why John Mayer makes me yawn

If anyone reading this likes John Mayer, good on you.  The nice thing about opinions is we all have some. 

 

John Mayer is a caracature of a cliche of a copy of something that was cool when it was old black men doing it.  I'll give the guys like Clapton and Richards a break, because when they got into blues they had to really dig to find the records, it was an underground thing.  In 2008, pretty white boys playing the blues is about as cutting edge as a noodle.  The blues is what noobs play when they are learning the guitar.  It's what old men play when they have no teeth left.  It's the Gerber baby food of guitar music.  The blues is music that was made by hard men who lived hard lives, not Berklee School of Music dropouts.

 

I actually googled him because I wanted to validate my feeling that he was just a rich kid who wanted to play the guitar when he saw the Karate Kid playing it in Crossroads.  I was wrong though, he was an upper middle class kid who wanted to play the guitar when he saw Marty McFly playing it in Back To The Future.  So what do I know?