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Pat Metheny

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The Resume

    (August 12, 1954- )
    Born in Lee's Summit, Missouri
    Jazz guitarist
    Recorded the albums ‘Bright Size Life’ (1976), ‘Watercolors’ (1977), ‘The Pat Metheny Group’ (1978), ‘American Garage’ (1979), ‘Offramp’ (1982), ‘Travels’ (1983), ‘Rejoicing’ (1984), ‘The Falcon and the Snowman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack’ (1985), ‘Song X’ (with Ornette Coleman, 1986), ‘Letter from Home’ (1989), ‘Secret Story’ (1992), ‘Zero Tolerance for Silence’ (1994), ‘Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories)’ (with Charlie Haden, 1997), ‘A Map of the World’ (1999), ‘One Quiet Night’ (2003), ‘The Way Up’ (2005), ‘Orchestrion’ (2010), and ‘The Unity Sessions’ (2016)

Why he might be annoying:

    He said one of the reasons he took up guitar was ‘It was the instrument my parents least wanted me to play and I was at the age of 13 or 14, when that made it more appealing to me.’
    He owns a custom-made 42-string guitar dubbed the ‘Pikasso’ because it looks like a cubist painting of a guitar.
    His song ‘Last Train Home’ frequently plays during The Weather Channel’s ‘Local on the 8s’ updates.
    He said, ‘I’m one of those guys who doesn’t like listening to himself.’

Why he might not be annoying:

    At fifteen, he won a competition from ‘Down Beat’ magazine to attend summer jazz camp.
    He taught music at the University of Miami and Berklee College of Music in his teens.
    He won twenty Grammys, in a record ten different categories.
    He was the only jazz performer at Live Aid, playing with Carlos Santana.
    He was named Guitarist of the Year 18 times (so far) in the Down Beat readers poll (1983,1986-91,2007-16,2019).
    He was named an NEA Jazz Master (2017).

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 15 Votes: 53.33% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying