Coming up on 40 years old next month. I just heard this for the first time and felt a connection with those of you who wrote comments about how you were listening to it 40 years ago. The gift of this music will keep journeying on thru time, even to those being born today.

Got this when it was 1st released...i was working at a record store - it changed my way of looking & listening to music.

Pat & Lyle are Music-Magicians, full of Love, Fantasy, Intelligence

I and many of my music major buddies at Tennessee Tech would often get together back in the early 80s and listen to this album drinking beer, but listening very intently and just absorbing this great music together! A great bunch of guys! This was one of our favorite Metheny works.

This album on cassette tape was the sound track to my viewing of Halley's Comet in 1986 with the new telescope my wonderful wife gave me in a dark field south of Fort Worth. Magic! Perfect accompaniment.

Great song on long drives.

After all these years I'm still not aware of an explanation for this otherworldly piece. All I know is that it's meant work. This is not accidental music. And there's nothing else like it.

The perfect Cosmic Groove for a lazy sunny late Sunday afternoon. Oooh yeah. 🫠✌️❤❤

I've been looking for this for decades!!!!

Capolavoro, Lyle...❤😞

Subliminal, transcendental, eclectic and euphoric. I've seen Pay Metheny perform one time, and that was when "The Way Up" was released, PHEW! He came on stage and the rest of the group and played for more than an HOUR! And when they ended that session he said; "we just did some of our latest recording, The Way Up. As a matter of fact, we did the whole album." HUH? WHO DOES THAT? Then they jammed for about another 2 1/2 to 3 hours. Man what a performance! My wife was utterly amazed, eyes and mouth wide open,saying how are they doing all that, all the sounds? Offramp was my first album of his. But I have plenty more now! Didn't mean to bore y'all but we're in the same groove!

Infinite beauty.

I saw Pat perform this piece in 1983 with his ensemble. Mesmerizing performance at Pantages Theatre.

Brighton, sunny day, acid, and this on the turntable......................nuff said

Pat and Lyle, musical magicians.

This song always reminded me of a wild hot air ballon ride!

I love It’s for You. I discovered it in 85 from the Kevin Costner film Fandango

Total masterpiece. Same level as September 15 present on the same album, not to mention "Au lait", another miracle of music. Almost no one knows about it, but you who listened to it know what I am talking about.

The live version on Travels album was breathtaking. Mays Metheny Gottlieb Vaasconcelis, Rodby

When they decided to use LM's track counts and mixed it in (14:00 time ->) they cretaed an Ambient Masterpiece. Brilliantly vizualized in Fahreheit commercial. These few minutes are something i listen to over and again. I like it. Lyle was a wonderful musician. He left us with an abundance of music. Pure beauty.

When I used to work overseas, a man called Patheny used to sleep with my wife - I found out because he left a Crowed House cassette in my Nakimichi. I haven’t seen or heard from either of them since 2003. This song always makes me think of them.

14:56 fahrenheit ❤

(14:05) The first time I heard this off the radio I found myself drifting into an elevated state of consciousness. It really was a transcendent experience, especially as Lyle's chords blend with the children's voices.

best music possible.

I was a freshmen at Bowling Green in the fall of 1984 and my roomate had this one on vinyl, and I had the kicking stereo. Back then we were all our own djs, now I can listen to anything literally anywhere in the world. Vinyl nostalgia aside, love that I hear this tune in a few clicks haha

This entire album is a masterpiece not for casual listening. Sit, turn down the lights and take the journey. Oh, lock the door.

Love reading ALL the comments. This Amazing Music touches ALL of us at different times, in different ways! Feel so blessed to have found Pat Metheny. Keep coming back to it 30 years later and it keeps getting deeper and more profound.

Just beautiful.

I bought the LP As Falls Wichita,So Falls Wichita Falls back in 1981 when it was first released and its one of my most treasured Albums and I eventually bought the CD. I felt so fortunate for this Album to enter into my life. Its an uplifting and equally tragic feeling of love and abandonment all thrown together in such a beautiful Album. They toured the U.K. and I was lucky enough to see them both perform this track amongs others and the title track from the Album...I still have my concert ticket inside the LP. I've beeen a Pat Metheny fan ever since. I found out about the passing of Lyle Mays here in KZfaq a few years ago. He died aged 66 in Feb 2020 and was the co founder of the The Pat Metheny Group. An incredible Pianist.His synthesizers gave depth and color to the ensemble’s sound. He soloed gracefully on grand piano. And he helped write many staples of the group’s repertoire. There used to be a beautiful video in youTube to this track, a view from the window of a train travelling somewhere in North America in Winter and it fitted the emotional senses that this track can bring. I have looked for it many times since but it may have been removed.

Yes, the entire album.

I've always wanted to meet pat and ask him one simple question "where do u get the ideas or think up such wonderful music?" Im sure though lyle was a major part in it even now in 2023 for me its a gift to listen to this wonderful album and know that all the others are there for me as well simply stunning it takes me away to a different planet as do all his albums lots of love pat from England 🇬🇧

I better take another listen to it. 😊

7.7k views?!--As Falls Wichita... is one of the loveliest albums ever made...

Muchas gracias señor por esto es realmente muy valioso

Unbelievable

I remember when Off Ramp came out and listened to it a bunch but in my mid twenties didn’t pay attention to Au lait Now as an old lady, I love it. It does remind me that in the late 60s and 70s foreign

love this, just lye back, and daydream.

Possess opportunity to see Mays Methany collaboration in September of 1975 courtesy of great NYS venue "The Unicorn," now ithaca's Strand theater; my point simply-Lyle Mays should resonate within halls of American as well as International music as one of it's great composer/musician's! Does anyone feel that there exists one weak composition in this man's entire discography...

Sonic alchemy. Gracias amigos.

Je l'ai écouté la première fois à 16 ans. Toujours aussi puissant !

Aqui bajo la lluvia en el sur de chile al fin del mundo escuchando esta hermosa pieza musical..no me decido a elejir entre el sonido de la lluvia o el de PMG.. mejor me dejaré llevar por ambos.

Meravigliosamente Pat e Lile

I remember this song from the late 70s. Matheny did it by mixing tape tracks and the genre was new age music, predating all the chill music, techno dub remixes of today by 45 to 50 years. But, oddly enough so similar.

Cose dell' altro mondo

the best💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

Quel grand album

Obra de ARTE ❤

Followed Pat from the start until now with Dream Box. There are lots of unique pieces of music in his repertoire, but this is up there. Maybe it's sentimental because Lyle had input, that said, it's a timeless piece of music

a cathartic composition who's theme seems to be based on exploring the world ...

Tremendo Álbum gracias por subirlo

Yes it does and I sure miss Lyle Mays not being on this planet.

Saw PM et al at Texas A&M in the early 80’s. I was wondering how they were going to do rumbling sound effect live: A large sheet of metal. Gotta hand it to those Brazilian percussionists.

I’m just guessing but I take it you just might like thi album??!!😉

I had this subliminal self-confidence tape with some New Age music. My friend said it sounded like Pat Metheny. By coincidence, I was reading this book “Getting High Without Drugs.” It recommended As Falls Wichita So Wichita Falls. I bought the compact disc and loved the title track. I also saw Pat in concert at The Beacon Theatre in NYC. He didn’t play As Falls Wichita So Wichita Falls! 🤦

I'm here because of Dior Fahrenheit ad

14:30 Dior Fahrenheit

I had this on cassette early 80s.. I don’t know how it got in my box drawer of cassette tapes. I listened to it. I was afraid to buy spacy music because they always suggested something that I didn’t like. Apex twin or whatever, I like apex twin although rarely listen. it’s not the same when professional musicians paint earth n space.

All I can add is....12:45 🤘

Hey Thanks for this memorable upload - my 1st PM album what musical brilliance ,vision and quality for the time and the start of Pat & Lyle's metamorphosis into many first class musical group collaborations which I followed religiously from gigs in USA ,London Spain to Perth Australia (the Sanchez ,Oh & Simcock bandmembers ).Biggest regret was not seeing PM live with Esbjorn Svensson Group (EST) a magical musical collaboration & Let us not forget Lyle's contribution to PAT's music over the many years R I P Lyle Mays ....as a fitting tribute please play kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nqyGocl_ks7UpYE.html Lyle was brilliant on this ......forever, DJEJ Ayrshire

Sheppard Air Force Base. MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY. US Post Office. My stops when I lived there. Nice

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beautiful killing machine (fat jon) - Right Is

Pretty good effort there guys, but nowhere near the genius of the live version on 'Travels'!!

Live version with Goiin Ahead sublime kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ipZ8ibuZqb6zdZ8.html

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