![]() ![]() That Berklee College of Music education (even if there’s no degree to show for it) paid off and we’re all the beneficiaries of his hard work. When I went back to the beginning of the Mayer catalogue, I found a collection of songs that are mature and new and unique. Mayer’s performance with Dead & Company blew me away to the point where I was immediately compelled to dive into his body of work, and it was a wonderland of beautiful, complex work. ![]() That meant that Mayer’s role would be to let the original members of the band shine, while also heavily contributing on lead guitar and background and lead vocals. ![]() He would be the latest in a long line of cast members to play the part vacated in August 1995 by the late Jerry Garcia. What I saw at that show was an A-list pop star willing to be a role player (albeit a large role) in a band of legends. By 2015, the only things I knew about John Mayer were that he was pretty popular with the ladies and that he’d said some really dumb shit in his younger years.īy the end of July 2016, after seeing him at Fenway Park with Dead & Company (the latest incarnation of The Grateful Dead), I was taking in and digesting everything Mayer had ever released. ![]()
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