Acoustic Shows and John Mayer

I'm heading out and up into the blizzards of the great Midwest tomorrow! Got 3 "Acoustic Motel" shows starting in Green Bay Friday night! That should be an interesting one considering that I am playing at one of my favorite casinos BUT doing an acoustic show in the bar at Oneida will have some serious noise issues as I am trying to wax philosophical, tell stories about where and why I wrote particular songs and sing them all alone up there while there is literally a bar at the foot of the stage and betting machines built into the bar in front of the seats with bells and whistles and grandmas rattling the pull levers on the slots the whole time!!!! Should be funny... kind of like train wrecks are. Well I guess it's really not that serious... it's just a dude talking smack and singing some touchy feely love songs... actually nothing like a train wreck now that I think about it.

How bout John Mayer getting himself all over the "I already hated John Mayer" focus groups! I haven't read the Playboy interview yet but I will (Playboy loves all this) but I'm willing to bet that he's just trying to be outrageous and funny or something and he probably doesn't really realize just how much all his girly girl fans think of him as a sensitive, smart, Japanese speaking, sing me to sleep or make love kind of artist! Probably going to end up being a boundary definer for him I would guess. I dig the guy's music and the way he approaches the whole thing. Not taking up for anything insensitive that he said (again, I haven't read the article) but I'm going to bet he was not TRYING to offend anybody and probably was just trying to get noticed thinking that he has to because he's too close to his own career to see in the big picture that his name and career is like a blimp (among other big blimps) up there in the blue sky. That's my take. He'll say sorry and I bet he'll mean it.