@@landenguitar1305 oh help. STOP. John is not Stevie and Stievie is not John. John can not play like Stevie because ist not the same person. Just like Stevie can not play like John.
Songwriter maybe, but definitely not the "Best Guitarist Alive". He's really among the best, but there is only one great. Ask any guitarist who is considered a "great" and they'll tell you who they all consider as the GOAT. Guthrie Govan
@@sauravsarkar4814 Jeff Beck and him hold/held that title. It depends who you ask but the two of them definitely were we definitely light years above anyone
This guy is one of the all time greats. His timing, perfect notes, feeling, interpretation, ability to cross genres, ect. Real guitarist all love this guy.
GammaGamer I never got any so called lessons till recently after I already was teaching others. I’ve had I think 3 Skype sessions with Tomo since the quarantine. It’s up to you, I wouldn’t be where I am now with out being self taught. I just spent hours watching concerts over and over and being obsessed and it all started with songs I wanted to learn. I think there’s a value that comes with not being in the music school line that you get with learning on your own. Too many players I know that all sound like each other and don’t really sound like musicians more so like robots cause they play the same stuff you learn from Berklee and places known for there music programs. Theory is a good thing to know, but when it’s too much by the book, and it’s get to a point where it’s not really music and your just playing scales and generic runs.
I was literally crying tears of joy as he went from machine gun to voodoo child. Multiply your amazment by 1000 and you'll begin to come close to how great this show was and how genuinely happy I was after it. Truly one of the top 10 greatest moments of my entire life. Thank you, John... Thank you.
@@joshives5682 yea there’s definitely been a serious progression from when I saw him first in 07 & then again in 2010 around the time of this here performance & then 2015 & 2018-2019... the guy gets better every year
A friend told me that John is probably the most underrated yet mosh greatest guitarists of all time, he even put him up there with Eric Clapton and I honestly didn’t believe him. So I came to this video to see what he could do and now I can agree with my friend, this guy is amazing.
I remember it being extremely humid that evening, which could explain the choice of clothing. I also remember being one of the only people in the entire crowd that instantly realized he was covering "Machine Gun". Thanks John, that was one of the best night's of my life.
Nobody does a cover of machine gun like mayer does, we are lucky someone decided to study hendrix/srv this close after they passed, so their story can be passed along for generations to come... Mayer is definitely the most meaningful pop artist of our generation.
he doesnt suck, hes just nothing special at guitar playing. He would be a nobody if it werent for all the girls who go to his concerts for his looks or whatever. People put him with all the legends just because he's famous, when hes basically a SRV imitator with a more pop orientated style so as he can make more money.
btm wtfb Dude, people don’t put him with the legends cause he’s famous. Eric Clapton said that he’s a master himself, and honestly I believe that he has the greatest versatility. If you actually see more of his guitar playing with the dead and company, you can see that no where is John Mayer playing like srv at all. Just because he uses a couple licks no where makes him a srv imitator. Check out neon, it has a jazzy solo, all original playing that John Mayer created. His right handed technique is also very unique (the way he uses it). Yes I know some people uses it too but the way John Mayer uses it is crazy. John Mayer also used a slapping technique that you don’t really see srv using it. Check out Magnolia with Eric Clapton and John Mayer, John Mayer was playing a really soulful David Gilmour feel. The same with I guess I just feel like, very Derek trucks feel and David Gilmour, and a little bit of Mark Knopfler. When it comes to the blues, srv is much better, but versatility and technique, I’m sorry but you have to hand it to John Mayer. I doubt srv would get anywhere close to neon. But hey, two DIFFERENT guitarist, you can’t really compare.
I don't know why JM get's a lot of negative press about his ego? He is great and he is confident and uninhibited about it-arrogance becomes him-not in a bad way,he's very "giving" of himself,he doesn't hold much back,tells it like it is to him...bravo!
I personally don't like his original songs, he can play the blues and Hendrix like very few people. I find his voice quite annoying, but yeah that's just taste, he is; ndeed a very talented musician
I have to say as a musician, John Mayer can play guitar period. Everybody seems to get caught up on musicians sounding like this artist or that artist. Bottom line is blues is based on pentatonic scales, its up to the artist on how he is going to play them. Give the man the respect that he made it and is good in his own right. I think anyone who wants to talk sh$t should post their comments with a youtube link of their skills on the guitar and show us how its done if they feel like criticizin
@@keithremedy Not a bad gig to see nokia center the first time haha. I Saw mayer for the first time 1st of oktober 2019 in Stockholm. It was the best concert i’ve ever Been to.
John is such a underrated guitar player! The problem with most people who listen to Lady Gaga and Nicki Minaj for a example they are to ignorant to look at John Mayer and call him one of the best guitar players ever. I have him up with Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix I don't care what others say, he is such a talent and I want people to actually pay attention to that for once.
Annebeth Larsson Annebeth, your right Slow hand Clapton LOVES JOHN MAYER!!! Can't believe the talent he has and how fast he came about it...JOHN MAYER,THEIR WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER ONE MARK MY WORDS...
The practise and determination leading to this. He must of soaked hours into these songs and then he lets all that rip with the power of 300 watts behind him. That is the dream 💭
Damn...watch this video and after watch him playing "Badge & Gun" it's a real weird change but that only means one thing. He can do whatever he wants anytime he wants...that's an artist.
@@stew-tube not 500k. Realistically 250 to 3 lmao. Honestly you can achieve something inspired by this with a 64 vibroverb and a Silver Sterling in it along with any almost any line of two rock, but it will only get you so far. Of course Bradshaw rigs along with Alessandro cabs, bricasti reverb, and Pete Cornish NG2 and that other delay he makes are going to really take it to another level. The thing is nobody is going to get tone like this. I would call myself a better then average guitar player like many others out there that been blues fans for years and been gigging for a long time but even the people that got the talent aren’t going to sound like this. It’s the same sort of thing with any other great guitar legends so much dynamics and little nuances comes from there hands and playing. Just like there is a lot of people out there that can play Stevie stuff really well but not capture the feel. Phillip Sayce being the number one that comes to mind that really seems to go after that 83 srv. That’s what makes all these players like SRV, Mayer, Clapton, and more recently Bonamassa, is they just have this feel that doesn’t sound like anyone else. That no can fully mimic, you may be able to capture the essence but it only goes so far.
There's hundreds of guitarists all over the world who are better than John Mayer in this style, it's just that he has the whole package..Great Songwriter, Charismatic, young, stylish, good looking & funny.. & you've got to be lucky to some extent now to make it as a musician in America, so he's the perfect candidate to be a commercial music star. He could easily have been making a living as a session guy or in some band but the fact is he's a Legend simply because he's an outstanding guitarist.
Come on dude. Listen, I'll be the 1st one to admit that I didn't know how good JM was until I saw him 3 years ago at the Crossroads fest. He totally won me over, and since then, I've sought out his blues music & quickly realized that he is truly a world class guitarist. But he can't hold a candle to SRV. Aside from both Jimi & SRV being groundbreakers w/regard to their styles/talent/etc., even JM has said that he can only play like SRV for about 30 seconds before his forearm goes dead.
at the same time... if you listen to ANY of the records out when Are You Experienced came out, no one was even CLOSE to what he was doing with the guitar... Hendrix changed the game in a way that no one has done before or since... THAT is why he was and will always be the greatest... Anyone who has ever played a face melting solo owes him a nod...
I'm digging John Mayers tennis shoes..r you with me? Must be HOT in that part of the stage..John Mayers is legend on guitar and can play and perform fantastically good..He can entertain and that guitar goes where John is sounding out rhythem and lyrics at his best..terrific band..Play that Waa Waa John
and the fact that he could get a bunch of teenage girls and 50 year old men to go to the same concert is something SRV or Jimi or whoever else they put on up on a throne could never do. they have to appreciate that
I saw him playing here in Atlanta when he was 16 at a blues club.he was amazing. I was wasted and Invited him to come play at the new mellow mushroom pizza place I was working at, thinking he would just blow it off. I was just trying to impress the waitresses I had come to the club with and was on some promoter trip. He showed up with his parents and I ignored him. I always felt like a creep for that day but it looks like he's handled it pretty well.
yeah, but i feel like a lot of his fans know by now that he shreds on the guitar. that is actually why i started getting into his music. i grew up with his first stuff like "your body is a wonderland" and "daughters" but a couple of years ago i started watching videos of him playing blues and was completely blown away. he actually got me into blues. but, yeah i feel like if fans weren't into it, they wouldn't know how to handle it. it is sad people just can't appreciate the his undeniable talent
yes and i think mayer agrees with you, he even said it in an interview. he said that he and other guitarists can reach that level of intensity that hendrix and srv had but after 30 seconds his hand would cramp up.
John pays tribute to his heros but he also does stuff they could never do (e.g. his songwriting) and in that sense is just as much as a pioneer as jimi, stevie and eric who took what came before and did something new.
then Stevie said "Let there be John"
Stevie’s love child...
...and there was john...!
Best comment ever!!
Johns good but not a pro like Stevie
@@landenguitar1305 oh help. STOP. John is not Stevie and Stievie is not John. John can not play like Stevie because ist not the same person. Just like Stevie can not play like John.
Best guitarist alive today. Sadly, no one will realize until he's gone.
That's how it goes .. no one TRULY cares until you're dead
Sadly true. He Is definetly the best. But even more one of the best songwriters in history imo
Him, Kenny Wayne Shep, and Philip sayce
Songwriter maybe, but definitely not the "Best Guitarist Alive". He's really among the best, but there is only one great. Ask any guitarist who is considered a "great" and they'll tell you who they all consider as the GOAT.
Guthrie Govan
@@sauravsarkar4814 Jeff Beck and him hold/held that title. It depends who you ask but the two of them definitely were we definitely light years above anyone
This guy is one of the all time greats. His timing, perfect notes, feeling, interpretation, ability to cross genres, ect. Real guitarist all love this guy.
totally feeling the guy at the background when mayer starts playing voodoo child
yeah man, that keyboardist fkn loves his job
Dude, he is so amazing on the guitar I would have his baby.
And I'm male.
And I'm straight.
Haha. Same here.
shit...mahine gun....hendrix most powerful song...Mayer is the man
Voodoo Child
Yes YesYes
@@martyfarber0 the intro mate
The perfect musician doesn't exi...
Stevie would be fucking proud
...and Hendrix
I'm sure that SRV and Hendrix would've slap the shit out of both of you two for being ignorants.
mayer the most under rated guitarist out there
Joshua Garrison wait till he dies
Aaron Francis III were gonna be really old hahha
Not so much anymore. I have more guitar students wanting me to teach them mayer licks then just about every other player out there.
GammaGamer I never got any so called lessons till recently after I already was teaching others. I’ve had I think 3 Skype sessions with Tomo since the quarantine. It’s up to you, I wouldn’t be where I am now with out being self taught. I just spent hours watching concerts over and over and being obsessed and it all started with songs I wanted to learn. I think there’s a value that comes with not being in the music school line that you get with learning on your own. Too many players I know that all sound like each other and don’t really sound like musicians more so like robots cause they play the same stuff you learn from Berklee and places known for there music programs. Theory is a good thing to know, but when it’s too much by the book, and it’s get to a point where it’s not really music and your just playing scales and generic runs.
GammaGamer mate I’ve been playing for 25 years and I only recently started taking lessons again and it’s definitely worth it.
John Mayer is the absolute most slept-on guitar god of all time.
like a boss .i love how he doesnt second guess anything and just hits everything like he means it
I still can't believe I witnessed this with my own eyes and ears. September 10th, 2010 was the day my life was changed forever.
I love when he plays these songs you know he spent hours and hours playing in his bedroom growing up! It’s like they are his first love.
I was literally crying tears of joy as he went from machine gun to voodoo child. Multiply your amazment by 1000 and you'll begin to come close to how great this show was and how genuinely happy I was after it. Truly one of the top 10 greatest moments of my entire life. Thank you, John... Thank you.
This is really good footage for 2010
I personally think this is peak Live Mayer
Intro is "Machine Gun" by Jimi Hendrix recreated through the pure excellence of John's fingers followed by Voodoo Child
I don't care if he wears Capris with chucks, he still rips on guitar
Who gives a flying f*** what he wears
"He wears it well"
Dude, his outfit FUCKING ROCKS. The real G’s know this.
He's absolutely gorgeous, no matter what he wears
He looks really cool in that outfit. Or maybe the playing and himself makes the outfit look cool.
This is the best I've ever seen him play
i'd say this is standard mayer. he shreds for fun now he's at this level
@@joshives5682 yea there’s definitely been a serious progression from when I saw him first in 07 & then again in 2010 around the time of this here performance & then 2015 & 2018-2019... the guy gets better every year
A friend told me that John is probably the most underrated yet mosh greatest guitarists of all time, he even put him up there with Eric Clapton and I honestly didn’t believe him. So I came to this video to see what he could do and now I can agree with my friend, this guy is amazing.
Clapton said it himself. He said John is a master guitarist with unlimited ability.
Watching this live was one of the best experiences of my life.
One bad ass guitar player. No bout adout it. Mayer is the real deal
Seen him 3 times, including this very concert - he always gives 110%! If I were younger and single, I'd fly all over to see him way more often.
I remember it being extremely humid that evening, which could explain the choice of clothing. I also remember being one of the only people in the entire crowd that instantly realized he was covering "Machine Gun". Thanks John, that was one of the best night's of my life.
I was at this concert. He flat kicked ass through the entire show. Love ya John.
JOHN MAYER ! I LOVE YOU.
UNBELIEVABLE!!!!
this is about the best I've seen JM play... what amazing talent he has... such a smooth player.
The keys player getting hyped as soon as the iconic all along the watchtower riff shuffles in😂 I feel u bro.
Nobody does a cover of machine gun like mayer does, we are lucky someone decided to study hendrix/srv this close after they passed, so their story can be passed along for generations to come... Mayer is definitely the most meaningful pop artist of our generation.
greatest ending to this song i've ever heard
Anyone who says he sucks is not a real musician. John would own your ass on stage. Just sayin'...
Russell Yuen he owned slash when playing with zztop there's a video on in RUclips.
I'm not a Mayer fan, but he IS DEFINITELY an excellent guitarist! And yes, I'm a little jealous...
link??? I gotta see this
he doesnt suck, hes just nothing special at guitar playing. He would be a nobody if it werent for all the girls who go to his concerts for his looks or whatever. People put him with all the legends just because he's famous, when hes basically a SRV imitator with a more pop orientated style so as he can make more money.
btm wtfb Dude, people don’t put him with the legends cause he’s famous. Eric Clapton said that he’s a master himself, and honestly I believe that he has the greatest versatility. If you actually see more of his guitar playing with the dead and company, you can see that no where is John Mayer playing like srv at all. Just because he uses a couple licks no where makes him a srv imitator. Check out neon, it has a jazzy solo, all original playing that John Mayer created. His right handed technique is also very unique (the way he uses it). Yes I know some people uses it too but the way John Mayer uses it is crazy. John Mayer also used a slapping technique that you don’t really see srv using it. Check out Magnolia with Eric Clapton and John Mayer, John Mayer was playing a really soulful David Gilmour feel. The same with I guess I just feel like, very Derek trucks feel and David Gilmour, and a little bit of Mark Knopfler. When it comes to the blues, srv is much better, but versatility and technique, I’m sorry but you have to hand it to John Mayer. I doubt srv would get anywhere close to neon. But hey, two DIFFERENT guitarist, you can’t really compare.
I don't know why JM get's a lot of negative press about his ego? He is great and he is confident and uninhibited about it-arrogance becomes him-not in a bad way,he's very "giving" of himself,he doesn't hold much back,tells it like it is to him...bravo!
I TOTALLY AGREE
I personally don't like his original songs, he can play the blues and Hendrix like very few people. I find his voice quite annoying, but yeah that's just taste, he is; ndeed a very talented musician
I have to say as a musician, John Mayer can play guitar period. Everybody seems to get caught up on musicians sounding like this artist or that artist. Bottom line is blues is based on pentatonic scales, its up to the artist on how he is going to play them. Give the man the respect that he made it and is good in his own right. I think anyone who wants to talk sh$t should post their comments with a youtube link of their skills on the guitar and show us how its done if they feel like criticizin
#WORD
@JohnMayer
Is up there with the best of the best AND HE IS ONLY GOD DARN 41
@@keithremedy "you were kinda a bitch" 🤣🤣love it
@@keithremedy Not a bad gig to see nokia center the first time haha. I Saw mayer for the first time 1st of oktober 2019 in Stockholm. It was the best concert i’ve ever Been to.
@@siggeek503 right?!? That show became El Mocambo for Mayer fans haha
Don’t we all wish he’d do another DVD set, one can only hope🤞🏽
John's wailing that guitar, smoking❣🔥🔥🔥❣
John is such a underrated guitar player! The problem with most people who listen to Lady Gaga and Nicki Minaj for a example they are to ignorant to look at John Mayer and call him one of the best guitar players ever. I have him up with Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix I don't care what others say, he is such a talent and I want people to actually pay attention to that for once.
Annebeth Larsson Annebeth, your right Slow hand Clapton LOVES JOHN MAYER!!! Can't believe the talent he has and how fast he came about it...JOHN MAYER,THEIR WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER ONE MARK MY WORDS...
What's wrong with lady gaga? She makes pretty good music
I just love John's dressing styles! No, I mean it. If it feels right, wear it!
Frances Rebollido 6 years later... www.google.com/amp/s/www.gq.com/story/most-stylish-of-the-decade-john-mayer/amp
And 9 months later that guitar had a child.
Clever m8 😂
A baby fender.
Alex Haggar A red headed PRS baby.
A voodoo child
Phenomenal..Way to perform John Mayers..Great performance..
The practise and determination leading to this. He must of soaked hours into these songs and then he lets all that rip with the power of 300 watts behind him. That is the dream 💭
Damn...watch this video and after watch him playing "Badge & Gun" it's a real weird change but that only means one thing. He can do whatever he wants anytime he wants...that's an artist.
Just wow ♥️♥️♥️🎼🎼🎼🎶🎶🎶
Make a live album like this please John?
He has a live album with his band John Mayer Trio check it out
why did he have to disappear?
5:45, Mayer channels Hendrix for his strength. This fucking guy is great
Wow wow wow wow. No words. Just a massive smile. ⭐️💜🌹
This is fucking amazingggggg. Nothing can beat a bluesy guitar solo, nothing(:
He amazes me every time!
Sooooo freaking good
Christ almighty! He was in the zone that night
Gotta love John Mayer
this is why he is my favorite guitar player ever
Guy can make a guitar make any sound possible, been following him since he's been playing.... best of my time, Rolling Stones top 10.... Legend
Just amazing.....
BEST GUITARIST ALIVE
i love john mayers playing. hes very ,very talented. as the wife of the lead player in a band i love when someone really impresses me.
Imagine shredding over machine gun and turn that into voodoo child and shred over that
OMG!! I worked there for years!! Loved that job! Don’t think I was working there anymore.
This man plays with more soul and passion than anyone playing right now. The comparisons to the past are pointless.
i wud live to have that tone man. ive never heard such a good push clean sound
Well be prepared to take out a 500k loan to buy a dumble and vintage fender amps with vintage pedals 😹
@@stew-tube not 500k. Realistically 250 to 3 lmao. Honestly you can achieve something inspired by this with a 64 vibroverb and a Silver Sterling in it along with any almost any line of two rock, but it will only get you so far. Of course Bradshaw rigs along with Alessandro cabs, bricasti reverb, and Pete Cornish NG2 and that other delay he makes are going to really take it to another level. The thing is nobody is going to get tone like this. I would call myself a better then average guitar player like many others out there that been blues fans for years and been gigging for a long time but even the people that got the talent aren’t going to sound like this. It’s the same sort of thing with any other great guitar legends so much dynamics and little nuances comes from there hands and playing. Just like there is a lot of people out there that can play Stevie stuff really well but not capture the feel. Phillip Sayce being the number one that comes to mind that really seems to go after that 83 srv. That’s what makes all these players like SRV, Mayer, Clapton, and more recently Bonamassa, is they just have this feel that doesn’t sound like anyone else. That no can fully mimic, you may be able to capture the essence but it only goes so far.
when he starts playing voodoo child the dude behind him is going crazy
There's hundreds of guitarists all over the world who are better than John Mayer in this style, it's just that he has the whole package..Great Songwriter, Charismatic, young, stylish, good looking & funny.. & you've got to be lucky to some extent now to make it as a musician in America, so he's the perfect candidate to be a commercial music star. He could easily have been making a living as a session guy or in some band but the fact is he's a Legend simply because he's an outstanding guitarist.
He is a music genius!
That was strictly badass. All Fourteen minutes.
Amazing video I'm so glad you caught this.
MORE LIKE JMI SAID LET THERE BE ALL THE REST FROM MY TIME TILL THE END OF TIME...
Come on dude. Listen, I'll be the 1st one to admit that I didn't know how good JM was until I saw him 3 years ago at the Crossroads fest. He totally won me over, and since then, I've sought out his blues music & quickly realized that he is truly a world class guitarist. But he can't hold a candle to SRV. Aside from both Jimi & SRV being groundbreakers w/regard to their styles/talent/etc., even JM has said that he can only play like SRV for about 30 seconds before his forearm goes dead.
at the same time... if you listen to ANY of the records out when Are You Experienced came out, no one was even CLOSE to what he was doing with the guitar... Hendrix changed the game in a way that no one has done before or since... THAT is why he was and will always be the greatest... Anyone who has ever played a face melting solo owes him a nod...
HELL YES!!!!!!!!
no wonder all them celebrity women went with him , he's got it all
my favourite lyrist , poet , the best lead and rhythm guitar player that ever lived
John mayer is who he is cuz of those two...John is incredible but no one will ever top those two...
I'm digging John Mayers tennis shoes..r you with me? Must be HOT in that part of the stage..John Mayers is legend on guitar and can play and perform fantastically good..He can entertain and that guitar goes where John is sounding out rhythem and lyrics at his best..terrific band..Play that Waa Waa John
he is AMAZING! Stevie said he Channel Jimi Hendrix I believe the John Channel Stevie and Jimmie he is unbelievably a great guitar player songwriter.
I don't think anyone who dislikes him has any clue he could play like this.
How does this not have 100000000000000 views?!
Eb tuning is Life!
dude on bass making me laugh
He's reeeeeaaaaaallllyyyy into it
John...fucking...Mayer!!!!!! gaahhhhhh that was sick!!!
and the fact that he could get a bunch of teenage girls and 50 year old men to go to the same concert is something SRV or Jimi or whoever else they put on up on a throne could never do. they have to appreciate that
I saw him playing here in Atlanta when he was 16 at a blues club.he was amazing. I was wasted and Invited him to come play at the new mellow mushroom pizza place I was working at, thinking he would just blow it off. I was just trying to impress the waitresses I had come to the club with and was on some promoter trip. He showed up with his parents and I ignored him.
I always felt like a creep for that day but it looks like he's handled it pretty well.
Thatz sad
Why is this just now popping up on my RUclips now. Should have 10 years ago!
You can see him wishing for Steve Jordan
Well, he's got Keith Carlock...Steely Dan, Toto etc. No slouch. I doubt if John is wishing for anything other than he doesn't break a string.
Jimi Hendrix machine gun jam in the beginning, followed by voodoo chile, sweet.
im 18 and i love jimi, Clapton, Buddy, BB.. and many more. I guess im just one out of the million lolol.
Keyboard player knows the truth
yeah, but i feel like a lot of his fans know by now that he shreds on the guitar. that is actually why i started getting into his music. i grew up with his first stuff like "your body is a wonderland" and "daughters" but a couple of years ago i started watching videos of him playing blues and was completely blown away. he actually got me into blues. but, yeah i feel like if fans weren't into it, they wouldn't know how to handle it. it is sad people just can't appreciate the his undeniable talent
yes and i think mayer agrees with you, he even said it in an interview. he said that he and other guitarists can reach that level of intensity that hendrix and srv had but after 30 seconds his hand would cramp up.
Machine Gun then Voodoo Chile. One of the few mainstream players who has covered Jimi well. good stuff
Machine Gun
right into voodoo child
HOLY MOLY......
John pays tribute to his heros but he also does stuff they could never do (e.g. his songwriting) and in that sense is just as much as a pioneer as jimi, stevie and eric who took what came before and did something new.
He's so so good and he started in his bedroom
Jm u are just mesmerizing
If you ever needed proof that behind every great lead guitarist there is an equally great rhythm section...
unbelievable
When John Mayer licks down freaking machine gun and voodoo child while murdering his guitar and things he can't rival Hendrix's playing
Somebody give me an HD sound recording of this performance please! haha
Nice video. I was there. I was in a trance for about 10 minutes!!! Will be there again come September 7th! :)
amazing..
you sir, just said the ultimate truth
Me expecting John to fart on the guitar*