After today's drama between Perez Hilton & Will.I.Am, John Mayer took to twitter in an attempt to try and talk some sense into Perez. It would seem like common sense that you don't call someone a "faggot" to their face if you don't want to get punched, but that concept is lost on some.My favorite part of this exchange is "I also want to train you in an old martial art called "Never Call A Black...
This is a great little piece on how John Mayer recorded the song "In Repair". How he brought in the best musicians and let's you in on the creative process behind the scenes. Click here to peek (but seriously, with those cats behind the scenes I could have written this album!). Part 2 here.
I apologize for the once a year that I’m forced to post about John Mayer. Forgive me.*He put up this vid a couple of days ago of his first hip hop track; a 54 second instant classic. “I like sex and I’m good at it.” I’ll admit, it could actually be a lot worse. Never [...]
You read it right. Just found this on my lunch break. I listened to the show Saturday night when it was streaming live (AMAZING), but didn't realize it was still up. To listen to a stream of John Mayer 's two-hour performance this past Saturday at LA's Nokia Theater click here . This concert definitely gives you some insight into the singer-songwriter's past and present. Who knew he could be ...
The 51st Grammy Award nominations were announced tonight, first in a CBS television special and the balance on the Grammy website. The special was a bit of an oddity. The nominations for seven of the awards were announced although, oddly, Song of the Year (one of the big four) was not part of the broadcast. Performances were sprinkled through out of songs in the Grammy Hall of Fame but, in...
picked up Springsteen's latest ... Working on a Dream ... not really sure how to judge it ... maybe i am just not springsteen's audience anymore, and maybe some folks do live by his philosophyi am hoping he's just pandering to record sales and is not getting depressed himself ... the CD sounds like the soundtrack of an overly emo movie about some depressing neighborhood with the typical cast of...
Music to me is something indescribable. Music is a whole other world. Its something that's inable to describe with so many words and to talk about here. Each song carries a story that needs to be defined. Music is a huge part of my life, and i just cannot get enough of it. Im always searching for an unexplored artist or a song i've never heard of. It really is incredible to feel the strength th...
--- - |- Why release a live album? To fill the gap between albums (in this case nearly two years) or promote an outstanding performance encompassing a fine body of work? When a live album makes its way to the shelves it's usually an opportunity for those who bought the original release to enjoy new takes on tracks or re-live the live experience. Where The Light Is is a different type of l...
I came across this duet the other day, between John Mayer and Colbie Caillat, who are both currently on tour together. This is one of Mayer's songs, a slow bluesy tune, and it really lends itself well to both singers.Gravity - John Mayer & Colbie Caillat~~
Most of you that follow my now infrequent posts will note a dramatic departure from the genre I typically write about. Don't worry - I was not dropped as a baby only to realize the effects as a 25 year-old. Sooner or later, I will fly back to Planet Hip-Hop, but for now, this album is one very much worth writing about.Usually we remember the John Mayer who released Room For Squares and made a m...
While looking through Archive.org earlier today, I found that John Mayer has quite a few concerts up online, which I didn't expect, given how prominent of a musician he is. There's not a whole lot of recent ones, but there is a bunch of ones that date back to 2002 and a little earlier, and from those, I found a couple of cool covers.All of these covers are pretty faithful to the original, excep...
Another summer, another new festival. Throw a dart at the board, see where it lands and viola! let's call in the tour buses.This time the dart fell three hours northwest of Detroit in Rothbury, Michigan. The jamband friendly Rothbury Festival, scheduled for 4th of July weekend (July 3rd-6th), will feature headliners Dave Matthews Band, Widespread Panic and Phil Leash and Friends. Also playing w...
In my humble opinion John Mayer totally sucks. I don't like his music, I don't like his attitude, I don't like his hair. Just look at him. Nice face. And what I find exceedingly irritating is that he's all over the web with his almost equally annoying lady friend who I don't have the energy to name. Nice tatoos. Anyway, I get it. The human brain is a highly complicated organ that is in constant...
John Mayer's "Belief"I guess one way and another we are given our tasks, and coming to terms with violence seems to be one of mine, the thing I must continually break my head against, to say nothing of my heart. And even more maddening is the close affinity religion seems to have, seems to have almost always had, with violence, an affinity which, to any rational mind, would seem to contradict e...
This is my new friend Isaac. He's 4. We met before my show in Toronto. He's one of the coolest kids I've ever met. Isaac has what's called MPS. But that's not what makes him special. You'd just have to spend 30 seconds with him to know what I'm talking about. Isaac's a huge fan and loves the Where The Light is DVD. His favorite parts are the backstage scenes of the band walking through the hal...