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agreed. Great guitarist, but I don't see him doing anything that's too different from a lot of other musicians on the market now. Sad really, since as BBT mentioned he had loads of potential to do something different, unique, but really never got the chance.
He is a really great musician,when he is not doing pop he makes really good stuff,he was smart enuff to accept mainstream ans his ally,not as his enemy
I'm not a big fan but I checked out a live Trio recording at the library, and it was pretty rockin. (I think there might be better songs than this [from this live trio session] out there, but youtube won't play any of the others for me today.)
John Mayer received an terrific education at Berkley, but it doesn't show. He limits himself to much, especially with acoustic . He could be one of the most influential and amazing guitarists if he would open his mind and not really worry about being "popular," he could be much better and a million times more inspirational. He can play, but he doesn't, therefor he poison to guitarists.