I like him fine. I think if he's allowed to grow as a writer/player, he
could actually get great.
Lets see what peer pressure and advice do for the boy...

bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jocelyn Geboy" <smussyolay@yahoo.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: Grammy thoughts (that is, john mayer)


>
> --- bob <segarini@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> > He's getting support because his CD is selling, he's
> > young, good looking,
> > and talented, and plays guitar better than most guys
> > twice his age.
> > His label sees a career, not a one time cash grab,
> > understand the internet
> > in it's relation to CD sales, and are at least
> > trying to raise the bar and
> > change the template to fit the shift in radio, the
> > record industry, and how
> > things are done.
> > It's old school common sense, the same thing that
> > broke Norah Jones, who, by
> > the way, made everybody else on that show look like
> > hookers and nutballs.
> > Like Mayer, James Taylor, Artie and Simon, she
> > didn't need trashy clothes,
> > stupid hair, (well, in Artie's case, he was there
> > first), or screaming
> > guitars...she had a song...and that's all you really
> > need.
> >
> > bob
> >
> > ~~~~does this mean you like john mayer? or are
> making the theoretical argument for him. i can't
> exactly tell from this.
>
> i *do* like johnny boy (get the torches ready), and
> every time i hear a new single on the radio, i
> go...man, i should get the damn album....and then i
> remember that i DO have it. i got it from BMG or some
> such over 9 months ago or something.  so, that's
> interesting to me...that i listened to it once or
> twice and never again.... hmm. but i was in a real
> music slump there for awhile.
>
> 'anti owsley,' interesting. i LOVE owsley... and mayer
> an owsley he ain't (man, i love when i have a cold,
> and the grammar gets all jumbled up in my brain), but
> again, i feel john mayer is getting to be one of these
> people it's hip to hate.  i mean, i don't find the
> stuff repulsive. as far as the 'dave matthews
> quotient...' well, hmmm. i guess i hear it when people
> point it out, but i've never thought that from the
> beginning, and it still has to be pointed out to me
> now. i just hear simple pop.  and sometimes, simple is
> good enough.
>
> sometimes, i just like to sit down and grab a fiction
> novel and eat chips and salsa. no thought, just a
> snack....'your body is a wonderland....'  blah blah
> blah.
>
> also. i didn't even watch the grammies.  not a lick.
> i am glad you all will distill it for me.  i feel bad
> afterward for not having done it, that fear going back
> to childhood of having 'missed something,' but then my
> brain asks -- 1. will i even know 1/2 the music they
> have on there, and 2. do i even believe that the
> 'right' music stands a chance of winning anymore?? so,
> it's not a priority. if i had been home and around, i
> would have watched, but... i wasn't, so..ehh.
>
> last but not least, as i have some 500 messages to
> read, anyone hear the new macy gray? is this her
> *third* album?? liking it, as usual...
>
> jocelyn
>
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