John Mayer "My Stupid Mouth" Australian TV 2002

John Mayer plays "My Stupid Mouth" at the Max Studios in Sydney, Australia 2003. This is from a live in-studio performance on a show called, "What You Want", on the cable music station "Channel V".


John Mayer: Don't Call Him the Next Dave Matthews~
New York Times 2002

John Mayer. If you haven't heard the name yet, you will soon. The 24-year-old guitar-wielding singer-songwriter is being touted as the next big thing by the pop-music intelligencia. Last month, Rolling Stone declared Mayer—hot off the soundtrack for Serendipity and a guest spot on Late Night with Conan O'Brien,"—one of "Ten Artists You Need to Know." His major-label debut album, Room for Squares just cracked the Billboard Top 200.

With a sound that's been compared to that of Dave Matthews, Mayer—born in Connecticut but based in Atlanta—has been a hit on college campuses nationwide and drawn sell-out crowds in the Southeast. In January he launched his first nationwide tour. UPFRONT caught up with Mayer just as he was about to hit the road.

UPFRONT: You knew you wanted to be a guitar player from the time you were a kid, and by 13, you were a huge fan of musicians like Stevie Ray Vaughn and Jimi Hendrix. Now, back then, those guys weren't popular! Most kids were listening to people Janet Jackson. What was going on?

MAYER: My only thought is that I was programmed for it and it just spoke to me. There were no echoes of it in what I was listening to.

UPFRONT: It certainly wasn't going around the middle schools at the time.

MAYER: No it wasn't. And subsequently I became that one guy in everyone's high school who tried to dress the part, tried to dress like Jimi Hendrix in school, you know. I can only deduce right now that I was just born to listen to it.

UPFRONT: How did you learn how to play guitar?

MAYER: I took lessons for about 8 months. Then my parents found out that I wasn't reading music, that my teacher had sort of followed where I wanted to take it, which was definitely off the books. My parents discontinued my lessons, and I ended up just playing off of CD's for the next four or five years.

UPFRONT: Do you write your music first and then the lyrics come from that?

MAYER: Always. I write music that makes me write lyrics. So the music always puts me in a place. The music that I write—before I have lyrics—always has a weather. There's a certain weather pattern, is it nighttime, is it raining, and the music inspires me to write words to it. I think that's probably why for most of my songs the lyrics fit perfectly with the music. I think I listen to the music first and the lyrics are perfectly matched to it. It's not like I have a shoebox full of poems.

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[lillypad1255]

he is hott

[MikeysMisses2]

@lillypad1255 Yeah he is! lol

[lillypad1255]

@MikeysMisses2 your gay?

[MikeysMisses2]

@lillypad1255 I'm a woman and not gay...why do you ask?  lol

[lillypad1255]

@MikeysMisses2 im a women lol well ok i thought you were a guy

[MikeysMisses2]

@lillypad1255 That's ok, I get that all the time. :~) In Australia, when a guy is dating a woman, she's refered to as "your Mrs. or your Misses". So, since I'm dating Mikey, and he's Australian, I'm "MikeysMisses".  It's confusing to a lot of non-Australians, most people think I'm Mikey. lol :~)

[smcgee1516]

2:34-2:41.. that's why I love Mayer

[Ladybolt11]

I love John he speaks to everyone or someone in every song

[ams914]

This is one of the first songs I've learned by John Mayer and about three years later, it still doesn't sound quite the way it does when he plays it. I guess that's what is so sacred when you make your own music. No one can really do it the way you do it.

[87earth]

one of his greatest performances of my stupid mouth.. i remember playing this 9 years ago with some friends :) how years pass by.. :) thank you

[zionJeon]

OMGSH the asian chick made me laugh XD 1:53

[mattobrienmusic]

@smcgee1516 Haha, no doubt. Pretty great variation on the melody there.

[goddim2006]

Oooooohh my God... Nobody yelling in this video! It must be a miracle! xD

[MrThelimbie]

he has funny expressions but when he plays guitar and sings time slows down

[JoelLesterMusic]

So Goooooooooooooood!!! 

[ams914]

SO MUCH ENERGY