Concert Review: JohnMayer is a wonderland at first of two-night stand at theForum
The night felt designed around simplicity and familiarity, and it came instantly as Mayer, a guitar virtuoso in addition to being a Grammy-winning singer and songwriter, opened with crowd pleasers like the dreamy “Love on the Weekend,” “Who Says,” “I Don’t Trust Myself ” and “In the Blood.”
But Mayer doesn’t quite fall into the crooner category, nor troubadour, even though it’s how he’s often described. On the Dead & Co. run, he devoted his vocals to the songs and not to onstage banter. Similarly, Mayer told the audience, “I’m trying to keep talking to a minimum so we can cram as many songs in as possible.”
Mayer also spoke at length about the magic of California, which he described as a physical place but also an idea that was first communicated to him at the age of 12 growing up in Connecticut. He couldn’t imagine California without Tom Petty, he said, and led the crowd in a singalong of Petty’s ode to L.A., “Free Fallin’.”
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