Offramp by Pat Metheny Group

Pros: some cool tunes; mostly happy music 
Cons: too much synth for my personal tastes

By the time the Pat Metheny Group released Offramp in 1982, the band had pretty much established the "Pat Metheny Group" sound that I associate with Metheny in the 1980s. Drummer Dan Gottlieb and keyboardist Lyle Mays had been playing with Metheny for a ...

Pros: beautiful electric guitar and innovation
Cons: not all of the tracks are as beautiful and masterful as #2 & #3

When I was a kid, my father used to play this music that would intoxicate me. It had a mysterious sounding beat to it that made me, as a 10 year old, think of beautiful Brazilian women shaking their voluptuous hips with skirts of grass and wooden sandals...

Pros: An engaging album, pure musicianship,a 1980s group classic
Cons: A challenge for some less-willed listeners

Offramp is the album that made who I am today: a Pat-Head. It is an essential PMG album though Nana Vascancelos and Danny Gottlieb are no longer with Pat. It's an introduction to Steve Rodby who took over for Mark Egan on bass too.
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