John Mayer...

darthstephen · Post by **darthstephen** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 4:58 pm

mayer is great. as soon as i complete my direct energy beam i know i'll only have to use it once... at one of his concerts.

job done.

Homebelly · Post by **Homebelly** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:15 pm

landrvr1 wrote:
What he does do well - and this is a skill that is arguably the most important anyway - is craft a crackin' tune. I can't listen for more than 15min at a time because I get bored out of my fucking skull, but that's my baggage.
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Thank god...
I was starting to feel very alone in here after the thread took a turn away from my original point..
Its not about his guitar or singing chops.. its about the songs.. and most of them are the Tits.

dmacintyre · Post by **dmacintyre** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:31 pm

I think a lot of people are basing their opinions on him on RFS when Continuum is in my opinion when he matured as an artist. RFS is pretty middle of the road and forgettable pop but Continuum is a superb album. And there are plenty of appearances live and in collaboration with other artists where you can really see his talent shine.

D.

landrvr1 · Post by **landrvr1** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:33 pm

Homebelly wrote:
landrvr1 wrote:
What he does do well - and this is a skill that is arguably the most important anyway - is craft a crackin' tune. I can't listen for more than 15min at a time because I get bored out of my fucking skull, but that's my baggage.
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Thank god...
I was starting to feel very alone in here after the thread took a turn away from my original point..
Its not about his guitar or singing chops.. its about the songs.. and most of them are the Tits.

LOL. In fact, my wife bought Continuum not too long ago. I just put it on and I gotta say it's a pretty great album to have on during this beautiful Chicago summer day..... And I made it past the 15min mark. Woohoo!

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Homebelly · Post by **Homebelly** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:48 pm

landrvr1 wrote:
LOL. In fact, my wife bought Continuum not too long ago. I just put it on and I gotta say it's a pretty great album to have on during this beautiful Chicago summer day..... And I made it past the 15min mark. Woohoo!

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Right now my favorite is "Stop this train"
I think you gotta hear it in the context of the whole song, but i always tune in to this part..

So scared of getting older
I'm only good at being young
So I play the numbers game
To find a way to say that life has just begun

Had a talk with my old man
Said "help me understand"
He said "turn sixty-eight
You renegotiate"

I'm 43 so i've already gone through three of these number games...
And not once in the whole song does he sound like SRV!!

laird · Post by **laird** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:34 pm

I volunteer at a recording studio for teens, and last year i got to take a whole group of them to go meet with John Mayer before one of his shows.

First off, that he took time out of his day to meet with a bunch of young musicians was awesome, and he was full of really great, down-to-earth advice and seemed really into talking to the kids about composing, the music biz, etc...

I remember one kid asked about how much control his record label had, and Mr. Mayer replied something to the effect of "well, you will have to compromise if you want to make a living as a muscian. yeah, its your art, but you can't go out there and say "to heck with you, this is MY art, not yours". My label really wanted to put my song "your body is a wonderland" out as a single and I thought it was too adult-contemporary, that I wanted to aim for a different crowd with my first big single, but i ended up going along with their wishes and the song ended up going #1 and winning a grammy, so if that's the worst thats happened to me by compromising my artistic integrity, well, that aint bad!"

He also donates a lot of $$$ to the studio to help underpriveleged kids make music.

ScholarlyGent · Post by **ScholarlyGent** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:07 pm

really?... I mean... really? Are we doing this?

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:13 pm

no shit, whatever happened to daft punk?

DP sux

Homebelly · Post by **Homebelly** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:17 pm

ScholarlyGent wrote:really?... I mean... really? Are we doing this?

You don't have to..
Here's the Autechre thread...
http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=92891
You can go there if you like

landrvr1 · Post by **landrvr1** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 3:09 am

Tone Deft wrote:no shit, whatever happened to daft punk?

DP sux

Dude, what did you do to thefool? He was fit to be tied yesterday, lol.

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 3:15 am

the kid's about as stable as Courtney Love at a pharmaceutical convention.