Way back in 1978, as a recently graduated guitar major, Pat Metheny was starting make some real noise in the guitar world. The opportunity to hear him in concert was not to be missed. I certainly came away impressed by his talent, but the one who really blew me away was this unknown keyboardist by the name of Lyle Mays.
I was so incredibly sad when I found out Lyle Mays died 😢. A truly gifted musician who will be hard to replace. Metheny + Mays is such a natural fit.... they were together for so long. Even though they had solo projects and collaborated with others, they always worked best with each other. RIP, Maestro Mays. You left us with beautiful music.
@@ChrisBCartagena Hard to imagine both so close together.. they were my two favorites.. I think of Lyle with his "moody" Steinway and Chick with his "bright" Yamaha. Was stuck on "Long Life" ua-cam.com/video/JlSb-VWE6z4/v-deo.html for several days before I heard Lyle passed (pulled CD as it had been a while since I listened to his solos). One of my favorites by Chick is short solo "Where Have I Known You Before".. a lot of emotion in two minutes. ua-cam.com/video/O25Wm42m3qE/v-deo.html
@@chrissnyder6787 Chris...thanks for reminding me of that red album, think I nad in back in about 78! Wish Pat M would Produce some new music in the veign of his former concept albums that he did with Lyle ..that was great.. his new pure jazz stuff doesn’t thrill me.
Lile.... 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼Muchas gracias por tus grandiosas e inolvidables melodías. Siempre te escucho y disfruto tu, ahora nuestra música.
My FAVORITE KEYBOARD PLAYER ‘EVER’ !!!!!! REPLACE?………… impossible, CAN’T BE DONE!!! Lyle CHANGED the direction of my life FOREVER!!! I MISS YA FOREVER LYLE!!! 🙏
My exact feelings about it. I heard it for the very first time very late at night, while it was snowing in the middle of a tiny village lost on the Andes mountains. From then on I realize that I don’t want to spoil that memory, listening it in any other mood. This song IS that distant, dreamy moment in my life
The most sublime music. I had a dream where I met Pat and got to ask him how they conceived this piece. He just looked at me, smiled, and said: "We just did it". I miss Lyle and Pat together more than I can say.
Watching this with the music is causing me deep sorrow. For Lyle, and everyone else. Thanks for the musical memories Lyle. You were a genius, unique! Hope you are well wherever you may be now. God Bless all life!
I've heard that music is prayer with no words. Thank you, Lyle, for all the prayers you've provided to so many that will always be there for us to hear and love. RIP.
When I hear this song, it always takes me somewhere else it never took me before. It is truly one of finest musical compositions that I have ever heard, and thus a superb choice as a tribute song to Lyle Mays.
I feel movement love and loss and they dance together in a place where is no space or time ..The genious of GOD using a human to show you a bit of his essence through music..beutius!
Grande Lyle quanto mi manchi....quanto mi mancano le tue melodie dolci, eteree, trasognanti, evocative......senza il tuo tocco cosi personale saranno orfane pure le prossime tracce del tuo grande amico e collega Pat....ma non ti dimentichero'....la tua musica mi appartiene !!👏❤❤❤
Thank you for this beautiful rendition of not only my favorite P.M.G song, but my favorite of any and all songs. R.I.P Lyle and thank you so much for leaving this slice of musical heaven.
I have been very lucky to see the Pat Metheny Group a number of times over the years. The first time was the First Circle tour. They were amazing. I've seen Pat with his other groups as well, but for me, they could never compare to his collaboration with Lyle in the Pat Metheny Group.
È un musicista fantastico e con un'anima speciale, unica e temo non apprezzato da chi non ha immensa sensibilità e competenza... musicale. Un vero genio della musica per godere anche con lo spirito
Very well played, Walther. An excellente tribute for an outstanding pianist. He has influenced many of us with his sense of complex harmony and beautiful melodies.
E' la prima volta che mi capita e sono passati quattro anni, di sentire tremendamente la mancanza di qualcuno che non ho mai conosciuto personalmente. Lyle ci ha donato decadi di meravigliosa musica, ma nel momento in cui lo abbiamo perso, ho realizzato che tutti questi anni in cui lo abbiamo avuto con noi, sono stati sempre pochi. Grazie Lyle: gioisci ora alla luce del volto di Cristo.
Imposible no emocionarse al escuchar este tremendo tema compuesto por Pat Metheny y Lyle Mays,recordar es transportarse a un mundo mejor,de tranquilidad total,un excelente acorde musical lleno de melodías perfectas...!
So sad. Saw the PMG in a small club in Ann Arbor, Mi in Dec '78 (?) Maybe 20 people there on a weeknight (where our group of friends was 1/2 the crowd). So cool. Blown away. Moved to LA. Crowds were much bigger (eg, Greek Theater size). Moved to Arizona -- filled auditoriums by then (Arizona State Univ Gammage Theatre). Such a talent. RIP
Thank you for this sympathetic upload , since Lyle's passing I have kept re listening to the albums from that period of PMG with Pedro et al It was and still is truly inspirational I'm sure Pat &Pedro will agree that the piano of Lyle Mays will live on forever in the groups albums as well as the solo works that Lyle did . R I P Lyle
Well done!! On a different note, trying to put a smile to the devastating departure of Lyle, i wonder, with a tune like this, the album very well could've been titled "Offvamp"
Oh wow just reading this. When I saw tribute I thought I hope it doesn't mean what I think. Then I came to this and saw birth-death. Agreed. He will be missed.
Way back in 1978, as a recently graduated guitar major, Pat Metheny was starting make some real noise in the guitar world. The opportunity to hear him in concert was not to be missed. I certainly came away impressed by his talent, but the one who really blew me away was this unknown keyboardist by the name of Lyle Mays.
Thank you for this. A fitting tribute.
I was so incredibly sad when I found out Lyle Mays died 😢. A truly gifted musician who will be hard to replace. Metheny + Mays is such a natural fit.... they were together for so long. Even though they had solo projects and collaborated with others, they always worked best with each other. RIP, Maestro Mays. You left us with beautiful music.
Lyle Mays and Chick Corea died a year apart!
@@ChrisBCartagena
Wow!! Unbelievable coincidence!!
Not "hard to replace"... impossible to replace. He belongs to the ages now...
@@ChrisBCartagena Hard to imagine both so close together.. they were my two favorites.. I think of Lyle with his "moody" Steinway and Chick with his "bright" Yamaha. Was stuck on "Long Life" ua-cam.com/video/JlSb-VWE6z4/v-deo.html for several days before I heard Lyle passed (pulled CD as it had been a while since I listened to his solos). One of my favorites by Chick is short solo "Where Have I Known You Before".. a lot of emotion in two minutes. ua-cam.com/video/O25Wm42m3qE/v-deo.html
@@chrissnyder6787 Chris...thanks for reminding me of that red album, think I nad in back in about 78!
Wish Pat M would Produce some new music in the veign of his former concept albums that he did with Lyle ..that was great.. his new pure jazz stuff doesn’t thrill me.
Wonderful piano artist. i was lucky to see the Pat Metheny Group at the Pioneer Theater In 1987. Lyle was great!
Lile.... 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼Muchas gracias por tus grandiosas e inolvidables melodías. Siempre te escucho y disfruto tu, ahora nuestra música.
We miss Lyle and Pat together . Beautiful
My FAVORITE KEYBOARD PLAYER ‘EVER’ !!!!!!
REPLACE?………… impossible, CAN’T BE DONE!!!
Lyle CHANGED the direction of my life FOREVER!!!
I MISS YA FOREVER LYLE!!!
🙏
R.I.P. Lyle. You have left us with a treasure trove of beauty. Job well done !
D Lamar Sobotor , a perfect statement from you!!!! Was about to state the same thing!!!!!!
Have a truly blessed day today!!!!!!!!!
This is a tune you return to only in certain moods. You have to save it up. It is a work of great beauty. Lyle was a genius.
My exact feelings about it.
I heard it for the very first time very late at night, while it was snowing in the middle of a tiny village lost on the Andes mountains.
From then on I realize that I don’t want to spoil that memory, listening it in any other mood.
This song IS that distant, dreamy moment in my life
El gran vacio q dejan las personas q sé marchan.
Especially true for the original "Offramp" album version, with that person heavily sighing...
The most sublime music. I had a dream where I met Pat and got to ask him how they conceived this piece. He just looked at me, smiled, and said: "We just did it". I miss Lyle and Pat together more than I can say.
When you got Pat in your bed that’s a whole Lotta love!!!!! Living the Dream A secret samadhi! 🕊
Takes me to a heavenly place
My favorite pianist. He was a bright star. The heavens must be filled with glorious music.
Que buenas melodías tocaba Lyle mays que disfrute maestro
I'm glad I got to see him during the off ramp tour in 1982 I believe up in Dayton. I'm from cincinnati. And got to see nano as well with them.
So so...beautiful.
Thank you Lyle singing and dancing together forever. PeAcE ✌️!!!!
My first album...😥...nice memories....love to lyle e pat...Awesome duo...
Lyle you will be so missed what a talented man you were. My heart sunk when you died. R. I p.
Thank you Lyle. We'll never forget your sensitivity.
A beautiful reminder of the brilliance of Lyle 🙏🙏... May he Rest in peace for ever 🙏🙏.!!! Herb ☘️
I wanna cry. Honestly.
Watching this with the music is causing me deep sorrow. For Lyle, and everyone else. Thanks for the musical memories Lyle.
You were a genius, unique!
Hope you are well wherever you may be now.
God Bless all life!
Lyle, please feel free to continue touching our souls. No one has ever played such beautiful notes.
I've heard that music is prayer with no words. Thank you, Lyle, for all the prayers you've provided to so many that will always be there for us to hear and love. RIP.
A great Musician !! He's gone too early ....but his music will stay in our heart
The sweeter sadness.. together with hope and dreaming to exotic states of mind 🌴🍓🍉🍸🍸🌏🏖🏝🌞
I think it's my best ever song on all Metheny's album 🙏❤🙏
I know it is mine.
I see him every day when I look up to the heavens listening to his music rip.
Always and forever .... Lyle will be present.
Loved your music and have seen you many times in concert. Simply awesome. R.I.P. my friend.
When I hear this song, it always takes me somewhere else it never took me before. It is truly one of finest musical compositions that I have ever heard, and thus a superb choice as a tribute song to Lyle Mays.
Beautiful
RESPECT, Walther! What a great tribute to the one and only Lyle.
Thanks for your appreciation.
Beautiful arrangement and fitting tribute to one of the masters of jazz keyboards today.
So sorry to hear about his passing he had an incredible sound he will be missed.
Not only a tribute, but also a clear showing of great talent here.
c'est magnifique 🤧
I feel movement love and loss and they dance together in a place where is no space or time ..The genious of GOD using a human to show you a bit of his essence through music..beutius!
Lyle..a musical angel dispatched from God to heal, inspire, encourage, and enlighten millions of lives so glad recorded music is immortalized!
This is a very fine song. Unless you try to dance. You'll hurt yourself. A lovely song.
Grande Lyle quanto mi manchi....quanto mi mancano le tue melodie dolci, eteree, trasognanti, evocative......senza il tuo tocco cosi personale saranno orfane pure le prossime tracce del tuo grande amico e collega Pat....ma non ti dimentichero'....la tua musica mi appartiene !!👏❤❤❤
Thank you for this beautiful rendition of not only my favorite P.M.G song, but my favorite of any and all songs. R.I.P Lyle and thank you so much for leaving this slice of musical heaven.
I have been very lucky to see the Pat Metheny Group a number of times over the years. The first time was the First Circle tour. They were amazing. I've seen Pat with his other groups as well, but for me, they could never compare to his collaboration with Lyle in the Pat Metheny Group.
I agree with your statement 👍 I've seen them as well, over the years. Pat and Lyle together as in the group was spectacular.
This is one of my favorite songs from the "Offramp" album. I loved it!
lovely interpretation, mr. sell. thank you for sharing your rendition of this virtuoso composition by the brilliant mr. mays.
Un bellísimo tema interpretado con mucho cariño. ¡Vive siempre, Lyle!
Excellent. This tune always caused a sad mood to me, but now its much more sad.
Beautiful.
È un musicista fantastico e con un'anima speciale, unica e temo non apprezzato da chi non ha immensa sensibilità e competenza... musicale. Un vero genio della musica per godere anche con lo spirito
RIP..Miss you already Lyle
Very well played, Walther. An excellente tribute for an outstanding pianist. He has influenced many of us with his sense of complex harmony and beautiful melodies.
Thank you. Yes, not many jazz pianist are able to add an emotional element to their playing, like Lyle did.
Ciao Lyle con te ho sognato!!!!!
E' la prima volta che mi capita e sono passati quattro anni, di sentire tremendamente la mancanza di qualcuno che non ho mai conosciuto personalmente. Lyle ci ha donato decadi di meravigliosa musica, ma nel momento in cui lo abbiamo perso, ho realizzato che tutti questi anni in cui lo abbiamo avuto con noi, sono stati sempre pochi. Grazie Lyle: gioisci ora alla luce del volto di Cristo.
superb!...beautiful tribute to a gentle genius, Thank You! 👏🏻🌟🎼
Sublime !!!
Muchas gracias Lyle, tu legado es grandioso, tus tonos y música quedará conmigo para siempre, hacía soñar y volar a través del universo.
Well done.
Grandeeeeeee 😘❣️❣️❣️
Imposible no emocionarse al escuchar este tremendo tema compuesto por Pat Metheny y Lyle Mays,recordar es transportarse a un mundo mejor,de tranquilidad total,un excelente acorde musical lleno de melodías perfectas...!
This tribute is gorgeous - until I realized it was not Mays, I thought it was. Cannot offer higher praise or, greater appreciation; t/y.
Thanks for your kind words.
Can't understand how can I miss Lyle's pass. So sad.
Un grande - Pianista indimenticabile -
CONDIVIDO. GRANDISSIMO PIANISTA DEI
PAT. METNEY GROP
God bless you lyle mays.
Magnifique! I feel some time as a link , a tie with Eric Saty...
Beautiful rendition...
Saw him in Detroit. Older gent behind me kept saying quietly "Yo Lyle" whenever he did his solo part.
He had that effect on HUMANS!!!
(meaning, Lyle wasn’t of this world, a GIFT FROM GOD, lending us Lyle for a bit) 🙏
Beautiful interpretation, thank you
Simply, Mays at his core. To be listened to sparingly so as not to 'banalize' it.
Thanks,. Just checking, you are aware this not Lyle Mays playing, right?
@@WaltherSell4466 Yes, Walther. I was praising the composition ... and your exquisite rendition of it. ♥
Much appreciated.
Very good re-lecture of this wonderful masterpiece. Nice job, really ! Congratulations !
THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS ... I SO LOVED HIM
Gorgeous tune...
Bella versión!!
Nice job, man! Tastefully done!
So sad. Saw the PMG in a small club in Ann Arbor, Mi in Dec '78 (?) Maybe 20 people there on a weeknight (where our group of friends was 1/2 the crowd). So cool. Blown away. Moved to LA. Crowds were much bigger (eg, Greek Theater size). Moved to Arizona -- filled auditoriums by then (Arizona State Univ Gammage Theatre). Such a talent. RIP
Thank you for this sympathetic upload , since Lyle's passing I have kept re listening to the albums from that period of PMG with Pedro et al It was and still is truly inspirational
I'm sure Pat &Pedro will agree that the piano of Lyle Mays will live on forever in the groups albums as well as the solo works that Lyle did . R I P Lyle
Fico pensando, como duas mentes, podem combinar em criar, escrever tão linda melodia, gênios. Parabens pela linda interpretação, belo trabalho.
We say...thanks for Lyle........
Bravissimo Walther...
Gracie, Francesco.
great great keyboardist....so sensitive...
I went to Red Rocks and it was perfect.
un cammeo musicale tra i tanti che Lyle ci ha lasciato
GRANDISSIMO PIANISTA
DEI PAT METNEY GROP
Now u can play to an audience of Angel's R.I.P LYLE we love u
Thank you !
This song reminds me of Marseilles France. RIP Lyle. 🥺
Maravilhoso!
Che tristezza e dispiacere, un talento scomparso che faceva del bene al mondo con la sua musica.
Well done!!
On a different note, trying to put a smile to the devastating departure of Lyle, i wonder, with a tune like this, the album very well could've been titled "Offvamp"
Goodby lyle 😢😢
Love lyle Forever
RIP. LYLE. MAYS
GRANDISSIMO. PIANISTA
PAT METNEY GROP
ITALIA
TARANTO 30/4/2021
Oh wow just reading this. When I saw tribute I thought I hope it doesn't mean what I think. Then I came to this and saw birth-death. Agreed. He will be missed.
Dette er noe av det vakreste jeg har hørt, og jeg kommer alltid tilbake til "Au lait".
Good.
RIP LYLE.
I felt that this song was made for me '' QUIET INTENSITY''.
so sad rip
I start to hate February. We lost Lyle last year, and this one to Chick Corea.
That's not fair Feb..
THANKS LYLE LFE WAS BETTER WITH YOU....SEE YOU SOON..
🎹🎹🎹🎼🎼♥️
Lyle is very much miiss.
🎹😢
😀💚🌸🌱
Mays at PMG was like Roger Waters at Pink Floyd. Spirit, mystery ...