This is from Rollingstone.. and it made me smile.. glad to see he is coming out of his shell..


I expect big things from him.

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"I'm ready to shake it all up," John Mayer says of his next studio album, Continuum, due in early 2006.
"They are tunes that live on guitar. When it comes out, I may never win a Grammy again, I may never sell a million records again, but the world will get where I'm coming from," he tells Rolling Stone's Smoking Section column. "I'm not afraid to lose it all."

Meanwhile, Mayer has been an in-demand guest for his heroes: He has recorded with Eric Clapton and Buddy Guy for their upcoming albums, and he'll be performing at Bonnaroo on June 10th with Herbie Hancock's reunited Seventies funk-jazz group, the Headhunters. The group will play additional gigs on the 8th in St. Louis, on the 9th in Kettering, Ohio, and on the 11th in Memphis.

Mayer is also preparing to flex his new blues-based outfit, the John Mayer Trio, on the road and on a live disc. "I'm gonna go out in the fall with the trio and just play," he says. "Power-rockin', electric-guitar, in-your-face blues."

definitly looking forward to this one,...I always hoped he could put what he does on stage on an album.



co-sign

Yes Ndeed!! I think it's a great move for him--he's an impressive musician, especially live, but it was always overshadowed by the "Heart-throb" image he was getting -- now that he's established, and he's played the pop game , it's time to show what he can really do...






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I saw his band on an Austin City Limits episode and it's obvious that the guy can play.
However his performance of Jimi Hendrix's Axis:Bold As Love on that NBC Tsunami Benefit
(the same benefit that included Madonna's zombiesque treatment of John Lennon's Imagine ) was horrific.

Wish him the best.


tA

Tribal Disorder

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