This is 2024. This kid was a massive MTV pop star lol. I am 37 today and raised by dead touring hippies. With tech the way it is I'm already a fist waving crotchety old man. Slang has passed me by, and the music, I'm at a position that would of taken 10 years longer? Just a generation ago. Yeah, I have to hand it to this guy, his time with the dead did him well., his time in the hospital almost loosing his voice, that got him into the dead in the first place, did him better. My hippy parents and their friends all hated this dude at first but grew to respect him. I have as well, comment above isn't wrong, he really is turning a new generation onto to tracks that you, even my young self have been listening to for half our lives. That's a special thing : ) So like the man or not, I respect his Journey as a person, and what he is doing on his solo stuff. Would of been soo fucking easy for him to just go back to making pop. I don't think he could comoletely at this point. Seems like a real good dude! Decent cover as well. Hope he does stuff with Billy Strings!
I saw this for the first time a few weeks ago. He’s terrific. In the pocket the whole time, propulsive when the song calls for it, tasteful and complementary at others.
Tommy G III correction there is no such thing as a "best Guitarist" just GREAT GUITARISTS! John mayer is fucking brilliant and I'm a bi fan of all of his work. But he nor anime else is the best guitarist. Because there simply cannot be 1 guitarist who is better than every other guitarist in every unique style and sound.
Mayer's voice is deeper than Eric's, Stevie's on this track. He does a great cover...and the reason is that he is totally into this golden rock era of jimi Eric and co. Carry on sir! Great job!
This is great listen to bonnie raitts version from early 70s w lowell george. Mayer is amazing able to digest the entire gt8ful dead song book and make it sound awesome
Has anyone heard the Steve winwood Eric Clapton live version ? I know apples and oranges, but that’s why I made a rude comment. Sorry I still love John Mayer
Al Kelly1 month ago I've heard guitar players in local copy bands that blow him away. I think what I really don't like about him is he's a Racist... Reply ·
Gwen Lanter don't you find odd when someone is racist and plays blues and any other type of black/african-american influenced or based music? very contridictive and hippicritical. LOL
@@mcvelli40 I find it off that you, nobody at all is upset about something that happened in the 70s but yet black musicians like bb King, muddy waters, buddy guy all say that eric is the best. But you, are still upset by it. Grow up.
This is the best 'run for his money' Clapton and Winwood will ever get. Can't teach this, someday Mayer will be the best "living" guitar player on Earth.
give him another 5 or 10 years to change your mind. Dude went to berkley, and just inducted Albert King into the RaRHoF. Needs to let go of some of his ego, but he smokes. Closest thing my generation has to a Clapton type, bringin blues to the pop scene.
Love Mayer but totally agree. Just didn't work, and I can honestly say my opinion - and that's all it is - isn't tainted by some commitment to the original either.
Yeah, at 1:50 he switches one octave up, which isnt better.. but anyways I listened to this version 100 times and other versions of him doing this song 1000 times more
I swear half of these views are mine! This is so awesome and the solo is mind blowing. So much different than what I`m used to in a John Mayer solo but while keeping his own flair, finesse, and that Wah! He is truly inspiring as a guitar player and songwriter.
Skipping Stones that “wah” is wah, a wah pedal, some people call it wah but I prefer you to call it wah, sometimes Eric used wah but Johnny boy used the “wah” cause he doesn’t want to piss off other wah users. You dig?
I couldn’t agree with you more, the first time I saw John play live was with the dead at blossom music center and by god he had the whole crowd on their feet by the end of the show
@@DannyShipleyMusic released on the supergroup album " blind faith" with Steve Winwood. Clapton and ginger baker and gresch..In 1969.. written by Winwood.. Good music never dies..
That's so funny you say little known song I've been listening to that song for 50 years hahaha that's what happens when you get old... And I have always loved that song 1969
@@pamcomey8628this is 2024. This kid was a massive MTV pop star lol. I am 37 today and raised by dead touring hippies. With tech the way it is I'm already a fist waving crotchety old man. Slang has passed me by, and the music, I'm at a position that would of taken 10 years longer? Just a generation ago. Yeah, I have to hand it to this guy, his time with the dead did him well., his time in the hospital almost loosing his voice, that got him into the dead I'm the first place. My hippy parents all hated this dude at first but grew to respect him. I have as well, comment isn't wrong above, he really is turning a new generation onto to tracks that you, even my young self have been listening to for half our lives. That's a special thing : ) So like the mam or not, I respect his Journey as a person, and what he is doing on his solo stuff. Would of been soo fucking easy for him to just go back to making pop. I don't think he could comoletely at this point. Seems like a real good dude! Decent cover as well.
Wow, this is the best cover version I’ve heard of this tune being done by a pro/known musician. The others entirely miss the vibe and played way over the top. John nailed it here, well done!
sigh. As John Mayall said all those years ago to some audience hecklers "did you come here to listen to an old record or something?" JM has a perfect right to play how he wants. We have perfect right to like it or prefer the orginal. Or even to be radical and like both...
How old is that Strat? It looks really old. Paint is worn off above the single coil closest to the neck and all around the body, not from abuse but from a million strokes from a pick and fore arm sliding across the body, then at about 2:30 he reaches down and turns the tone knob and then oh yeah there is that 50's fender sound commin through. Kinda sounds like he is channeling Clapton, 'cept Clapton ain't dead.Then around 4:00 he steps on a pedal and that guitar starts making a sound that must have surely made Leo Fender sit up in his grave and say ' that sounds like one of mine.' Fender Co. Can not make a guitar that sounds like that today. Clapton and JM must surely be channeling the same muse that Leo Fender heard. Props to John Mayer. Own that guitar, and keep playing like a man possessed.
Mike Mccoy They made a mini documentary about it, JM went to the fender factory, they let him play a role in every part of the build of the guitar, he says he didn't get the paint ripped off just for aesthetic purposes, he wanted the wood to breathe, but didn't want a bare guitar. You can see that there are two 'shades' of the wood that have been exposed; the darker is where they ripped off the paint, and has gotten dirty, the lighter wood is where John has continued to wear it down naturally from playing it night after night...even if it had a full paint job on when he first made it, half of the finish would have been worn down by now. Still has character and soul!
Great song and performed very well! Amateur recording where I would like to see a professional version of the concert. Hair accessory is to honor and celebrate Native Americans - hence the background of Monument Valley.
I am not a fan of John Mayer but I have to say that was very very well done I wish he would do more music in this vein I would listen to him more. I really liked the vocal harmonies.
If he hadn't become a GREAT guitarist and songwriter, he'd just be another lost and wandering dweeb, wishing he could be a GREAT guitarist and songwriter! From "My FAVORITE GREAT SONGWRITERS and GUITARISTS" file! Also see: Marty McFly's Guitar solo that launched the Life of JOHN M!
some of these comments make lose faith in humanity...but maybe i am delusional and should listen to all these guitar gods and musical experts in the comment section
Awesome vid! This was the first John Mayer concert I've ever been to. Drove 4 hours to get to Buffalo. Now all I have to do is move my fingers a couple inches to feel THERE again:)
All of his albums since continuum have been influenced by blues. Just cause there isn't as many set blues solos in them doesn't mean they aren't blues influenced. Something like Olivia is a straight blues progression.
One of my favorite songs. Nothing against the band, but Mayer, singing in a lower register, and missing the inflections, just sounded flat and kind of dragging.
John Mayer crushes it, as usual. I’ve never been a huge fan of his music. Kind of teeny bopper for me. But some of his covers are incredible. He always chooses great songs too.
Love the sound, it captures recording in an airstream before it has insulation and playing it backing an 80s boom box in a highschool hallway with freshly polished concrete floors and concrete walls. Turned up to 11.
this just goes to show you how much Cell Phn takes SUCK! i know Mayer is a great player and covers most songs with the best of'em and then we have cell phn shot videos, that SUCK! that is all 🤘👽🎸🇺🇸
Personally, I enjoy hearing different interpretations of the same song. Some are incredible, others are not. But all give us a different experience. Even the original artist will often give us variations on the same material. I think a Steve Winwood would be pleased!
Blind Faith. Bonnie Raitt's version is pretty good, but pales in comparison; she'd cop to that. This song will never need pretentious facial and ego contortions.
This is 2024.
This kid was a massive MTV pop star lol. I am 37 today and raised by dead touring hippies.
With tech the way it is I'm already a fist waving crotchety old man.
Slang has passed me by, and the music, I'm at a position that would of taken 10 years longer? Just a generation ago.
Yeah, I have to hand it to this guy, his time with the dead did him well., his time in the hospital almost loosing his voice, that got him into the dead in the first place, did him better.
My hippy parents and their friends all hated this dude at first but grew to respect him.
I have as well, comment above isn't wrong, he really is turning a new generation onto to tracks that you, even my young self have been listening to for half our lives. That's a special thing : )
So like the man or not, I respect his Journey as a person, and what he is doing on his solo stuff. Would of been soo fucking easy for him to just go back to making pop. I don't think he could comoletely at this point.
Seems like a real good dude!
Decent cover as well.
Hope he does stuff with Billy Strings!
Great version. Simply outstanding solo. Thanks for the post!
Great respect for John Mayer. Love this cover.
John is the man. i saw him with the grateful dead this summer and he belted out the greatest guitar solo I've ever heard hands down
What show? What song?
John Mayer is absolutely amazing love his music 🎶 he’s awesome guitarist 🎸 Thank you for sharing this awesome video and God Bless 🙏🏽
Best concert ever can't wait to go back soon!
I hope we all realize how amazing Aaron Sterling is.
Yes, it is true.
I thought you said Aaron Spelling at a glance. I was like, ok but that came out of nowhere
I saw this for the first time a few weeks ago. He’s terrific. In the pocket the whole time, propulsive when the song calls for it, tasteful and complementary at others.
solo is straight fire! wow...im a mayer fan and he really went in on this one. great cover.
That solo is one of the best guitar solos ever performed EVER
wow, thanks so much...just staggering!
His guitar work is among the very best......
What a fantastic voice. Just amazing. ❤️❤️❤️
John Mayer is really talented, hipsters don't know a good thing.
John Mayer is one of the best players today. He'll be a shoe in for the Hall of Fame,
Correction- is the best player alive, and probably to have ever lived. (Just my opinion)
Tommy G III correction there is no such thing as a "best Guitarist" just GREAT GUITARISTS! John mayer is fucking brilliant and I'm a bi fan of all of his work. But he nor anime else is the best guitarist. Because there simply cannot be 1 guitarist who is better than every other guitarist in every unique style and sound.
Seriously.
beautiful!
Mayer's voice is deeper than Eric's, Stevie's on this track. He does a great cover...and the reason is that he is totally into this golden rock era of jimi Eric and co. Carry on sir! Great job!
Love it!
I suggest you check out the video on yt of Blind Faith doing this, their song.
Mayer is an incredible guitarist. His work with Dead & Company confirmed that for me! ☮️
Great guitar solo.
This is great listen to bonnie raitts version from early 70s w lowell george. Mayer is amazing able to digest the entire gt8ful dead song book and make it sound awesome
Yeah that Bonnie version is perfection.
He does something at 4:06!!!!!!!!!!!!!! makes me wanna curl up in a corner and wale
I have a therapist in my corner with a guitar in his hand, you should come join us.
Aaron Sterling is a stupidly good drummer! What playing from him!
Perfect solo
it's more pop folk than country; it's still quality music.
Has anyone heard the Steve winwood Eric Clapton live version ? I know apples and oranges, but that’s why I made a rude comment. Sorry I still love John Mayer
He's alot like Clapton in a way, bringing blues to pop/rock/folk music
Al Kelly1 month ago
I've heard guitar players in local copy bands that blow him away. I think what I really don't like about him is he's a Racist...
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Al Kelly doesn't think so. :P
Gwen Lanter don't you find odd when someone is racist and plays blues and any other type of black/african-american influenced or based music? very contridictive and hippicritical. LOL
+Gwen Lanter where did that come from
@@mcvelli40 I find it off that you, nobody at all is upset about something that happened in the 70s but yet black musicians like bb King, muddy waters, buddy guy all say that eric is the best. But you, are still upset by it. Grow up.
is that a martin 00015m Snape is playing?
Yes, I think it is.
hahaha
I'm sure Steve and Eric were happy with this ✌
John is amazing as always...but Mountain man on the drums is a beast LOL
He can play.
5:07
I guess not everyone knows how hard it is to play this part. Sounds so simple but it is too damn hard and tricky to play like him
GUITAR GOD
This is the best 'run for his money' Clapton and Winwood will ever get. Can't teach this, someday Mayer will be the best "living" guitar player on Earth.
give him another 5 or 10 years to change your mind. Dude went to berkley, and just inducted Albert King into the RaRHoF. Needs to let go of some of his ego, but he smokes. Closest thing my generation has to a Clapton type, bringin blues to the pop scene.
Nice solo
John Mayer is talented and all, but I don't think this song suited his deepish vocal range
Love Mayer but totally agree. Just didn't work, and I can honestly say my opinion - and that's all it is - isn't tainted by some commitment to the original either.
Yeah, at 1:50 he switches one octave up, which isnt better.. but anyways I listened to this version 100 times and other versions of him doing this song 1000 times more
There are 2 things in life - 1. guitar solos and 2. waiting for guitar solos !
I love Mayer, but this can't touch Blind Faith's version with Winwood singing.
Not aJohn Mayer fan at all but this not bad
Dont knock him till you see him live wit bobby weir and dead hes simply amazing both wit that axe of his and vocaly
Gaaa..... :o[
The problem is, it's as suble as a brick... It's all good, but
lol
"House of lords" forever!!! This version is not romantic and not drive!
Terrible
crap
I swear half of these views are mine! This is so awesome and the solo is mind blowing. So much different than what I`m used to in a John Mayer solo but while keeping his own flair, finesse, and that Wah! He is truly inspiring as a guitar player and songwriter.
haha nice Skipping Stones
Skipping Stones that “wah” is wah, a wah pedal, some people call it wah but I prefer you to call it wah, sometimes Eric used wah but Johnny boy used the “wah” cause he doesn’t want to piss off other wah users. You dig?
I couldn’t agree with you more, the first time I saw John play live was with the dead at blossom music center and by god he had the whole crowd on their feet by the end of the show
you know you are something special when eric clapton says john dont know how good he is!
Whatever you think of the performance, Mayer has great musical taste to play such a great and little-known (to today's audience) song. Bravo!
@@DannyShipleyMusic released on the supergroup album " blind faith" with Steve Winwood. Clapton and ginger baker and gresch..In 1969.. written by Winwood.. Good music never dies..
one of my favorites
That's so funny you say little known song I've been listening to that song for 50 years hahaha that's what happens when you get old... And I have always loved that song 1969
@@pamcomey8628this is 2024.
This kid was a massive MTV pop star lol. I am 37 today and raised by dead touring hippies.
With tech the way it is I'm already a fist waving crotchety old man.
Slang has passed me by, and the music, I'm at a position that would of taken 10 years longer? Just a generation ago.
Yeah, I have to hand it to this guy, his time with the dead did him well., his time in the hospital almost loosing his voice, that got him into the dead I'm the first place.
My hippy parents all hated this dude at first but grew to respect him.
I have as well, comment isn't wrong above, he really is turning a new generation onto to tracks that you, even my young self have been listening to for half our lives. That's a special thing : )
So like the mam or not, I respect his Journey as a person, and what he is doing on his solo stuff. Would of been soo fucking easy for him to just go back to making pop. I don't think he could comoletely at this point.
Seems like a real good dude!
Decent cover as well.
i mean he started out as a pop guy playing for the girls.
The timing on that last bend at 4:47 is simply guitar genius
Wow, this is the best cover version I’ve heard of this tune being done by a pro/known musician. The others entirely miss the vibe and played way over the top. John nailed it here, well done!
Very well done butBonnie Raitts live version of this may be a little better given her voice ..check it out
Came here to say that! Bonnie’s version is so fantastic!
@@kawest34 ok sorry about that, I haven't heard Bonnie's version, I will check it and sure it is top notch!
@@rickwinslow2128 ok sorry about that, I haven't heard Bonnie's version, I will check it and sure it is top notch!
Are you talking about the one with Lowell George? Totally agree.@@rickwinslow2128
sigh. As John Mayall said all those years ago to some audience hecklers "did you come here to listen to an old record or something?" JM has a perfect right to play how he wants. We have perfect right to like it or prefer the orginal. Or even to be radical and like both...
This should have been on Paradise Valley!
It’s a cover
And so is Call Me the Breeze.
@@federicogatto2635 so was I’m on Fire
@@keithremedy so was crossroads but that’s from a different album 💿
For sure.
its good, but ONLY steve winwood can sing that song properly...........its a very difficult song to sing in that upper range...................
Damn you John Mayer. You just killed this. Absolutely killed it. Good shit man. I love it.
Hes right, mayers music always has and always will be formed around blues music. It just depends on what level of blues or what style of blues it is
How old is that Strat? It looks really old. Paint is worn off above the single coil closest to the neck and all around the body, not from abuse but from a million strokes from a pick and fore arm sliding across the body, then at about 2:30 he reaches down and turns the tone knob and then oh yeah there is that 50's fender sound commin through. Kinda sounds like he is channeling Clapton, 'cept Clapton ain't dead.Then around 4:00 he steps on a pedal and that guitar starts making a sound that must have surely made Leo Fender sit up in his grave and say ' that sounds like one of mine.' Fender Co. Can not make a guitar that sounds like that today. Clapton and JM must surely be channeling the same muse that Leo Fender heard. Props to John Mayer. Own that guitar, and keep playing like a man possessed.
It's a custom shop :> Not worn down by him
well that just plain fuckin sucks
Mike Mccoy They made a mini documentary about it, JM went to the fender factory, they let him play a role in every part of the build of the guitar, he says he didn't get the paint ripped off just for aesthetic purposes, he wanted the wood to breathe, but didn't want a bare guitar. You can see that there are two 'shades' of the wood that have been exposed; the darker is where they ripped off the paint, and has gotten dirty, the lighter wood is where John has continued to wear it down naturally from playing it night after night...even if it had a full paint job on when he first made it, half of the finish would have been worn down by now. Still has character and soul!
Mike Mccoy Also, check this out...He's played it so long and hard that he even had to replace the neck! instagram.com/p/oSn3Q1OETE/?modal=true
Check out Tony Joe White around 68- 70. He called it his whomper stomper., also Eric Clapton from the same period.
I miss Blues Mayer :-(
Have some trust in him, follow his path and do NOT always want him to play blues
Great song and performed very well! Amateur recording where I would like to see a professional version of the concert. Hair accessory is to honor and celebrate Native Americans - hence the background of Monument Valley.
Steve Winwood and Blind Faith.....Accept no substitute.
But none of them will sound like John Mayer, that's for sure.
Nice solo. I have a new respect for this guy.
+Doctor Tyrell Pretty much what Clapton was doing in the '60's and the Hendrix "pull aways" were well executed
+10lbGorilla +1
Always tricky to cover Steve Winwood in the original key
he is getting better at playing the Blues on everything....
the 2nd part of the solo is amazing
aaron sterling is drummes killer!!!!!!!what a groove!!!!!!!fuckin amazing
Ginger Baker gave the song much more soul.
That's absolutely your opinion, and I don't agree at all. and I love GB. That was a killer version.
I just can't stop laughing after reading your comment ! the whole song here sucks big time !
I am not a fan of John Mayer but I have to say that was very very well done I wish he would do more music in this vein I would listen to him more. I really liked the vocal harmonies.
+Threalis Maradona Try listening to his last two albums Born and Raised and Paradise Valley
he does. pay attention a little more, he didn’t pull this out of nowhere
Skipping Stones uhh i do but thats not john mayer? what am i missing here
The best ever version of this song is at the 2007 crossroads guitar festival Winwood, Clapton, Trucks, and Bramhall 2nd.
If he hadn't become a GREAT guitarist and songwriter, he'd just be another lost and wandering dweeb, wishing he could be a GREAT guitarist and songwriter! From "My FAVORITE GREAT SONGWRITERS and GUITARISTS" file! Also see: Marty McFly's Guitar solo that launched the Life of JOHN M!
some of these comments make lose faith in humanity...but maybe i am delusional and should listen to all these guitar gods and musical experts in the comment section
Awesome vid! This was the first John Mayer concert I've ever been to. Drove 4 hours to get to Buffalo. Now all I have to do is move my fingers a couple inches to feel THERE again:)
4:42
All of his albums since continuum have been influenced by blues. Just cause there isn't as many set blues solos in them doesn't mean they aren't blues influenced. Something like Olivia is a straight blues progression.
Just listen to the solo.. leave the singing alone..
God…spit those marbles out….
One of my favorite songs. Nothing against the band, but Mayer, singing in a lower register, and missing the inflections, just sounded flat and kind of dragging.
The hills and desert back drop..i'd play Marshall Tucker' Bands Can't You See..or Allman Bros Dream I'll Never See.
John Mayer crushes it, as usual. I’ve never been a huge fan of his music. Kind of teeny bopper for me. But some of his covers are incredible. He always chooses great songs too.
Love the sound, it captures recording in an airstream before it has insulation and playing it backing an 80s boom box in a highschool hallway with freshly polished concrete floors and concrete walls. Turned up to 11.
I really REALLY wanted to watch some porn. Ahah here we are!
No idea he could do this
He’s honestly better at this but it dosnt sell
excelente version del hit de CLAPTON-WINWOOD!!!
My god that solo
Wah wah wee wah ahh music to my ears ..... literally lol
john did a injustice to this 1 album song
@3:36 bass player looks over at someone like 'holy shiiiiiiiiiiit!'
awesome guitar solo. man - that's great EC approves.
I saw Steve Winwood do this at Darien a few years ago when he supported Tom Petty. Great night of great music
Guitar very good , singing........?
Thanks for sharing this wonderful version of this fantastic song!!
Great JM ! Is that Sean Hurley on the bass ?
Yes!
David Harbour on the drums
Such a great track..........................
Great version of this beautiful song.
Wow fave song great cover
this just goes to show you how much Cell Phn takes SUCK!
i know Mayer is a great player and covers most songs with the best of'em
and then we have cell phn shot videos, that SUCK!
that is all
🤘👽🎸🇺🇸
The best part is he goes through phases and he's young so we've got a lot more music to look forward to...
Personally, I enjoy hearing different interpretations of the same song. Some are incredible, others are not. But all give us a different experience. Even the original artist will often give us variations on the same material.
I think a Steve Winwood would be pleased!
Essa música eu conheci com a versão do Gilberto Gil muito linda também na voz de Gil
Life is a highway for you. Someday you'll find home.
Blind Faith. Bonnie Raitt's version is pretty good, but pales in comparison; she'd cop to that. This song will never need pretentious facial and ego contortions.
Would love for john m. to ce my sweetest day. i need a holiday soon.ask? please(pkgpkg to ny?smile or i will ask carl
unbelievable guitar.