Pat Metheny Group
Philipshalle
Düsseldorf, Germany
2002-05-25

Pat Metheny, guitars, guitar synthesizer, 42-string guitar
Lyle Mays, piano, synthesizers, autoharp, guitars
Steve Rodby, double bass, bass guitar
Antonio Sánchez, drums
Richard Bona, vocals, percussion, guitar, bass guitar, marimba, kalimba
Cuong Vu, trumpet, vocals, guitar, percussion, vibraphone, glockenspiel

source/lineage- flac folder share of EXC DAT audience recording (details and original lineage below)> EAC disc extraction > Audacity (outlined below)> TLH> DIME

01-Last Train Home (Pat Metheny) 6:09
02-(Go) Get It (Pat Metheny) 2:56
03-Phase Dance (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays) 8:04
04-Travels (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays) 6:07
05-Proof (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays) 10:18
06-As It Is (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays) 8:37
07-How Insensitive (Insensatez) (Antônio Carlos Jobim) 14:07
08-The Gathering Sky (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays) 14:54
09-You (Pat Metheny) 8:59
10-First Circle (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays) 10:11
11-Pat Speaks 7:27
12-Scrap Metal (Pat Metheny) 8:59
13-Another Life (Pat Metheny) 9:32
14-Richard Bona solo voice and kalimba 4:43
15-On Her Way (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays) 8:25
16-Are You Going With Me? (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays) 13:30
17-Bright Size Life (Pat Metheny) 5:31
18-The Roots Of Coincidence (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays) 8:19
19-A Map Of The World / Lyle solo / In Her Family (Pat Metheny) 11:09
20-Pat Outros 0:54
21-Minuano (Six-Eight) (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays) 6:43
22-Song For Bilbao (Pat Metheny) 10:57
23-Third Wind (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays) 8:44

This is a PMG show that's been here on DIME, but not since what seems like its only share back in 2016 (according to the dimebot archive). I got a copy of this show in a cd-r trade prior to the start of my DIME days in 2007. I'd recently intended to rip what was on those discs to a HDD, and share the show again as part of that process. Lo and behold, my copy was on 2 cd-r's and didn't contain several tracks constituting the final 30-40 minutes of the show. PMG were touring the Speaking of Now album and a lot of material was played in the shows on that tour. Someone had once "titled" a boot of this show "Speaking of Extra Long". My 2 cd-r copy of the show added credence to that title, as it all clocks in at about 3 hours in length-even with a few new edits to this 2025 share that are mentioned below.
I tried to think of someone I knew who might have a complete copy on hand, and I started with Waterwheel (Christoph), because I had trade list from him on hand. Not only did he have the whole show, but it turned out that he was the original recorder! He happily sent me his files (mega thanks to him), and he told me that his recording had been prepped for a share here by metamarc for that 2016 run mentioned above. Thanks to metamarc for the work he'd done on the show for that share. That work became the basis for what's being shared now, rather than what had been on my discs. The folder I got also included some nice artwork that's retained for this new share, so thanks to whoever might've originally created that.
This 2025 share includes a few differences, which I'm hoping may have improved it a little more. First of all, there were micro-gaps at the start of most of the tracks, and they were also occasionally found within a track. Audacity was used to repair those gaps, and newly track the show into the tracks and timings shown above. A brief applause track prior to Last Train Home was shortened and faded in to now begin Last Train as a new track 1. Nearly 6 minutes of encore applause towards the end of the show was also trimmed down and fades will surround the areas trimmed. 2 new tracks were created to delineate Richard Bona's solo showcase from the group performance of On Her Way, and to also give Pat's outro comments prior to Minuano their own spot. EQ and Mastering tools were also applied to bring out a bit more clarity and depth to the DAT recording. Check the samples below to see what you'll get, and how it might compare to any earlier version you may have on hand.
As good of a recording as this is, it definitely is an audience capture. You'll hear some chatter along the way, and even some folks in the audience occasionally vocalizing along as a familiar PMG melody gets going. None of that is too intrusive to my ear, and on balance there's quite a lot of unadulterated PMG to overwhelmingly tip the balance toward suggesting that this is one of the better captures from this tour. Finally, metamarc notes, as you'll see below, that Waterwheel did occasionally shift the recording levels during the show. Metamarc also prepped his share to reign in the applause levels at the end of songs. That did diminish those levels, but whatever was utilized at those points sounds a little strange to my ear. Finally, sbe's were detected in the files and were fixed in TLH. Thanks once again to the trader who'd once sent me part of this on disc, to Waterwheel for getting this over to me for a new share, and to Metamarc for the work done in my folder prior to that share.

The lineage details metamarc shared back in 2016 are pasted in below, along with a few of his remarks:

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TAPER:
waterwheel
(processed by Metamarc)

LINEAGE:
(Sony DAT recorder with unknown external mic) - CD-R (received in trad)> CD-R to WAV and to harddisc via EAC >WAV to FLAC conversion with Traders Little Helper (sector boundaries aligned)- ffp with Traders Little Helper-Torrent file with Maketorrent; equalized with Har-Bal; cleaned and tweaked with Adobe Audition 2.0 and iZotope RX-3.

Note: Another fine recording from waterwheel's incredible collection. Not easy to process as waterwheel, who I consider a friend of mine, had the habit of correcting the volume during the show. Still an amazing show and as you can waterwheel hear say on the tape is one of the longest he ever attended - and that says a lot... Enjoy!




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