Added: 5 years ago
From: troubleteen01
Views: 379,879
Sort by time | Sort by thread (beta)

Link to this comment:

Share to:
see all

All Comments (733)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • Mayer is weak boring shit. 3 min? are you kidding me? take it somewhere dude. check out Scofield's Cissy Strut. or Steve Kimock. both are 1000x better than this nonsense.

  • The Meters - The true essence of FUNK!!!!!!

    Mayer does a nice job with Their Hit

  • mayer is cool, palladino is one of my favorites but this drummer is killin' me everytime I listen to this one. what a tasty groove!

  • Steve Jordan!

  • The tune is as BANGING as the woman who introduces it.

  • John Mayer does with one guitar what 5 other guitarists can't do combined together playing one song..

  • He does but hi's not in the same league as Monte Montgomery

  • @MusicOfKeng you are delusional sir. there are sooooo many guitarists who are better and more interesting than John Mayer

  • @randeezydizzle I didn't say that in my post did I? I know that there are plenty of other good guitarists out there thats why I didn't point out any names. I just said he does what 5 other guitarists can't do. Lol. I love you man. xD

  • @MusicOfKeng i love u too brotha. just disagree with & am confused by your comment...

  • @randeezydizzle Lol, what I am saying is that I know that there are plenty of other good guitarists out there and John mayer is one of them. He may not be the best but he can do as I say. He can play what 5 guitarists can't play put together but that certainly doesn't mean that there aren't other guitarists who can do the same or better. :)

  • pretty cool

  • Steve Jordan ripped it up, damnnnnnnnnnn he good.

  • EVERYBODY SOUNDS GOOD WITH PINO AND STEVE JORDAN

  • Why is that dumb Shakira messin' up this video? And why isn't she showing any skin or shaking her ass?

  • PINO

  • Shakira don't even know the phone number by heart! how much she's got? hum...

  • sborone di merda impara da Leo

  • I love his face at the end...nailed it. LOVE this video!

  • well the drummer cant compare to the original for sure

  • @rickeyhenderson88 I'm almost sure that's steve jordan, and he can compare

  • @rickeyhenderson88 that's steve jordan man, check him out he's one of the best. ;)

  • This is great, but get the cameras still and show the rest of the band for more than a split second please.

  • typical john mayer steeling another bands masterpiece and making it sound like garbage

    

  • @pattyhillo I would say he was introducing great music to a younger generation who have never heard of it. I wouldn't be a meters fan if I hadn't have heard Mayer cover it. I'm 19. If you want the funk tradition to continue this is the best chance its got to be instilled into young people: Mayer may or may not suck at it, but that is irrelevant: its the inspiration to young kids to get into funk/soul/blues music is the point. Like it or not, he is one of the last bastions of great music.

  • @pattyhillo...I give him much love and props because as big as Chris Brown is, all he can do is imitate MJ. For a white dude to pick a song by the Meters says more for him than many others.

  • the song is ok

  • YA CAN MAKE ALL THE FACES AND GRIMACE ALL YOU WANT BUT YOU CANT FAKE THE FUNK THIS BLOWS

  • @TheJQ1971 would you like to elaborate to how this exactly "blows"?

  • boooooooo! so sterile compared to the meters. Really sucks

  • Boring. No surprise there...

  • this sucks dick

  • This is the worst thing I have ever seen in my entire life. And also, strangely, one of the funniest.

  • Comment removed

  • Steve Jordan...damn!

  • This version is horrible.

  • He didn't quite get it right I think...

  • great

  • I don't know if anybody else posted this, but he is playing the song wrong. It is a major sixth at the end of the riff. It is not the minor seventh that he is playing.

  • @Quertior He does it his own way, he never plays wrong.

  • @SoftRune Actually, he makes the same mistake that 99 plus percent of people make when covering this song. Before you make stupid comments like saying that his version is unique, maybe you should consider the fact that he, like most people, probably heard it wrong.

  • @BluesShredGuru Yeah and proof he made that mistake on purpose ;)

  • @BluesShredGuru A cover doesn't mean that you'll have to play it exactly like the original. Instead he makes his own versions. Look at all his other covers..

  • @SoftRune I understand that, trust me. I have seen this mistake done by a hundred different acts though, and that's why I assume that he did it as a mistake as well. When I first learned this song, I made the mistake too.  If he was trying to make it unique, I think he would have made it MORE unique. I can't see why he would make it sound almost the same but change one note that everybody plays wrong, to be unique.

  • @Quertior smh

  • @Quertior LOL Bro, I'm pretty sure mayer's aware... he's also playing a different voicing, and IMO that 7th sounds cooler because of the fact.

  • @epiclife247 yeah, using the 7th (minor pentatonic) is much more contemporary than the major 6th (major pent borrowing) i agree entirely.

    @juliabren2 thats fair enough, but could you give your reasons why? I'm thinking of doing a cover of Cissy Strut in my own way as a drummer in a funk band and I wanna know what pitfalls this fell into. To my ears its funky as? help! thanks!

  • for a second, just a second i doubted steve because he didn't has a kick drum. why? why did i doubt steve? can i just kill myself?

  • no foot + not bottom = nothing...Nice try, but you better ground those notes into some ass. New Orleans talking here.

  • I would give one of my testicles to play with that rhythm section.

  • 53 people dont got souls

  • shakira is HOT

  • Comment removed

  • Doe john have some reverb tank on top of his amp??

  • This was a great jam. Wish I had a chance to drum for this guy!

  • John is a very respectable player, kudos to him for actually doing it and not talking about it. Love Pino's playing too!!

  • He's doing this for redcross.. and people are arguing about watches, equipment, who is better than who. tsk..

  • Funky!

  • Hey this was a pleasant surprize! I love that he called some cats who can actually play the groove! He seems to respect his "ancestors" so-to-speak.

  • I don't get why all these idiots are hating on him...i think John Mayer's pretty good...anyone who plays guitar or even any instrument...or has a taste for good music knows that John Mayer is a good guitarist...heyyy, maybe thats why, all these people are hating on him, they don't know shit about music, thats why they say he's a bad musician...either that or they're just sooooo jealous of him.

  • Comment removed

  • He is a good guitar player, I mean he studied at Berkley so its not like he doesn't know what he's doing. the reason so many people hate him is when he started out he had a target audience of teenage girls and he wrote shitty songs. There is nothing original about his playing. Of course all guitarists steal licks from their heroes, but the good ones also bring their own personality and style to the mix, I don't hear that with Mayer. On top of all that he is an arrogant prick and a media whore.

  • Shitty cover.

  • Love him or hate him, it's hard to deny how good John Mayer is.

  • loving that tone on the guitar. when he plays those short chords...lovely!!

  • i originally went to this video to bash mayer, but he seriously has the soul/funkiness

  • I wonder how many people in the audience (mainly of the female variety) think Mayer wrote this song. Im willing to bet at least 68%

  • Wow Shakira I love you. Sorry I just had to say that.

  • 0:22 to skip intro, NOW TUMBS UP ! JUST BECAUSE I WANT!

  • The Meters original

  • Nayce!

  • :01 "hi,im shakira,and nooo,mr. superman no here."

  • Tame

  • Pino and Steve!

  • I thought this was gonna suck but its GREAT!

  • When I grow up I wanna be Steve Jordan.

  • lol dont talk about john mayer cuz you dont even kno him. makin funn of him on the computer is pathetic.

  • @cyrusjerome lets make fun of your spelling instead. dont-don't  cus-because kno-know funn-fun

  • @cheaprelative I'm sorry I don't like spending to much time and effort in my typing. Fuck it, just enjoy the music asshole.

  • @cyrusjerome I'm glad you spelled all the words right this time. You even included a coma after Fuck it. I'm proud of you.

  • @cheaprelative You didn't spell 'comma' correctly. Why would you waste your time making fun of someone's spelling when you can't spell yourself? I hate youtube retards. Just watch the video.

  • Oh this guy is such a tool... he may play well, but he's still a tool. I wonder how much he paid for that worn strat.

  • @upgrader99 SRVs guitar was beat up when he bought it too...

  • @tystratocaster - ah... I must have been misinformed. Someone told me that SRV LIVED with his guitar, carrying it around with him to do dishes and such, before he became famous.

  • Haha reading the comments on this video is cracking me up and actually worth the time. Can't deny that this doesn't quite live up to the original though...

  • @mmMASHPOWER No way man, I love LOVE the meters but this is just killing. He really has the funk. Its so tight, a little stevie, a little bootsy, a little Jimi melted together with a splash of something new.

  • @DylanGalvinMusic a lot of it has to with the drummer, Steve Jordan, THE tightest pocket groover you'll ever hear, next to the OG, Ziggy, of course.

  • @DylanGalvinMusic what? vodka?

  • smooth like graphite....

  • mmmmm...yeah, all greasy and stuff.

  • This is awesome

  • YEah! Is that steve jordan playin drums? The Master of groove!

  • Mayer is too egotistical in this genre to really do justice to this great Meter's song. He doesn't have their humor. It's obvious he missed all the Meter's funk, roots, etc. No New Orleans celebration with this BS.

  • @boodang062451 You are an idiot.

  • shakira is a whore

  • @IALON lol

  • gotta love the trio. check out my cover of this song

  • man i cant believe he shit on this song too..... horrible.

  • fender strat = blues monster :)

  • got nothing on the meteres!!

  • WAY too many camera angles made me sick during this performance... Damn MTV generation videographers...

  • @rockerdude29

    john mayer has the best strat tones i've ever heard... i have a squier bullet and a V-amp2, and i can get a tone pretty close to his.

  • SDFasfd

  • This is the worst version of this tune ive ever seen..... Ive seen all white bands play it better tha this? 3:06?

  • @walterbedingfield What the hell are you talking about? What was wrong with it?

  • Is it just me or is that the BEST 'Strat' tone EVER? Too bad it takes a $10,000+ setups LMAO.

  • @rockerdude29 if it takes you ten grand to get that tone you got some serious problems.

  • @rockerdude29 dude dream on. thats a dumble amp. $10,000 would get you about half way there man.

  • @jamieakabear2316 oh really? damn. I figured he was using a Fender Custom Shop deal or a Two Rock.

  • @rockerdude29 nah dude mayer has one of the few remaining dumble overdrive pro's. pretty much the best amp there is for a nice strat tone. lucky bastard.

  • @jamieakabear2316 you aint kidding.A $7000 custom shop black1 strat,an EVH $25,000 CS franken strat,$11,000 SRV lenny strat,$10 mill worth of vintage watches and he can get any girl he wants haha.I think the only reason anyone has to hate on him is jealousy.

  • @rockerdude29 you forgot to mention the Dumble head and the Two Rocks he plays on in his live rig. haha

  • @rockerdude29 *20 mil worth of watches actually..

  • @rockerdude29 he also plays a fine Two-Rock guitar amp... made by K&M analog designs in Rohnert Park, CA!

  • @rockerdude29 If you can't improve on an original, don't play it on camera. The Meters did it better than anyone could possibly do it in a modern setting. Nothing unique here. I'm rather disappointed. In my city, we hear versions of Cissy Strut that are much more creative than John Mayer's. Sorry but jealousy has nothing to do with it brother. The point: Mayer attempts to tame the funk when the funk is something that can't be tamed (unless you're James Brown). Have a damn good time man!

  • @properbeatz Dude, you didn't get the logic:

    He's got expensive guitars (and watches).

    That means his music has got to be good, no matter what!

  • @OnkelMickwald Oh hahaha! The sad thing: I've met too many people who would agree.

  • @properbeatz I wonder if the Meters ever could afford such equipment themselves... Oh my God! If they didn't it means I have been listening to bad music!

  • @properbeatz whine whine, bitch bitch. If you really were a music lover (instead of a critic) you would appreciate that a POP artist is doing his darndest to keep some classic music alive. People like you bitch when all they hear is Justin Beiber and Lady Gaga playing bubble gum pop and dance and a well rounded player like John gives us a taste of the old days and you still bitch. How many records have you sold again? Maybe you've heard a more creative version. Could you do better, though?

  • @DylanGalvinMusic Haha! You're funny. And ignorant. Not to mention lame and ineloquent, pretentious, and a comment hog. Yes in fact I have heard better versions. I live in New Orleans so I can shit a better version than this. Do you know the best way to keep classics alive? Donate money to the musicians village in N.O. How about funding a documentary or building a funk museum (even though it couldn't be contained =D)? I wouldn't question your love of music so why would you question mine?

  • @DylanGalvinMusic I wouldn't normally say this, but I felt very embarrassed for you. "The moon shines off her chocolate hair!?!?" Are you serious? I'm all for creativity but that was.... terrible. And the obviously conceded "About Me" is rather a turn off. I was hoping that I would at least find your music tolerable, but after hearing that first I almost felt bad about writing my previous comment as I was convinced I had ribbed on a 15 y/o special needs child.

  • @properbeatz Wow. Personal attacks, love it. Uploads of yourself playing = 0. You don't like my music, thats cool, everyone has an opinion, but you're just another critic with nothing to show. Since you live in N.O. (and that apparently gives you innate music ability) you should nut up and give us all a vid of you personally doing something. I'd say that's probably not going to happen since being so critical is usually is a giveaway for inability. I also hope you're much younger than 38.

  • @DylanGalvinMusic don't listen to him mate, i think you're pretty good.

  • @rockerdude29 or that his music is terrible

  • @rockerdude29 i didnt realise that stuff i just listen to his guitar playing and his style of doing classic clean songs

  • Comment removed

  • @jamieakabear2316 he's not playing a dumble in this video, its a two rock. and i think its his signature two rock but i cant be too sure. the tweed "amp" on top is a fender reverb unit.

  • Comment removed

  • is this guy ever going to have his own thing?....John Mayer...needs his own sound drastically...

  • @Ardolino21 just because he tries different things means that he doesn't have his own sound?? don't even act like you know what you're talking about.

  • saw "Red" last night....and LOVED that this song was in it!! I'm from New Orleans, so the song was very familiar, and The Meters, the group that originally did the song, are credited with founding "funk" music....Great band!!

  • Steve Jordan makes this song sexy man...go see the movie "RED" with Bruce Willis, the opening scene for when they go 2 Chicago at the end of the movie has a sexy version of "cissy strut" ull love it!

  • I'm jammin' along to this.

  • Hi i'm Shakira!

  • He looks like he is working too hard...

  • not a huge John Mayer fan, but he is a great guitar player, and he definitely did this song justice!

  • Steve jordan!!

  • this mangina is terrible. the real meters is the only way you can strut off the meter. even a bitch struts more tough than that, soft ass white bread needle dick. you're a lousy musician john mayer. the guy on youtube who does U2 covers with the eventide delay is better than you.

  • STEVE JORDAN!!

  • @noikis88 He is GROOVE!

  • First time i heard this guy..kinda cool...sort of SRV

  • @01Craigyboy SRV? You must mean super raggady vagina. He is NOWHERE in the same UNIVERSE as Stevie Ray Vaughn. And even he's a bum by my standards. You are gay.

  • @wmcglinchey I'd say somebody needs a diaper change. See that little "x" in the top right of your screen (or left if you are on a mac)? Go ahead and click it, your problem is solved. No need to belittle somebody for musical taste, if you like it thats great, if you don't like it there are 25 Million other music videos to watch. Happy listening.

  • @VanHorneDogg I came back in time just to hate on this video, bitch.

  • @wmcglinchey you crack me up.

  • johnnyblotter wrote a fucking novel. damn

  • i respect this guy , i respect anyone who can earn more than 50,000 a year and make a lifestyle around music, i dont give a shait how they do it but i show respect , mayer is a good musician, you dont see jazz artists getting stadiums packed,(maybe a some on the radar but the undergriund?) but you know what, if you dont like the guy , its cuz you are a hater , i dont judge the guy, just look and you decide

  • nice cover

  • Much respect, this is a pretty decent cover. Steve Jordan should get most of the credit though.

  • i don't like john mayer but good cover.

  • johnny can play that six string.

  • What's the drummer's name? Steve Jordan?

  • @Zeeldjian yes

  • I thought it was funky as shit! If you can get THAT funky on a cocktail drumkit, you got it going on! Go Steve Jordan!

  • drummer failng at using funky drum sounds. nice play though!

  • @humislair What are you talking about?! That's Steve Jordan! He's one of the funkiest!

  • @CheezeyWeezey i didn't question his qualification in drumming. it's only about the kit he's using. for me, it's sounding too hollow.. and has too much reverb on it. spacey ;)

  • @humislair how the hell is he failing?? Steve Jordan is the definition of groove.. could you be anymore ignorant?

  • fuck shakira, dumb bitch even needs to read her paper.. stupid commercials

  • @toefes thumbs up , FUCK YOU SHAKIRA

  • BEAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • is he using a reverb tank on top of his amp?

  • @griffinmpable its a dumble amp. probably worth about twenty thousand dollars.

  • This is the best tone I've ever heard! :O

  • John Mayer is Gifted, he even know the "Meters" Out of New Orleans, la. the wrote thisisong...Cissy shrut, and band consist of Art and Arron , and Zig a Boo Neville, it good to here again...

  • @zoelynnkendrick The band consisted of Joseph "Zigaboo" Modeleste, Leo Nocentelli, George Porter and Art Neville... no Aaron or any other spelling of the name ( Cyril Neville joined on percussion and vocals later). And it was way funkier than this.

  • @chochemerlyn thank you so much for your comment, you certainly know the band, it's been a long time since I have seen any of them in person, i saw Art on a documentary on PBS about a year ago...again thanks for the info...

  • what an interesting lookin rig...when was this? looks uber 90's :) 

  • OK that bass player has to be gargantuan because John Mayer is like 6'3" !

  • @XXX38 i'm 6'4'' and he had an inch or so on me when i met him

  • NO TALENT!!!!

    Just joking! He's a kick a ss. Fu ck! He's a master.

  • NO TALENT!!!!

    Just joking! He's a kick ass. Fuck! He's a master.

  • @blaskovich1 That's right bro!

  • johnnyblotter your just jealous that you could be earning millions by playing the guitar!!

  • What the hell happened to the drums? This song is supposed to have a bangin' drum track. Selfish John Mayer wants all the attention.