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Wong Notes

John Mayer Pt. 2—A Song Too Perfect To Record?

Wong Notes

Premier Guitar

Music, Music Interviews, Music Commentary

4.9587 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The dynamic duo compares signature Strats and talk about songwriting, collecting Dumbles —including SRV’s Texas Food amp, exploiting digital media, influences, and why you should buy at least one album every two years.

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Produced by Jason Shadrick and Cory Wong

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's happening? Welcome to Wong Notes podcast. I'm your host, Corey Wong. Today on the show,

0:06.8

it is part two of my interview with John Mayer. Incredible, incredible, incredible time hanging out at his studio.

0:13.8

And if you haven't listened to the first part, go listen to the first part and then listen to this one.

0:18.1

Since this interview, a lot of people have seen that John and I traded guitars.

0:21.6

He gave me the Nebula version of his PRS Silver Sky.

0:25.2

I gave him a Corey Wong signature Fender Stratocaster.

0:29.0

And a lot of people are asking about what the sonic differences are in the guitars.

0:33.0

I actually just made this little video on my YouTube channel that showcases that basically my

0:39.1

strat is full tilt stratacaster sound the mid-scoop thing I just went all the way in on

0:46.0

like the best Stratocaster tone I could get and with his guitar it's much less of the

0:52.3

mid-scoop thing and my video kind of showcases that because I did a song at Soundcheck and at the gig, and it just kind of switches back and forth. I use my guitar at the sound check, his at the gig. Both guitars are amazing. Both kind of live in their own lane and actually compliment each other really well. I know a lot of people are like, oh my gosh, you're aender guy. What do you doing playing this? Like, don't, isn't it weird if you? It's like, eh, like, yeah, I'm Fender. Okay, I've been Fender for a long time, and my guitar is a Fender guitar. But this is something to me, it's like, sure it's kind of a Stratocaster style guitar, but it lives in its own lane.

1:28.0

They're two different things.

1:29.6

His guitar lives in its lane.

1:31.5

Mine lives in its lane.

1:33.5

It's cool.

1:34.6

He's on tour right now, the Sob Rock tour.

1:36.7

I just saw it in Las Vegas.

1:38.5

It was absolutely incredible.

1:41.0

The band was slamming.

1:42.5

John sounded incredible.

1:43.9

The production was insane. I was so

1:46.3

inspired by his guitar playing. Speaking of tours, I'm going out on tour right now. I am packing

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