{"id":2448220,"date":"2019-09-01T00:48:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T06:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=312110"},"modified":"2019-09-01T00:48:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T06:48:34","slug":"jazz-aspen-labor-day-experience-bras-blues-and-john-mayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/jazz-aspen-labor-day-experience-bras-blues-and-john-mayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz Aspen Labor Day Experience: Bras, blues and John Mayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.6936026936027\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-312110-636\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/John-Mayer01-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/John-Mayer01-682x1024.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"John Mayer01 | John Mayer performing Saturday night at the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Experience in Snowmass Town Park. 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Lynn Goldsmith photo\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/John-Mayer02-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/John-Mayer02-682x1024.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"John Mayer02 | John Mayer performing Saturday night at the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Experience in Snowmass Town Park. Lynn Goldsmith photo\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>John Mayer performing Saturday night at the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Experience in Snowmass Town Park. Lynn Goldsmith photo<\/strong><br \/>John Mayer02<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/John-Mayer02-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"John Mayer performing Saturday night at the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Experience in Snowmass Town Park. Lynn Goldsmith photo\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/John-Mayer03-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/John-Mayer03-682x1024.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"John Mayer03 | John Mayer performing Saturday night at the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Experience in Snowmass Town Park. Lynn Goldsmith photo\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>John Mayer performing Saturday night at the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Experience in Snowmass Town Park. Lynn Goldsmith photo<\/strong><br \/>John Mayer03<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/John-Mayer03-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"John Mayer performing Saturday night at the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Experience in Snowmass Town Park. Lynn Goldsmith photo\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/John-Mayer16-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/John-Mayer16-682x1024.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"John Mayer16 | John Mayer performing Saturday night at the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Experience in Snowmass Town Park. Lynn Goldsmith photo\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>John Mayer performing Saturday night at the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Experience in Snowmass Town Park. Lynn Goldsmith photo<\/strong><br \/>John Mayer16<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/09\/John-Mayer16-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"John Mayer performing Saturday night at the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Experience in Snowmass Town Park. Lynn Goldsmith photo\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/jazz-aspen-labor-day-experience-bras-blues-and-john-mayer\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/jazz-aspen-labor-day-experience-bras-blues-and-john-mayer\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s weird when you play a festival,\u201d John Mayer told the sold-out crowd a few songs into his headlining set at the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Experience on Saturday night, \u201cbecause you don\u2019t know who is there for you and who is not there for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One enthusiastic fan immediately tossed her bra on stage to signify she was, in fact, there for Mayer.<\/p>\n<p>A bemused Mayer looked down at the bra and used the moment to lightly touch on his once-controversial and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/959433\/john-mayers-sexually-racially-charged-playboy-interview-sparks-outrage\">very public past as a sort of tone-deaf sex fiend<\/a>, and to note his more mature reaction to fan underwear arriving on-stage. Bras, the 41-year-old noted, have a practical purpose: \u201cNow I\u2019m an older and wiser person and I\u2019m thinking, \u2018There is someone out there without support.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The quick moment of banter highlighted Mayer\u2019s pleasant self-awareness these days and how he\u2019s evolved in the public eye and improbably drawn fandoms spanning a wide swath.<\/p>\n<p>Just who is John Mayer in 2019? Jerry Garcia stand-in with the Dead? For the past three years, he has been. Heartthrob purveyor of feels in light rock emo earworms? Still, yep. Blues guitar hero? As this set proved, definitely, more on than below. Master of publicly navigating celebrity in the social media age? Surely you caught his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/mjs538\/john-mayers-meatloaf-related-instagram-hoax-is-way-better\">viral meatloaf on Instagram<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>So, yes, all of the above and his Jazz Aspen set \u2013 to a capacity crowd of some 10,000 fans in Snowmass Town Park \u2013 underscored them all. The performance had virtuosic guitar solos for the blues heads, it had a powerhouse six-piece band with dual drummers plus two backup singers in a Dead-like configuration, it had some self-deprecating chatter, it had parents and daughters dancing sweetly to \u201cDaughters\u201d and a big pop song sing-along to \u201cWhy Georgia.\u201d Even the pothead crowd is on board with Mayer these days, as the wafts of smoke rising during his stoner anthem \u201cWho Says\u201d evidenced.<\/p>\n<p>The guitar theatrics were never predictable. Sometimes, as in Saturday\u2019s renditions of \u201cSlow Dancing in a Burning Room,\u201d the head-bobbing \u201cHelpless,\u201d the soulful ballad \u201cChanging\u201d and his encore of \u201cGravity,\u201d Mayer veered off into rollicking solo blues jams (the Jazz Aspen video crew, it\u2019s worth noting, did a commendable job of shooting close-ups of his fingerwork during these guitar passages, giving fans far from the stage a chance to see him at work). But for some of his pop hits, like \u201cLove on the Weekend,\u201d \u201cDear Marie\u201d and the big sing-along to \u201cWhy Georgia,\u201d he stuck to the pop star script and skipped the jams, also toning it down for an acoustic interlude of \u201cDaughters\u201d and his popular \u201cFree Fallin\u2019\u201d cover.<\/p>\n<p>The solos themselves were varied enough that the jam-averse never had an excuse to zone out or get bored. The solos didn\u2019t get self-indulgent and Mayer was unafraid to let his backing band shine.<\/p>\n<p>And for the fans who road-tripped from across Western Colorado to the festival from towns with less glitzy names than Aspen, Mayer had a message: I see you. He mentioned that he flew into the Rifle airport and drove across Garfield County and up the Roaring Fork Valley for the show, crossing our stretch of Earth for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery town we passed, from Rifle to Aspen, I Googled it: population as of the 2010 census, chief exports, median income,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s wonderful country, we\u2019re lucky to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then Mayer added with a grin: \u201cI\u2019m John. 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