Relationship With Pat Metheny
Mike Metheny is arguably best known as the older brother of guitarist and composer Pat Metheny. As the Los Angeles Times has pointed out, "Most of fluegelhornist Mike Metheny's career has been spent in the large shadow cast by his younger brother, guitarist Pat." Pat Metheny's greater level of success has not been lost to his brother. As Mike Metheny pointed out in a 1987 interview, at the height of his own music career, "there's a dramatic distinction between where is and where I am... Pat is definitely in a class by himself." Notwithstanding, the Boston Globe writes that there is "not even an iota of intra-familial rivalry" between the pair.
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