||||To John Mayer With Love

20 years ago today, the world lost one of the best gui­tar play­ers of all time, Ste­vie Ray Vaughan. Ste­vie defined my love of blues music and my pas­sion to spend as many wak­ing hours as I could with a gui­tar in my hands. I never met him and I never saw him play live, but he changed my life for­ever. Ste­vie quite lit­er­ally gave me a career in music. Today I’m not John Mayer the famous musi­cian, I’m John, the kid from the Con­necti­cut sub­urbs who dis­cov­ered a style of music that spoke for me when noth­ing else did. And I post this in honor of both Ste­vie and the thou­sands of undis­cov­ered gui­tar play­ers who shut the doors to their rooms, dim the lights and play along to the music of Ste­vie Ray Vaughan and find their escape through a Fender Stra­to­caster. Please watch this man play “Texas Flood” from his 1983 per­for­mance at the El Macambo. Thank you Stevie.

[These words by John were orig­i­nally posted on his blog: ONE FORTY PLUS.]

[Before I re-post these ‘Words by John,’ may I just say I am SO HAPPY he wrote this.]

Words by John:

Ahh, Huff­in­g­ton Post, the inter­net Death Star. The world’s first spec­ta­tor bank­ing web­site. Come watch a site’s intel­li­gence move in and out like bel­lows of accor­dion depend­ing on whether or not there’s ad dol­lars to be sucked out of any will­ing orifice.

From their front page item “BACK TOGETHER?”:

Are John Mayer and Jen­nifer Anis­ton back on? Mayer seemed to indi­cate they might be when he spoke in front of a crowd of 18,000 at his con­cert on Sun­day at the Hol­ly­wood Bowl in LA.

“I believe in sec­ond chances!” he said. “You might have been a pain in the ass the last time around, but you can still start over again from home base. Next time you get a text from the one you love just text back ‘come over’ — no mat­ter what hap­pened in the past. If you really love some­one, just tell them and be with them.”

Huff­in­g­ton Post, this is report­ing? How do you pay your writ­ers now, in Silly Bandz? Do you meet your sources in a malt shoppe? This is equal parts fab­ri­cated, cob­bled together and mis­lead­ing. Let’s break it down: I don’t think I ever said “I believe in sec­ond chances!” but I can’t be 100 per­cent sure, as it’s pos­si­ble I could have acci­den­tally said some­thing suc­cinctly and to the point. The next sen­tence is from the song “Half of My Heart,” in ref­er­ence to the idea that meet­ing new peo­ple allows for hid­ing old mis­takes. (Well, for most peo­ple at least.) The sen­tence about tex­ting comes from the show’s encore, “Edge of Desire,” in a moment of giv­ing peo­ple per­mis­sion not to beat them­selves down for still want­ing some­one. Two sen­tences about dif­fer­ent things at dif­fer­ent points in a concert.

The rea­son I’m call­ing you out instead of all the other mag­a­zines that make sto­ries up out of thin air is that In Touch and Star Mag­a­zine aren’t con­cur­rently writ­ing pieces about Pat Till­man or Wik­iLeaks. Those other rags know who they are, and even if they’re obnox­ious, I’d rather have to live with them because they (and the rest of the world) know where they stand, which doesn’t make them one tenth as dan­ger­ous as you are. You’re a strip­per wear­ing read­ing glasses. Or maybe you’re an insol­vent law stu­dent will­ing to dance for a few extra dol­lars. Either way, it’s uncom­fort­able to watch you try to wrap your­self around a pole when you have that C-Span scar.

I’m not a politi­cian. I have no celebrity endorse­ments. So it is with a clear con­science that I’m able to title your piece on this post, should you decide to try make a few more bucks for what­ever body wash or slasher flick you’re hock­ing today.

JOHN MAYER SLAMS HUFFPO: ” GO F**K YOURSELF!”

These words by John were orig­i­nally posted on his blog: ONE FORTY PLUS.

For MORE john Mayer awesome-NESS visit: LOTTARYURYU’s Tum­blr Blog. 

Be Still My Heart.

Find more: HERE.

Tum­blr should just change its name to “Reblogged: Soup­soup” and get it over with.

Update: Eso­teric, I know.

Words by John orig­i­nally posted on his blog: ONE FORTY PLUS. 

I love John Mayer!!

On Mon­day, Novem­ber 8th, The VH1 Save The Music Foun­da­tion will honor seven-time Grammy Award win­ner John Mayer, as well as The ASCAP Foun­da­tion, to mark thir­teen years of restor­ing music edu­ca­tion pro­grams in America’s pub­lic schools with a Gala cel­e­bra­tion in New York.

So TUNE IN! […she says as if you wouldn’t.]

Orig­i­nally posted on JOHNMAYER.COM [Pic­ture added by Me.]

This Sun­day night’s show at the Hol­ly­wood Bowl will fea­ture a mini-set of music with pianist Brad Mehldau. It’ll take place between Owl City’s and my nor­mal set.

The Bowl is such an his­toric venue that I had to make sure some­thing spe­cial went down there. Just a piano, gui­tar and some clas­sic cov­ers… maybe one of my tunes thrown in.

These words by John were orig­i­nally posted on his blog: ONE FORTY PLUS. [Pic­ture added by Me.]