John Mayer mixed two very totally different elements of his profession in an sudden means this week, mixing his largest solo hit with one of many Grateful Useless’s best psychedelic masterpieces.
“That is gonna be the weirdest factor you ever noticed in your life, and I’m proud to do it,” Mayer informed the group on the United Heart in Chicago on Wednesday evening.
Mayer, who performed within the Grateful Useless offshoot Useless & Firm, launched into an acoustic tackle “Darkish Star,” a Useless traditional identified for improvisational jams that will stretch 10-Quarter-hour or extra.
“I need you to mark it on the setlist, that that is technically ‘Darkish Star,’” he informed the group.
However relatively than take the viewers into “the transitive dusk of diamonds” of psychedelia, he took a flip into “Your Physique Is A Wonderland,” the 2002 smash hit that gained him a Grammy and that listeners both love, hate or like to hate.
“I did it,” he stated because the viewers cheered the opening bars. “I did that!”
Followers joined him for a rousing singalong on “Wonderland,” then Mayer introduced some “unfinished enterprise” and went again into an acoustic “Darkish Star” to conclude the sudden mashup.
Mayer stated he did the track “with excessive love for my brothers in Useless & Firm.”
The “weirdest factor” was captured from a wide range of angles:
