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#501: John Mayer/Part 1

Dean Delray's LET THERE BE TALK

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You Can Write a Thousand Ballads on an Acoustic Guitar

There was a thing that worked, which was this connossensitive, sweet, thoughtful, accoustic base thing. And then i just went, well, remember, this isn't what i wanted to do. Writing a rock song on an acoustic almost gota sound like a crazy purse y. If someone overheard you singing a ballad with an acoustic guitar, you play what an acoustic guitar can support? Itsanse out eightfive es per minute. But it wasn't the whole picture. The whole picture doesn't come out for 15 years when you realize, oh, he's kind of a crazy person in the sense that hou's got, you've got a zoom all the way out

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