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  • Maybe it's me but he sounded a little off. Yeah, his vocals aren't perfect but if you sound anywhere close to the record version, you're doing a helluva lot better than most artists today!

  • he doesn't sound bad at all and even if he did i'd listen to a bad john mayer over any musician of this generation at their best any day

  • JM makin panties wet

  • he still sounds phenomenal, seriously, if he got it perfectly like a recording everytime, it would take away the magic of a live show.

  • If you check out his VH1 Storytellers concert, there's no auto-tune.. and its in my own opinion, his best professionally recorded live performance (as far as vocals go). Go torrent it or something.

  • @shootthephoneco Couldnt agree more! Especially your body is a wonderland. Beautiful. I actually like his voice in this video too, though.

  • beautiful.... whoever says hes sung bad is outta their mind.. i love his vocals here.. beautiful :)

  • Please check out my version of this song.. tnx

  • At least you can tell it's not auto-tuned. He nailed those falsetto notes towards the end anyway. And I think I actually like the quality of his voice more in this video when it's not super edited, at least when he's in tune.

  • He sounds like hes having a sorethroat.

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  • Thumbs up for never knowing what the hell John is talking about before his songs! haha. Great music though!!

  • just so people know, 'where the light is' was edited to the balls, nothing sounds that good. you think people can whistle pitch perfect? nope.

    nonetheless, he's still john mayer, so he's still awesome.

  • @banjovlogs I was there, trust me. Hes that good.

  • Someone remind whats wrong with these vocals?

  • @RaidenAsher his own martin signature model, OMJM John Mayer!

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  • I *actually* like this version better. it's like..much more HIS, you know?["it used to be you know who"] not just the great cover we know it is. I mean, just listen to 2:50. come on, could it be any better?

  • Do anyone know where to download the full consert with video?

  • He sounds tired in this concert. But i think he can do like he did in Where the light is, he just need to practice more singing.

  • his voice does sound different from WTLI, but not even in a bad way. and it seems obvious to me that he's trying to sound different, too, so i don't get why people are complaining as if it's a bad thing. he still sounds absolutely amazing!

  • man look at all those ppl, must have to have balls and love what you're doing bc i'd shit my pants

  • I really think that he's trying to do something different from WTLI, I mean, He's not in a great night, but He can't sing that way accidentally

  • @TomasE94 I think so, too. Because if you listen well, you hear that he slightly changed the melody when he sings a little out of tune.

  • love the way his hip moves to the beat :D

  • what chords does he end the song on? they're really interesting.

  • isn't the fact that where the light is has been re-dubbed and most likely re-recorded and cleaned up mean that this gig obviously won't sound as clean.

    all the same, its a great song by a great songwriter, let JM do his thing, he does it better than most.

  • he still sounds pretty fuckin good for being a little sick..or whatever the case was...

  • Cant you retards see that he is singing like that on purpose?!

  • hopefully everyone knows that he was sick. he canceled a show after this and the letterman show cuz it was so bad. so give the guy a break

  • he is a genius!!

  • People dont gettit.. Where the light is was edited. Also autotuned at some points....

    Guess why it was so perfect!

  • @FreaquedeMusique I've seen videos of people that were at the concert and had just there own cameras and he sounded exactly the same. There was no doubt editing to edit out the crowd and things like that, but no autotune. I think the most logical thing would be that he was sick right here. Nobody (not even John Mayer) can be dead on every time.

  • @Cbluesrocker ok, i read something in a magazine about it getting a little tweaked..

    but yes, i didn't say he isn't genius.. he always is...

  • He tried to go classic!? Come on John stick to Live in L.A. Style! I love this song in live in LA. but even still, this is still pretty awesome.

  • No John, thank YOU !!

  • People get sick and have sore throats etc and it affects them, he's only human like the rest of us.. 99% of his videos on youtube he sounds amazing, people should appreciate he done the show, with whatever was going on with him that day/night and not be so picky!

  • 0:20 jennifer aniston on crowd

  • your comparing where the light is to a fuse live video... surely theresisnt something wrong with mayer.. but there is something wrong with you

  • the only other person i know of that has the vocals, guitar playing and songwriting skills of a god that i have NEVER heard less than perfect, live OR studio is Steve Lukather. look him up. while ur at it, listen for his rendition of 'while my gtr gently weeps' by harrison.

  • if u guys wanna bitch, bitch at Taylor Swift. Pleeease.

    john mayer is one of the worlds foremost guitarists with every great blues god vyying to guest with him and he to guest with them. john mayer is one of the worlds foremost songwriters writing hit after hit. john mayer is an awesome vocalist in and out of the studio. he experiments onstage and, granted, some moments here were less than perfect but by all that is good, find someone else to bitch about.

  • idk if anyone else realizes this..... but he's just up there havin fun. his singing is less raspy than it was, and now his vocal chords will b healthier. He is a great performer and musician. dont hate lol

  • John has gotten really better at doing falsetto a great n skillful guy, prob d most talented nowadays

  • I heard that he was sick during the concert.

  • I think he was trying to sing it in too low of a key for him. Of course on where the light is it is such perfection it really cannot be matched.

  • runs into falsetto, not so perfect, damn, just different. I think it just lacks the backing vocals by David Ryan for you all to shut up. Of course, until 4:38, which is just painful...

  • i just wonder how everyone manages to insult someone who actually makes a classic song their own. in my opinion the vocals are awesome.. john mayer = amazing performer

  • imagine john mayer and john frusciante making an album together... epic

  • Are you kidding me? you cant expect him to sound exactly how he does on his CD! He sounds damn good! Stop bitching.

  • Sometimes he has off nights with his vocals, I read an interview where he said his vocals are temperamental and sometimes it makes him more nervous when its not going his way. Also, Where The Light Is had pitch control and some editing done for the CD/DVD release.

  • @HalfBillion Finally, someone else who knows about PitchControl... You won't believe how many times I've tried to explain it to people... Shame a lot of artists use it, even live, and even when they don't NEED it. John Mayer sounds great, live, for real, without PitchControl. But I guess it's too easy to use it...

  • i'm still horny! :)

  • "it used to be you know who" I love that part.

  • i like this version the best

  • this is just beautiful :)

  • he's the best!!!

  • Can't you people stop complaining about his vocals and just enjoy the show? After all, it's John Mayer, the guy's a genius even at a bad night! Give him a break:)

  • is he a baritone? def not a tenor

  • Low-Tenor

  • @asyal12 he is a tenor lol

  • alright even a retard could notice he is sick. look at his skin and his face he is pale white

  • people are talking about he's voice... is he's natural voice, in every concert... i'm sure that you guy haven't always the same voice, sometimes better sometimes worst (even speaking, our voice is different sometimes)

  • putting aside the vocals, i am surprisingly inspired by this raw emotion that he projected in this song. especially, when he said thank you for making him feels good doing music again. Every musician will have a saturation point where they feel disconnected with music, playing with an empty soul..and yet, the fact john had rediscovered the pure love for music, really send a strong message of encouragement to the budding musicians out there. thank you, john.

  • amen

  • It's call post production, they put pitch correction and autotune on his voice after the recording of the concert, much like they do in the studio, they then sync the polished audio with the video and there you go.

    I am asuming that this concert went out live on fuse so they did not do any post production/post mixing of the audio. That is why it does not sound as polished and you can hear his off notes. Where the light is= polished post production, this show......... not so much.

  • guitardaze this is true but if you watch some of the videos on youtube of john mayer - free fallin' where he's been filmed by members of the audience you'll notice his voice is pretty much the same as on Where the Light Is DVD

  • this guy is exactly right. no autotune on where the light is

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  • c'mon. he had shows back to back. probably playing his more intense songs. he didn't punk out when he couldn't hit the note, he gave the people what they came for and sacrificed throat. keep in mind when john hit the stage he was a lot younger. his voice has gotten deeper since then. stop trying to put people in a box.

  • where the light was edited to make his voice more crisp duh.... its called pitch correction, thats what all your beloved pop stars are using.. mayer has mad talent though.. but yea thats why the DVD sounds better.

  • you really think so? i mean it could be simply a matter of eq...

  • Eq doesn't affect his pitch.

  • I'm with you xionix87. John's a real person. Living, playing, and singing. Some days are better than others. But he's up there unafraid dealing with the good and the bad. I wonder if the people of some of these negative comments could ever have as much courage. I think not.

  • his voice is somehow not like it was on where the light is which is frusturating because it just doesnt sound that good anymore

  • in where the light is he also has harmonizing vocals and two back up guitars so it just has more depth to it. I still love seeing someone just get up with just their voice and a guitar and play. just something so raw about it. very real.

  • I agree. But i still like John, maybe he just had a bad day or whatever. Maybe he had shows earlier, and he has to get used to doing big shows again. Voice a little sore or w/e

  • i saw him the night before at the music hall of williamsburg, a myspace secret show with 300 people or so and he was on FIRE and played for about 2 1/2 hours. i think he was a bit fatigued to play another really long set the night after.

  • I'm a proffessional singer and can tell you that a gig of this magnatude would take it's toll even before he's got on stage. That and the fact that as you get older you realise that you don't have to scream everything to death. If John wants to continue into his twighlight years without noddules on his vocal chords, he's doing the right thing. BE A FAN, NOT A CRITIC!

  • It's because he's not putting so much strain on it and making it sound so raspy. This is his natural, real voice.

  • I've seen him three times and in 2007, live he literally sounded better than the continuum album. I know that sounds crazy but it was amazing, truly. I just think he's alomst peaked, which is sad. Maybe a come back with a new trio album.

  • @AgentZeroForTheWin its just on the chorus... and he had davis harris and robby macintosh to harmonize with... little tougher by yourself...

    believe me.. i try to cover this alone when i play around town and its always a bitch to keep the chorus up to par

  • @AgentZeroForTheWin he had a sore throat/fever idiot

  • @AgentZeroForTheWin On the Where The Light is show, John Mayer uses a stupid technology to straighten his voice. Before you start insulting me and stuff, I LOVE John Mayer. But even a talented guy like him, who doesn't NEED any voice control at all, uses it a lot. Mark my words, the majority of big artists out there uses it, even live! It is a very simple technique, known to most as PitchControl, and it's very easy to use live. And 95% of all people don't hear it...This is John Mayer FOR REAL!

  • @Lorror69 Exactly. ....The fact that Where the Light Is was a live recording that was sold in stores nation- wide, you can be rest assured they did a TON of mixing,pitch correction, balancing, etc etc to make it sound perfect

  • @AgentZeroForTheWin WTLI was edited just like any live cd or dvd = eqing, little fixes with autotune, compression etc... this was a live broadcast

  • @AgentZeroForTheWin maybe he was just having an off night.

  • @AgentZeroForTheWin Where the Light is would have been edited, due it being put on a dvd, so it would naturally sound better than here, where it is just a near-raw live performance :) but i do agree, but i think he had a cold or something at the concert because at the Letterman gig a week or so before it he sounded a lot better. Meh.

  • @AgentZeroForTheWin he was sick

  • @AgentZeroForTheWin I agree, maybe because he was using autotune on where the light is, and he is not here? i dont no about that...

  • @MFSundahl or because he was recovering from sickness

  • @AgentZeroForTheWin John Mayer is a legend but unfortunately his voice doesn't sound as good as it does on where the light is because the concert is auto-tuned MASSIVELY. Go through that concert and you will see that he doesn't hit a vocal note wrong. Why would you put a live DVD/CD out where you sound out of tune?

  • @AgentZeroForTheWin John Mayer is a legend but unfortunately his voice doesn't sound as good as it does on where the light is because the concert is auto-tuned MASSIVELY. Go through that concert and you will see that he doesn't hit a vocal note wrong. Why would you put a live DVD/CD out where you sound out of tune?

  • @AgentZeroForTheWin thats because here he hasn't performed in front of a big crowd for a while and on where there light is he was in his prime and was very comfortable with all of his songs

  • @AgentZeroForTheWin

    Every singer knows that we have our good and bad days vocally. We may be doing the same exact thing but even the tiniest factors even in just weather can throw everything off. Don't be so conditional when it comes to listening to artists. If you've seen him live you know that he's a great singer and sounds way less compressed than to a youtube video. It's like judging the sound of a Martin D-41 without ever hearing one right in front of you.

  • @AgentZeroForTheWin where the light is has been auto tuned, this hasnt, mayer in concert is nothing like on his albums. I just go for his great guitar skills. dont get me wrong he can sing!

  • @AgentZeroForTheWin He auto-tunes. He admitted it on his Ustream claiming "He used auto tuning on all his albums" But still, he can sing if actually has a good night. Many videos prove it.

  • @AgentZeroForTheWin he just felt it that day..

  • @AgentZeroForTheWin he had two other singers backing him up on Where the light is, what do you expect singing solo?

  • @AgentZeroForTheWin its not edited you mean?..you dont actually think he would make a concert dvd without polishing it...its the same with his CDs ..autotune at some level is needed. because that stuff will be around always..it has to be perfect. this live show at the beacon theatre is just a normal show live. he cant edit that obviously. so its a shot from the hip. doesnt stop him from being a great artist in a time where he is very much needed

  • @AgentZeroForTheWin welcome to reallity this call rock n' roll

  • i like this cover much better on where the light is.. his voice was better on that dvd.. obviously they were able to touch it up.. but i still think he sounded better

  • I actually think he made a legitimate reference to the chick out of friends for once... and nobody cared

  • thank you so much for uploading this, im in the uk so we dont get fuse over here...

  • Too right, damn americans getting everything! haha jk. atleast i get to see the real thing again in january!

  • @witsmeister

    lol, true. funny how many brits are watch this on youtube when noone ever talks about him here

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