John Mayer Erases His Blog: "Done & Dusted & Self-Conscious"

Grammy-winning singer/songwriter John Mayer has dropped "blogger" from his list of hobbies. He had taken to posting musings on ex-girlfriends and the importance of designated drivers and the MacBook Air, but no more.

Where his personal blog once existed is now the message (see below) reading "Done & Dusted & Self-Conscious & Back to Work." His archives have been erased. In smaller print is a quote from Prussian military theorist Carl Von Clausewitz: "There is danger in theoretical speculation of battle, in prejudice, in false reasoning, in pride, in braggadocio. There is one safe resource, the return to nature."

Interestingly, Mayer linked the "n" in "speculation" to a time travel forum with the topic title of "Positive, Negative and O Vortexes".

Just last week Mayer defended ex-girlfriend Jessica Simpson on the blog against the tidal wave of criticism she received for now-boyfriend Tony Romo's poor NFL performance.

Comments

[BirdsEatCats]

He's got a soft voice with no depth. He does the best he can with it.
He's also the romantic, sensitive type.
Not impressive, but that's who he is. He knows who loves him (legions of nubile teeny boppers) and he makes them happy. Very happy. Very very happy.
He deserves his success for doing his job as well as he does.
I bet you he won't end up an obese junky, dying of a heart attack in a rehab, or OD'ing.
Should he mess up his life up so he can be miserable and play blues just to satisfy some of the people commenting here?

[ErrinF]

Now if he'll just erase that Stevie Ray Vaughn tattoo, I'll be happy.

[PlanetKansas]

Take care of yourself John. You are a rare talent in an era where most of your contemporaries are mere packaged corporate product.

Success is becoming surreal, you are still very young, everybody wants a piece of you, and you don't know what your next encore will be. Keep care of yourself, know who your real friends are and where your money is, and try to find another hobby to take up all of the long hours between gigs. I suggest taking up golf and spend some time with Eric and Willie who have been there before you.

[ez14livin]

i would like to think i have an ear for good guitar, and mayer does impress me...

however, once he opens his mouth to sing i am instantly reminded of the flute player (timothy franks?), who did a song called 'popsicle toes'

weak and wimpy and no complement at all to the balls of his guitar. he needs to find a lead singer

[writeaway]

I saw Mayer on Austin City Limits on the last number of the show and thought he was pretty danged good. Had to wait for the credit roll to see who he was. I knew of him but not familiar with his music.

[mikelartist]

He is a great musician. I admire that he walked away from the "pop crap" (some of which I liked and still do).

A friend of mine is a monster tenor sax jazz musician and he worked a grammy show recently where he heard Mayer rehearsing with some musical giants. My friend, just back from living 15 musical years in Brazil, remarked to me "Have you heard this guitarist named John Mayer? He is incredible"

At first I didn't think he was being serious or he may have been talking about someone else. I thought this because my sax friend is extremely discerning. It has to be quality for him to notice. By the way, he is teaching now at the Manhattan Conservatory of Music. We are both counted among John Mayer's growing fans of his new music.

I concur with Mayer's new focus. Everything else is just a distraction.

I can't wait to hear the results.

[BamaRainbow]

All the LOSERS on here bashing John's musical ability seem only ticked off that he's popular . If the man were playing small clubs and selling his music solely online or making cheap tapes to sell at the clubs and didn't get any attention beyond some specialty music rag, then all these haters would be singing his praises and trashing anyone who had never heard (or heard of) him as "not knowing anything about music".
I've seen John in concert twice, and NO ONE seemed unhappy with his shows, even when he went off and quit playing "the pop sh#t" as he referred to it.
What is truly amazing is how so many people will go out of their way to actively HATE music or musicians/­performers they don't particularly care for when the far more reasonable thing would be to simply IGNORE it/them. You don't like John? Fine. No problems. But might I ask (somewhat rhetorically) why the hell did you bother clicking the link to read this story in the first place? Seems to me that shows more about your lack of a real life than anything else. I'd think that if you really had things to do, you'd pay attention to things you CARED about rather than spend a couple of minutes reading about someone you don't like and then actually posting a reply. Obviously, the haters here have no real life of their own so they just feel a compulsion to bash someone just because they can.

[Helpknot]

I remember the only time I saw him play. He had been contracted to open for Phil Lesh at the Warfield in SF. Now, deadheads are a fairly sophisticated audience as far as music goes, we listen, and a goodly number of us have at least a passing understanding of music theory, history, structure etc.

I sat through his set with an ever increasing dislike. He was playing passable guitar, both the straight blues numbers and the more modern poppy stuff, but he kept gyrating and shaking his ass for the teeny bopper girls screaming in a register nearly beyond the human range of hearing.

His ego outshone his playing. It became boring verey quickly.

The scuttlebutt was that he had been lined up to come out and play with Phil's band later in the evening as well, but he never did.

I have a feeling Phil was just as happy that he did not, and he was never invited back again.

Now, if you want to talk about talented young musicians, take a gander at the work Jackie Greene has been putting out. Then tell me that he is not light years beyond Mayer in both emotional and musical maturity.

[Blurp]

What's the 30 seconds on this "vortex" thing?

[vegasobserver]

Someone needs to shove that Clausewitz saying under the Shrub's nose.

[asmir]

When he plays the blues he is outstanding, when he plays the girlie music, he is terrible.

[OpusIsUnderTheBed]

You have more to do then blog to us. Get doing.

[jubo]

Who is John Mayer?

[realitytrumpsbull]

After the initial thrill is gone of venting your spleen online, and making choice comments at-will about topics various and sundry, what's really left? Politics? Well, there's plenty of that, a lot of it is B.S., and a lot of that B.S. has to do with money that people had, think they have, or would like to have, or conversely, how far in the hole they've been tempted to go. At least when you're blogging, or reading a blog, there isn't an interruption every 3.5 minutes for a beer ad or something.
I used to 'blog, too, but I'm all blogged out.
This site's kind of fun, though. HuffPo gets a few lively debates going. Not sure if it really accomplishes a whole lot, but it does pass the time...

[jackrabbit]

Hey! Is that a pic of Mayer or a young Jay Leno?