John Mayer Live Archive

If you're looking for the best moments from John Mayer's live shows, this is the place. When he encouraged us to try out Tumblr in April of 2010, I noticed pretty quickly that we would soon be inundated in the best way with John related material so a separate page was conceived. Posts break down into the following; john speaks for writing, performance and interview quotes, audio for all of those live jems we can't get enough of, and video for when we just have to see those performances again. The left side of the brain has coded audio and video with song title acronyms along with the year for which the performance took place and in some cases the venue. If the clip is acoustic, it has been tagged as such. Another page has been created to archive the text of our favorite interviews so please feel free to make a request. With some of them being quite lengthy the goal now is to transcribe one per month. Finally, those moments that give us butterflies because they're so sweet have been categorized as well.

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February 1st, 2012 at 9:40PM

Some of you out there has made some decisions recently to leave somebody that you love, thought loved you, thinks still loves you, and you still can’t find a way to work it out. And if you done it three days ago then you’re still on the straight and now. But if you done it three weeks ago it’s getting tough. It’s getting tough to hold on ‘cause those dreams are coming in, yeah. Things happen you want to tell the other person about, you know what I’m talking about? Yeah, then you start getting the dreams where they’re cool. You wake up like ‘Oh, I think they’re actually cool.’ Nah, that’s just dreams messing with you, all right. So, a lot of people here are trying to stick to their guns. But now it’s getting harder and harder not to write back. ‘Cause when you resist, they persist. That’s just how it goes, right? But I’m here to tell you that you are not psychotic. You are not crazy, you’re just lonely, and loneliness is a hell of a drug. Loneliness is a hell of a drug. So I’m here to take over your brain for a moment if that’s how you actually feel and remind you; do not have contact. Do not have contact, I don’t care how lonely you get. Loneliness is part of it, right? You’ll be lonely, but I know you’ll be OK. You’ll be lonely, but I know you’ll be okey, ‘cause good love is on the way. So when that Blackberry goes off, or that iPhone goes ‘brrrfff brrrfff’ and it is who you think it is; turn it over and go back to bed, and sing yourself a little lullaby. — John Mayer, Perfectly Lonely, Noblesville, 2010. (via samanthaaurelie)