Josh thank you so much for the kind words, hearing that from you made my day! Would love to chat John's sound one day with you 🙂 thank you for all that you do for the guitar community! #preklonjohn
I saw him at Madison Square Gardens for the Sob Rock tour. A few hours before opening it was announced that members of the band got Covid and we’re very sick so it would be an acoustic show. John came out on his own straight into acoustic Neon and went on playing six or seven hits. Then he said I’d like to welcome out a guest who’s been very busy today. A drum kit is reveled under a spotlight - out walks Questlove. The full stage lights and production come on, full band kicks into Last Train. Bloody incredible two for one show. Questlove learned half the set that day.
The horn player's name is Bob Reynolds, he's got a yt channel of his own. Also plays with Snarky Puppy, which I don't enjoy in the slightest, but he plays the sh*t out of some jazz, can clearly "shred", but yet plays superbly tastefully with JM. Mark of a versatile pro. I hear JM went to Berklee intending to study guitar performance but shifted focus to making "listenable" music and ended up being one of the best in the world at it. Uses his guitar for subtle hooks and memorable parts better than the vast majority. Worth appreciating.
Thank you Josh. Reliving my Punk Rock phase in the 2Ks, I missed the whole John Mayer thing. Your video today gave me a new appreciation for John's work and musicianship.
It always happens. . . someone does something, people react positively, then people react negatively, largely because of the positive reactions, and the feeling that one can only be winning if someone else is losing. . . humanity needs to learn new ways of feeling good. Thanks so much for sharing that video. I'll definitely be looking up the whole concert!
I used to be a Joh Mayer hater when I was younger, but this album converted me to a fan. Dude has major chops and is no slouch on guitar, plus he's an excellent singer and writer. We're lucky to have him
Some people didn't live through this and truly forget that this era made the general populace fan hate John and the general guitar-playing fan start to notice him. It still took a while for guitar players start to respect John. People were definitely not obsessing about his gear at this point.
Austin City Limits is probably the home of most of the greatest performances. I really, really love Vintage Trouble's Austin City Limits set. They packed all the emotion and showmanship they possibly could into that set. Nallie Colt completely tortures his Les Paul especially on "Run Outta You". And the guitar toss at the end. Perfect.
John's "Where the Light Is" (2008) video is a favorite of mine. I Don't Need No Doctor is also on that recording. Same supporting musicians from what I can tell. John does an acoustic set (some songs with David Ryan Harris and Robbie McIntosh), then his Trio with Pino Palladino and Steve Jordan, then the full band for the hits. Highly recommend.
Thank you. Finally , a short video on john mayer from you . More please, Josh!🎉🎉🎉🎉 please talk of the pedals from room for squares, heavier things, jmtrio, continuum, live in la and the other new ones... pre klon and klon eras... yes, we have seen jeske's videos. i'm sure you have a wealth of knowledge to share . Looking fwd to it.
What's crazy is you're looking back. I only heard Continuum and Live in LA a year ago. And I only returned to guitar a year ago. So I'm massively improving and practicing blues mainly because of Mayer and my new found appreciation for him that I regret never finding as a teenager.
I have this whole Austin City Limits concert saved on a hard drive. Such a great performance song after song. He does pop, he does blues, he does jazzy r&B, he even does funk while singing in falsetto! He was a dude with stuff to prove and chops to stretch. I knew it was cool and downloaded it off youtube as fast I could and threw it in my concerts folder to be enjoyed again and again. Say what you will about Mayer, but he is special.
Where The Light Is is probably one of those live performances I could watch years and years from now, amazing. I do recommend John's first live DVD though, it is called Any Given Thursday and he plays a song called 'Covered in Rain'. It's probably my favorite live performance ever involving a guitar.
I was there, in LA. The John Mayer Trio is my fave. He completely made me forget a song was SRV or Jimi. As a young 20-something then, those guys I only heard about. I had seen Joe Bonamassa, Jonny Lang, and KWS and Eric Clapton though, so I feel I get "it." Then, he came out and did Slow Dancing in a Burning Room... that "Monterey Strat" is still my unattainable exaclibur, and NOT because of Jimi Hendrix
Thanks for recent history lesson. This was a period where I was at guitar ‘low ebb’ so had no clue that guitar wasn’t doing well. We get the heroes we need. I’d love to see you watch Robben’s Yellowjackets performance of “Monmouth College Fight Song” from the Montreaux Jazz Festival. That performance IMO will never be topped.
You are correct in my opinion. He's not totally my kind of music but I tip my hat to him everytime I hear him playing guitar. I wish he would play more of the chops I like, and less of the pop stuff.
John Mayer - Bowery Ballroom (2005) - "I Got A Woman". A 335 and the fIlthiest blues solo you've ever heard (with some poor girl in the crowd giving him eyes to match in this one part). I don't know how he imagines his solos but I wish I had 1% of that ability.
"That's a great guitar player... and the drummer is great ... and the other guy on stage is a great guitar player... those horns, they're great too..." The bass player and keyboard player... crickets... :)
My desert island albums were Stones,Exile on Main st. Dylan Blood on the Tracks, Jeff Beck Blow by Blow .Joni Mitchell Court and Spark and it stayed like that until Continuum.
Oh Scott, Scott,Scott . . To mention this song and not mention Humble Pie’s version in the 70’s leaves me melancholy. This 69 year old Boomer loves your work: the information, the insights, the playing, the humor . . .all of it. But how could not site Humble Pie’s version recorded live at Fillmore East with Steve Marriott’s incredible vocal and Peter Frampton’s pure guitar sound? How? Yes King Ray wrote it, and yes John Schofield turned it into a Picasso painting but Humble Pie’s owned it. It’s just a bit of melancholy. It will pass
I actually prefer Bluesbreaker into TS10 over anything involving the Klon. I love the Klon stacks too. But I think I came to this conclusion from using the Morning Glory Klon combo and thinking "That sounds more like John Mayer to me than with the Klon." And this is because he was using it throughout the Continuum era. Wow.
Today's Record Time is brought to you by a little known band that debuted around 2005 called Oceansize, and during their short lived success were to be known as "prog rock's answer to Radiohead" by journalists and fans, with a focus on guitar-forward melodic prog rock. Their debut single, and first track off of their inaugural debut - Catalyst is an immediate slap in the face of chaos from a band with 3 guitar players (mostly using 3 Strats), bassist, and drummer - and aggressive but melodic vocals from the frontman. Josh, if you haven't heard of this band, just listen to their first album start to finish and thank me later. But I'd love to see you react to Catalyst, or honestly any of their songs from the first album are reaction-worthy. The second album is amazing as well. ruclips.net/video/9TXpj4JnQRQ/видео.html
I have something for Saxophone solos too, I been joking for years that the world was a better place when we had epic sax solos in music, so now everytime that a popular artist like The 1975 or Sam Fender do it my friends joke that: - Hey look, they are one of your guys!
I really like JM, but I’ve never seen this performance before, love it! Would like to see your reaction to Gary Moore Empty Rooms, live in Stockholm. If you get the chance.
John Mayer playing Hendrix “Wait til Tomorrow” with his Blues Trio is where he really catapults into Guitar-god tier status… while still singing lead vocals the whole time 😬
I think it's blues driver always on and the other should be tubuscreamer. I guess, the tubescreamer is second pedal, but in low gain situation is hard to tell. But EQ is more tubescreamer-ish so I think it is after bluesdriver.
I don't like John Mayer. To be exact i am totally indifferent he makes me feel absolutely nothing at all. To my hears it sounds like generic sunday afternoon bar stuff.
I’m not sure. Perhaps he’s better known in the US but as far as I can tell it’s just guitar and pedal nerds that know about him in the UK. So I’m not sure he has saved guitar. There are loads of bands using guitars in fun and innovative ways.
I remember the entire 90s and naughties and yer wrong 🙃 🙂Maybe John Mayer was bringing this style of guitar to the forefront after being left behind but there was a lot of great interesting guitar playing and sounds in these eras, across genres, I might add. If yer ears aren't open and yer not curious about music then yer gonna miss some really great music, and that's when you fall in love with John Mayer or the Killers or some such mainstream stuff that isn't particularly [insert not a nice remark]. But he dated Jennifer Aniston, didn't he? so he has my eternal respect. 😄
Check out my video demoing my vintage micro synth with a few other comparable pedals. Its helpful hearing these in isolation: ruclips.net/video/RLMRrgfl964/видео.html Here is my WTLI I don't need no doctor solo cover too: ruclips.net/video/LOHrpfQ9-Ws/видео.html
Yeah not a big fan of his music but I saw him live with Dead and Co. and he is really amazing. There's probably only one better blues type guitarist alive who is just as good and that would be Joe Bonamossa .
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Josh thank you so much for the kind words, hearing that from you made my day! Would love to chat John's sound one day with you 🙂 thank you for all that you do for the guitar community! #preklonjohn
You are the go to RUclipsr for john mayer gear discussion ! Plus as a bonus you're Cansdian!!
much love, justin!!!
Yes Justin! Thank you for all the JM gear discussion!
Questions is @JustinJeske is the phase solo tone a Fulltone Deja Vu or something else?
It’s a vibe so I’d love to know!
I saw him at Madison Square Gardens for the Sob Rock tour. A few hours before opening it was announced that members of the band got Covid and we’re very sick so it would be an acoustic show. John came out on his own straight into acoustic Neon and went on playing six or seven hits. Then he said I’d like to welcome out a guest who’s been very busy today. A drum kit is reveled under a spotlight - out walks Questlove. The full stage lights and production come on, full band kicks into Last Train. Bloody incredible two for one show. Questlove learned half the set that day.
Continuum was an amazing album. That’s when I became a fan. I saw him in concert on that tour and he blew me away
He was soooooo hungry at this time!
Yes! That whole Austin City Limits performance is fire. Definitely underrated.
The horn player's name is Bob Reynolds, he's got a yt channel of his own. Also plays with Snarky Puppy, which I don't enjoy in the slightest, but he plays the sh*t out of some jazz, can clearly "shred", but yet plays superbly tastefully with JM. Mark of a versatile pro.
I hear JM went to Berklee intending to study guitar performance but shifted focus to making "listenable" music and ended up being one of the best in the world at it. Uses his guitar for subtle hooks and memorable parts better than the vast majority. Worth appreciating.
Thank you Josh. Reliving my Punk Rock phase in the 2Ks, I missed the whole John Mayer thing. Your video today gave me a new appreciation for John's work and musicianship.
John Mayer @ Crossroads Guitar Festival 2004 playing that blues jam before City Love changed me forever.
The drums in the intro are sooo in your face
I remember seeing that going "what's the pop kid doing here?" then immediately knew why ❤😂
It always happens. . . someone does something, people react positively, then people react negatively, largely because of the positive reactions, and the feeling that one can only be winning if someone else is losing. . . humanity needs to learn new ways of feeling good. Thanks so much for sharing that video. I'll definitely be looking up the whole concert!
Life is Not ‘zero sum’ but so many people believe it to be.
I used to be a Joh Mayer hater when I was younger, but this album converted me to a fan. Dude has major chops and is no slouch on guitar, plus he's an excellent singer and writer. We're lucky to have him
Some people didn't live through this and truly forget that this era made the general populace fan hate John and the general guitar-playing fan start to notice him. It still took a while for guitar players start to respect John. People were definitely not obsessing about his gear at this point.
Austin City Limits is probably the home of most of the greatest performances. I really, really love Vintage Trouble's Austin City Limits set. They packed all the emotion and showmanship they possibly could into that set. Nallie Colt completely tortures his Les Paul especially on "Run Outta You". And the guitar toss at the end. Perfect.
John's "Where the Light Is" (2008) video is a favorite of mine. I Don't Need No Doctor is also on that recording. Same supporting musicians from what I can tell. John does an acoustic set (some songs with David Ryan Harris and Robbie McIntosh), then his Trio with Pino Palladino and Steve Jordan, then the full band for the hits. Highly recommend.
Robbie McIntosh also on guitar! Has done some phenomenal work with Talk Talk among other
Thanks Josh , love this kind of video , where you dissect an artist gear
at 63 Ive been a fan of his since day one. thanks josh
The whole performance was a gem. Vulture has the insane funky intro, I Don't Trust myself with Loving You also has the best intro.
Love this format. Cheers Josh 👏👏👏👏
Thank you. Finally , a short video on john mayer from you . More please, Josh!🎉🎉🎉🎉 please talk of the pedals from room for squares, heavier things, jmtrio, continuum, live in la and the other new ones... pre klon and klon eras... yes, we have seen jeske's videos. i'm sure you have a wealth of knowledge to share . Looking fwd to it.
What's crazy is you're looking back. I only heard Continuum and Live in LA a year ago. And I only returned to guitar a year ago. So I'm massively improving and practicing blues mainly because of Mayer and my new found appreciation for him that I regret never finding as a teenager.
John Mayer is such a great guitarist and big inspiration for me at least.
These videos where Josh watches things are great.
His performance of Gravity at one of the Crossroads shows was epic
I have this whole Austin City Limits concert saved on a hard drive. Such a great performance song after song. He does pop, he does blues, he does jazzy r&B, he even does funk while singing in falsetto! He was a dude with stuff to prove and chops to stretch. I knew it was cool and downloaded it off youtube as fast I could and threw it in my concerts folder to be enjoyed again and again. Say what you will about Mayer, but he is special.
Yup. John Mayer is a master. The Gravity solo (Live in LA version), is an all time favourite of mine.
Bonus points for being the Adele for guys. Continuum and Battle studies are the perfect break up albums for dudes haha.
loool
Yep, you need to do more of these! Great
I had to go and check whether this was on Continuum but it's not. Thanks for presenting that. I need more John Mayer albums!
This is good content, Josh. Love it.
I love that you causally have a John Mayer road case in the back 🔥🔥🔥
Where The Light Is is probably one of those live performances I could watch years and years from now, amazing. I do recommend John's first live DVD though, it is called Any Given Thursday and he plays a song called 'Covered in Rain'. It's probably my favorite live performance ever involving a guitar.
Guitar moment for me was Jeff Healey playing while my guitar gently weeps at Montreux in 90s.
Awesome video would love to see more type of these breakdowns/discussions on live performances
Well, I'll be danged. That was some freakin' great playing. My hat is off to Mr. Mayer.
I was there, in LA. The John Mayer Trio is my fave. He completely made me forget a song was SRV or Jimi. As a young 20-something then, those guys I only heard about.
I had seen Joe Bonamassa, Jonny Lang, and KWS and Eric Clapton though, so I feel I get "it."
Then, he came out and did Slow Dancing in a Burning Room... that "Monterey Strat" is still my unattainable exaclibur, and NOT because of Jimi Hendrix
Thanks for recent history lesson. This was a period where I was at guitar ‘low ebb’ so had no clue that guitar wasn’t doing well. We get the heroes we need.
I’d love to see you watch Robben’s Yellowjackets performance of “Monmouth College Fight Song” from the Montreaux Jazz Festival. That performance IMO will never be topped.
As a millennial born in the 90s and grown up in the 2000s, I have pretty well always been a Mayer fan.
To deny Mayer is to miss a piece of one of the most influential guitarist of our time. Like him or don't, but recognize the talent.
You are correct in my opinion. He's not totally my kind of music but I tip my hat to him everytime I hear him playing guitar. I wish he would play more of the chops I like, and less of the pop stuff.
Neil Youngs soundtrack of the Jim Jarmusch film DEADMAN.... I think is an ode to the guitar but from another perspective.
John Mayer - Bowery Ballroom (2005) - "I Got A Woman". A 335 and the fIlthiest blues solo you've ever heard (with some poor girl in the crowd giving him eyes to match in this one part). I don't know how he imagines his solos but I wish I had 1% of that ability.
This is phenomenal playing, period.
"That's a great guitar player... and the drummer is great ... and the other guy on stage is a great guitar player... those horns, they're great too..." The bass player and keyboard player... crickets... :)
Good stuff. Mayer is a beast!
3:50 Cool! That’s Bob Reynolds on sax. He plays with Snarky Puppy. Check out “Outlier” from We Like It Here for an epic solo.
Great Video/talk, loved every second 👍
Totally agree with your praise. Nothing pisses off "purists" than a young punk who can play and gets the all the girls. 😉😄
He took Muzak to a whole new level
yeah buddy that's head boppin' groove
Nowhere else but Austin Texas. The home of another great guitarist Eric Johnson...
this whole show is fantastic, probably the best version of I Don't Trust Myself was recorded here
Forgot to mention Try! That was the album that made me a fan. GREAT live album.
It takes two hands to play guitar, Josh. Single-handedly….
My desert island albums were Stones,Exile on Main st. Dylan Blood on the Tracks, Jeff Beck Blow by Blow .Joni Mitchell Court and Spark and it stayed like that until Continuum.
That tone is insane
Would love to see you talk about the John Mayer Keith Urban Crossroads on CMT episode. Incredible performance. Love these episodes you’re doing!
Agreed, one of my favourite Mayer performances ever, Captain Rex 🫡
Oh Scott, Scott,Scott . . To mention this song and not mention Humble Pie’s version in the 70’s leaves me melancholy. This 69 year old Boomer loves your work: the information, the insights, the playing, the humor . . .all of it. But how could not site Humble Pie’s version recorded live at Fillmore East with Steve Marriott’s incredible vocal and Peter Frampton’s pure guitar sound? How? Yes King Ray wrote it, and yes John Schofield turned it into a Picasso painting but Humble Pie’s owned it. It’s just a bit of melancholy. It will pass
Kenny Wayne Shepherd is still holding the Blues torch! Got some pretty sick gear too!!
I actually prefer Bluesbreaker into TS10 over anything involving the Klon. I love the Klon stacks too. But I think I came to this conclusion from using the Morning Glory Klon combo and thinking "That sounds more like John Mayer to me than with the Klon." And this is because he was using it throughout the Continuum era. Wow.
You should do more of these
Thank you 🙏🏼
You’re welcome 😊
Steve Kimock was the first guy I saw with lipsticks on a strat.
Monocrhome longsleeve was something Brian Jones was famous for wearing, could be a tip of the hat
Today's Record Time is brought to you by a little known band that debuted around 2005 called Oceansize, and during their short lived success were to be known as "prog rock's answer to Radiohead" by journalists and fans, with a focus on guitar-forward melodic prog rock. Their debut single, and first track off of their inaugural debut - Catalyst is an immediate slap in the face of chaos from a band with 3 guitar players (mostly using 3 Strats), bassist, and drummer - and aggressive but melodic vocals from the frontman. Josh, if you haven't heard of this band, just listen to their first album start to finish and thank me later. But I'd love to see you react to Catalyst, or honestly any of their songs from the first album are reaction-worthy. The second album is amazing as well.
ruclips.net/video/9TXpj4JnQRQ/видео.html
Bob Reynolds (snarky puppy) on sax i believe. Hes incredible!
I have something for Saxophone solos too, I been joking for years that the world was a better place when we had epic sax solos in music, so now everytime that a popular artist like The 1975 or Sam Fender do it my friends joke that: - Hey look, they are one of your guys!
I started to like Mayer after that Scofield Ray Charles album 🤘🎸💥
I really like JM, but I’ve never seen this performance before, love it!
Would like to see your reaction to Gary Moore Empty Rooms, live in Stockholm. If you get the chance.
That fuzz tone sounds so much like SRV!
Shout out to Bob Reynolds on the Sax! Amazing player
Only thing that tops this performance is his Try! live performance. Pino Palladino on bass was legendary.
Do you have one of John Mayer’s road cases in the background?
It definitely is. For a Two Rock presumably
Great song, love the guitar playing! Isn't it Steve Jordan on drums (vs J.J. Johnson)? Regardless- smokin' track :)
That's Bob Reynolds on tenor sax - he's super...he plays with Snarky Puppy
Banger
John Mayer playing Hendrix “Wait til Tomorrow” with his Blues Trio is where he really catapults into Guitar-god tier status… while still singing lead vocals the whole time 😬
I think it's blues driver always on and the other should be tubuscreamer. I guess, the tubescreamer is second pedal, but in low gain situation is hard to tell. But EQ is more tubescreamer-ish so I think it is after bluesdriver.
This was great. Please do more of these.
Mentioned every person on stage BUT the bass player 😂
a love letter to John Mayer
By dudes
If you’re a guitar player I don’t understand how you cannot like John Mayer.
I don't like John Mayer. To be exact i am totally indifferent he makes me feel absolutely nothing at all. To my hears it sounds like generic sunday afternoon bar stuff.
@@Soldano999 So says a nobody...better off saying nothing Mr. Nobody.
@@Soldano999100% agree. Good for him I guess, I just don’t get it.
Your name is Pat Finnerty
@@Soldano999agreed. Just not what I’m into. Just blues lawyer musak to my ears.
so good
If you're taking suggestions, check out Screaming Females, "Boyfriend", Live at the Hideout
How about a Jason Isbell one? Maybe the live version of This Ain't It from his channel?
So when are you making a JHS Microsynth? :)
I’m gonna build that guitar, complete with matching headstock
Tom bohemian 😮
You gotta do David Gilmour Comfortably Numb Live at PULSE
Mayer's cool ... Blues. Where it's @ ...😮
I'm just gonna go have me some Humble Pie ! ?! ? ! ?
JM is the man...
Is that a hard tail?
Tom bukovac loves bohemian grove.
What would be a decent substitute for the ehx micro synth?
I’m not sure. Perhaps he’s better known in the US but as far as I can tell it’s just guitar and pedal nerds that know about him in the UK. So I’m not sure he has saved guitar. There are loads of bands using guitars in fun and innovative ways.
I prefer the Humble Pie version .a million times..
I am 43 years old and i dont know anybody who listens to John Mayer…..i liked his Sob Rock album though
I remember the entire 90s and naughties and yer wrong 🙃 🙂Maybe John Mayer was bringing this style of guitar to the forefront after being left behind but there was a lot of great interesting guitar playing and sounds in these eras, across genres, I might add. If yer ears aren't open and yer not curious about music then yer gonna miss some really great music, and that's when you fall in love with John Mayer or the Killers or some such mainstream stuff that isn't particularly [insert not a nice remark]. But he dated Jennifer Aniston, didn't he? so he has my eternal respect. 😄
My favorite live moment might be Elvis Costello -Watching the Detectives live at Rockpalast in Cologne, 1978. IT GETS HEAVY.
Do you like the W.A.S.P. version of need no doctor?
This is good but the Where The Light Is version >>>>>>>>>>
Check out my video demoing my vintage micro synth with a few other comparable pedals. Its helpful hearing these in isolation: ruclips.net/video/RLMRrgfl964/видео.html
Here is my WTLI I don't need no doctor solo cover too: ruclips.net/video/LOHrpfQ9-Ws/видео.html
Yeah not a big fan of his music but I saw him live with Dead and Co. and he is really amazing. There's probably only one better blues type guitarist alive who is just as good and that would be Joe Bonamossa .