“Mike's Music Interview Archive: Eric Singer, LEMUR (League of Musical Urban Robots). Pat Metheny was the "artist-in-residence" at the Detroit Jazz Festival, which meant that he was there every time you turned around...which reminded me of a fun story that I did awhile back about the guy who built the musical robots for Metheny's wacky "Orchestrion" project (who lives in Pittsburgh)...Now, I'm not the biggest Metheny fan, but I respect the dude's defiant weirdness: "Who needs a band? All they do is ask for money and eat my snacks! I'm building my own band of robots, totally subservient to my every musical whim!" If the Orchestrion someday evolves into Skynet, blame this guy: http://triblive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/ae/music/s_684362.html#axzz3l9iddvz5”

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