Pat Metheny Promoting "Secret Story" Live With Regis & Kathie Lee + The Real Story CNBC (1992)

our next guests been making beautiful music continually sought new means of self-expression new sounds on the expanding number of instruments to help him shape his latest composition secret story and here it is latest CD by the great Pat Metheny everybody here to see okay yeah I'll bet you know you started when you were like in your early teens playing a simple little guitar and now you've seen the explosion of these new instruments and new sounds just really revolutionize the music business yeah it's true I mean what's become available to us as musicians in the last few years really I mean I was just a guitar player now there's from the guitar you can play any instrument and get any sound again between the engineers and the musicians that thing is just exploded and yet I remember when it first was introduced everybody was very very nervous about that kind of technology because the thought is gonna put a lot of musicians out of work you know the truth is though it doesn't matter if you've got a just a guitar or all of the most fancy equipment there is you still have to come up with a tune that's a good tune and you still got to play with a good feel and you still got to put a heart in it know that and that's what makes music that I think people respond to I mean you know finally it really doesn't make that much difference that's what I found do you remember the very first song the very first one that you wrote yeah I do did you make a record out of it or what didn't happen no that was that would have been pretty early the funny thing is is that that there are things about the first things that I wrote this would have been when I was a teenager yeah that are still kind of consistent with the way that I hear things now I mean I've gotten better what was the name of that little bit more finesse huh yeah a little bit more but you know what names for me are really a problem and they were even then I mean cuz you know the music that I plays instrumental Sophie so I could call it you know my dog Fred and nobody nobody would argue with you you know but I mean you know to me coming up with a title is important as far as you just want to kind of give people and I'd really sort of what ethical really the vibe yeah you you been living up on what stock all these years I don't really live anywhere I'm sort of like he's a road rat nomadic you know right pack wait a minute did Kathy's hair trust and get to you today I can hear hair looks great yeah I was gonna say I really I really think she looks great that's kind of mine I guess I just freaked of the Train this is the way my husband actually prefers it just kind of like wile IRA sorry Mather that's right all right start a blank guitar 13:15 had first gig 19 meters for a strike had won six Grammy Awards why I've done just about everything and now a Symphony Orchestra on the latest album but that must be acute you've dabbled in that though in the past well I've done film scores that's involved orchestras I mean this record definitely is the most ambitious project I've done and it's funny because it's it's the biggest record I've done in terms of size and it's very long I mean it you know 80 minutes yeah but it's also the most personal in a lot of ways the most intimate um it's sort of a culmination of everything I've done isn't that nice to try to put that all down I'm really excited about this record I mean I've made like God I don't know sixteen seventeen records and this one is by far my favorite and it's it's really fun for me to actually see it out because it really just came out yesterday so now it's like an actual thing that exists and all that work can you find it there it is we're anxious to you terrific well you're gonna perform what rain river for us yeah we're gonna do I mean you know like you say it's with the Symphony Orchestra and oh I'm alright oh but I feel like I'll be hydrogen this is like a reduced version but I didn't play piano I was just gonna say I'll be happy to get behind the pitch no just kidding are the rolling River to that rainbow okay let's go back a list of the Pat Metheny in just a moment fridaya live street from broadly after alan arkin this is Katla theñi with Steve Robbie on bass and Armando Marcel on percussion maar Mondo's from Brazil we don't have the Symphony Orchestra here and we're gonna play just a portion of this song which is rain rain River yes one of the cuts from the secret story that's new album just out here he is Pat Metheny Pat Metheny radhiya live pop scene sensations the covergirl our next guest has been in love with jazz music since he was 12 years old he recorded his first album at age 19 and he hasn't stopped his latest album secrets story is his 17th release and here now to play what he calls a real simple groove is Pat Metheny and his band performing Rain River take it away guys so nice Pat Metheny that's my saw on percussion and Steve on banks wonderful it's so distinctive you hear one note and know that it's Pat Metheny well glad you do it what do you what do you do to this other than this little toothbrush that I know that doesn't have too much work to do with the way I sound but it does hold my strap-on no I think you know people say that that they you know can tell to me usually and I'm glad to hear that I mean to me one of the things about jazz that is really interesting to me as a listener is that you know it's really important for musicians to establish an identity so that you know as they move around in these different combinations of musicians in different ways of playing they retain something special about them that you can identify and you play with a variety of people Lyle Mays a whole bunch of other B I couldn't even begin to to list them but if there's always Pat Metheny it's well it's good I mean you know my I think my sound as a guitar player you know has worked well for me in all these different situations with different players that I've gotten to do so you know what's so nice about jazz is that you can listen to it and sort of create your own story to it when you write a piece like this do you have a story to wrong river or is it is it a feeling I mean one thing for me that was always kind of drilled into me by older musicians that I played with is that every time you play you should try to tell a story I mean each solo each line even each phrase should have something about it that has a sort of narrative sense to it and it's certainly something I try to do but I don't know that it literally transfers to words and ideas like you could say okay this phrase meant you know that that's where I was you know walking along the beach with my dog or is all right I mean it's more it's more a general sense of a cut it's hard to describe probably if I could describe it I'd be a writer or a poet instead of a musician do you do music videos because that's always such a literal interpretation of songs which generally I find very disappointing because it's always a different picture than what I had in mind for the day you know we do videos but I mean I sort of take them for what they are it's really kind of a commercial for your record I mean it's kind of and and you have been one of those very fortunate jazz performers who has enjoyed critical acclaim as well as commercial success well your secret not going to get too many complaints from you in any department I've been very lucky and you know my basic policy has always been to just keep my eye on the music and try to play things that I like myself that I really believe in and I haven't really made too many concessions one way or the other either to jazz critics or to the commercial side on the other side I mean to me they're both kind of things that can pull you one way or the other to me I've always had real strong tastes as a listener and I really respond to those I mean I just try to play things that I would like to hear and and it is appealing to a large number of people including myself well done that's appreciate thank you so much for being with us tonight just wonderful thanks guys and Boyd's a fan to already avoid thanks Cassandra that's it for this edition of real life for everyone that's been a part of this one thanks for joining us and since the guys are all set up let's hear a little more music from Pat Metheny this is called it's just talk you you

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Length: 14min 54sec (894 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 11 2014