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The first three acoustic tracks are Mayer on his own and it's clear from the offset that his guitar playing is quite outstanding.
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Or as the late Frank Zappa once said, "Shut up and play your guitar!" Mayer choosing a wrist watch to wear on stage from a selection of about 20 or so) and the scenes of Mayer and his dog driving about talking bollocks to the DVD extras. I want the music, so let's have the songs uninterrupted please! Save the silly backstage stuff (e.g. This is not the kind of thing I want from a music video. He doesn't say anything particularly insightful or interesting, he's just providing inane soundbites probably on-cue from the film maker. Unfortunately because there are pretensions at work here, we get unnecessary scenes of Mayer talking utter shite whilst driving his car and with a small yappy-type dog on his lap (is that legal?) and various backstage scenes interspersed between the songs every now and again.
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It's a live music video, so let's have less of this "film" talk. The DVD is subtitled "A film by Danny Clinch", which to my mind is a bit pretentious. It's one reason I love to get up front and close to the stage at gigs. I like watching what a guitarist does, how he plays, what techniques he uses. Watching an artist play is nearly always interesting to me. I decided it would be easier to review the DVD. The one song played in isolation from the rest of the album had made my prick up my ears, whereas when I'd played the two CDs straight through I found it all a bit too much to take in. "Wow! What's that?" I said, and checking the iPod discovered it was one of the John Mayer Trio songs from the album that I had previously dismissed. As often happens when I don't have an inkling to listen to any particular album, I set my iPod to "Shuffle" whilst working one afternoon, and one song - with some great guitar playing - shuffled up and caught my attention. I forgot about the album for a while, and listened to some other bits and pieces. So, to start, I uploaded the CD into iTunes and gave it an intensive listening to on my iPod.īut, oh dear! "Oh my God, how am I going to review this?", I said to myself. As Mayer jokes in the DVD film, he is effectively his own support act.
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Each has the same track listing and is divided into three distinct parts in which we see John Mayer perform firstly an acoustic set, secondly a set with the John Mayer Trio, and finally a set with his full band, all recorded at a show at the Nokia Theatre, Los Angeles, last December. This double CD set and/or DVD would appear to be the perfect introduction to John Mayer. An easy answer would be to say that he simply isn't that big over here in the UK, but to be perfectly honest I couldn't tell you how true that actually is. Quite how John Mayer has managed to slip under my radar, I don't know. Had you mentioned him to me I would most likely have thought you were talking about John Mayall and that I had misheard you, or else you had developed some species of speech impediment. Let me just say right at the start of this review that prior to this, I had absolutely no idea who John Mayer was.