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John Mayer Research Paper

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For this assignment, I interviewed my brother-in-law, Jeff Meloen. Meloen is actually a musician, a drummer to be specific, himself. I thought it would be very interesting to hear about a concert/show from another musician’s point of view. Meloen began by telling me that this John Mayer concert in particular was his favorite live show he had ever seen. It took place the day after Mayer did a controversial interview with Playboy magazine in which he had made some sexual comments concerning Jessica Simpson, along with a racist comment that in turn sparked a lot of outrage. Meloen also mentioned that the opening act for Mayer was Michael Franti and Spearhead, who he believed to be an odd opener for Mayer, as their music seemed more reggae. Meloen could tell the crowd enjoyed Franti’s band but was ultimately anxious to see John Mayer. …show more content…

He played his song “Gravity”, but just before the guitar solo in the song, he brought the band down real soft and had them continue to play while he commented on his interview from the day before to the audience. Meloen said Mayer became very emotional and began crying in front of nearly 15,000 people, as well as the rest of the world as videos were uploaded to YouTube of this raw moment. Mayer gave a long speech during this time in which he said that many times he tries to be clever in what he says and ends up saying things he regrets. He went on to apologize and then began with his guitar solo in the song “Gravity”. Meloen described it as the best guitar solo he had ever heard and stated, “He was playing so emotionally. All of the emotions John Mayer felt were channeled into his guitar. It gave me chills watching and it was just a great moment in

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