vocalist Pedro Aznar also joined the group in 84. If you have found this video and had your mind blown on Pat Metheny, well congratulations! You found one the of most decorated jazz guitarists you have never heard of. Now, go check out PMG's records. There's a lot of them. This video is from the PMGs best known period. The PMGs most famous records came out of he mid to late 80's. 1987's "Still Life Talking" which is famous for the song "Last Train Home" and the even bigger record, 1989's "Letter From Home". Start there. If you dig the heavy ladened keyboard/guitar synth sound of the 80's check out the soundtrack to the movie "The Falcon and the Snowman". The PMG pretty much did that record with a little help from the late David Bowie on the track "This is not America". These three records, The Falcon and the Snowman Sound Track, Still Life Talking and Letter From Home epitomizes the PMG sound of the 80's. Then definitely head into the 90's. The PMG keeps the same core musicians of Metheny, Mays, Wertico, and Rodby but adds new musicians including a horn player. 1995's We Live Here is an awesome record. The follow up to that is 1997's "Imaginary Day" which is a bit of a departure from We Live Here sound, but still worthy of purchase especially, to hear Pat's insane 42 string Pikasso guitar! I was lucky enough to see the band live in 1997 paying on the pier in Seattle. When the song "Into The Dream" was played. Pat was on stage, just him in the spotlight the rest of the band in the shadows and he had this INSANE guitar in a stand with strings going every which way. Watching him play that insane Pikasso 42 string was worth the price of admission for that show! Anyway, check out PMGs catalog and of course dont forget Metheny's solo records like "Secret Story" from the 90's and his collaboration with another artists. Pat Metheny is an American treasure. His sound is unmistakable.
I'VE SEEN PAT AND THE GROUP...READY FOR THIS?? 38 TIMES SINCE "SECRETE STORY" IN JULY 1992. EVERY TIME HE COMES TO CALIFORNIA, I SEE HIM AT LEAST 2 TO 3 TIMES WITHIN STATE. LOVE HIS MUSIC I MUST SAY.
Fact check, Chris..the song we are hearing" Are You Going With Me" is from the album "Offramp" from 1981, not "Left Turn.". You seem to be a newcomer to the PMG. I first was moved by Pat in the 70's with the groundbreaking song, "Cross the Heartland". Might want to check it out...it's a prelim of what's to come. In my world, if you've never heard of Metheny... well, newcomers are always welcome.
Not any doubt about, this is the most brilliant modern jazz track in all times. The back voice of Pedro Aznar is coloring this track in Heaven colors. By the way on the studio album Offramp the voice belongs to the Amazing Nana R.I.P Vasconcelos from Brasil.
Me. I grew up watching Pat in the KC area. What a talent, and just a great guy. I remember trying to get him to autograph my Gibson at a tiny club called Milton's that he and brother Mike popped in that a friend tipped me off to. He told me he would sign anything else, but than a Gibson was not really ours...we just are privileged to play them and pass on. I said "no seriously...(I forget exactly how my plea went), but finally whipped out a dollar bill, which he and Mike both signed and I still have. Point being, he was not being a dick, he just seriously believed that it would be a crime to "deface" my guitar. Gotta love it.
Lyle Mays, simply the best, his brain power ❤❤❤. Lyle Mays and Pat Metheny formed a duo with the purity and humility of a saint, and who were self-complete. nothing is by chance. Virtuose, and a great hazzista. a virtuoso pianist, with great taste in tones, and a great jazz player.
Lyle Mays one of best pianist in the world ! RIP ! heureusement il reste tes albums et ceux réalisés avec Pat Metheny Group ... merci pour les belles soirées à écouter tes fantastiques interprétations. Merci.
I was introduced to Pat Metheny by my father many years ago when I was still a child, as becoming years later a guitarist I appreciated more what he was doing and understand more every song he did. Impossible not to cry when you listen to this tune ❤
I was there. What a show - a hundred thousand people packed into the streets of downtown montreal for one of the best free Jazz Fest concerts ever.. Luckily I was near the front! Thanks for posting!!!
This beautiful piece of musical perfection allows me , just for a few brief minutes, to transcend all the pain in the world . When will we learn to love and not to hate, to enjoy peace and not to encourage war and to understand that this is the one shot at life we have…..and that this is NO rehearsal. May our dear Lord help us through ..
There are moments in life where you are called to face very difficult trials. In those moments, having the opportunity to close your eyes and think that one day all this will end, believe me is priceless. Thanks Pat. Thanks for your music. Thank you for helping make the world a better place with your music.
I wasn't even alive when this was recorded, but I heard it live at the Riviera Maya Jazz fest a couple years ago and thought this was an upcoming track from the new unity group. This is a truly timeless masterpiece.
This band is so underrated. I’ve been a fan since “Whole Lotta Love” hit the FM dial back in ‘72. I remember my first girlfriend and I were listening to it while driving in my dad’s car on a wet rainy night. A car up ahead was stalled so I swerved to the right but all I remember was the sound of screaming tires and busting glass. Now I know I’ve got to be good so I can see my baby when I leave this world. God bless.
This is the song of my life. Without any doubt about this is the Pat Metheny Group Anthem. This is the purest and the best addiction a human being can have. Thanks a lot for all your compositions. Lyle Mays, Rest In Peace with Nana Vasconcelos playing there the Divine Music.
I saw Pat Metheny 4 times and each time was a spectacular experience the group especially with Lyle Mays was incredible and I never wanted it to end. The music actually made me so inspired I couldnt wait to come home and play my drums to the songs as best I Icould. Along with just hearing the songs again.
I sat in my living room alone and played this song over and over again, I wasn’t high or drunk. I’d never heard anything like it before, it captivated me in 1982 I think. RIP Lyle
Offramp album changed me, it opened my consciousness to another realm. Released in 1981 the whole album still shines like a star in the sky. Pat, Lyle and the group 😍😍😍😍
I met you at the Farmers Boy in St Albans last year. I'm good friends with Sheri, Nik's ex. How right you are, this is one of, if not the signature song of my life. Just happy saw PM (and LM) live, and met up with Steve Rodby a couple of years ago playing with Mike Walker, whose first band featured my kid bro on keys "oop nawth".
My only time to see Pat Metheny Group live, the Offramp tour, on the campus of then North Texas State University. Nana Vasconcelos was in that iteration. I'd never seen a berimbau, and I was utterly gobsmacked by its sound and Nana's mastery of it and all the other percussion instruments he played that evening. It is a highlight of the MANY concerts I've been fortunate to see in my life. RIP Sr. Vasconcelos.
This song is filled with emotions, it has helped me get through and endure most of the worst times in my life. The tempo, the rise and explosive composition identifies with life time loses, loses of love and lives, trust and truths since 1993. Thanks for this song and the support it proves and bringing me out of feeling of defeat and less loved 😢LTC
this song is fucking overwhelming. most of metheny's music falls into that category as well, but this one truly goes beyond what my brain and heart can handle at any given time. as soon as they start, and the crowd roars together, knowing what theyre about to experience together, i lose it, and dont get it back until long after the song is over. the word 'transcendent' was created to describe music like this. thank you pat.
There are days I have one song stuck in my head. It can be irritating. But not THIS one! It can play over and over again beautifully all it wants, while I have a perpetual smile on my face all day long! 😊
I love when Lyle's doing the accordion-synth solo, his other arm is directly BEHIND him, as in 180 degrees, playing another keyboard. Genius AND dexterity.
This song reminds me of my father who used to lay on the floor in the living room of our home and close his eyes while listening to this song.. He would ask me if I could feel what the song was saying and to this day, I can still see my dad laying there totally immersed. May his soul rest and I give gratitude to this band for allowing me to the FEEL the words.
What a beautiful memory for you to cherish!
That's an awesome memory Tamika. My dad would do the same thing. Thank you for sharing that awesome memory. I know that our dad's are resting in heaven.🙏🏽🙌🏽
God bless you.
Beautiful.
So much expressed in under six lines.
I totally feel the sentiment of your father. I cannot listen to this song without closing my eyes and listening deeply...not only to the main melody, but the background melody.
This song totally absorbs me! Pat Metheny is my favorite musician over all genres. His music ALWAYS takes me somewhere else! Maybe this is morbid, but I've told my children that I want Pat Metheny's music played at my memorial service when I pass. I'm convinced that if there is a happy afterlife, Pat Metheny's music is played there!!
Whos listening in May 2024? ❤
Me, right now!!, 24.05, 11:53 hs, Mar del Plata, Argentina!
me, in Vienna, Austria!
@@claudiosalvatore3658 Me 9.10 25.5 Perth West Australia
Me!!! Such a beautiful composition. Just saw Pat do a solo tour in MD. Totally awesome!
I Am
I always come back to this piece...anybody else?...
Just finished. I find this piece from time to time and stopping does not diminish.
Are you going w/ me is what I feel when I hear this masterpiece!
Always...
Its thrilling...
Yes me too, that’s one of the musical pieces you must come back...pure food for the soul.
Pat’s solo on here has to be like a top 3 guitar solo in history
Big time....all guitar soloists should study it
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.
Just wow.
His “Are you going with me” solo with the Metropole Orkest / North Sea jazz is also high on this list for me.
Absolutely
For me, that's the best Pat metheny group of all. With Lyle mays, Pedro Aznar, Paul Wertico, Steve Rodby they play like no one else.
No doubt my brother.
me too!!!
I agree, yes!
🥀RIP, Lyle Mays✨🎹✨💖🕊✨
Those were the best times Pedro had in his career….
I was introduced to Pat Metheny Group in the mid 80's, this song in particular. A teenaged black kid from the "hood" but I am so thankful that my older brothers knew that music transcends color lines and merely wanted to expose me to appreciating the art form. I am a fan of all music genres and this song aided in opening my eyes and keeping them open.
There are no Color separations, Dear one. We all inhabit the same colors in our spirits.
That’s good music for ya! Bless you brother!
@@joeeaton7733 so true!
Absolutely 💯💞
Absolutely ……. No difference really, we all have the same blood running through our veins ……. I LOVE Pat Metheny !!!!!!! 😘
Still listening July 2024 RIP LYLE MISS YOU BUT YOUR MUSIC AND LEGACY LIVES ON😢❤.
I’m 70 years old and this song is the best
69..
Those who connect to this tune, get it, what is relays and what is being said.
I believe my first encounter with this fabulous tune was from the live "Travels" album before the studio version from "Offramp." Travels will always has a special place for me!!
Look up live video version on TH-cam of, "Are You Going With Me?," from Upojenie (English: Ecstasy) a 2002 collaboration between Polish Pop/Folk singer Anna Maria Jopek and guitarist Pat Metheny, recorded in Warsaw, Poland. The backing band/orchestra make this version special with her added vocals. I would love to get my hands on the live video concert disc of this performance, but only available in Europe in PAL format... contacted Pat's website for US release, but unfortunately no plans for stateside release.
im 74 and i think the same!!
When you REALLY listen to this song, you either get it, or you don’t; there is no in between.
You are right! First time I heard it, I knew it would be one of my songs......
WORD!!!!
This is a masterpiece! A jazz Bolero, only better. Pat Metheny and the late great Lyle Mays. I have played this at least 300 times over the last 30-plus years and it never gets old.
Pat, with Lyle and the group, has created some of the most remarkable and beautiful music in history.
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Rest in peace, Lyle, No one will ever replace you or your talent, We were fortunate enough to see and hear your talent.
Yess Indeed 100%
Would not have been the same band without him.
Lyle was one of the most special, amazing souls to ever walk among us.
Yep, he was a backbone of PMG indeed. I was fortunate enough to see this piece in 2010 I think. I'll never forget that.
I saw The Pat Metheny group in person in Tucson, Arizona in 1986
This song goes straight to the soul.
… it goes straight through me. Ever version does. and then there is Pat with Anna Maria Jopek. It matters not: I love it all.
Gonna miss you, Lyle. I walked past the PMG in a hotel on 128 (Boston) and just stared... did not want to disturb.
Blessings will with Mr L heaven and always send to a place of peace. As a guitarist what a teacher.
Indeed
Quando la moglie di Pat lo ha lasciato lui ha scritto questo grido di dolore, straziante alla fine , un capolavoro con un'intensita' fuori dal comune.Un artista arrivato eccezionale.
4 out of 5 doctors reccomend sugarless gum for their patients who chew gum....that 5th doctor ....he's exiled to siberia
Who is still listening to this....June 2021..PRICELESS..CLASSIC Pat Metheny
2024, and since 1982 (when I first heard it at 17)✨✨✨
2024
This was the song that bonded my wife of 39 years and me together in Columbus, OH. Pat Metheny was my favorite and this was our first real date. Thank you!
I'm having this song played at my funeral as people walk in.
Me too…
Pat Metheny give his audience a full 3 hour concert and puts his entire heart and soul into his music. This is one of my favorite songs.
Look at the people's Face. They are all hipnotized as we are With this magic song.
I used to listen to this song everyday taking the train into Chicago and listen to the rest of Offramp LP for the 9 block walk to my work. And, yes, I listened to it on my WALKMAN. I used to go through batteries every week, but it was worth it. Listening to Pat made my daily commute, doable. Pat Metheny will forever be seared into my brain until the end of time.
This song goes deep into one’s soul. Just wonderful piece of music
I believe there are times when music reaches a state of sublimation that goes beyond ... Then it becomes paradise ... This is one of those time. RIP Lyle 😓
Absolutly agree !!!
@@josezurita9470 ☺👍
Your words are beautiful.
@@usandthemakakelly2535 Thank you so much... 🙏💖
I have seen Pat 4 times and really can't say which was my favorite. They all held something special. Best venue was the bandshell at UofF laying on the grass with my head on my bike sipping a couple of beers
Imagine walking down that road that night and coming across this being played in the street… just sublime 😢
I intend to drop this in a set I play, one day
I.m listening and always will....June12, 2024
God was just showing off when he made Pat Metheny.
Fr
Seriously!!!!!
Hehe, dobre! 👍
May the Angels of Grace and the Ministers of Saints be with him....
Pat Metheny Group with Pedro Aznar on vocals, is the perfect sound for PMG.
I see a lot of comments about this song and the magic of the PMG, but how about those shorts he’s wearing? Those are truly magical.
To this day, his best work. There's an existential haunting longing to this composition that throws me into a whirlwind of memories.
play this at my funeral
I like your Idea 👍 but it will demand a lot of your people .. I am fancying "Last Train Home" 🙂 and my Kids know it👍
Rest in peace, Lyle Mays. You were a keyboard master and made the synthesizer sound like a real musical instrument.
My Mum who never took any interest or listened to any music , many years ago heard me play this in the car and this was the only time that she had ever asked me about any music
" oh what is this music? ... I like it"
It was one of only two tracks I played to her at graveside during her funeral years later.. The power of Pat Metheny and his group's music .. a perfect storm...always a shiver down my spine...
He changed a Planet
⚘💕
I can't imagine not being interested in any kind of music. I've always been fascinated by people creating and playing music. Then again, I'm a guy who doesn't care for sports, lol. I'm definitely in the minority in that department.
Some performances are timeless. This is one of them. I was there.
OMG I said exactly the same thing the last time I posted without seeing it. Well that should tell you something!
So happy for you. This is transcendent.
Soo lucky!!
@@evetaitcreations It shows your true feelings, I bet I do the same from time to time ;-))
Me too
An iconic moment at the Montreal International Jazz Festival. I don't think it has met a match yet. I am 65 now. I was thirty three back then. It blew my mind. 1st time I ever heard Pat Metheny. I was hooked. Lyle Mays, we miss you. Gone way too soon.
I discovered Pat with this piece ! 38 years ago …. Revelation !
The opening always gives me chills. What an awesome tune.
YESSSSS!!!!!!
One of my favorite Methany songs especially when you get to see and hear it played live.
for me too..
Thank God this has been preserved for posterity.
RIP, Lyle: I talked with Lyle at a private party in my Wisconsin town of residence, and shook his hand with amazingly-long fingers, and but my greatest honor and amazement was and will continue to be simply being enriched by listening to his music, his musical genius. Experiencing PMG with Lyle several times in the past 20 years has become the soundtrack inside my head, and will be with me always.
MDF in Columbus, WI
Mark Fagerburg s
“Soundtrack inside my head” Yes Mark, yes
Aww man,sad.Lyle Mays died?
You luck dude.
Was Lyle tall?
Mark Fagerburg beautiful expression of your heart felt appreciation of Lyle Lovett the man and his extraordinary music he created ♥️
I heard Pat Metheny Group live in Porsgrunn,Norway in a little sports hall in 1985,and i was also a stage crew,so i meet all of theme in the group at a age of 18, :) and what a good show :)
I’m over here crying my eyes out. RIP Lyle. You left too soon.
You're right dear lady. IF I had known what was wrong with Lyle, I could have prayed and GOD would have healed him because GOD is a miracle working God!!! God bless you. I cried a lot when I found out that Lyle had passed away. Lyle played two studio sessions with Alex Acuna. Hopefully Alex shared the Word of GOD with him and he is with the Lord Jesus Christ now.
@@Americanjazzlady07 you know it!!!
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The Pat Metheny Group was never the same after Lyle Mays left it. Afterwards, Pat made some excellent solo CDs or with other great musicians like Charlie Haden, but the original group recordings and the compositions Pat made with Lyle are some of the best in my opinion.
estoy ded acuerdo
sad when you realize, Lyle had been GONE from PMG for years!!! :(
I agree but pls do not forget the energy of danny gottlieb, Nana Vasconcelos . PMG was beyond what was out there in the early 80 s. RIP dear Lyle and Nana.
The trio on Matheny's debut album included Jaco, so what might they have produced if he was still alive?
Of course the.best time with Pedro A Aznar too without Lyle NEVER WILL BE THE SAME
Some tunes are eternal - this is one of them.
absolutely eternal!
Oh yeah!
Holy shit!
I'm blown away each and every time I come back to watch this video. Had the good fortune to see the band in 1998. An unforgettable night.
Astronomically eternal, no doubt about it!
this song is so magic ... no words can explain the feeling ... i have been listening for more than 35 years every day ... thank you PM Group
Bonjour de France. J'écoutes '' Are you going with me '' depuis 1982, et dans mon esprit, j'ai pensé, en entendant l'introduction, à des notes qui '' planaient sans jamais retomber ''. Je rêve que ce titre soit repris par une chorale, une cinquantaine de personnes, ne gardant que les instruments pour la rythmique. Un jour peut-être... ❤️🎶🥂
me since the first time that I've heard it 1991 (from the Travels 2 CD! ) One of the best Cd of all the times !!!
ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL 💥💫💫I AGREE...MAGICAL
for me too j adore ce morceau!
Same. For me, the rhythm is the rhythm of the tires on my beloved car going over the expansion joints between the concrete freeway slabs. It always takes me home to LA. First heard it 40-odd years ago. It never gets old.
I first heard this circa 1982. It has haunted my memories ever since 😻
this is not a song, this is a country
One of the Best Musical Piece Ever
Wow 1989 to 2022 I can still see that drive in the woods
I’d listen to this song multiple times driving midnight between Johannesburg and Cape Town. What a treat!!!
It's midnight and I am in the city centre of Cape Town listening to this. Incredibly beautiful!
Absolutely love reading everyone’s comments about memories of listening to PMG… My Dad was the one who introduced me… and we’d listen in our living room looking out over the Western Colorado Rockies, these very same glorious sounds emanating from a pair of Bose 901s back in the 80s. And today? My beloved father is gone, but the memories and the love live on… How does one fully express gratitude to talented gifts this amazing team still delivers for us all… a slice of heaven! I still listen to them nearly every day!
I will always thank to the friend who showed PM to me, more than 40 ago. PM is constantly with me musically. This song, many others, are able to transportate my soul I do not where to, but far away and to a deep concious state. As PM music will never be others at world music history.
Such a beautiful comment Touching!
Are You Going With Me will close out my memorial service.
+Daniel Caudy Last Train Home for me!!!!
+Ray Ward "The Truth Will Always Be" mine
+Daniel Caudy For me I had "Finding and Believing" in mind. 6:44 minutes of hectic, driving, beautiful cacophony representing our lives...then from there on it is like the beautiful wondrous afterlife we are all hoping for! Obviously, I think it is one of Pat Metheny's masterpieces!
Good choice, but I think I will go with "The Truth Will Ever Be" from the "Secret Story" album.
Mine will be The Falcon, from The Falcon and the Snowman. Pedro Aznar voice takes me to heaven.
If I had to listen to one piece of music forever, this would be it
Definitely!!! 🥰
Yes, but the take from Travels :)
Yes. Yes. Yes😊
1984. Had travelled from Scotland to the States and had just bought New Chautaqua in New Orleans Airport. the excitement of the new adventure of travelling in the States with that album playing as the backdrop as we took off was a feeling that will stay with me forever
One of the best tunes of the last 100 years🎉
Pat said himself that this was his personal favorite, that he could riff on this theme from Are You Going With Me for an entire 24 hours...Rick Beato just posted an incredible interview he had with Pat on TH-cam just a few days back....🦁💎
That interview by Rick of Pat was wonderful. Rock on Yod!
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Yeah, saw that! One of the most informative interviews.
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Came here from that interview!
one of the best live guitar solos ever.. melody, rhythm, imagination improvisation.. stunning
One of the greatest Guitar Solos on the Planet.
Except the version from "Travels" is the best.
@@rBennich yes, the version from Travels is the best, followed by the one with Ana Maria Jopek. But the Travels solo is like this wonderful build, with melodic references back to itself multiple times. It's perfection.
@@cecilcharlesofficial I think what i like most from the Travels solo is it's raw animalistic energy. Like, before they had played the song too many times for the inspiration to fade into known working themes and licks.
Thank you and RIP Mr. Lyle Mays you and the Pat Metheny Group helped transform my life for the better!
That song gives me goosebumps every time I hear it, especially as it builds towards the end. Metheny is a guitar maestro. He has a unique sound that you can instantly identify. Only guitar greats get to that level. Except for Metheny, he is known in jazz circles and not in rock arenas. Lets not forget the rest of the group. Lyle Mays has a really nice solo at the beginning playing two synths at one time. Steve Rodby on bass replaced Mark Eagan around the '82 album "Left Turn" for which the song "Are You Going With Me" is off of. Newer members, Paul Wertico joined the group on drums in 84 after Danny Gotlieb left. Multiinstrumentalist and vocalist Pedro Aznar also joined the group in 84. If you have found this video and had your mind blown on Pat Metheny, well congratulations! You found one the of most decorated jazz guitarists you have never heard of. Now, go check out PMG's records. There's a lot of them. This video is from the PMGs best known period. The PMGs most famous records came out of he mid to late 80's. 1987's "Still Life Talking" which is famous for the song "Last Train Home" and the even bigger record, 1989's "Letter From Home". Start there. If you dig the heavy ladened keyboard/guitar synth sound of the 80's check out the soundtrack to the movie "The Falcon and the Snowman". The PMG pretty much did that record with a little help from the late David Bowie on the track "This is not America". These three records, The Falcon and the Snowman Sound Track, Still Life Talking and Letter From Home epitomizes the PMG sound of the 80's. Then definitely head into the 90's. The PMG keeps the same core musicians of Metheny, Mays, Wertico, and Rodby but adds new musicians including a horn player. 1995's We Live Here is an awesome record. The follow up to that is 1997's "Imaginary Day" which is a bit of a departure from We Live Here sound, but still worthy of purchase especially, to hear Pat's insane 42 string Pikasso guitar! I was lucky enough to see the band live in 1997 paying on the pier in Seattle. When the song "Into The Dream" was played. Pat was on stage, just him in the spotlight the rest of the band in the shadows and he had this INSANE guitar in a stand with strings going every which way. Watching him play that insane Pikasso 42 string was worth the price of admission for that show! Anyway, check out PMGs catalog and of course dont forget Metheny's solo records like "Secret Story" from the 90's and his collaboration with another artists. Pat Metheny is an American treasure. His sound is unmistakable.
Where is First Circle in all of this? I want that playing when/if I enter the gates of Heaven.
I'VE SEEN PAT AND THE GROUP...READY FOR THIS?? 38 TIMES SINCE "SECRETE STORY" IN JULY 1992. EVERY TIME HE COMES TO CALIFORNIA, I SEE HIM AT LEAST 2 TO 3 TIMES WITHIN STATE. LOVE HIS MUSIC I MUST SAY.
Fact check, Chris..the song we are hearing" Are You Going With Me" is from the album "Offramp" from 1981, not "Left Turn.". You seem to be a newcomer to the PMG. I first was moved by Pat in the 70's with the groundbreaking song, "Cross the Heartland". Might want to check it out...it's a prelim of what's to come. In my world, if you've never heard of Metheny... well, newcomers are always welcome.
Certainly can agree with Chris Brue. Pat Metheny jazz 🎶🎸🎼 ..skill & sounds can only b unmistakably fr a virtouso.. simply special, wow!
How can you not love him. :-) th-cam.com/video/vr78ISrTElE/w-d-xo.html
The chord progression and pulse of this song are so moving, I can't even find the words. Yearning, aching.
You found the words!
RIP Lyle Mays. I can't stop crying.
He was an angel, in the purest sense. The world is a colder place without him.
me too
Not any doubt about, this is the most brilliant modern jazz track in all times.
The back voice of Pedro Aznar is coloring this track in Heaven colors. By the way on the studio album Offramp the voice belongs to the Amazing Nana R.I.P Vasconcelos from Brasil.
Who’s here coming from the great interview with Pat over on Rick Beato‘s channel?
I am!
I am :)
Me. I grew up watching Pat in the KC area. What a talent, and just a great guy. I remember trying to get him to autograph my Gibson at a tiny club called Milton's that he and brother Mike popped in that a friend tipped me off to. He told me he would sign anything else, but than a Gibson was not really ours...we just are privileged to play them and pass on. I said "no seriously...(I forget exactly how my plea went), but finally whipped out a dollar bill, which he and Mike both signed and I still have. Point being, he was not being a dick, he just seriously believed that it would be a crime to "deface" my guitar. Gotta love it.
I am! Great interview, by the way...
either that or the short shorts
Lyle Mays, simply the best, his brain power ❤❤❤. Lyle Mays and Pat Metheny formed a duo with the purity and humility of a saint, and who were self-complete. nothing is by chance.
Virtuose, and a great hazzista. a virtuoso pianist, with great taste in tones, and a great jazz player.
Lyle Mays one of best pianist in the world ! RIP ! heureusement il reste tes albums et ceux réalisés avec Pat Metheny Group ... merci pour les belles soirées à écouter tes fantastiques interprétations. Merci.
I was introduced to Pat Metheny by my father many years ago when I was still a child, as becoming years later a guitarist I appreciated more what he was doing and understand more every song he did. Impossible not to cry when you listen to this tune ❤
You can't be in a bad mood after listening to this !
I was there. What a show - a hundred thousand people packed into the streets of downtown montreal for one of the best free Jazz Fest concerts ever.. Luckily I was near the front! Thanks for posting!!!
Phil Belland Montreal had some wonderful jazz fests, as does the Newport Jazz Festival here in the states! Love 'em❤
i was there
I wish a was there too
Envy me am I :(
Mammamia!!!! Tanti ricordi, grande musica, grande emozione. Ancora oggi dopo tanti anni mi emoziona. Grazie per il post.
Since 1982 as a teenager I began listening to this song .2021 this song has the same spirit it had then.
Everytime I come back to this song I become emotional.
Me and wife saw them in 80's.are you going....best song transport ever.God almighty.Hobo
This is one of the most importan song of my entire life
Very well stated. I agree that it is an impactful song in my life as well.
Every now and again and again I listen to it non stop at least for an hour, go mad until next time.. I love you man!❤❤❤❤❤
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Mine too
anche per me!
This beautiful piece of musical perfection allows me , just for a few brief minutes, to transcend all the pain in the world .
When will we learn to love and not to hate, to enjoy peace and not to encourage war and to understand that this is the one shot at life we have…..and that this is NO rehearsal.
May our dear Lord help us through ..
Still gives me goosebumps when I hear this song.
Me to
I am with you
Jesus, that guitar solo. Just incredible. Blows my mind.
This song with THESE PLAYERS is a MASTERPIECE. I'll be never tired to listen it.
Love love This song Pat is from another planet….Tear the roof off!!! 😊😊😊😊😊😊
Born too late to drop everything and follow this wonderful group.
There are moments in life where you are called to face very difficult trials. In those moments, having the opportunity to close your eyes and think that one day all this will end, believe me is priceless. Thanks Pat. Thanks for your music. Thank you for helping make the world a better place with your music.
This tune has such a beautiful 'Groove' and yet is utterly heart wrenching.
The classic live version. Every time i listen to it I physically shiver. So hypnotic, and I was 50 the year this was recorded.
Same feeling here… I was at that concert, I was 21 years old and had no idea that two years later my life would take an amazing turn.
I cry. I get goose bumps. My heart swells!!!
I wasn't even alive when this was recorded, but I heard it live at the Riviera Maya Jazz fest a couple years ago and thought this was an upcoming track from the new unity group. This is a truly timeless masterpiece.
A beautiful piece of music. Sad to hear the news of Lyle Mays' passing.
I was going to use quite a different analogy but I'll leave it at 'physically shiver.'
This band is so underrated. I’ve been a fan since “Whole Lotta Love” hit the FM dial back in ‘72. I remember my first girlfriend and I were listening to it while driving in my dad’s car on a wet rainy night. A car up ahead was stalled so I swerved to the right but all I remember was the sound of screaming tires and busting glass. Now I know I’ve got to be good so I can see my baby when I leave this world. God bless.
One of the best melodies I’ve ever heard!
absolutely
Just when you think you can't get any higher, he keeps bringing it to another level!!!!
This is the song of my life.
Without any doubt about this is the Pat Metheny Group Anthem.
This is the purest and the best addiction a human being can have.
Thanks a lot for all your compositions.
Lyle Mays, Rest In Peace with Nana Vasconcelos playing there the Divine Music.
I saw Pat Metheny 4 times and each time was a spectacular experience the group especially with Lyle Mays was incredible and I never wanted it to end. The music actually made me so inspired I couldnt wait to come home and play my drums to the songs as best I Icould. Along with just hearing the songs again.
That’s exactly what the music will inspire you to do, it is magic for the soul .
@@johnross7901 you bet John if anybody can give out that magic its Pat Metheny just wish Lyle was there still.
I sat in my living room alone and played this song over and over again, I wasn’t high or drunk. I’d never heard anything like it before, it captivated me in 1982 I think. RIP Lyle
Offramp album changed me, it opened my consciousness to another realm. Released in 1981 the whole album still shines like a star in the sky. Pat, Lyle and the group 😍😍😍😍
Still the same after 36 years. Listening to this song over and over for the last 15 years and gets better every time I listen to it. God sent....
I am in love with all Pat Metheny music but this one drives me all the way home!!!!
When it's over this is all I need
So right! Mart Krijger Netherlands
I'm so glad I discovered the Pat Metheny group.
The most beautiful piece of music ever made - simply most beautiful!!!!!
It's a bit boring imo. I can recognise the talent but feels like he's playing all those notes just for the sake of it
I agree. It gets me every time
There is never a day in my life that I don't want to hear this tune, thank you Pat. x
I met you at the Farmers Boy in St Albans last year. I'm good friends with Sheri, Nik's ex. How right you are, this is one of, if not the signature song of my life. Just happy saw PM (and LM) live, and met up with Steve Rodby a couple of years ago playing with Mike Walker, whose first band featured my kid bro on keys "oop nawth".
May God continue to bless and keep Lyle.
My only time to see Pat Metheny Group live, the Offramp tour, on the campus of then North Texas State University. Nana Vasconcelos was in that iteration. I'd never seen a berimbau, and I was utterly gobsmacked by its sound and Nana's mastery of it and all the other percussion instruments he played that evening. It is a highlight of the MANY concerts I've been fortunate to see in my life. RIP Sr. Vasconcelos.
This song is filled with emotions, it has helped me get through and endure most of the worst times in my life. The tempo, the rise and explosive composition identifies with life time loses, loses of love and lives, trust and truths since 1993. Thanks for this song and the support it proves and bringing me out of feeling of defeat and less loved 😢LTC
Prayers ~ God Bless 💕
it never gets old it still sounds good
this song is fucking overwhelming. most of metheny's music falls into that category as well, but this one truly goes beyond what my brain and heart can handle at any given time. as soon as they start, and the crowd roars together, knowing what theyre about to experience together, i lose it, and dont get it back until long after the song is over. the word 'transcendent' was created to describe music like this. thank you pat.
Truth...wonderful witness...
This song I can listen to over and over again. It's like I dream good dreams when I'm sleeping and this song is playing.
Pat is so cool seen him do this live a couple of times here in Syracuse, just love that synth guitar!!!
There are days I have one song stuck in my head. It can be irritating.
But not THIS one! It can play over and over again beautifully all it wants, while I have a perpetual smile on my face all day long! 😊
I love when Lyle's doing the accordion-synth solo, his other arm is directly BEHIND him, as in 180 degrees, playing another keyboard. Genius AND dexterity.
I get STILL get shivers listening to this!!! The perfect rainy day song!! Absolutely hypnotizing!!!
Gwendolyn Bien-Aime agree
RIP Lyle. I always think of you when I hear this beautiful composition.
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Such intense joy, if only all troubles would end, children be embraced, gentle rain fall, love like this reign supreme