John Mayer Epic: gets guitar from fan during "Gravity" solo, returns it signed and tuned @ Argentina
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- John Mayer EPIC: guitar from fan while playing Gravity, plugs it, plays it, returns it signed and tuned :) Live at Luna Park in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Sept 16 2013. If this is not connecting with fans... then, what would "connecting" be?? :o This John Mayer Solo is EPIC!! ;)
I bet that fan never knew their guitar could sound like that.
I bet he tried it when he got home and went “yup ,I’m not John mayer”
@@spiderguy01 KKKKKKKKKK
im gonna see alicia keys next week, bringing my piano
Good idea!😂😂😂
Bahahaha...AWESOME !!!
👍😉
So how did that go???😂😂😂
michi k I love people like you! 😂😂😂😂❤
I think this is one of the coolest things I've ever seen a musician do on the stage.
Ramon Lazo l don’t really like Green Day but watch Billy Joe invite a 14-year-old kid up on stage to play guitar (badly) with the band! Audience went ballistic, even though the kids sucked on the guitar. The best birthday gift ever for that kid! Then, Billy Joe let him keep the guitar! Sometimes these stars are actually pretty nice guys underneath it all!
Kindness abounds ❤
It is
Proof that it's the guitarist, not the guitar.
it's all about the amp
@@krimisim yep
Or the $5000+ amp
@@krimisim damn right
the guitarist and the amp
the value of that guitar just sky rocketed
I would have sold it
Svend Lundby thats fucked up
His friends may not have believed the story behind the guitar. And then owner shoes them this video.
"My guitar was fingered by John Mayer."
acho que o dono nunca vai vender, por ser fã, a não ser que esteja muito complicada a vida financeira, que acredito que não esteja.
The most valuable "Squier" ever played...
I was at that show, it was awesome!! later i saw the owner of the guitar on the street giving high five to everybody!!
Yo también estuve, fue épico
2:15 Favourite moment: That drummer watching intently, waiting for the perfect moment to come back in.
That guitar will never be left satisfied by any future player
Charlie Sutro unless steve vai somehow gets a hold of it lol
I can see it now "Mark I can do this anymore... John was just... wow." "Wait you're leaving me because of my performance!?" "Mark it's not you it's me."
True 💯
This is definitely one of the coolest things I've ever seen happen during a show.
the real mvp of this video you ask.... no not john mayer.... no not the man whose guitar that was... the G IN THE AUDIANCE WHO TAKES THE GUITAR FROM JOHN MAYER AND DOESNT TAKE IT FOR HIMSELF AND HANDS IT BACK TO THE ORIGINAL OWNER
the g? dumass
real mvp
He a real G.
Scott Dinger Dumbass
that's some real shit
I don't necessarily like john Mayers music but the dude can play there's no denying that. And this is the coolest thing Ive ever seen anybody do for a fan u don't see this everyday
george allen finally a comment that got it right....
John took my guitar and signed it on stage in Syracuse recently. He is a good dude.
If you like artists like him who have a heart check out the guy at a Keith urban concert who got on stage and played a song with him.
george allen... VERY WELL SAID! THINKING 'THEE' E X A C T SAME THING! So very cool of Mr. John Mayer. I do not follow his music either but that is not to impugn or deny that he can play, lights out! Man, can he play with such style and what is evident he has such a passion for & has dedicated countless hours to assure /ensure his fans are getting his very best! Good on him indeed! 🍀Seems like a class-act as well. I think it's time to catch a live show. His tone is phenomenal!
No ya don't see that every day! Was so cool he connects with the fans and knows what that will mean to the guy who owns the guitar. He will treasure that moment forever!
People can say whatever they want about John's ego, but how many performers of his stature would have done what he did here? That was one hell of a cool gesture. How many fans can say their favorite performer took their guitar and closed out the show with it and gave it back autographed? NOBODY! VERY cool!
Nothing wrong with the enjoying life, what ego? He loves women, cleRly they love him... What proves he has no ego is playing a fans guitar and playing in the mideo of his show, thats a musician for u, its all for the love the music. Not suprised at all.
Mister XYZ but we don’t hear about that or even see it because buddy’s not a young man. And now either is JM, not anymore. Yea superhero. Not. He’s just doing wat he should do. Not a brain surgeon.
John's bad ego days have been over for a few years. He's been away from all the gossip for quite some time.
Sorry to bring this up, but yeah, bono brings people ON STAGE and lets them sing and play instruments with the band. I beleive The Edge and Bono also let someone play THEIR OWN guitar's and keep them after the song. Larry mullin jr has also gave plenty of people his sticks and even a snare once i beleive. Still cool that john did this, and this type of stuff is what i live to see. I know what you were saying though.
Actually dave grohl like a dozen times.
Was anyone else concerned that they might have handed it back to the wrong person?
I was on that concert and I talked to the guitar's owner. It came back to him :)
Guadalupe C. Good to hear, the look on the security guy's face seemed as if he didn't know who to hand it back too haha.
+Guadalupe C. That's awesome
+Right Hand It'd be funnier if the security guard just ran off with it.
Security guard: "See ya later motherfuckers! This shits going on Ebay!"
I thought that. Everyone was prolly saying "that's mine!"
what a fucking rock star.
...And the owner of that guitar grew up to be Carlos Santana. True story.
Ultra-underrated coomment
I think one of the biggest things to note is that he asks for permission first before signing the guitar (2:29). That is just a great showing of class and respect. Many other, more self-absorbed, musicians would have just signed it immediately without thinking about whether or not the fan wants a signature. Obviously, handing him the guitar is a pretty good indicator that he wants a signature, but you never know (maybe he just wanted John to play it).
I think he is asking for a pen to sign it, not asking, we will never know haha
Nah....imagine him asking can i sign it? And the guy/girl in the crowd going: "Easy now, dont do it, John....you dont have to do this. Just drop the pen, and everything is gonna be alright!" :D
Maybe the fan already signed it and wanted to give the guitar to JCM.
This week, on Pawn Stars....
StarMangledAstronaut “I have a buddy who’s an expert on guitars signed on stage after being played “
i gotta get it framed. it's going to hang around for a while. nobody is walking in the door looking for a signed and played john mayer guitar. i'll give 400 bucks.
baba yaga no...I can't .. if I change my mind, I'll call you back.
baba yaga I just wanna let you know, I got the Elp reference in your name
Ill give you 20 bucks
I never seen any musician doing this before. This is very big honor to the fans. Great John Mayer, I don't care with his personal life. He just great.
I think Scott Henderson with Three Doors Down tells people to bring their PRSs to their shows and he plays em.
Nice dus65 But I think Scott Henderson using Suhr Guitars, maybe you mean Chris Henderson from 3 Doors Down, and yes he is endorsed by PRS. That's a marketing strategy so why he tell people to bring PRS. But it's ok, I'm still respect to any musician who cares with their fans.
ahh you're right, my bad
I've seen Garth Brooks do it one time, I believe. But that is it.
I would never touch that guitar ever again, I would just hang it up and look at it 24/7 for the rest of my life..
You're obviously not a guitarist then.
T Koch nope, I'm not, I suck at it :p
I'd have it on Ebay that night
***** What difference does the tuning make when it's Mexican? The only differences between a MIM and an American strat are that the electronics are cheaper and it has one less fret.
Thomas Penders Both MIM and MIA strats have 21 and 22 fret versions.
I will never forget this moment. it was totally epic.
It doesn't add too much to his talent but does say volumes about his character.
he has all the talent he needs. Even Eric Clapton (God to you)calls the guy a master guitarist...
Every top 10 guitarist has said at once point that John Mayer is one of the greatest of all time. He is 100% a top 10.
Ok ok solo was sick and all but just take a moment to appreciate the drumming
Vivace I know it’s blasphemy but I like that dudes playing SO MUCH more than Steve Jordan’s.
My boy Aaron Sterling behind the kit
Steve Jordan’s got an amazing pocket and good chops... but this guys got good pocket and GREAT chops
And the drummer gave his sticks away at 2:55 as well.
Aaron Sterling - toured with Mayer a lot. He's really good
Unreal guitarist, who appreciates his fans = deserves fame
The guy only wanted the guitar tuned not ruined with Sharpie marker. Gawd!
me still me actually you can see at the bottom of the screen at 0:45 that they were trying to hand John a Sharpie too, so I guess the guy really wanted it to get signed :)
me still me
He also wanted it signed
Ron Gabriel Navarro +Adrian Avila
It's called a joke. Look it up.
Alex Z
Oh know, he wasn't joking belive me
Adrian Avila No, he was definitely joking. If you can't see it, well then.
But would he have accepted an accordeon?
*****
Some people take accordeons quite seriously, sir. Quite seriously indeed. They are not to be trifled with, believe you me.
+whynottalklikeapirat dude my whole coutry;s folk music is based on accordeon, they are like gods here
Merc With a Mouth Well, there you go. The question is - does it play with John Mayer?
+whynottalklikeapirat i see you on a lot of john mayer video comment sections dude....
Agung Adidwadana
Funny - I didn't see you. Must have not made an impression. Well, stalk me some more and you'll see a world of stuff that you can then talk to me about in a vague and slightly creepy fashion.
the realest MVP was that audio guy who brought a cable in like 2 seconds
it was a marker
To the people talking about the guitar being on tune, blahblah, I was there, saw it live, and saw the faces on the owners of the guitar.. they could not believe their eyes, they just thought he might sign it. But he finished the concert with it.. It was pretty awesome!!
that harmonic feedback at the end is the sound of the guitar orgasm
YES!!! x1000
Indeed
Fuzzy Butkus Ted's a known douchebag. Fuck that guy. No class.
A esses sem causa que deram deslike que seu dedo caia por ter desrespeitado um semi-deus
It’s that 50000 Dumble
he really is this generation's SRV. Doesnt get enough credit for how badass his guitar playing is.
+Chad Campbell Totally!
He couldn't change SRVs strings.
No, because SRV's guitar tech Rene Martinez did that. Funnily enough, Rene came out of retirement to be John's guitar tech because he thinks he's as good as SRV...
dean mccaskill. SRV sucked.
Wow.john just increased the value of that mini strat from $89.99 to $15000.00 in seconds!
Pretty sure that was an actual Fender model
Yeah it's full size
CooCooAwesome This is Fender American Standard Strat =) Very cool guitar
you're dreaming !
You put dollars , I thought you put £'s, that's like $30,000. I've never been a fan of this guy and never rated his playing much, but recently I've seen him playing in a few videos and I'll admit I've definitely been more impressed. He's either really inconsistent or did he use to be a junkie or something and was frazzled? He s definitely got talent but I've heard he's been rated in the Top 20 guitar players. Sorry but fucking way, there are guitar players that piss all over him. He's pretty good but he's still a slimy little cock puppet.
Great gesture and great sound tech's! When he swapped it out the sound guys had it nearly muted for no feedback and noise plugging in the jack, then he turned up the volume and started playing a bit, the guitar was not cutting through the mix the way his was but a little later, it sounded perfect.
what stuns me the most about this is how it was immediately passed back to the owner. that's humanity.
That was a hell of a cool thing to do. What a guy..!!!!!
i was there this day, when i saw this guy with a guitar, i thought what a looser. well....
+marcos nonino lmao :p
+marcos nonino Joke was on you then... i feel you
+marcos nonino hahahaha that´s what you get for making fun of him, so jealous of you i haven´t been able to watch him live yet.
But we can spell moron
and it just happened to stay relatively in tune the entire time?
To whoever thinks this was fake because of the tuning... First of all it is more than likely that this guitar was already in E. Second of all even if it was in drop D, open, G, etc... you can still play in key if you know the tuning. Also count the number of times that he played an open string... You can tune a guitar in any tuning and move frets to compensate. With a guitar player as skillful as John Mayer, you could give him a guitar tuned to completely random pitches and he could figure it out in a few seconds. Third of all why would john mayer take time to set this up when hes got katy perry chillin in his tour bus. I could think of about ten thousand different things he could be doing instead. :p
I really don't like his music but damn is he a stand up performer and really goes all out for his fans! What a guy!
You can actually hear the difference in how good John's guitar is compared to the one he took. It's like night and day, his rig is INSANE
A class way to finish an encore. Good on JM for seizing an opportunity to make someone's day and give them a story they'll never forget.
pardon my french, but that's the coolest fucking thing i've ever seen.
saw this on wimp.com,admittedly dunno much if any of his music,but this is just about the coolest thing I've ever seen
Mayer is a beast! thanks for uploading this, that was inspirational
The coolest thing I have ever seen done for a fan!
Kudos to John for that.
classy way to end the show John......you are alright in my book brother!
imagine a parallel universe where that guitar was completely out of tune. that would have been fun
I was thinking the same :)
He would have tuned it in an instant
I like to imagine him smashing it...
Actually it was out of tone in 2 strings, and he adjust his playing with bends, then at the end he tuned all the guitar
@@beatlemartin12 that's why I said "completely"
Cool. I suspect very few have had their hero sign their guitar WHILE he is playing it....on stage...live at a show.
Imagine Van Halen or Mark Knopfler do that to your guitar. I'd cry!!
after watching his performance I looked at my guitar hanging on the wall and the guitar was like "don't you dare try doing that "
I don't think it is scripted what so ever. People talking about the tuning obviously have never touched a guitar in their life. What would he gain from doing something like this? Nothing! So doing this for publicity is out of the question and there is no logical other reason he would have scripted it.
It's kinda mesmerizing watching him play with his eyes closed and smile at certain moments
Its just amazing.
I always liked John Mayer and his music. He is definitely a master guitarist. That was a real class act. I've never seen an musician do that for a fan. I'm sure that person's adoration for John sky rocketed after that experience. Great job. Thanks for posting.
i just want john to play my guitar so i can know if it's broken or not!
lmao.
winslow wong why don’t u play it and try being yourself.
Jim Stanton This was the joke,
I don't think you'd be in a better position. JM can probably make a string nailed to a plank sound like angels singing.
Props to the guy that brought their guitar and stood with it for the duration of the show
If I were that guitar owner, I would have passed out as John was coming to me; wake down to pass out again when he started playing my guitar; try not to pass out as he asks for a marker, and finally have a heart attack with that closing of the song; if I had survived the heart attack, I would repeat the process as I remember everything while I stare at his signature
by far the coolest thing ive seen in a looooong time.. I REALLY need to see Mr. Mayer live now
I always bring my guitar to shows.
+Kyle Schweighardt Some people sing along and others play along.
+orlock20 Haha I sing along and prefer to do air guitar and air drums.
I don´t think it wasn´t prepared. Who can bring a guitar to a concert? But no matter - a wonderful thing! Absolutely!
that would rock! so cool. Nice one john
That is just CRAZY over the top Awesome! Rock ON John!
From one guitar player to another, THAT was so fucken funny/cool/right on brother/awesome!
What a stud. Such a talent, down to earth, and always striving to help others to smile.
now yal must agree, such a cool gesture...
That was insane! He created one of the most amazing moments in someone's life and didn't even skip a beat in that incredible ending. I haven't really kept up with John Mayer since Your Body is a Wonderland so I am more than pleasantly surprised.
Class act!
yup id cry hysterical of john mayer played and signed my guitar
When a guitar's value goes from $100 to $1,000,000 in just minutes
This is some of the most epic thing I have ever seen! I can watch this several times every day! Rock on guys!
John Mayer is a legend 🙌🏼
NO WAY! I WAS AT THE ROCK IN RIO CONCERT, AND I WAS EXPECTING SOMETHING LIKE THAT! YOU ARE LUCKY ASS HELL!!
What are the odds that the same person who gave him the guitar was the same one who got it back. I'm sure there was an all-out war in the pit of people trying to steal it lol.
i don't think a "pit" at a j.m show is very rough man
djjazzyjeff123 That's true and I would do the same as well, but there are some people who would take it without caring who originally owned it. I hope he did get his guitar back.
what uu gonna do once you steal it?..u cant exactly run anywhere you're in the middle of a packed out concert..
djjazzyjeff123 I could not bring this guitar to light again if I had stolen it when he gave it back to in the crowd. Dignity.
no. that doesnt happen. Its an honor thing plus where you gonna go? You think the owners eye's aint glued right to it and that everyone near doesnt know who's it is? You'd have to be really fucking stupid to think you could get away with it.
I love the way he plays the guitar and I genuinely love his music and for this my respect for him has gone up a whole new level
This dude is seriously a guitar god. Just grabs an untuned guitar and finishes the song with it. That's skill.
Makes a fan feel that much better about the artist. It shouldn't be difficult to show some appreciation in that way sometimes.
Mayer gets a lot of flack for his personal life, but he seems like a good guy.
He's awesome... Any one bad thing I've ever seen about him has been overshadowed by 1000 cool things.
he's a good man with a good heart, he had a tough time, a rough start but he finally learned to let it go, and he's right here, and he's right now, and he's hoping knowing somehow that his shadow days are over.... his shadow days are oveer nooow
Sandra Maria Luck You deserve a cookie. that was amazing.
thing about a personal life see, is it's personal. That means it aint anybodies business but his own.
Paul H. Jensen so he should stop bragging. Took him a good 10 yrs to stop it. He literally had to move away out of embarrassment.
I ain’t easily impressed, but that guy is impressive, what a mega cool clip, thanks dude!
Every woman in the audience is now pregnant.
Robert Stewart You have the wrong address. The orgy was 3 blocks down.
Lol...:)
+Robert Stewart sound like the hiphoppopotamus
Robert Stewart there are now puddles all over the stadium not a dry pair of panties in the house 😂
And so are the men... honestly, believe me
Signed and given it blessing by JM live on stage. Wow
say what you want about Mayer, but that was really cool!!
Wow... pretty impressive right there, now that is an artist who appreciates his fans. Lucky fan too.
Staged or not, that's a nice strat. I like the yellow paint and black pickguard/pickup covers.
And so this a good and successful entertainer who appreciates his fans... Thanks John. This certainly puts you at the top of my list... Wish I had seen this clip sooner.
cool, now that fan will have some of the guitar prowess of John Mayer, since John already played it, touched it, tuned it etc lol.
Wow... Ni siquiera la afino ni la probo y aún así la hizo llorar. Realmente un genio!!
Leave it to these bitter, miserable, UA-cam commenters to find something negative to say no matter what the video. No good deed goes unpunished.
And this exactly why John Mayer's awesome! Been a fan since 07!
A lot of people rip John Mayer for being a jerk - no one is perfect - but let's face it, not a lot of musicians/artists would do something as cool as this for a fan
That's how you do it!! John is just so good!!
Coolest fucking thing I have ever seen
his musical abilities and class act never cease to amaze me
You can definitely hear the difference between the two Strats lol.
HighGTurn6 sounded like Mayer to my ears
Well considering that its his custom model and probably has top-of-the-line gear on it...
andrew castevens probably? Definitely. His is a one-off custom shop guitar. It's probably $10k worth even before he touched it. Add another zero now that he's used it on so many fantastic tracks.
Which pickups and the setup of them will make a significant distance. The output of any given pickups alone, and on top of that how close they are to the strings. - Besides, Mayer might use fresh strings every performance, while the fan's guitar might have been on the dead side. - I noticed a drop in volume or presence anyway. - This is just the nature of different equipment.
HighGTurn6 pickups and pickup height. Crank those pickups closer to the strings, and I bet that strat sounds almost as good as Johns just different.
never seen before on an stage ... come on john ... you're the mann
Not bad, Mayer. Would have been cool if he could have checked the intonation, though...perhaps a quick truss rod adjustment?
Still the best performance I've ever seen live. John Mayer is a magician
I *really* hope that was a permanent ink marker!
The Loose Spark do you really think the runner gave him a dry-wipe marker? You can tell it was a Sharpie.
to have that played by him live and signed onstage wow doesnt get better than that. really am jealous to be honest.
ptrgriffin75 i saw it on sale at eBay
I really hope that guy got his guitar back...
He did!
Considering how good it sounds. that is damn good tuning to the stage's equipment using only his ears in such a short time. nice.
Idiots debating if the guitar was or not in tune. Didnt you see when John was tuning the lower strings while playing? This was not a stunt
The comments are ridiculous. The dude is a trained musician.... Even if the guitar was out of tune, he'd compensate for it by playing different notes. Clearly he knows it out of tune as he's tuning 2 different strings at the end.
Phoney.
Skyler Felix you can't compensate for an out of tune guitar like that. I think I've told you that before at some point too.
yeah you can. if it's flat, all you have to do is bend the notes up a little and they sound perfect.
Teddy Myers Teddy Myers you are simply willingly wrong or misinformed about how a guitar works. Especially in a fender style with a trem. If one string is off, it causes a tension deficiency for the rest of the strings and changes the tuning by a few HZ across the entire board. If you're not in tune, you're likely somewhere in between keys, and the correspondent notes are also going to be wrong. So if a normal E4 is 82 hz and the guitar out on that string by 4 Hz, you'd need to compensate 4 hz on that string every time you touched it, if that's not ridiculous enough. There's also the fact that each note up the fretboard 1.059 times the frequency of the last note, thus you have a multiplicative effect of incorrect notation. So you see you only compound the issue across not only the string out of tune, but every string, keep in mind they don't detune equally with improper tension. Some can go sharp while others go flat from that issue as any guitarist with any theory training knows. The more you deviate from the root note, the more severe the effect on the whole instrument. No player on earth can compensate that well, period. In fact, he live tunes the guitar right there in the video because he CANT compensate for the tuning difficulty but can hear that it's off. Even people with absolute pitch and damn controlled muscle memory just can't compensate for changes like that on the fly, don't be a fool.
What an honor! Damn it! Lucky guy or girl!
That guy quit guitar that same day.
Lmao I was thinking that same thing. Awesome.
That just might be one of the most exciting things I've seen on stage this century! Whoowie!