John Mayer Bluesin' Out #2

John Mayer @ Rod Laver Arena - Melbourne Australia 19th April 2004

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Music

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• John
• Mayer
• Melbourne
• Blues
• Riff

[PilotDoofy]

It's sad that when John Mayer first started making music it was to give the pop music scene familiarity and exposure to real music like blues, etc. and now it's the other way around.

Real music is discouraged to an extent now days that we can't even get John Mayer to stop playing two chord songs and taking his shirt off. It makes me sad when I see what a real musician like John Mayer has been reduced to because of lame producers and completely worthless teeny bopper fans.

[icandy189]

You need to go and see him live sometime rather than make judgements about the person you see in the media. He may still play the old "radio edit" faves, but he also injects stuff that clearly comes from his soul.

I've seen him live many times. There was a period in 2006 after he became "tabloid famous" that his performances seemed all about album promotion and lacked his usual passion - but at the most recent gig I saw at the Troubadour in LA, I can safely say the old JM is still there.

[zeffy00]

Why the hell u stopped recording?

Bah, nice video anyways.

[SirFightsalot]

that guitar better be 18 cause it just got raped.

[25Ragz]

@PilotDoofy you're retarded

[biggidaman777]

he's got John scofield faces LoL . love it. john is great!!

[daanborges]

@Coop624 Yeah it's some sort of come back to bed outro

[Coop624]

@GoingCamando20 i think it's a bluesed out version of come back to bed..

[lsdman14]

@PilotDoofy Haha guy you obviously dont know what youre talking about. The first two albums he released were his most mainstream pop oriented stuff, and continuum was probably the least pop and battle studies somewhat. But as he gets bigger and bigger, his shows include alot more blues stuff than what he used to do.

[drdmento]

@PilotDoofy he definitely plays more than two chord songs (yes, there are a few... "come back to bed" [as in this video] and gravity) and I haven't seen a video recently (not that it doesn't happen) where he's not got a shirt on...  He still does what he did in Room for Squares, but just from a different vantage point IMHO...

[BondsMusic]

at his prime. entering fame. :)

[SuperChance17]

@PilotDoofy thats not true at all. theres nothing wrong with pop our generation has just destroyed. john loves pop. whats wrong with that? and if you look at the tabs of his songs you would realize that all of them have a shit tone of different chords and are so much harder than you would think. he plays the music he loves blues. pop. and his own little genre where he brings them together. i will agree with you his fan base is based off of his pop music and sex appeal but its still great music.

[TobyEllisSongwriter]

@PilotDoofy ? wha wha? what two chord songs? His shirt comes off for stuff like his crossroads cover. And surely the blues is the most boring for that: its a 1 4 5, you know when each chord is coming, at least john chucks in a substitute 6 chord to replace the 5 and be slightly original-ish.

Covered In Raid is a two chord song, the only one I can think of by John. And have you heard his work on that?

"real music like blues", thats the lamest comment ever. 1. blues is a form of pop music.