John Mayer Plays Crossroads

[Takistater]

who care who did it originally? are you nuts, robert johnson is the start of it all and the reason mayer can even play the blue, dont get me wrong, i love john and all his music, but have some respect for where it came from.

[BigAl21472]

he's trying sooo hard to be a "blues man". funny, he's a decent guitarist but he'll go down in history as a cheeseball crooner who wrote somewhat sophisticated bubble gum pop.

[sublimenal23]

@BigAl21472 play like that with the amount of dedication, intensity, and feel and then you can call yourself the blues man that he is getting at

[GiovanniMusco]

i love how at 3:56 he changes the tone of how he plays from lead to rhythm when he starts to sing... thats next level

[riffmeister76]

@GiovanniMusco Next level LOL

[ba6cu]

to be able to play like that and sing at the same time is ridiculous

[PatClapp]

anyone know wat r those two chords he plays at 4:12?

[wouwser]

F#m - D9 instead of E9 - D9 ;-)

[Neptunade]

Who Did You Think I Was is the first song, but it's based off of the Crossroads progression, and those two chords are in both songs. It is F#m (2x422x) and a variant of G (3x5433)...

[BigAl21472]

@PatClapp sounds like F#m to G, but if you want to be accurate with the original clapton tune you'd play D/F# to G.

[Claptonmaniac24]

@BigAl21472 The original is from Robert Johnson, not Clapton

[ajensson]

@Claptonmaniac24 So what, John makes it the best song ever; who cares who sang the words originally.

[checkoutthisblues]

He plays the shit out of his guitar in this video!

[CarsonHolmes24]

I love the people voices in the video! Very old Fender! Thats classic man, Its really not very old, built at the custom shop and worn down a lil bit to look old, then he did the rest. I love you guys.