Roadkill

Austin Music Hall
Saturday, February 7

Yes, it's award season. And as coveted as industry hardware can be, celebs often do some bizarre things with their accolades. Kurt Cobain's Grammy traveled with wifey Courtney Love as she apparently used it to weight down her arm so that she could find a vein. Then there's the rumor wherein Jodie Foster got, er, intimate with her Academy Award. And let's not forget the staged Emmy fight by the cast of Saturday Night Live mocking perennial loser Susan Lucci.

So, what kind of weird things does jazz guitarist extraordinaire, multi-time Grammy winner Pat Metheny do with all of his Grammys? "To tell you the truth, I don't even know where they all are," shirks Metheny. "They're all in the boxes they sent them to me in, I think, in a warehouse somewhere."

In fact, Metheny doesn't even know how many Grammys he's won. That would be six with a shot at seven, as his latest effort with the Pat Metheny Group, Imaginary Day, is up for a statuette this year. Metheny explains his aloofness as more of a function of lifestyle than ego-less ambivalence.

"I'm not good at keeping track of physical items," he says. "And up until the last year and a half or so I didn't even have a house or a place of my own or anything like that. I was just on the road all the time so it wasn't like I had a spot for them or anything. It's not something I'm proud of -- that I don't know how many there are. I just don't pay much attention to that stuff because I'm so busy trying to play and being on the road and everything like that.

"I always think that at some point in my life I'm going to stop for a while and just organize everything and take account, but pretty much from the time I started, which was now 22 years ago, it's been one long tour." -- Michael Bertin