Posts Tagged ‘John Mayer’

The first concert I’ve ever been to that involved commercial breaks, and suffered for it. Marketed as a concert with the filming for a TV station only mentioned as a side note, the organizers of John Mayer at the Beacon theater pretty much made an audience pay a hundred dollars a ticket to cheer and create ambient noise or ‘ambi’, as those in the biz like to call it. As Mayer muttered his way through the commercial intervals unscripted and unprepared, there was a distinct sense of being cheated amongst the troops- I mean, couldn’t he at least have prepared a joke or anecdote? Were we only there to serve the sales of his new album?
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