The John Mayers before the John Mayer — the made man
“I want to be listenable.”
“JM was someone very different to who we know today. He was better known for his high-profile relationships and bizarre TV antics than he was for his guitar playing.”
“They say that ‘things don’t happen overnight’, but for John Mayer they kinda did.”
“His career didn’t launch because of his guitar playing or his interesting songs; it was something else…”
“Your Body is a Wonderland was the one song that wasn’t musically interesting; it was this cheesey pop-song.”
“I want to be a real musician.”
DAUGHTERS – Song of the Year, Grammy Awards
3 musical personalities
Acoustics – commercial
New album – no hits
Blues trio – not mainstream
WHERE THE LIGHT IS — “This album is a guidebook. I think what John gave us with this album was the way he felt when he first discovered Stevie Ray Vaughan. It’s like a portal that shows us ‘how this should be done’. I don’t think there is any live album from the past 25 years that has had nearly the same influence on blues guitar than WHERE THE LIGHT IS. This one evening took John Mayer from that sensitive songwriter into probably the most influential guitarist of his generation.”
