John Mayer Praising Other Guitarists

[@nz8og3si3a]

Mayer talking about his favorite musicians is like Tarantino talking about his favorite directors.

[@carlwilliams6977]

And the point of your analogy is??😅

[@deanl0]

@@carlwilliams6977 He just don't want to gave it away...🌶 John Frusciante 🎸

[@GreyCollarGolf]

Flawless analogy

[@carlwilliams6977]

@@GreyCollarGolf Please explain. In coherent English this time!

[@stuartcampbell9756]

⁠@@carlwilliams6977Tarantino is one of the most celebrated movie directors. Did pulp fiction and other stuff

[@midnightrambler4580]

The more I find out about John Mayer the more I like the guy

[@kimberlykairo]

Beautiful hearing John Mayer so generously heap love on his fellow master musicians. Acknowledging their greatness magnifies his own to the nth degree. None like him

[@arlingtonhynes]

Yeah, but they all do that. Even Keith Richards - provided it’s somebody who came up before he did, or worked for him.

[@kimberlykairo]

@@arlingtonhynes Beautiful

[@MVG101]

i would really love to hear what john thinks of david gilmour

[@keithshwalbe6981]

Well thought thru John. Thank you.

[@pedrohgromero1]

Him talking about his heroes is very important, course that’s the way kids learn, you find your first inspiration, and then is a journey to the past, from generation to generation

[@BunnyWatson-k1w]

There is nothing wrong with B.B. King, Clapton, Hendrix, Townsend, or Moore. I was a young guitar player when I first discovered Stevie Ray Vaughan. When I watched Stevie Ray Vaughan play the Montreux Jazz Festival a year before his first record and get booed by the audience it became a pivotal moment for me. He was a great unknown guitarist, despite the audience who thought they were getting a folk musician. Unfortunately Stevie died too young. I have always wondered what his career would have been like had he lived. A second great guitarist for me was Prince. Prince could play many instruments but he was gifted at the piano/keys and guitar.

[@ScoobyDooby530]

Look up Townshend credit card and tell me there is nothing wrong with him...

[@davidrhodes7655]

A real gentleman also a brilliant guitarist in his own right

[@the_real_MarcGyver]

Most guitarists play with dedication and skill.. SRV played with his soul.

[@TheGabrielberki]

Piano, but this way... with a guitar, yeah man that's an awesome metaphor for Jerry's style

[@debbieramsey-hanks3757]

Exceptional artist

[@Yoni168]

This is such a beautiful video. Thanks for making it.

[@tymanngruter1808]

Mayer has done his homework, IMO he introduced a new kind of music, the bluespop Or reversed! Great player! 🎯

[@mjolnircarlssen4211]

The more complex and acrobatic guitar playing becomes, the more that I lean into listening to Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Joe Perry/Brad Whitford, Eric Clapton, Andy Summers, etc.

[@thatsamazin-]

Nothing wrong with that. Personally, I’ve heard all those guys so much over the course of 40+ years that it just doesn’t do much for me anymore. I find myself wanting to listen to Max Ostro 99% of the time these days. He gives me everything I want from a guitar player.

[@crasherxtreme]

​@@thatsamazin- okay. I admire your opinion but disagree. KZbin is great for rediscovering old music and performances. So was I-tunes. I would have never known there was a Peter Green if I-tunes hadnt suggested him. As for KZbin, theres Blind Willie Johnson, Skip James, Fred McDowell, lightin Hopkins, although I d heard of him before KZbin etc But others as well. People really revere Steve Vai, Joe Satriani. While being great musicuans, I find them boring. I'm sure I'm the only one

[@user-qr7ee2cp4y]

There will always be someone faster, weirder, but "soul" always rules. Miles had soul, so does hendrix, Eddie, and Clapton... guys like John Mclaughlin or holdsworth are really good, but they don't have that soulfulness that resonates like Keith, Clapton and page

[@Walrus286]

Check out Doug Martsch of Built to Spill

[@astewart9410]

That CD wall is pleasing to look at

[@AbbottPresley]

Cassettes

[@zachtbh]

On derek trucks, I wasn’t too sure if John was being salty about Derek‘s skills. 😂 John Mayer back then and now was different

[@Unkwn_everwhere]

Ahhhh wished you would have added where he praises Mateus asato love both of them

[@keithshwalbe6981]

I love your lack of negative ego John

[@PowerfulNomad]

Pete Townsend was not who he was referring to at the beginning when discussing Jerry Garcia 😂😂😂

[@samjones9703]

Yeah no way lmao

[@DonVal86]

I caught that too. He could strum some chords though. 😂

[@DJF1985]

The elegance of George Harrison. Every solo meant something.

[@MarkJones-fw3mo]

Listen to Jerry Reed. At the top of any master list of guitarists.

[@commanderthorkilj.amundsen3426]

That’s for sure. I got to watch him and Chet up close….By all accounts, Reed didn’t practice or work endlessly on riffs and entire songs-they simply came to him very easily, as to Danny Gatton.

[@lostworkervolunteer]

I give this round to Mayer.

[@user-bl5jr5vz6i]

Bill Nelson of Be Bop Deluxe.

[@karenreardon5398]

I'm very surprised he didn't mention Jeff Beck in this interview.

[@lt.reubenrozeyt5716]

John Mayer is probably the final guitar hero.

[@taimurhabib609]

Hey hey hey, don’t forget Mark Knopfler.

[@bobsteinzig]

what about Peter Green

[@matthewrammig]

It’s so funny to me that certain guitars are so great that they’re not even discussed in mainstream circles. Like Pat Metheny for example

[@Randy-c7u]

Stevie Ray !!?!!

[@darkogregec7503]

The crowd havent got a clue😂

[@JohnDoe-jp8fx]

Johnny Winter

[@HugoSeanPennock]

JUST AN OPINION...KEEP ON TRUCKIN'...LOT TO CREATE 🗿

[@crasherxtreme]

Yes, Clapton gave the guitar a voice. He made the notes tell a story. For me, his Mayall years were the best. Hes always #2 of the goats. Of course Hendrix always being #1. But some give that title to SRV.

[@jonahn4151]

Title? It’s all about taste…

[@ECCollectables]

Is that cos they’re both dead and Clapton isn’t?. A lot of hype around Hendrix, as when he was actually still alive, Clapton was constantly voted above him in any polls. Fact.

[@commanderthorkilj.amundsen3426]

Hendrix is not the best or greatest guitarist. There are too many genres and metrics to consider. He was a master of effects,perfect for his era, prolific song writer for his short life fe, but actual playing and breadth of songs lacked what others had. Mediocre on acoustic, couldnt fingerpick or hybrid pick, nor slide. Hendrix would be humbled playing unplugged with Joe Pass, Chet Atkins, Wes Montgomery, Lenny Breault, DiMeola, and on electric, Terry Kath, Phil & Tommy Emmanuel; DannyGatton would totally outclass and humble him, as would Billy Strings, a host of country pickers, jazz fusion oats too numerous to name. Hendrix is a dinosaur.

[@DeeEllEff]

Dinosaurs once ruled the Earth. Ask EC himself who was better. But I appreciate you including Terry Kath in your list.

[@commanderthorkilj.amundsen3426]

@@DeeEllEff Music is NOT a competition. Adolescent minds often try to formulate GOAT lists in order to have a HERO, but a rational minded person understands that myriad criteria interplay here. What EC says does not make a great argument. There are simply too many guitarists then, and now, whose ability surpasses the cliche listing of Hendrix, Page, Beck, Clapton, etc., who they (and many others) weren’t even aware of, particularly country guitarists who had hundreds of songs in their heads, could hear something once and play it, but whose modest personalities did not translate to an ostentatious, “Hey look at what I can do” mentality.

[@krisamontoya]

I disagree with two, but then who am I.

[@bkmeahan]

Always strikes me how the vast majority of top level guitarists give praise to other guitarists. Then there is Frank Zappa who basically says "I'm the only real musician, all the others are just trained monkeys playing rehearsed riffs"

[@seanduffy9797]

Danny

[@jimmyraidjames]

Eddie van Halen??? Why not mention the G.O.A.T ??😑😑🎸🎸👑👑

[@villadavid164]

Talks about Zappa? Of course not

[@DonVal86]

Zappa wasn’t about the blues.

[@davidmontgomery5047]

No reason to Mention SRV if You've mentioned Jimi . I'd Say Tommy Bolin ,but He isn't that well known unfortunately Should be .

[@paulrizo5469]

I too mention Tommy Bolin.

[@gertstronkhorst2343]

Prince was a bigger giant even than Frank Zappa.

[@malikd.7306]

Thats right i just got into Zappa and listened to everything i am bloen away but at the end of the day prince stays No. 1 all in all

[@davidmontgomery5047]

I Call Bullshit

[@Robin-Cale17]

Look up covert narcissist and you see John Mayer's face. 🙄

[@tomthalon8956]

Yeah, we needed this video asking the mid playing pretty boy who he likes. pffffht

[@shippenman5977]

JJ CALE

[@polarbear7791]

Mid , late 70's ?. Jimi died in 1770, SRV was a great guitar player, but who did he copy? Townsend, give me a break. I'm waiting for the hate, but I went to the Isle of White Festival in 1970 and did see Garcia in the sixties, but John should have corrected the interviewer.

[@wasolop]

the mid 70s were a very good time for the dead, and the genre of rock was at its peak post Jimi, Jimi and Clapton were the ones who gave rock that momentum. Garcia, Duane Allman and others were able to capture that momentum and continue on

[@TheNaturalust]

He’s not right, Hendrix was a huge Hero in the time of Jerry Garcia. And Clapton is a GREAT singer!

[@1flat5th]

It's always about him.. The recovered narcissist..

[@ctown6592]

Recovered ego addict

[@gerimayawhyte154]

Yeah the speech about Hendrix while trying to be reverential came across as incredibly cringe worthy and kind of insulting. Especially the part about "not wanting to see things that aren't there". Seemed to be kind of reducing him to a drugged out of his mind genius.

[@boabglen]

​@gerimayawhyte154 yeh that was a asf comment 😮

[@1flat5th]

he is a Shallow mirror worshiper@@gerimayawhyte154

[@poliziagrammaticale9430]

Are you trying to say that Hendrix was not drugged out of his mind?@@gerimayawhyte154