John Mayer’s Legendary Covered In Rain Tone Like You’ve Never Seen Before - Rare Footage From 2002

[@ThePandaProcrastinates]

What are you talking about Justin? Guitar face is a BIG part of Mayer's tone!

[@a_man_named_daaave]

Yes, do not underestimate It's sonic properties

[@susanrusso934]

Yesssss❤

[@JKChiaro]

I was fortunate enough to catch JM do City Love and Covered and Rain back to back at Irving Plaza in NYC in February of 2002. Yes, it was life changing. Coolest NYC moment I've ever experienced. Thanks for sharing this, Justin!

[@niekvanwensen]

His sound back then resembled SRV's tone a lot more!

[@tmmuscics2753]

Dude this song is what I go for an Srv strat demo

[@JamesStelling]

This is proof that so much of guitar tone is in how you actually play the guitar: whereabouts you position your pick relative to the pickups, how hard you hit the strings, which type of pick you use, how you move the strings with your left hand etc. I'd estimate all this as roughly 95% of the overall sound (unless you use gear meant for a completely different sound - mesa boogie with a maxed out RAT etc). Great news is that you can sound like JM without spending shitloads on gear if you practice a lot. Bad news is that you have to practice a lot.

[@hsingiwu4771]

Indeed

[@tapilaha]

lol that is not a phone but probably some type of digital camcorder… phones were not that good at that time

[@dparkjh]

This is now a grail video

[@sandrosadhukhan]

Which concert is the thumbnail pic from? I need to check out this particular concert. Please let me know

[@fabiodambrosiomusic]

city love crossroads 2004