John Mayer: he got skills

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  • chimpat
    chimpat Posts: 590
    Here's a cool story for y'all. I've known John since the 6th grade, became good friends due to our love of music and we both were clowns so we'd always joke around. Over the years, even though we went different directions, we always stayed in touch. He's been great to me, always getting me into his shows (probably 30+) and letting me meet a bunch of people. He also pulled some strings and got me into PJ at Irving Plaza earlier this year which was unbelievably cool.

    Well, he topped everything last week when he flew me, our buddy Dan and his brother Ben out to LA for his video shoot for his new single "Waiting on the World to Change". I thought I was going to watch the making of the video, but he ended up putting us all in the video.

    We shot three scenes together: One was all of us playing video games, another was hanging out at a newsstand and the third was this awesome scene of us in an old convertible bonneville cruising down the street in LA with the sunset in the background. Who knows, all threes scenes might get cut for all I know, but I can honestly say it was one of the coolest damn experiences of my life.

    He's always been a loyal and great friend to me and I couldn't be happier for him and his success. I can honestly say that he's one of the good guys in the business.

    PT
    "This is about as perfect a crowd as you can get. I hate to placate, I ain't placating...." - EV, 9/29/96


  • Thumbing My Way
    Thumbing My Way Posts: 1,073
    chimpat wrote:
    Here's a cool story for y'all. I've known John since the 6th grade, became good friends due to our love of music and we both were clowns so we'd always joke around. Over the years, even though we went different directions, we always stayed in touch. He's been great to me, always getting me into his shows (probably 30+) and letting me meet a bunch of people. He also pulled some strings and got me into PJ at Irving Plaza earlier this year which was unbelievably cool.

    Well, he topped everything last week when he flew me, our buddy Dan and his brother Ben out to LA for his video shoot for his new single "Waiting on the World to Change". I thought I was going to watch the making of the video, but he ended up putting us all in the video.

    We shot three scenes together: One was all of us playing video games, another was hanging out at a newsstand and the third was this awesome scene of us in an old convertible bonneville cruising down the street in LA with the sunset in the background. Who knows, all threes scenes might get cut for all I know, but I can honestly say it was one of the coolest damn experiences of my life.

    He's always been a loyal and great friend to me and I couldn't be happier for him and his success. I can honestly say that he's one of the good guys in the business.

    PT

    Awesome story man, nice read. :)
    "I Miss You Already!!!!!"

    "Sorry is the fool who trades his love for high-rise rent, Seems the more you make equals the loneliness you get"

    .NJD.
  • exhausted
    exhausted Posts: 6,638
    JofZ wrote:
    John Mayer began taking lessons with Tomo Fujita at age 19. John was rough as Tomo puts it and was unsure where he was going to go. His parents are both teachers and John was thinking about teaching as a career. Well, Berklee and Tomo changed all of that :)

    Today, John even cops Tomo's signature guitar and if you listen you'll hear all of Tomo's funk groove riffs as well. John is a fantastic writer, one of the best my generation has to offer. He is a huge gear slut, loves to sit on ebay and buy Way Huge pedals LOL and he uses a Duble for a foot stool at his home ( not a joke)
    If you want to learn some more about him, or better yet what made him so good, just pop on over to The Guitar Hub and ask Tomo ;)


    i just ordered tomo's DVD along with the book harrison recommended in another thread.
  • blackredyellow
    blackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    moster78 wrote:
    I have that too if anyone wants it! Its even funnier because I went to that show where he was walking around the parking lot in a bear costume, except I don't remember seeing a bear while hanging out in the lot.

    this cracks me up :)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqGLw4iVAB8&search=john%20mayer
    My whole life
    was like a picture
    of a sunny day
    “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
  • JofZ
    JofZ Posts: 1,276
    Well guys, go pick up your wife or GF's copy of Style Magazine. Nice little 2 page (GAY) spread on John. His style and a little interview.
    Here is what he said that matters:
    "Who would you most like to meet?"
    JM: " Eddie Vedder, it is amazing I haven't met him yet and he is doing something right if I haven't. The way he writes and his ability to harmonize, blah, blah, blah...... I want to drink red wine with Eddie."

    Oh, I forgot to mention the spread also tells you what watch, what wine, and what storage containers John uses in case you wanted to copy him :)
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  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    chimpat wrote:
    Here's a cool story for y'all. I've known John since the 6th grade, became good friends due to our love of music and we both were clowns so we'd always joke around. Over the years, even though we went different directions, we always stayed in touch. He's been great to me, always getting me into his shows (probably 30+) and letting me meet a bunch of people. He also pulled some strings and got me into PJ at Irving Plaza earlier this year which was unbelievably cool.

    Well, he topped everything last week when he flew me, our buddy Dan and his brother Ben out to LA for his video shoot for his new single "Waiting on the World to Change". I thought I was going to watch the making of the video, but he ended up putting us all in the video.

    We shot three scenes together: One was all of us playing video games, another was hanging out at a newsstand and the third was this awesome scene of us in an old convertible bonneville cruising down the street in LA with the sunset in the background. Who knows, all threes scenes might get cut for all I know, but I can honestly say it was one of the coolest damn experiences of my life.

    He's always been a loyal and great friend to me and I couldn't be happier for him and his success. I can honestly say that he's one of the good guys in the business.

    PT

    That is a wicked story!
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
  • Thumbing My Way
    Thumbing My Way Posts: 1,073
    blackredyellow wrote:
    this cracks me up :)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqGLw4iVAB8&search=john%20mayer


    Hahaha!!

    That's funny stuff :D:D
    "I Miss You Already!!!!!"

    "Sorry is the fool who trades his love for high-rise rent, Seems the more you make equals the loneliness you get"

    .NJD.
  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    blackredyellow wrote:
    this cracks me up :)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqGLw4iVAB8&search=john%20mayer

    OMG I nearly crapped myself thats awesome!
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
  • casper leblanc
    casper leblanc Posts: 1,246
    exhausted wrote:
    yeah, i mean the pre-chorus too. i can't get it smooth and fast enough yet.

    so i just kind of play my own thing.

    watching the video, his fret hand is liquid. i just can't do that. or at least it feels like i can't.

    It feels like I have arthritis. :( Man, if you guys already can pull off all you just mentioned...

    And I also need that book in the other thread. And some talent would be nice.

    On a sidenote: I watched Prince live in Las Vegas today. He got da funk.
  • moster78
    moster78 Posts: 1,591
    keeponrockin wrote:
    OMG I nearly crapped myself thats awesome!

    You should see the bit he does with some teenage girls as part of a fan focus group. Convincing them that Richard Marx writes all his songs, and adapting "No Such Thing" into a cough medicine commercial.
  • Thumbing My Way
    Thumbing My Way Posts: 1,073
    I found this one awesome too:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qla13aWrNP4&mode=related&search=john%20mayer%20trio
    "I Miss You Already!!!!!"

    "Sorry is the fool who trades his love for high-rise rent, Seems the more you make equals the loneliness you get"

    .NJD.
  • blackredyellow
    blackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    Thumbing My Way wrote:
    Hahaha!!

    That's funny stuff :D:D

    I love the fleetwood mac line :D
    My whole life
    was like a picture
    of a sunny day
    “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln

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