Somebody's head has gotten really BIG!!!

[Who?]

I'm not really familiar with John Mayer, but I think "Nookie Magnet Deluxe" is a great bar band name. :toothy10:

 

[taez555]

Obviously the Panama thing was a joke, and of course I must preface this by saying I'm bias since he did live down the hall from me in the dorms during my sophmore year at Berklee and we still have mutual college friends, but....  man.... that was bad.  

Did he actually play a minor 7th chord at the begining instead of the sus?    Although, it does get better as it goes along.  The solo's actually not to bad (minus the taping part out of key).

I don't know.  He's a great guitar player, great songwriter, lover of all things great tone and great music...  If you follow the guitar gear forums those threads get as heated as the religion and politics stuff.  They love his sound, just not him.  Some people just can't get past his image as a heartthrob.  Personally I think he hasn't found his true voice yet as an artist.  He's not sure if he's a acoustic troubadour or SRV clone.

Again, bias... but... big fan, just maybe not of his Van Halen covers.

 

[NLD09]

he was doing a SRV tribute/cover thing in Atlanta, and a scout saw those apple cheeks, cupid lips and dreamy curls, and they marketed him as a boytoy.

Actually the first thing he ever did in Atlanta (after leaving Berklee in Boston) was an acoustic duo with Clay Cook called the Lo-Fi Masters that played pop rock. After that he went straight to his boytoy image and played solo acoustic stuff. No SRV anywhere.

 

[Mor Paul]

I'm trying to get a current Berklee student into Warmoth right now. Ha.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

I think he has found his voice.  Like Clapton, he has the freedom to play whatever with whoever.  From everything I've seen, he's well adjusted and has a sense of humor about himself.  A lot of us don't like one music and play one music only, why does he have to?  As far as an SRV clone, his sound (and his Fender sig Strat) are the exact opposite.  Where SRV's tone was very mid-heavy, Mayer's has scooped mids.  Besides, SRV was supposedly a Hendrix clone.  Unlike SRV (Texas Flood, Leave My Little Girl Alone, Change It (co-written), Voo-Doo Chile, Little Wing), Mayer's biggest hits are his own.  All that being said, I'm not a fan.

 

[AprioriMark]

I think he has found his voice.  Like Clapton, he has the freedom to play whatever with whoever.  From everything I've seen, he's well adjusted and has a sense of humor about himself.  A lot of us don't like one music and play one music only, why does he have to?  As far as an SRV clone, his sound (and his Fender sig Strat) are the exact opposite.  Where SRV's tone was very mid-heavy, Mayer's has scooped mids.  Besides, SRV was supposedly a Hendrix clone.  Unlike SRV (Texas Flood, Leave My Little Girl Alone, Change It (co-written), Voo-Doo Chile, Little Wing), Mayer's biggest hits are his own.  All that being said, I'm not a fan.

Agree with everything you said, by the way.

He seems to be a good guy and a great performer, but he's not my cup of tea.  I'd probably jam with him if we ran in the same musical circles, and definitely co-write with him, but he's lacking that "something" that many players are.  Clapton is actually a great example.  He shines more with other artists, and I'm not a fan of what he does on his own.

-Mark

 

[GearBoxTy]

I can't tell if they just figured out Panama before performing it or it's something he's always wanted to play and knew "some" of the parts but not the whole thing right.

I agree that somebody had to pay $25,000 for the Fender Frankenstrat...someone of John Mayer's wealth is appropriate.

I first heard him a year or two before he broke with "No Such Thing" and I was impressed.  I love his performance on the Crossroads 2007 DVD; "Gravity" especially.

I'm wondering...was that drummer Doyle Bramhall II's first and John stole him or vice-versa.

Check this out:
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[tfarny]

I like some of his stuff, too - there's nothing wrong with drawing fine ladies and being rich either. The Trio stuff with Pino Palladino and Steve Jordan has some good tunes. I think he has one the best guitar tones out there too and great touch.

 

[stubhead]

Doyle Bramhall is a perfect example of the "other" thing - he's not so cute, he's not so fast, but his playing sound real, not "Berklee Soul 101." Both he & Charlie Sexton were little blues gromits when I was living in Austin in the 80's, now they've got the Arc Angels back together:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGOXICdqhqs&feature=related

And they're almost... old guys. :icon_scratch:

 

[dmraco]

I've played better VH riffs than that in my man cave, and I'm not even a great guitarist.... :doh:

ccasion14:

+1 :laughing3:

 

[tfarny]

Stubhead, you think HENDRIX was a poser, so it's kind of hard to take your criticism of JM that seriously!  :icon_thumright:

 

[stubhead]

Well, if you really want to get back to the authentic roots, the blues.... was just, like, the pop music of the slave plantations. You gotta go way, way back before that late-era African stuff. The Greeks are sometimes claimed to have "invented" the pentatonic scale, but it's more like Pythagoras just yakked about it - what a wanker, all talk and no boogie! Most likely the Greeks stole it from the Egyptians, who in turn took it from the Babylonians, but it all goes back to the Sumerians. The Sumerians weren't so big on visuals, but the next groups down were the Hittites and Babylonians, and there's lots of pictures at least of their musical instruments:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_instrument

The Hittites even left a video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp_oXlSamoo&feature=player_embedded

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Doyle Bramhall is a perfect example of the "other" thing - he's not so cute, he's not so fast, but his playing sound real, not "Berklee Soul 101." Both he & Charlie Sexton were little blues gromits when I was living in Austin in the 80's, now they've got the Arc Angels back together:

Bramhall II, I guess you mean.  I dig those guys.  I am a hetereosexual male, so I can't commit on that appeal, but both Doyle II and Sexton are very popular with the ladies w/out picking up a guitar.  I think it's because they're getting to be old guys The Arc Angels is gonna work this time.  Heroin and youthful indescretions kept them going far in the early 90s.