00:03:27 Watercolors
00:12:42 Song to Bilbao
00:21:00 Travels
00:30:26 Have You Heard
00:41:23 Always and Forever
00:51:04 New Chautauqua
01:03:57 Questions and Answers
01:09:02 River Quay
01:20:25 Are You Going With Me
For those who know me, know that over here at SpragueLand we are big fans of Pat Metheny’s music. We’ve already produced two Metheny music livestreams and played numerous live concerts over the years. For me his blend of melodicism, jazz meets Americana, and Brazilian influences is just the right blend and truly the guiding light into how to present music. He’s the real deal!
It turns out, for the first time in my life, Pat has asked me and the band to back him up for a private concert in L.A. in mid-March. What a thrill and we’re already working on the setlist. Pat has in mind some of his older songs — New Chautauqua, Sea Song, River Quay, and Watercolors. — these are all new to me. To these classics we’ll had songs that Leonard sings including, Song to Bilboa, Lone Jack, Are You Going With Me, Better Days Ahead, and Travels — all of them outfitted with lyrics by Randy Phillips.
So the idea of this show is to work up the new songs in rehearsal, play the Live(ish) From SpragueLand broadcast, later in the week rehearse the program with Pat, and then the next day play the actual concert. We want to be prepared and given that the Metheny gig is a private event we thought it’d be nice to share our progress with you folks. Just to be clear, Pat won’t be on the livestream show but only the private gig later in the week.
The band includes some of the best with Leonard Patton on vocals, John Opferkuch on piano, Mack Leighton on bass, Duncan Moore on drums, and me on guitar.
It’ll be fun, best, Peter
Price of admission? Actually the concert is free but we will have a “virtual tip jar” complete with PayPal, Zelle and Venmo info for you to donate whatever you feel good about. Also, old reliable snail mailing checks works too. You folks have been super generous with this and it makes us happy.
Paypal: petersprague@sbcglobal.net
(It’ll show up as Satyam Music, that’s my music company)
Be sure when asked “Paying for an item or service” to hit the Change button and select the “family or friends” option to bypass the fees.
Venmo: @PeterSprague
Zelle: Peter Sprague peter@petersprague.com
mail checks via snail mail to: Peter Sprague
311 East Glaucus St.
Encinitas, CA 92024
A few notes:
You don’t have to watch the show live. The same YouTube link will bring up the recording for you to view anytime.
If you do watch it live (and we recommend this), you can participate in the live chat during the concert as long as you have a YouTube account.
Click here https://youtu.be/MEaCbZ-DlqQ to watch a vid, leading you through the easy process of creating a YouTube account. Maybe do this before the concert begins.
If you do have an account and you're logged in, you can type something fun into the chat box and that’s how we create modern day jazz community in this era of the pandemic. Maybe start with something simple like “Hi, this is Lisa from Wyoming" or “Hi, I’m Reggie from Portland.” By doing this we’ve got an app that will magically take your name and location and drop a pin on a spinning globe. During the show we'll visit all of the listeners and say hi and marvel at your exotic places of residence. No worries about privacy...How many Lisa's are in the entire state of Wyoming? Or "Reggie's in Portland, Maine?