I thought they would have had a better career...

One thing about Mayer is he's trying to do Don Henley in reverse. Mayer put out his "End of the Innocence" when he was 22 or 23 years old and has been trying to make "Hotel California" ever since.

 

Touring with Phish members and covering the Dead? I don't know, he just seems like he doesn't give a fuck and just wants to do what makes him happy.

 

Yeah, I was a little clever by half there.

What I mean is that he's really a rock guy at heart.

 

He definitely has chops and can do great covers. But he doesn't write rock songs. He writes mom rock. Women love him. Dudes? Not so much. I know people who went to high school with him, and he still comes back to town occasionally. Not surprisingly, he's universally considered a first-rate douche. Still, the guy can jam, no doubt.

 

I had heard that he wants to run through the halls of his high school.

 

Yeah. And in the '80s, that kind of stuff owned the Billboard singles chart.

 

No it wouldn't. Good is good. He is style-wise very similar to Ed Sheeran. Do you think Ed Sheeran is charting because kids love prematurely balding gingers? No, he's just writing better, catchier songs than Mayer is these days. Ed Sheeran is a mom rocker, too.

 

My brother the other day asked me why I thought Live faded into obscurity and Green Day had a second wind as enormous hit makers.

The simple answer was that Live stopped writing good songs.

 

Blues guy. Best stuff he ever did was with the John Mayer Trio.

 

You've probably heard "Shape of You" and wanted to put an ice puck through your skull. It's that "I'm in love with your body" chorus that gets played ad nauseam at swimming pools, bachelorette parties and other places where too-loud Top 40 thrives.

 

My wife's car. There's a Despecito infestation I'm not going to be able to get out for months. Bieber and his merry band of chucklefucks laid eggs under the floor mats. We may have to trade the vehicle.

 

I'd rather buy one that was nose down in a Houston drainage ditch. They should brand your title.