The Tao of Pat Metheny
Wong Notes
Premier Guitar
4.9 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2021
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
The master on what makes an icon, why devotion to music pays dividends, and why the drummer is top dog, plus choosing the best collaborators, owning Wes Montgomery’s guitar, and why his entire life’s work is “all one tune.”
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Produced by Jason Shadrick and Cory Wong
Additional Editing by Shawn Persinger
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| 0:00.0 | What's happening? Welcome to Wong Nodes podcast. This is a brand new season. Season four |
| 0:08.8 | coming at you. I'm stoked. I'm super stoked. Why am I stoked? Because there's a lot of stuff |
| 0:15.3 | happening right now. I got a brand new album out, Corey Wong and Dirty Loops. The album is called |
| 0:20.2 | Turbo. Check it out wherever you |
| 0:22.4 | listen to music or whatever. But equally as exciting, I have my number one favorite |
| 0:28.9 | guitar player, Pat Mathini, on the show today. Wow. That was number one on my list as guests |
| 0:36.5 | that I wanted for this podcast. |
| 0:38.5 | At the end of the podcast, I'll tell you who the others are. |
| 0:41.5 | Because I, you know, there's a handful that I, that are just my dream guests. |
| 0:46.5 | Pat was my number one dream guest. |
| 0:48.5 | I'm so stoked to have him on the show. |
| 0:50.1 | He doesn't need an introduction, really, because he's an absolute ledge upon legends. |
| 0:55.0 | He has an entire garage full of Grammy Awards. |
| 0:58.6 | He has millions of albums sold, as it primarily, I'm going to use the dirty word, jazz artist. |
| 1:07.3 | That's insane. |
| 1:09.1 | So many years of so many collaborations with so many incredible musicians somebody |
| 1:14.1 | that most guitar players really look up to insane technique insane time insane melodic ideas honestly |
| 1:22.5 | he's just an incredible guitarist with a singular voice on the instrument. |
| 1:28.4 | That's actually one of the things that's most inspiring to me |
| 1:30.6 | is that as soon as you hear it's Pat Mathini, you know it's Pat Mathini. |
| 1:34.5 | Let's get to it. |
| 1:39.2 | This season of Wongnode's podcast is brought to you by Distro Kid. |
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