Pat Metheny Group
U-Port Kan-i Hoken Hall
Tokyo, Japan
1983-11-12
Pat Metheny - guitars, guitar synthesizer
Lyle Mays - piano, synthesizers, organ, autoharp
Steve Rodby - acoustic bass, electric bass
Paul Wertico - drums, percussion
Pedro Aznar - vocals, guitar, percussion, berimbau
source/lineage-flac files folder transfer of FM broadcast captured on equipment noted below> Audacity> TLH> DIME
1. Phase Dance 7:27
2. Travels 6:06
3. First Circle 9:17
4. Farmer's Trust 5:43
5. Goodbye 7:11
6. Straight On Red 6:59
7. Are You Going With Me ? 9:02
8. Jaco 3:57
9. American Garage 3:53
This is a partial show from the PMG in between the period of the Travels and First Circle recording. According to Marc Morvan's PMDB there is also a complete audio recording from this date and location that's audience sourced. Additionally, the PMDB includes this one, which is about an hour's worth of the show that was presumably done for broadcast in Japan. If the dimebot archive is correct, a shorter 6 song section than this was once shared here by Nightdreamer in 2008. That share didn't include Farmer's Trust, Goodbye, or Jaco, and that appears to be the only time the show ran here.
For anyone wondering what was left out of the broadcast, the PMDB shows that Tell it All; James; Scrap Metal; The Fields, The Sky; End of the Game; and San Lorenzo were also played. If they too were recorded for this broadcast, but not used, it'd be great to hear the entire show in this quality. Given the many soundboard and FM recordings of the PMG from its inception through 1982, it seems a little odd that this is actually only one of 3 non audience recordings in existence from the PMG in 1983. The 9 songs and nearly hour length actually makes this the longest out of those three.
This came to me in a digital trade with the ever generous waterwheel (Christoph), and huge thanks are due to him. The files I received were a little jumbled from where the PMDB showed the songs being played in the set, so Audacity was used to retrack this into the order in which it's being shared. There is some FM static on Farmer's Trust, but that's the only point where any of the performances show that sort of situation. Very light EQ was applied using a tool in Audacity too in an effort to bring out a bit more depth and space.
Additional thanks should be given to whoever it was that recorded this broadcast, and initially shared it out.
lineage from Nightdreamer's 2008 share is pasted in below from the dimebot archive, as it may also touch on the material in this share:
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FM broadcast (A)
FM > master cassette > a single .wav file from trade (on a data DVD-R disc) >
Hard disk drive > Sound Forge (splitting tracks) > FLAC Frontend (level 8, aligned on sector boundaries)