"So much sacred in the month of April too"

Last night.
I saw.
John.
Clayton.
Mayer.

My idol, love of my life, the guy I've been waiting 4 YEARS TO SEE.

And I saw him.

And in all honesty, he played brilliantly.
I realised last night, that the album versions of his songs are like bases. They provide the general outline, but when JM get's to being creative, he changes them up in all these awesome ways.

His crowd banter was fantastic and witty as usual. I was almost scared he'd get onstage, tired of doing this tour (Sydney was the last stop on his Australia tour) and do it halfheartedly, but you could most definitely tell his soul was in it.

The best solo of the night was during 'Gravity'. It seems like such a tame song on the album, but the way he played it last night...began similar enough, and ended HUGE, with a long solo filled with bluesy riffs and even some shredding.

The songs I wanted him to play were:
No Such Thing x
Heart Of Life x
Stop This Train x
Your Body Is A Wonderland
Comfortable
Home Life
Why Georgia x

(The x's next to the songs mean those are the ones he actually played off my list.)
So I was very content with the set list. I loved the fact that he didn't just stick to 'Continuum' but he spanned all his years, going from the Inside Wants Out EP, to Room For Squares, to Heavier Things, to Try! (by the John Mayer Trio) and then Continuum as well (obviously, he didn't play his songs chronologically in order of year ^o^.)

I was really happy with the familiarity I saw.
I didn't want to go to a John Mayer concert, and feel really out of tune with him and the audience he now has. But you know what, in the end, John was still the funny guy, who bonded with the audience, did his 'honky-tonk' dance with his leg, and did those random, breathy "i-quickly-move-back-from-the-microphone-to-create-the-effect-of-distance" 'Yeahs'...just like I've always known, even before I got to see him live last night.

I love it when he changed the lyrics. Hence the title of this blog. The original line is "so much sacred in the month of June". Is it lame of me to feel special because April is the month I'm born...so John isn't leaving me out of his whole "this is sacred" deal. He probably changes the lyric every month...to show that all the months are sacred ^o^.

Ahh, there was this point near the beginning of the show, where he was in between songs and talking to the audience. And he was basically describing how, in the last song "No Such Thing", like just before he began, he saw this kid in an orange t-shirt up front, and just thought "that's a complete love of music". So he thought about it in the song, when a little break would be, so he could throw a guitar pick for this kid in the orange shirt, and so he threw it, and it landed somewhere else, and this other man got it. Anyways, at the end of this speech, John then stepped down from the stage, and onto some amps and personally gave this kid a pick.

How I wished that I was that kid right there. ^o^.

Nonetheless...I bought John Mayer guitar picks, and my sister bought me a John Mayer hat, so I'm all excited. I feel. I just feel. Like. Concerts make me feel better. They re-inforce the belief in me that everything will be okay. That everything will be fine. That I just need to go to school and work, and come home and fall into music. Just fall into John Mayer and other music that makes me feel okay for a 3 minute song, or a 50 minute album.

It inspires.

"If you're reading this with an instrument in your lap - get to work, and deep in it. We all need you." - John Mayer