cxcvi. METHENY, Pat: (It's Just) Talk

cxcvi. METHENY, Pat (1954-      )

(It's Just) Talk (1987)
PM, guitars
Lyle Mays, keyboards
Steve Rodby, bass
Paul Wertico, drums
Armando Marçal, percussion, backing vocals
Mark Ledford, vocals
David Blamires, vocals
(6:16)

from Still Life (Talking).

After 11 albums with ECM, Pat started to chafe against Manfred Eicher's "two-days of recording, one day of mixing and out it went" ...

Geffen offered a chance to work out the material more thoroughly -- to carefully record the minutest details of his compositions.

This one's written by Pat alone, but pretty soon almost all would be credited to Metheny/Mays ...

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