the new mayer record

exhausted wrote:

absolutely jaw-dropping guitar tones. incredible.

what a great record. the playing is totally clapton but the songs don't suck (referring to clapton's pop ventures here).

makes me wish i had the fingers to justify owning a two-rock.

also makes me want a pitch-shifter. i haven't heard cool pitch-shifted solos in a long time.

yeah, he "plays around" with a dumble ODS at home too and has a dumble rack unit. I generally detest pop, this kid is awesome. Good songwriter too.

I always liked his acoustic stuff better, maybe I'll give this one a listen.

One theory is having an amp that forces you to be cleaner (two rock, fuchs, matchless) helps your playing because it won't sound right if you're dirty.

I really want Dave Fox to tackle a pitch shifter, he did such a good job with the octron. Even though the Whammy is kind of abrasive, I've always been impressed by Morello. A single octave sweeping PS focusing on the non ridiculous high octaves might be really cool especially phased and layered with an octave or two down.

exhausted wrote:

this record is much less pop and much more soul and blues infused. you'll like it.

there's a picture in the notes of ones of his set ups. 2 or 3 dumble ODS's and a two-rock or two.

most of the tones are cleanish with a couple things cranked. cleaner generally than he was on the try! record.

apparently, fuchs is available up here now. just read that at tgp.


http://johnmayer.com/media/images/blog/blog9.10.1.1.jpg

so since we're scoring at home that's about 50 grand worth of small blues rig nice. I definately want to hear it. The guy is a huge SRV fan it seems.

Yeah. I do want to try the FUCHS ODS and see how it is. He's got a trainwreck design too.

I adore Two Rock, it's just too expensive for me.


basically Mayer is any of us, with a lot more skill and talent and a boatload of money.

He even builds his own pedals. I think maybe I should buy this one. I'm very interested in how it sounds.


now I think I have a crappy preamp tube. yeah, I think I need to just go ahead and buy a Pod 2.0 and one of thier USB recording dohickys

If you can get your hands on the "Any Given Thursday" DVD, check out the solo from the song "Covered In Rain"... jawdropping

Just listened to the stream and bought it at lunch. Good stuff. I like that he has Charlie Hunter (UNbelievable 8 string guitar player-check out his site-unreal). Also, interesting liner notes. I love "If you are reading this with an instrument in your lap- get to work. And deep in it. We all need you."

Ott

CaptainSpaz91 wrote:

moster78, i'll be there tonight too, maybe i'll wear something pearl jam. haha

Cool deal. I just may have to do the same. If I do, I'll be the crazy tall dude in the PJ t-shirt.

exhausted wrote:

the solo on "in repair" is perfect. that is perfect tone.

Yeah, listening and seeing him live makes me want to bust out my Strat more, thats for sure. I also really dig the sound on "Slow Dancing In A Burning Room"

moster78 wrote:

Cool deal. I just may have to do the same. If I do, I'll be the crazy tall dude in the PJ t-shirt.

I'll say hello if I see you guys. Maybe I'll even wear my PJ Sweatshirt.

Pat

Amazing show last night. The guy can play and its definitely at a level to strive to. Amazing tone too. He played a song off Try, that was a B-side to the new single, Good Love Is On The Way, and when he strummed that first chord and let it ring, there was a huge smile on my face.

He also broke away from the Strats a bit, and played an ES-335 and a doublecut Les Paul JR, in faded cherry though.

Get the new album, and see him on tour if you can. Well worth it.