One thing about Johnny M. is that each show is a truly unique experience. He caters to the mood of the crowd and plays off their vibe. Despite his ever growing popularity, Mayer’s casual stage presence seems more like he is playing for a few fans than in front of a sold out venue. John often becomes so enthralled with his music, that he is taken away from his screaming fans. Yet at every show he manages to connect with the crowd in a different way. "Touring and playing a show every night is just like watching one of your favorite movies several times in a row but with different friends each time," John says. "I get to take it all in every night and see what they think is funny and what's not funny, see what touched them and what didn't, and talk about it with them at the end." He even goes as far to base his cover artists on the crowd and they vary from the extremes of Jimi Hendrix to N'Sync. Thankfully at the July 22nd show Rochester Hills, MI John realized his audience and we didn’t hear any “Dirty Pop” but we did hear the ever so popular “The Wind Cries Mary”. John’s fans are typically college coeds and he made fun of this narrow range of fans even more so at the Meadowbrook show. He called out to a packed venue that consisted largely of college age girls, “Who has a penis?” Getting a laugh out of the crowd, a young man called back to Mayer, “John I want to have your babies!”

I would have to say starting off the set with 3X5 and 83 is always a good way to go. About mid show John broke into a little “Love Song for No One”. The girls continued to cry out as if John was singing his Love Song about them “Searching all my days just to find you / I'm not sure who I'm looking for / I'll know it / When I see you / Until then, I'll hide in my bedroom / Staying up all night just to write / A love song for no one” Not soon after John went into the long awaited single “No Such Thing.” He must get a kick out of seeing 6000 fans scream at the top of their lungs every last line. Just before the “Neon” encore, he sung the sincere lyrics of “Why Georgia” where John questions, “I wonder sometimes about the outcome of a still verdictless life / Am I living it right?” Don’t worry John after a sold out show like that night you seem to be right on to me.

When Meadowbrook amphitheatre show sold out in record time, radio stations from the Detroit metro area were astounded. They would be even more amazed to hear that the show was oversold by about 2000 people. One radio station even commented how did such a new artist with only one hit single (No Such Thing) have sell out so fast. Well I hate to break it to them, but John has been a big deal in the college scene from coast to coast for quite some time now. And really every track on his album, “Room for Squares,” has the potential to be over played on the radio waves. His true success and popularity is unknown to this stations because John has relied more on word of mouth and his dedicated reps to make his music known.