CardsNstuff

This album is damn tasty. Do yourself a favor and pick it up today.

(Source: jhnmyr)

The absolute best.

Cream Filled Teens

I didn’t quite get to meet this man on the 21st (May). Its all good though, Im sure I’ll be playing alongside him one day.

Radio City

Mmmhm, Lucille.

I see this in the office everyday at work. I guess it’s an attorney ‘inside joke’.

Here we go…


Another Mayer record. Im sure you’re all sick and tired of reading what I have to say about John, and seeing the pictures, the way I praise him, following him, and listen to him. But, I owe a good part of who I am to the man and his music.

I was first a percussionist that felt his faith and interest in music slipping. I found magic and card flourishes later and spent a good 7 years on the subject. I became quite skilled, but felt it just wasn’t home for me. It just never felt “right”.

Then I picked up the guitar. And I learned a craft that others picked up 5 years prior to the time I did. So I was behind. But I picked it up, and I said “I’m going to get good at this”.

I was always mystified by the guitar. It was something that I knew held the potential of me spending the rest of my life figuring out. Because as good as someone may get, there is always something to learn.

It was an instrument that could be played to wow and astonish. It was an instrument, that I figured if I put my fingers in the right places I could be just like ‘so-and-so’.

It held potential.

If I were to never have picked up the “Room for Squares record back in 02’, I’m pretty damn sure I would have never picked up the guitar. It took me a while to make the decision, and while I have been playing for only 2 1/2 years, I feel I’ve progressed faster than expected.

It was the determination to play his tunes, and play them perfectly that shot me through the unstable slop and uneven rhythms that other guitarists spend a few years figuring out in only a matter of months. No Such Thing was the first song I learned on guitar. And I learned it thoroughly. Exactly the way he plays it. And it felt good.

I don’t think anybody else quite understands what it means to me when John Mayer releases a new record. Its something I think about consistently throughout my day. Something that I look so forward too, that I find myself searching for bits and pieces of what I can scrap together without ruining the final product.

Even though I might be unsatisfied with the record, and even though I might not LOVE every single song that is listed, it still goes into the archives and finds its way into my heart.

Its amazing the difference that one man and his music can make for a person.



So I’ll leave this post with one quote, “John Mayer is to me, what Stevie Ray Vaughan was to him”.


Thank you for lighting up a path that I shouldn’t have taken, and making it so remarkable and colorful.