Patrick’s Day” (during which he playfully struggled to recall the chords) and the “put your camera down and look up” classic “ 3×5.Driscoll originally found internet fame as the “ang moh” on YouTube talking about Singaporean culture, before moving into music in the mid-2000s. In fact, once the Bud Light Facebook live stream wrapped after an hour-plus, Mayer returned with just one other guitarist for his stripped-down cover of Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin‘” before taking the stage solo for fan requests of some of his early deep cuts, including Room for Squares closer “St. Which isn’t to say he completely avoided his acoustic beginnings for the set. It’s a street fight.”Īnd he was prepared for battle at Wednesday’s show, which put a spotlight on Mayer’s latest album, The Search for Everything, while also drawing from the rock and blues columns of his back catalog, including the John Mayer Trio’s rowdy “Who Did You Think I Was” and Continuum’s groovy “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room.” “The soundwaves, they don’t get an opportunity to blossom. And here, it’s a bit like the gloves are off,” Mayer said before the show. “I feel like in the arena, there’s more room for the soundwaves to kind of bloom and float - that’s what I really like about arenas. So he brought along a full band to the tiny venue - including drummer Steve Jordan and bassist Pino Palladino from his John Mayer Trio - to really bring the rock to L.A.’s Echo Park neighborhood.
And so it just makes sense for a night like tonight that you pull out your barrelhouse blues, rock ‘n’ roll guitar-solo stuff, the groove-heavy stuff. But then you look back and go, ‘Oh, I can pull a lot of different feels’ - feels of music, not feels like feelings - different music feels. “At first, I wasn’t sure why I was doing it - it’s a little scary in the moment. “I have a lot to draw from now that I’ve made so many different kinds of records,” Mayer said about his approach to the gig. But he actually told Billboard before the show that he had the exact opposite instinct. With John Mayer shifting from playing for 20,000 fans at Madison Square Garden on his Search for Everything Tour to performing at Los Angeles’ 500-capacity Echoplex on Wednesday night for the Bud Light Dive Bar Tour, you might expect him to go a little more intimate and acoustic for the occasion.
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