This has to be the coolest video for a guitarist. Makes you really appreciate how Mayer went from being a high school kid working at a gas station to one of the best guitar players of our generation. Makes you feel like dreams aren't impossible
It’s also incredible that he looked up to guitarist like Eric Clapton only to one day end up playing with them at shows and even garnishing acknowledgments and respect from them.
Because the pickguard was clearly changed out. Only those who know that serial number understand :) For those who dont know, the original pickguard is black with the initals "SRV" in white strokes.
Sig in plan sight @00:59 That's a SRV signature Strat neck for sure. But not sure about the rest of it. Someone probably bought a SRV signature Start and swapped out the pick guard and pickups along with the gold hardware or they just put an SRV neck (baseball bat profile on that SRV neck) on to a older guitar body.
legendary guitar, i know a sticker doesn't make u or your guitar any better, but i like that the guitar has a story... And i can relate to grinding down the neck.
@@sinjon nope. It's most probably not the camera but the person using it. He was using a shallow depth of field without the skills of manual focusing. Professional filmmakers or even just videographers don't use autofocus on these kinds of shots or even on most shot.
Everyone is excited about the guitars but I'm pretty sure I had that same photo booth alien sticker from 96 that was taken of a friend and I. Now that's rare! lol
I see a lot of you guys are interested in hearing about the rest of his gear. search RIG RUNDOWN JOHN MAYER and you'll find a great video where his engineer goes through some of his amps, effects and guitars for live shows. Please like this comment to get it to the top of the comments so others can be made aware of it. enjoy guys :)
I think most guitar players do know that haha. I certainly do. It looks almost identical to his own signature so I can see where the confusion comes from hahaha
quick question. in this video he says that his signature strat is based of this srv signature in terms of pickups. but the pick ups in john's are big dipper and in srv's are texas specials. are these two pick ups almost the same thing or not?
TheAmaterazzzu i believe certain year srv models have defective texas specials, and john had them remade for his signature. i believe they're called big dippers
Imagine working in a gas station for a year, buy a signature guitar of your hero, then go to music school wishing you can work as a musician for a living and after you winning a couple grammys for your music 2 years later you play the exact same guitar in your's hero's inductee in Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Jimmy Vaughan, his brother. What a man.
I hate to say it John but that guitar has no lackThe srv is completely polley If Stevie would have been alive for the release of the instrument I believe it would have been a Nitro guitar
F-stop is the aperture. I'd say this guy had it too open, so the depth of focus is super shallow. I hate how this shallow depth of focus thing has become cool lately, it's not artistic when you're trying to read off little scribbles on a guitar!
not so much gaining weight than losing muscle cos his waist line still seems fine. a trainer can whip him back into shape in no time if he so desires, but he seems not caring too much about appearances these days.
No, I don't think it is the same guitar. If you mean the Red Rocks "Voodoo Child" version, I can surely say that this is another guitar. The other guitar is a vintage stratocaster of 1966 !!
Yeah he spent a summer at a gas station saved every paycheck bought the SRV sig strat...very noble. at some time I assume he replaced the pickguard to the tortoise shell to make it "his own" but other then that it still has the LH tremelo and all the other little things the SRV strat has. If it aint broke don't fix it! way to go john. He even engraved his initials on the back like SRV did...and I'm pretty sure the top of his sleeve tatoos is "SRV" and was one of his first tattoos.
I caught the left hand trem right away 😉........that's cool he was really into SRV when he started out like most are. What's even cooler is he's one of the few who really found his own sound and didn't stay on the SRV bandwagon. When he wants to he can pull from that bag though 🤘
Wow, so this isn't the Voodoo Child guitar he has been playing alot live recently? Wow, I really thought this (the AGT-guitar) was the same axe as the one he's been playing on Crossroads and pretty much his main axe on this tour, aka the one he used to play Voodoo Child on back in the day.
