Thought I would start a thread for my show....Hil and Lauri, you should do the same...I don't have your dates memorized or I would!

:D

Crazy Amazing at Merriweather :D

Okay, so I was so excited to see JM I could barely choke down a very nice dinner with Dan before the show. There were fans all about...you could definitely feel a buzz in the air. Or was that the torrential storm apporaching?? Hmmm.....

Anyway, Brett Dennen wasn't as bad as I thought...he doesn't have a whole lot of stage prescence, but the music was good. Kind of reminds me of a young Paul Simon.......

Forward to 1/2 hour before the show. I can literally feel my heart pounding now. Excitement to see my boy coupled with the fact that a freaking GROUNDHOG made it's way into the pit and ran under my chair!!!! See, even rodentia love the JM!

Now we're about to have the lights go down...I see him! All in white, sleeveless shirt. Tats look awesome, and boy has he been working out...I def vote him best arms around.
Vultures was the opening song, a kind of bluesy, sultry way to start the night.

The best by far for me were two covers...he did "Crossrads" and I literally shrieked like a little kid. Awesome can only partially describe it. And the BEST F*CKING highlight?

Encore. Oh, you'll read about it all over, I'm sure. JM comes out, does an acoustic WDYTIW, and THEN...says...I am going to TAKE OFF MY SHIRT AND PLAY.

Holy mother of God. :o
He does, and plays the most energetic, potent perfomance of Van Halen's Panama with DRH doing vocals. It was like being at the biggest block party of the year.
JM played like tomorrow wasn't coming, and I got to see my "77" tat so close it wasn't funny.
And, my boy almost lost his trousers...I got way more JM than I had anticipated!!!

SOOO good.
I have pics...I will have them up asap.
You all just can't believe it, really!!

I can't sit anywhere but up close anymore. Laur, you are going to have the TIME OF YOUR LIFE!!!

:D

wait, wait, wait....

he played SHIRTLESS????

you lucky lucky woman you.
im so jealous its not even funny!!!

im getting so excited for the 26th now.

did he plays anything from RFS???

Yes, Hil, there was a Santa Claus last night!!! He was without shirt!

From RFS? He did NST, and half of Why Georgia.

Lemme d/l a pic or two for you all....

Panama!



My Monteray Strat


Jamming...


Pure Love.

oh my lord.
:o

i need a cold shower...

Wow Tracy, I'm speechless. Thank goodness I only have to wait 3 more days!
Your pics are great...he's looking mighty fine both with and without the shirt!

Found these videos of Panama...oh, how I love youtube :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBwg-7_PYtc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKR3P7N0wYs

Concert Review

John Mayer's hits, covers please all-ages crowd
By Sam Sessa | Sun reporter
July 15, 2008
John Mayer isn't hurting for hits.

But even the multiplatinum pop and blues singer/songwriter doesn't have enough singles to fill a whole show. Instead of digging through deep album cuts to round out his Sunday night concert at Merriweather Post Pavilion, he strung together a pretty tight set of his own hits and put his stamp on some classic cover songs. The show, which clocked in at about an hour and 15 minutes, was brisk but worthwhile.

A steady, heavy rain drenched outdoor concertgoers as Mayer plucked notes to the first tune, "Vultures."

"How are my rain people?" he asked the lawn crowd before teasing a few licks from Blind Melon's "No Rain."


The three songs that followed, "Waiting on the World to Change," "I Don't Trust Myself (With Loving You)" and the laid-back "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room," were from his latest studio album, Continuum. Mayer almost crossed into easy-listening territory with that record, but he really punched the grooves live.

Near the end of "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room," Mayer sang a few bars of Aerosmith's "What It Takes" - a tease lost on the kids in the crowd, but appreciated by the parents there. Mayer has some serious cross-generational appeal; tweens, teens, 20-somethings, 30-somethings and baby boomers all mingled at Merriweather that night.

For his first full cover of the night, Mayer picked the classic blues tune " Crossroads," a Robert Johnson song popularized by Cream in the '60s. A longtime blues buff, Mayer formed a trio and released the live album Try! in late 2005.

"I really didn't reinvent the blues," he said. "All you can do is reinvent the audience. So thank you very much."

Mayer's version of "Crossroads" was mellower than Cream's, but still a little dirty. Aside from being a gifted songwriter, he's also an accomplished guitarist, and cut loose some particularly wicked licks over the course of the evening. He followed "Crossroads" with a slow blues rendition of Duffy's pop hit "Mercy." That might sound odd on paper, but he pulled it off in person.

"Thank you guys for being the crowd that lets me get away with that," he said.

Mayer can only get away with it because he was a pop musician first, and to please the fans, he played his early hits like "Bigger Than My Body," "Why Georgia," "No Such Thing," and last year's single "Say." The only noticeable absences were his songs "Daughters," and "Your Body is a Wonderland," which both won Grammys.

But Mayer still had a few covers to dish out. The crowd ate up his acoustic version of Tom Petty's hit "Free Falling"- a couple even held up lighters.

During the encore, Mayer said he'd always wanted to play in a band where he could take his shirt off. It was already a sleeveless T-shirt which exposed his toned and tattooed arms, but apparently that wasn't good enough. So a few seconds later, he ripped it off and tore into an awesomely bad version of Van Halen's "Panama."

Mayer ended the encore with the slow, bluesy "Gravity," also from Continuum. It was a wistful way to wind down a fun, wet night.

Trace, downloaded this show today so it's on my computer, just have to figure out what to do with it now cause of the weird format it's it :rolleyes:

I know, I was able to get that far and then stopped, BUT....there is a link on johnmayer.com for a divshare, and I was able to get that, altho...the show isn't in order and I would still LOVE to have a CD..... ;)

But no hurry and please let me send you a CD and shipping.....

Too late to send me a cd, it's all done thanks to Davey! I'll have your cd in the mail tomorrow :D

:lol: HUGS!!!!

A million thanks aren't enough, Laur....please thank Davey for me as well!

So, are you versed in Bit Torrent now? I can come to you with my 1000 questions????? ;)

You're the best, you are!!!

Half a million thanks should be sufficient ;)

And I know nothing about bit torrent, I leave all that stuff to the guys :P