White Noise

John Mayer will you marry me?

Seriously, I love John Mayer. His music makes me smile, even when I am in the worst possible mood, if I hear John Mayer I'm going to smile and I won't be able to stop smiling until whatever song it is that is playing has finished. Now for those of you who don't know, I was able to meet John himself last year (not after a lot of adventures though). Last summer Mr. Mayer was coming to Toronto on tour and I wanted tickets to the concert more than anything but I was unemployed at the time tickets went on sale and couldn't afford to dish out money on concert tickets (since technically they are not classified as a necessity). I tried to win tickets from radio stations but with no luck, then I found out that John was going to be appearing at Sam the Record Man on Yonge St. in TO. He was going to be performing and signing autographs so I knew I had to go. I wanted to be there really early so that there would be no chance that I wouldn't get in but something prevented me from leaving in the morning when I wanted to (we won't talk about why I didn't leave earlier) and by the time I got there the line was HUGE. Anyway, I waited in line and met some really cool people while I was there. I didn't get in to see John that day but if you are familiar with Sam's, there are huge glass windows all around the store so I watched and listened to the performance from outside. It was amazing and I was so happy to hear John sing but after the high wore off I realized I was more than a little disappointed that I hadn't been able to meet him. I started plotting my next move, John was on a North American tour and he was going to be doing a few more of these record shop performances, the next one ( and I believe the last ) was in Boston at Virgin Records Megastore two weeks later. I knew I would need a few days off of work if I was going to go to Boston so I called upon some co-workers for a few favours and got all of my shifts covered for three days. Es got some time off work too so she could keep me company even though I only gave her a days notice. That night we were off to Boston in a car without cruise control (worst idea ever - taking that car), we drove all night and were in Boston the next morning just in time to line up for wristbands. The Boston set-up was a little different from the way it was run in Toronto, once you had your wristband you could leave and just come back at the time of the performance but in order to get a wristband you had to buy some form of John Mayer media from the store. That meant that Es and I both had to buy a cd, a bit of a scam? Yes, but at least we didn't have to sit in a line all day ( which is what happened in TO). We explored Boston that afternoon and I have to admit it is a beautiful city, I'm going back there for sure. When it was time to go back to Virgin, I was so excited, I was actually going to meet John this time. The performance was short but still amazing, he played Clarity, Bigger than my body, Daughters and Georgia and I took about a million pictures (none of which really turned out too well). After the singing, everyone went upstairs for autographs, we had to wait in line a while since there were like 400 people there but it was worth it. As we approached the table I told Es that I was getting really nervous and that I was afraid I wouldn't be able to talk once I got to the table. She told me not to worry that she would start talking and then I could jump in when I was ready (Es isn't really a Mayer fan so she wasn't as star struck as I was, infact I don't hink she was at all). John signed two autographs for me and I was able to muster up enough courage to actually speak to him and shake his hand, I was on cloud nine! No cameras were allowed at the table but Es took a pic of me walking away and the smile on my face is ear to ear. I will always remember my trip to Boston and meeting Mr. Mayer (who was so nice and surprisingly excited that we had driven ten hours to see him). In closing, I would just like to say once again that I love John Mayer and I hope that he never stops making music.

posted by bex @ 6:53 PM