John Mayer Masterclass - Inside Wants Out, Room for Squares, Heavier Things, Continuum, JM trio, Where the Light is, Battle Studies, Born and Raised.

John Mayer.
34 years old in 2012.


Shadow Days:
http://www.4shared.com/mp3/OkcbyrNe/John_Mayer_-_Shadow_Days.html


Recently he's gone for the Broke-Back Johnny Depp look for his new upcoming album, Born and Raised.

Maybe Mr. Mayer imagined this reaction:

Or this:

Whatever. He's good enough at music that he can do whatever the hell he wants and get away with it.
This is why you get that douchebag aura from him.

But in a totally heterosexual way I'm just gonna say he looked better with the 'punk look' = short hair + tattoo sleeve showing.

Right?
Right?

I'd probably get a sleeve like that if I was 10 times better at guitar.
LOL.


Impressive repertoire.
Inside Wants Out, 1999
*pretty damn good for a 21 year old.
Shit I'm 21 and I suck: song writing + guitar skills wise.

Room for Squares, 2001
Heavier Things, 2003
Continuum, 2006
JM trio,
Where the Light is,
Battle Studies, 2009
Born and Raised, coming out May 2012.

My first contact with JM's music was in boarding school:

I remember sitting in the common room watching MTV's Top 20 when this gay sh** came on.
I didn't listen to his music until Continuum came out.

I gobbled up Gravity, Slow Dancing in A Burning Room, Vultures, Belief, Waiting on the World to Change.

Later on I did download his previous albums, Room for Squares and Heavier Things.

Being an avid moderately awful guitar player I do admire JM's playing style.
SRV, a bit of Hendrix, and contemporary alternative/acoustic songwriter mush all put together.
Sometimes it's good and sometimes it's not:

Here's my favourite John Mayer song; it's a instrumental of Neon, and he doesn't sing on it:

Here's another good instrumental, if you excuse the microphone douchebaggery:

I was nice enough to even rip it for yall:
http://www26.zippyshare.com/v/38535468/file.html

Anyway back on track,

I argued with someone that Continuum was the superior album but he told me this was the best.

It's ok, I guess.
Alot of mush.

The best song is probably Neon:

On the guitar, you gotta tune the low E string to C.
It's the only song that's got a jazz-feel on the album; the rest is mush for pre-pubescent teenage girls.

No Such Things is probably the second decent song on the album:

Nelly remixed it:

I heard the remix first before I heard the original song.
Like Sean Kingston - Beautiful Girls, and Stand By Me.
And Sean Kingston - Me Love, and Led Zeppelin - D'yer Mak-er.
LOL. and probably some other songs...

Anyway back on track,
on to Heavier Things,

TBH, I hated this album until about 3 listens.
Especially New Deep.

It's so strange how I used to hate the guitar lick, + chorus, and now I love it.
Werd.

Daughters is decent.
I don't think he deserved a Grammy for it...

Something's Missing is the other decent song:
The guitar riff is good.

I think the part where he says: Money CHECK, Geeeetar CHECK, etc. is pretty funny.
What a douche. haha.

ONWARDS: Battle Studies came out when I was in the army.
I was disappointed at first because I expected it to be like Continuum.


Oh well.
My favourite songs were: Crossroads, Assassin, Who Says, Do You Know Me.

The rest is all mush.
Good music when you feel mushy, but rather mediocre overall
.

I wish this guy would do more distortion based guitar work.
He's too much invested in acoustic, classical and clean guitar.

When he solos with gain he can do some pretty amazing licks

He should do a distortion based album.
It has the potential to be SOOOO much better than clean.
Clean soloing is just MUSH.
Why are you wasting your talent braaa???  

Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure that Born and Raised will be more gooey mooey mush.
Oh well.
Bah.


Most Mayer fans will appreciate him for this:

But the true playas will appreciate him for this:

PEACE,

Andrew