John Mayer is a fine musician...I hope he can stay on the straight and narrow path and become one of the Greats. I think his playing is really good and has caught the attention of many of the Greats...
There's something about watching John Mayer try to rock as a guitar player that just will never work for me. He's good, but it just seems like he trying to be something he's not. Like he wants be another Stevie Ray- he isn't - not that he isn't good. But it's fake - he's not a rebel, he doesn't have that kind of soul.
Im not gonna say that u are wrong because its just an opinion.. I said the same thing as you before I actually became more familier with Mayers stuff...go check some performances with BB and Clapton, It's sick and what a SOUL..Clapton once said that he is a ''snotkid''' and laughed! People think that only the old legendary guys is ''real''
What happens when all of them are gone? We have to give the upcoming guys a shot..
HEY YOU GONZOIDZ... POST SOMETHING BETTER THAN WORDS OF ENVY...HOW ABOUT A VIDEO OF YOU PLAYING GUITAR BETTER THAN THAT "MAYER GUY", CAN YOU??? LET US SEE YOUR IMPESSIVE TALENT! IF NOT...SHUT THE FUCK UP. GREETINGS FROM MEXICO PENDEJO* (*ASSHOLE in inglish so you can understand...)!!!
GONZO, Just put a fucking video, if you have that impressive talent, why jeff beck, buddy guy, eric clapton, double trouble hasn't invited you to play some tunes on stage, mayer is a really talented guitar player, playing those really neat slow blues at 2010, and a lot of people hearing this awesome music, that's why the great's invite him, coz they do really like that young guy keeping this genre pure & alive, so do you have the FUNCKING BALLS to post a video!?????
What would a few licks on you tube prove? Why should I give away my phrasing for free? I'm not technichally better than Mayer, but I am a better songwriter and a lot more original. Time will tell as I'll have a demo done in the next 12 months.
@Gonzoidz Hi, I haven't read much of your other post and I'm certainly not going to criticize your guitar playing without hearing it but to STATE that your a better songwriter than Mayer is slightly outrageous!
Mayer's early unreleased pop music is fantastic both chordally and lyrically. Go back and listen to 'Why did you mess with forever' BITCHES!
What does it matter what he does 'chordally' if it's bland and unmemorable? He has no style and just apes the blues. No guts to his playing, just coffee table gloss. Fake!
@Gonzoidz haha, I highly doubt your a better songwriter than mayer?, I would stop acting so cocky and work on my songwriting if I were you. and I saw a comment where you said ''mayer has no style and he just apes the blues'' and I respond to that comment with go listen to ''neon'' bitch.
@Gonzoidz haha, you obviously have no originality if thats the best comment you can comeback with, and your version of truth is quite different from all of ours, bitch!
Why do I need grammy's to kick his derivative, pretty boy ass? I know I've got better songs and I'm a better player . My opinion only for now, but it's all coming out soon, mate. I won't be revealing my identity so you'll just have to guess when I diss this overrated motherfucker in the media.
@Gonzoidz haha, dude your full of shit, I want to see you play ''neon'' note for note and I want to see you play ''who did you think I was'' with the same intensity. and then we will talk jackass.
LOL Why the fuck would I want to play that ham fisted dreary mess 'Neon' note for note? I don't ever play songs note for note anyway, I leave that to youtube robots and fanboy fools. X
@Gonzoidz haha, your a cocky jackass who doesnt know shit about music! and this is my last message to you, I cant argue with someone as stupid as you.
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Only mugs with nothing to say post vids. I haven't seen one that has anything remotely worth listening to. And I wouldn't post one, absolutely pointless unless your some shredder freak out to impress dumb kids with technique. And no idea why you think this Mayer guy is so good. As I've said, a studied SRV clone at best. No doubt dumb kids think its special, i.e as in your case.
I never said he was rubbish or couldn't play, just that he's not original. That's a fact. It's dull MOR and SRV, minus the feel and vitality of that artist. Mayer's management are keen to have him associated with old guard like Beck and EC, but he's not in their league.
I didn't say he wasn't adept just that he has no style of his own. His noodlings here just sound 100% SRV, right down to tone and technique. I'm defo not hearing any unique phrasing ala Jeff Beck.
Just cos he's been on stage with some big names doesn't mean he's the real deal. The industry wants a big player, but Mayer is no derby winner. He might be the best parrot out of Berklee for a while, and he has the image, but not a lot else.
Mayer has played with Clapton on many occasions, two of them being at crossroads. Clapton is not about to play with someone just for the media attention. He knows that john is the best around right now and he is going to carry on the blues
The best around? Opposed to who? He's just another SRV clone when it comes to blues. Have you got ears? Maybe you're just a little kid whose impressed by his media image? Nothing music wise for sure.
I haven't been to Berklee and my mom isn't a Sony exec, I'll give you that. There's more than a few unknowns out there that are way better than Mayer, I'm one of them.
Again with this better stuff, all youtubers are the same. They talk trash all day long about being way "better" but in the end they are filed in the cabinet in history labeled "obscurity".
But now that you said it the discussion is pretty much closed just looking at your profile it looks like you like to troll youtube so I don't think this is worth any more effort.
Oh and post a video of you playing in front of a crowd and maybe I might take you seriously.
To all of you haters who are bashing Mayer... FUCK OFF your jealous! I would like to see you asses win multiple grammys for every album that you put out and get invited to crossroads...
Look, NO ONE saunters onto the stage with El Becko just like dat....but at one point, Jeff had to remind Mayer WHO was KING, and walked towards Mayer, cranking up his Strat and whammy-shredded Mayer RIGHT OFF THE STAGE!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I dunno, i heard beck's solo, and for a hendrix song it just sounded out of place. mayer's solo was at least in the style of hendrix.. king or not, mayer sounded better there
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Mayer sucks.And I think he does pester guys like Jeff Beck to play with them.I've heard better guitar players at my local bar.Boring penatonic blues scales/riff that Stevie Ray and Clapton drove into the ground.People pay big money to see Jeff Beck tour every 3 years at selected venues and this clown Mayer eats up 10 minutes of valuable Beck stage time? Please just go away!!!!
You are right there are a lot of people out there better then Mayer, However it is true he is a modern day blues player keeping blues alive. I think mayer is a great player and there is always someone out there better, but Mayer is a very good guitar player and I would be happy to play half as good as him.
Mayer is the only modern day artist keepin the guitar alive and fresh.... and doing a damn good job at it. i dont understand why ppl are knockin him, he obviously has playing skills, i mean he just covered hendrix flawlessly you idiots!
like thompska said, he's not just showing up and crashing shows and jumping on stage. all of these blues/rock guitar legends are INVITING him to play. bb king, buddy guy, eric clapton, jeff beck, and many MANY others invite him to play with them. are you people trying to say you know more about blues than they do? dont say doesn't belong up there with those guys, nobody knows better than they do. if you dont understand why legends play with him, you don't understand blues
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That's it!!! I've had it with this fuckin wanna be John Mayer turning up everywhere.On stage with Jeff Beck?? I saw Beck play live on his opening tour.If Mayereshowed up there I would have demanded my $150. back!! Go away!!!!
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John Mayer fucking eats it...wannabe SRV jerk
it just goes to show what a classy guy JB is that he didn't wipe the floor with this douchebag. I've heard Brian Setzer isn't so nice -- you get on his stage, he eats you for breakfast :)
WOW - "Manic Depression" - What a great choice to play for this 2nd LA Show. Thanks for posting! Wish we had the whole thing, but happy to see this much.
john mayer is simply the best payer on planet earth at the moment
konshess 1 year ago
GONZO...YOU SUCK DON'T YOU! YEA!
fartsallot 2 years ago
John Mayer is a fine musician...I hope he can stay on the straight and narrow path and become one of the Greats. I think his playing is really good and has caught the attention of many of the Greats...
He's got the Mojo.
fartsallot 2 years ago 10
Hmm.. yeah, i have to agree with cooks95, he has the technique going well but there's no fire in his playing...
rocksta117 2 years ago
There's something about watching John Mayer try to rock as a guitar player that just will never work for me. He's good, but it just seems like he trying to be something he's not. Like he wants be another Stevie Ray- he isn't - not that he isn't good. But it's fake - he's not a rebel, he doesn't have that kind of soul.
cooks95 2 years ago
Im not gonna say that u are wrong because its just an opinion.. I said the same thing as you before I actually became more familier with Mayers stuff...go check some performances with BB and Clapton, It's sick and what a SOUL..Clapton once said that he is a ''snotkid''' and laughed! People think that only the old legendary guys is ''real''
What happens when all of them are gone? We have to give the upcoming guys a shot..
LuXguitaR 2 years ago
HEY YOU GONZOIDZ... POST SOMETHING BETTER THAN WORDS OF ENVY...HOW ABOUT A VIDEO OF YOU PLAYING GUITAR BETTER THAN THAT "MAYER GUY", CAN YOU??? LET US SEE YOUR IMPESSIVE TALENT! IF NOT...SHUT THE FUCK UP. GREETINGS FROM MEXICO PENDEJO* (*ASSHOLE in inglish so you can understand...)!!!
rafachavez5 2 years ago
I do have impressive talent, but I'm not puting it on you tube for fanboy mugs like you.
Greetings from the UK.
Gonzoidz 2 years ago
GONZO, Just put a fucking video, if you have that impressive talent, why jeff beck, buddy guy, eric clapton, double trouble hasn't invited you to play some tunes on stage, mayer is a really talented guitar player, playing those really neat slow blues at 2010, and a lot of people hearing this awesome music, that's why the great's invite him, coz they do really like that young guy keeping this genre pure & alive, so do you have the FUNCKING BALLS to post a video!?????
goyox86 1 year ago
What would a few licks on you tube prove? Why should I give away my phrasing for free? I'm not technichally better than Mayer, but I am a better songwriter and a lot more original. Time will tell as I'll have a demo done in the next 12 months.
Gonzoidz 1 year ago
@Gonzoidz Hi, I haven't read much of your other post and I'm certainly not going to criticize your guitar playing without hearing it but to STATE that your a better songwriter than Mayer is slightly outrageous!
Mayer's early unreleased pop music is fantastic both chordally and lyrically. Go back and listen to 'Why did you mess with forever' BITCHES!
ASHSRV 1 year ago
@ASHSRV
What does it matter what he does 'chordally' if it's bland and unmemorable? He has no style and just apes the blues. No guts to his playing, just coffee table gloss. Fake!
Gonzoidz 1 year ago
@Gonzoidz haha, I highly doubt your a better songwriter than mayer?, I would stop acting so cocky and work on my songwriting if I were you. and I saw a comment where you said ''mayer has no style and he just apes the blues'' and I respond to that comment with go listen to ''neon'' bitch.
musicdude195 11 months ago
@musicdude195
I am not acting cocky, if I'm challenged I tell the truth as I see it, bitch!
Gonzoidz 11 months ago
@Gonzoidz haha, you obviously have no originality if thats the best comment you can comeback with, and your version of truth is quite different from all of ours, bitch!
musicdude195 11 months ago
@musicdude195
truth will out, bitch. Originality is the one thing I have Mayer has none of.
Gonzoidz 11 months ago
@Gonzoidz haha, your full of shit, I dont see any songs mr. badass, when you have 7 Grammy's like John Mayer does then we will talk!
musicdude195 11 months ago
@musicdude195
Why do I need grammy's to kick his derivative, pretty boy ass? I know I've got better songs and I'm a better player . My opinion only for now, but it's all coming out soon, mate. I won't be revealing my identity so you'll just have to guess when I diss this overrated motherfucker in the media.
Gonzoidz 11 months ago
@Gonzoidz haha, dude your full of shit, I want to see you play ''neon'' note for note and I want to see you play ''who did you think I was'' with the same intensity. and then we will talk jackass.
musicdude195 11 months ago
@musicdude195
LOL Why the fuck would I want to play that ham fisted dreary mess 'Neon' note for note? I don't ever play songs note for note anyway, I leave that to youtube robots and fanboy fools. X
Gonzoidz 11 months ago
@Gonzoidz haha, your a cocky jackass who doesnt know shit about music! and this is my last message to you, I cant argue with someone as stupid as you.
musicdude195 11 months ago
@musicdude195
That makes two of us then you little dog turd flea.
Gonzoidz 11 months ago
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Only mugs with nothing to say post vids. I haven't seen one that has anything remotely worth listening to. And I wouldn't post one, absolutely pointless unless your some shredder freak out to impress dumb kids with technique. And no idea why you think this Mayer guy is so good. As I've said, a studied SRV clone at best. No doubt dumb kids think its special, i.e as in your case.
Gonzoidz 2 years ago
you learn to play like him and give me a call! dumbass!!!?!?!?!!
OwensMusic1 2 years ago
A dumbkid speaks?!
Sorry, I've exposed your hero as a fraud. If the hero is a fraud what does that say about the heroes fans? I feel your pain.
Gonzoidz 2 years ago
I never said he was rubbish or couldn't play, just that he's not original. That's a fact. It's dull MOR and SRV, minus the feel and vitality of that artist. Mayer's management are keen to have him associated with old guard like Beck and EC, but he's not in their league.
Gonzoidz 2 years ago
Mayer is good but has no style of his own, Grammy's or not.
Gonzoidz 2 years ago
I don't know. He's a pretty good guitarist.
PeterMayer 2 years ago 4
You're full of shit
DystopianAwakening 2 years ago
Shut it, cunt.
Gonzoidz 2 years ago
You have to got to be the dumbest person to ever say something like that, or you just know nothing about music or guitar.
Mharr1s 2 years ago 2
Whatever kid. I know originality when I hear it, or when I don't in Mayers case.
Gonzoidz 2 years ago
Yeah but I think all of the legends he has played with think otherwise.
Mharr1s 2 years ago 3
I didn't say he wasn't adept just that he has no style of his own. His noodlings here just sound 100% SRV, right down to tone and technique. I'm defo not hearing any unique phrasing ala Jeff Beck.
Just cos he's been on stage with some big names doesn't mean he's the real deal. The industry wants a big player, but Mayer is no derby winner. He might be the best parrot out of Berklee for a while, and he has the image, but not a lot else.
Gonzoidz 2 years ago
You are a fool.
Mayer has played with Clapton on many occasions, two of them being at crossroads. Clapton is not about to play with someone just for the media attention. He knows that john is the best around right now and he is going to carry on the blues
Mharr1s 2 years ago 3
The best around? Opposed to who? He's just another SRV clone when it comes to blues. Have you got ears? Maybe you're just a little kid whose impressed by his media image? Nothing music wise for sure.
You are the fool.
Gonzoidz 2 years ago
Just another "Youtube Critic" who think they know everything about things they can't do themselves.
MrTheheise 2 years ago
How do you know what I can do?
I haven't been to Berklee and my mom isn't a Sony exec, I'll give you that. There's more than a few unknowns out there that are way better than Mayer, I'm one of them.
Gonzoidz 2 years ago
Again with this better stuff, all youtubers are the same. They talk trash all day long about being way "better" but in the end they are filed in the cabinet in history labeled "obscurity".
But now that you said it the discussion is pretty much closed just looking at your profile it looks like you like to troll youtube so I don't think this is worth any more effort.
Oh and post a video of you playing in front of a crowd and maybe I might take you seriously.
MrTheheise 2 years ago
I know more than you obviously.
Gonzoidz 2 years ago
John Mayer Owns All. That is it.
acarls20 2 years ago 7
Pretty Much. Haha
guitarskater11 2 years ago 2
Vinnie's sexier than Mayer :P
zornfizza2 2 years ago
To all of you haters who are bashing Mayer... FUCK OFF your jealous! I would like to see you asses win multiple grammys for every album that you put out and get invited to crossroads...
nanoguy88 2 years ago 3
multiple granny's?!! Mayer must have loads of socks for Christmas.
stargate669 2 years ago
Other artists have won grammy's and I don't listen to them either. It must be
because i'm so jealous of their little
award...or maybe I'm not interested
in their music. Be it that art/music is
subjective & we have our likes & dislikes
the music industry certainly isn't going to determine what I like personally.
John Mayer is good "so what" there
are thousands of unknown players
that are great. It's not what you know
its who you know in this business.
guitarran 2 years ago
well, I have to say that DOES make me feel better about the whole thing :)
jasonstouyube 2 years ago
I know, cuz I was dere, front center with my kid bro, elbows ON THE STAGE!!!
jonbcaliman 2 years ago
Look, NO ONE saunters onto the stage with El Becko just like dat....but at one point, Jeff had to remind Mayer WHO was KING, and walked towards Mayer, cranking up his Strat and whammy-shredded Mayer RIGHT OFF THE STAGE!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jonbcaliman 2 years ago
I dunno, i heard beck's solo, and for a hendrix song it just sounded out of place. mayer's solo was at least in the style of hendrix.. king or not, mayer sounded better there
lukeee89 2 years ago
Very cool thanks for posting...I always love to see John covering hendrix...and I bet he had an amazing time playing with Jeff Beck!!
greatblue 2 years ago
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Mayer sucks.And I think he does pester guys like Jeff Beck to play with them.I've heard better guitar players at my local bar.Boring penatonic blues scales/riff that Stevie Ray and Clapton drove into the ground.People pay big money to see Jeff Beck tour every 3 years at selected venues and this clown Mayer eats up 10 minutes of valuable Beck stage time? Please just go away!!!!
nuendo2496 2 years ago
You are right there are a lot of people out there better then Mayer, However it is true he is a modern day blues player keeping blues alive. I think mayer is a great player and there is always someone out there better, but Mayer is a very good guitar player and I would be happy to play half as good as him.
beamermv 2 years ago
Mayer is the only modern day artist keepin the guitar alive and fresh.... and doing a damn good job at it. i dont understand why ppl are knockin him, he obviously has playing skills, i mean he just covered hendrix flawlessly you idiots!
Pokerstud624 2 years ago
like thompska said, he's not just showing up and crashing shows and jumping on stage. all of these blues/rock guitar legends are INVITING him to play. bb king, buddy guy, eric clapton, jeff beck, and many MANY others invite him to play with them. are you people trying to say you know more about blues than they do? dont say doesn't belong up there with those guys, nobody knows better than they do. if you dont understand why legends play with him, you don't understand blues
lukeman89 2 years ago
It's funny how the whole world is jealous of John Mayer.
tissuechang 2 years ago 3
We have every right to be
chaferbud 2 years ago
What, you guys think he invited himself up there? Be realistic.
thompska 2 years ago 4
Mayer is god!
Sulphrous 2 years ago
this guy does not belong up there with jeff...very derivative
jasaggio 2 years ago
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That's it!!! I've had it with this fuckin wanna be John Mayer turning up everywhere.On stage with Jeff Beck?? I saw Beck play live on his opening tour.If Mayereshowed up there I would have demanded my $150. back!! Go away!!!!
nuendo2496 2 years ago
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John Mayer fucking eats it...wannabe SRV jerk
it just goes to show what a classy guy JB is that he didn't wipe the floor with this douchebag. I've heard Brian Setzer isn't so nice -- you get on his stage, he eats you for breakfast :)
jasonstouyube 2 years ago
CRAP, and all we got was Rod Stewart and Joss Stone............
klauswong 2 years ago
holy sh*t! what a great footage!
agnestejada 2 years ago 2
WOW - "Manic Depression" - What a great choice to play for this 2nd LA Show. Thanks for posting! Wish we had the whole thing, but happy to see this much.
RealOmind 2 years ago