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John in the December Blender

'Just wanted to let you know that John Mayer is featured in the upcoming issue of Blender in a monthly section called, "Dear Superstar: John Mayer."
This guitar-pop heartthrob leaves nothing to the imagination when he answers readers questions in the December issue. Find out if John Mayer flirts with Justin Timberlake and if Heidi Klum and Jennifer Love Hewitt adore his giant, fat head. From his weird facial expressions, to what song he recommends getting freaky to, Blender gets to know this bona fide superstar.' You can check out reviews of all John's albums, and some of his Blender interviews at www.Blender.com

Heavier Things at #1!

John's latest album came in at #1 it's first week out! Congrats John!

John on T.V.

For those of you, myself included, who signed the petition to get John on Saturday Night Live well...your wish has been granted!!! He will be on the show, more than likely as the musical guest, the fourth of October!

John will also be on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on October 29! You can check out when John will be on t.v. on www.rockontv.com

The album is out!

The new John Mayer album, Heavier Things, is out now! Pick up your copy in your local music store, or at

Heavier Things

A contest has been set up for the pre-order or 'Heavier Things'. Everyone who has pre-ordered already, or does so by September 4th has an opportunity to win one of these prizes:

John's new album 'Heavier Things' has a slated release date of September 9th of this year, but is available for preorder now. The new album has 10 songs and costs $14. Yet there is a preorder t-shirt/cd deal for $25 that includes the new cd, and a limited edition 'Heavier Things' t-shirt. The songs on the new album are:

1. Clarity
2. Bigger Than My Body
3. Something's Missing
4. New Deep
5. Come Back To Bed
6. Home Life
7. Split Screen Sadness
8. Daughters
9. Only Heart
10. Wheel
To pre-order the new album: http://stores.musictoday.com/store/dept.asp?dept_id=673&band_id=303

Listen to 'Come Back to Bed'

Mtv.com is offering a live video of John's new song 'Come Back to Bed'. The song was taped live at the Staples Center show.

http://www.mtv.com/sitewide/videoplayer/get_real.jhtml

John's 'Martin' signature guitar

The Martin guitar company is offering a limited edition OM-28 John Mayer Signature Model. Check out an article on the guitar: http://www.martinguitar.com/news/articles/mayer.html

Bigger than My Body

John and members of the Local-83 crew just filmed a video for John's single 'Bigger than My Body' off his new album. The video was filmed in California with some of the Californian Local-83ers as extras. Look for the video in the August!

To read an article from mtv.com about the video's concept and creation, click on this link: John On T.V. and in Print

3 BMA nominations!

John is nominated for 3 Boston Music Awards:

Act of the
year:

Aerosmith
Cave In
Dropkick Murphys
Godsmack
JOHN MAYER
Staind
James Taylor

Song of the year:

Girls of Summer - Aerosmith
I Stand Alone - Godsmack
Your Body is a Wonderland - JOHN MAYER
Bring on the Rain - Jo Dee Messina
Free - Powerman 5000
Sparkle - rubyhorse
Price to Play - Staind
Nothing But the Wheel - Peter Wolf

Male vocalist of the year:

Bleu
Evan Dando
Howie Day
Sully Erna (Godsmack)
Aaron Lewis (Staind)
JOHN MAYER
Steven Tyler (Aerosmith)

You can vote online at: http://www.bostonmusicawards.com/bma/ballot.html (voting has ended)

How to Deal

John song Not Myself is featured on the soundtrack for the movie How To Deal, starring Mandy Moore and Trent Ford. The movie's website, http://www.howtodealmovie.com/soundtrack.html, says of the song:

This tender, intricate ballad comes from John Mayer's sleeper hit album, his 2001 full length debut Room For Squares, and is fully representative of his shimmering, subtle rock sound.

The soundtrack will be available July 8th; other the John Mayer, it includes Liz Phair, Beth Orton, The Flaming Lips, Skye Sweetnam, The Donnas, The Music, Aslyn, Tremalo, Majorie Fair, ECHO, and Cat Stevens.

How to Deal

John has a song on the soundtrack for the movie How To Deal, starring Mandy Moore and Trent Ford. The soundtrack will be available July 8th.

Bigger than My Body

John and members of the Local-83 crew just filmed a video for John's single 'Bigger than My Body' off his new album. The video was filmed in California with some of the Californian Local-83ers as extras. Look for the video in the near future!

Frankie Muniz on John

I thought you might be interested that on Frankie's Mtv.com member profile it says:

I am a huge John Mayer fan and when I was filming a movie in Vancouver he was playing up there I got backstage passes and sat ON STAGE when he played. It was amazing and I've now been to 4 other john mayer shows.

Maybe one of you guys will see him at one of John's upcoming shows...

John with Snoop Dogg and Lillix

The Snoop Dogg show 'Doggie Fizzle Televizzle' on MTV had a sketch making fun of the reality television shows about interior decorating. At the end of the sketch, an announcer said that John Mayer would be on the made up design show moving one lucky fans furniture 1 inch to the left. Just thought you all might find that interesting; it's good to know Snoop's thinking of John.

On today's TRL, July 1, a fact on the scroll during the Lillix video said that the artist the band most admirers is our very own John Mayer.

New tattoo?

One of my friends who went to the Jazzfest in New Orleans told me that John had gotten a new tattoo! Actually, he added to an already existing one. John has a rectangular box tattoo on his right arm that's split into three equal boxes. The middle one is filled in with a flower design, but he added a design to the far right box. I'm not quite sure what the design is, but you can faintly see it in the picture I posted of John at Jazzfest in the right column of this page.

Best Concert?

The new issue of Teen People's Summer Music Special includes tour dates and a summary of John's summer tour w/Counting Crows. The issue also has celebrities naming the best concert they've seen. Michelle Trachtenberg (Buffy, Harriet the Spy) named John's saying "John Mayer. I just met him at a live taping of American Idol, which I love, and he was just the sweetest thing ever." The issue also says that John would love to be a writer for Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

John in Print!

The USANA Amphitheatre 2003 Summer Tour Guide has an article about John's show with the Counting Crow's and Maroon 5 in Utah on July 8th.

"...New on the music scene is the boy next-door John Mayer. A welcome divergence from the over-produced pop of the last few years, Mayer is a real musician. He writes his own music, plays the guitar and even sings lyrics he's written. Room for Squares, his first major lavel album has been a stunning success and the latest release, Any Given Thursday, a live album recorded in September 2002, gives us a true taste of what the live John Mayer show is all about. Mayer's unique voice, thoughtful lyrics and sparse, acoustic sound are the key to good albums and good performances. Like the Counting Crows, Mayer will be around for years to come.

Everyone knows that two is always better than one. In the case of the Counting Crows/John Mayer show, ticket holders will be treated to one of the season's best two-in-one concerts." Written By:Sarah O'Leary

Jimmy Fallon does John Mayer!!!!!

No not like that you dirty, dirty people! As you may-er may not know, Jimmy Fallon is one of the cast members of Saturday Night Live. Well, Jimmy Fallon also hosts weekend update on SNL w/Tiny Fey. Anywho, it was the St.Patricks day edition and Jimmy was doing parodies of songs with Irish themed lyrics. Jimmy Fallon did a parody of John by performing Your Body is A Wonderland with lyrics that went something like Nobodies here from Ireland and I don't really remember the rest. Check it our if you get a chance!

John Performs with Sting and the Police!

If you've watched/listened to the Any Given Thursday commentary with John, Scotty and Dela you know that John was really looking forwarding Sting and the Police's induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame where they would be performing. Well people, dreams do come true. John not only was a guest at the extravaganza, which is being shown in heavy rotation on VH1, he got to perform! John, Gwen Stefani, and Steven Tyler did a walk during the performance of I'll be watching you. It's quite interesting to see John w/o a guitar. lol Check it out! It shouldn't be too hard to do since they're showing it every few hours!

John Mayer is going on tour AGAIN! Just when this boy was slowing down the tour schedule... John Mayer and the Counting Crows have just announced a co-headlining summer tour! Go to www.johnmayer.com for a list of tour dates.

John won Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 2003 Grammy Awards! Congrats John!

-John's song 83 is on the soundtrack for the movie Serendipity available now

-John's much anticipated live DVD/VHS Any Given Thursday still has a slated release of Feb. 11 but you can still pre-order your copy today! www.johnmayer.com Words of wisdom, the DVD includes some behind the scenes stuff not on the VHS.

-Grammy nominations were presented this morning and John was in attendance presenting the nominees for 2 of the catagories. John himself recieved 2 nominations including Best New Artist. Good Luck John!!!

-Grammy presentations! On Jan. 7 John, among others, will be reading the nominees for the Grammy's! The special will be broadcast LIVE on ETV(entertainment t.v.) at 8:30 ET.

-On the live chat, mentioned below, John said an album of previously unreleased tracks is due out in the near future so keep a look out! In the meantime, you can check out some of these tracks at www.thejmtp.com

-John's DVD Any Given Thursday has a slated release of Feb.11

This DVD will include live performances of:

Lenny

Message in a Bottle

Why Georgia

Covered in Rain

and more!

Any Given Thursday will also include a behind the scenes look at John.

You can watch the live performances of any of the mentioned songs at www.johnmayer.com, and keep a look out for Any Given Thursday

-In December John himself did a live chat through www.johnmayer.com, he talks about his new place(in NY), his new music, and much more. You can check out a transcript on www.johnmayer.com.in the news section.

-In December John appeared w/Norah Jones on the Big in 2002 Awards on VH1. I recommend watching the re-run of the show if you missed it the first million times it was played.

-John's song My Stupid Mouth is included on the Aware Greatest Hits album in stores now. Two of John's songs, including MSM, are included on the Aware 8 album.

-John was named one the Artists of the Year in Rolling Stone magazine.

-John's independant album Inside Wants Out has been re-released and is in stores near you and available online at mtv.com, johnmayer.com, and on ebay.

Scotty Crowe had promised us an end of the year Road Journal Extravaganza and boy did he deliver! It's a three part series asking the people of the John Mayer experience 3 questions:

1.) 5 favorite albums of 2002

2.) 5 most memorable shows

3.) 5 favorite memories

the first part will be available to you soon!

part 2.)

Adrian-the-monitors-guy
So St. Louis, just ask his tattooist
09.03.02 Fox Theatre, St. Louis, MO (hometown love)
10.15.02 Silverwings, Berlin, Germany (show was at a techno club)
10.07.02 TV Studios, London, England (an older television audience)
12.06.02 Olympic Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA (VH1 Big in 2002 Awards Show)
09.21.02 FleetCenter, Boston, MA (Mixfest Radio Show)

B-Lump
El Dee
08.22.02 Paolo Soleri, Santa Fe, NM (load in/out was down/up a 500-foot, 45 degree grade walkway)
08.16.02 Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA (no roof to hang his lights)
07.16.02 Pier 6 Pavilion, Baltimore, MD (first show of the summer)
07.27.02 A. Finkl & Sons, Chicago, IL (its a steel mill)
09.12.02 Oak Mountain Amphitheatre, Birmingham, AL (DVD Show)

Ina the Ticket Fairy
Cant do ANEEEETHING without Gary
11.16.02 UIC Pavilion, Chicago, IL (rocked her hard!)
08.15.02 Santa Barbara Bowl, CA (first LA Song performance)
08.24.02 The Backyard, Austin, TX
11.19.02 Kool Haus, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
12.01.02 Oakdale Theatre, Wallingford, CT (In Your Atmosphere was tear-inducing)

Johnny Mayer
Runnin it like Track
02.07.02 Georgia Theatre, Athens, GA
11.27.02 Liacouras Center, Philadelphia, PA
03.08.02 House of Blues, Chicago, IL
05.24.02 On the Bricks, Atlanta, GA (hometown, largest crowd ever)
08.17.02 Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, CA

Ken Helie
The Butler
02.22.02 Irving Plaza, New York, NY
03.08.02 House of Blues, Chicago, IL
04.05.02 The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA
08.16.02 Greek Theatre, Berkley, CA
11.16.02 UIC Pavilion, Chicago, IL

M.C-haves and the Funky Bunch
Asian Persuasion Invasion
06.24.02 Richards on Richards, Vancouver, Canada
08.05.02 City Lights Pavilion, Denver, CO
07.27.02 A. Finkl, Chicago, IL
08.16.02 Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA
10.08.02 Scala, London, England

Old Boi Luke
Keeps it on the Down Lowes
11.27.02 Liacouras Center, Philadelphia, PA
08.05/06.02 City Lights Pavilion, Denver, CO
08.22.02 Paolo Soleri, Santa Fe, NM (the Howard Roark walkway)
07.27.02 A. Finkl, Chicago, IL (the steel mill)
07.19.02 Central Park, New York, NY (redefined rainy day)

Rack Tom Floor Tom
Tu Ning isnt a Chinese Province
09.12.02 Oak Mountain, Birmingham, AL (DVD show)
08.22.02 Paolo Soleri, Santa Fe, NM (ever skied uphill?)
10.10.02 Olso, Norway (interesting show)

Scotty Crowe
In only Vel were his First Name
11.17.02 UIC Pavilion, Chicago, IL (wow)
08.02.02 City Market, Kansas City, MO (a sea of people)
09.07.02 Cary, NC (beautiful venue, nice Portable John intro)
08.17.02 Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, CA (first encounter with my man JT)
10.26.02 The Gov, Adelaide, Australia (worst night EVER)

The Unstoppable Chad
Coiffure Specialist
08.05/06.02 City Lights Pavilion, Denver, CO
07.27.02 A. Finkl, Chicago, IL (did I mention it was a steel mill?)
09.12.02 Oak Mountain, Birmingham, AL (the sound truck was 9 hours late)
11.17.02 UIC Pavilion, Chicago, IL
03.08.02 House of Blues, Chicago, IL

part 3.)

So heres the last 33% of what is owed. This was the most fun list to compile it was an explosive conversation. Ill say this everyone feels so lucky to be a part of this camp. Its more than a family: its like a big crew of friends. Everyone rocks at what they do and has a competitive sense of humor. Somehow, something amazing happened, and were all endlessly thankful to be a part of that thing that is John Mayer. Here you are: some of this years best and coolest memories.

Michael
*Mico
*The Bucket Head Dance during John Butler Trios last show with us
*Short Bus Dance Parties
*Walks in the cold rain with Scotty
*Kill-tacular! (all things Halo)

Luke
*Family coming to the St. Louis show
*Lightning striking the rig in Portsmouth
*Witnessing some extra-friendly girls be nice to each other in Kansas City
*The after-party in Denver
*Seeing Toilet for the first time in London

Ken
1. Meeting Chris Balogh for the first time backstage at MSG and knowing that we were never going to have a production problem ever again.
2. Day off at the Hard Rock in Vegas -- Blackjack, Nobu, Cigars - A Perfect Day
3. Hearing the crowd sing along to Why Georgia on opening night of summer leg in Baltimore and knowing right then that this was going to be an amazing run
4. Using Motley Crue as walk on music at the historic Ryman theatre in Nashville and knowing we were the first and probably the last to bust out the Crue in the home of the grand ole opre
5. Attending Bruce Springsteen's European Tour opening nite with John in Paris and having the luck to be in the tunnel as the E streeters walked out to be introduced -- not something you get to do everyday.

Chad
*Hiking 5 miles to the tower of London on no sleep
*Little brother Travis coming out on the road
*Touring with Norah Jones and her crew

Adrian
*The first Leno experience
*The Halo marathon across Europe
*Walking the steps (more than 10,000) of the Cologne cathedral three times up and down
*Thanksgiving Dinner at Hunan Lion

Brian
*Beating up the kid in Cleveland

Stephen
*"No psychos allowed!"
*Geriatric TV audience
*Rides on the crew bus
*Short bus dance party
*Toilet

Tom
*Thanksgiving dinner

Ina
1. Upgrading the kids and making them cry..felling the love baby,
Wallingford 2nd show were the best upgrades ever!
2. Thanksgiving dinner, watching Mikey eat the lobstertruly an experience
in itself. I will never look at lobster the same again
3. Parking lot party in Richmond...poor Luke...he is such a trooper.
4. Antics in the Production OfficeHuey Lewis in the house...yo! Welcome to
the Phone Zone! CO2? Towels? Batteries? Fed ex anyone???
5. Winning Elvis Presley tickets
Ps...the creation of Gary, whom I love and miss very much. Without him I am
NNNOOOOTHING and cannot do EEENNNIIIEEEthing!!!!
(I should also mention that In Your Atmosphere was Inas song on tour it hit her every time John played it, including the first time in the Production Office)

dela
1. Chad's hair
2. Scotty's hand me down shirts
3. Shopping with John for puppies
4. Chaves's card tricks
5. Matt Mangano's thing
6. Matt Johnson's whole trip
7. Ken's pipe
8. Looking at babies
9. Twin peaks Holiday Inn
10. Lots of fans
11. Chopek on Chopek

Scotty
*Pulling an all-nighter with Chopek in Los Angeles (Huey Lewis on Santa Monica)
*Toilet performing Half of 97 in Melbourne, Australia
*Being able to go to the VMAs and the VH1 Awards show
*Setting new records for stupidity by playing Halo in Europe for DAYS
*The birth and adventures of Mico
*Getting coached by Chad before meeting Kelly Rowland in New York

And, minus a letter grade for each day late:

Chopes Top 5 Albums of 2002
Little Drummer Boy
Paul Westerberg - Stereo/Mono
Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
The Roots - Phrenology
Josh Rouse - Under Cold Blue Stars
Jurassic 5 - Power In Numbers

Stephen Chopeks Most Memorable Shows
Macho-pek Man
05.10.02 Jammin On Main, Cincinnati, OH
08.16.02 Greek Theatre, Berkeley, CA
10.08.02 Scala, London, England
09.12.02 Oak Mountain, Birmingham, AL
08.25.02 Heart of Texas Coliseum, Waco, TX

Thanks to everyone for playing. And thank you to you for making 2002 great for the band and crew. Well see if 2003 can bring it, cause its already been broughten.

Straight from Scotty's typing to you! Yet, I noticed John's favorite moments are mysteriously missing?...