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Dead & Company 2021 Tour Recap: Highlights, Stats, & Top Shows

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Dead & Company , the Grateful Dead spinoff band featuring John Mayer (lead guitar/vocals), Oteil Burbridge (bass/vocals), and Jeff Chimenti (keyboards/vocals) alongside Grateful Dead alumni Bill Kreutzmann (drums), Mickey Hart (drums), and Bob Weir (rhythm guitar/vocals), recently completed their first tour since the COVID pandemic shut down the live music industry in March 2020.

The loosely-branded What A Long Strange Trip It’s Been tour was the longest in the band’s six-year history, lasting 31 shows split into three legs spanning from August 16th through Halloween . The shows continued the band’s established practice of playing two sets of material from the Grateful Dead’s repertoire, focusing heavily on original songs co-written by late guitarist/vocalist Jerry Garcia and the late lyricist Robert Hunter and Weir’s co-writes with the late John Barlow .

Because it was Dead & Company’s first tour since the pandemic arrived in early 2020, new protocols required that attendees were vaccinated or at least tested negative for COVID shortly before the event. However, early in the tour, there were enough no-shows by vaccinated-but-hesitant or unvaccinated ticketholders that people were actually giving top-priced tickets away on show days. By mid-October proof of vaccination became standard for ticketholders to gain entry while the number of no-shows lessened, with significant numbers of ticketless folks doing the one-finger shuffle outside all four Colorado shows and three of the four California shows.

Now that it’s over and we’ve more or less recovered, here’s a show-by-show recap, with our favorites listed at the end in the Top Shows section. We threw in some song statistics and a few other random details along the way too, so kick back, relax, and enjoy.

SUMMER TOUR, LEG 1 – AUGUST 16th – 28th

NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA

After 576 days without a Dead & Company show, the wait was finally over and the first show since January 2020 would finally happen, but not before one final setback from a thunderstorm that delayed the doors at the Coastal Credit Union Amphitheatre (aka Walnut Creek) and the start of the show. No matter. The band wordlessly took the stage to a deafening roar and kicked off a shortened six-song first set with the most meaningful version of “Touch Of Grey” in a long, long, long time.

The band was tight, rehearsed, and clearly happy to be back as well, as the second set’s pre-“Drums” ran eight songs, lasted over an hour, and included “Playing In The Band”, “Truckin’”, and the tour’s sole version of “Spoonful”. On the far side of “Space”, the band delivered the show’s highlight, a stunning debut of the blues dirge “Death Don’t Have No Mercy”, a yes-they-went-there moment if there ever was one, and the set ran so long that the venue’s curfew prevented an encore. Welcome. Back.

After a day off the tour resumed at the Jiffy Lube Amphitheatre in Bristow, VA outside Washington, D.C. After Mayer delivered strong versions of “Cold Rain & Snow”, “Mr. Charlie”, and “Dire Wolf” in the first set, he’d also get the nod to start the second with the Garcia/Hunter classic “Here Comes Sunshine”. This would be the first of several stellar versions of the song he’d deliver on the tour and take to a new level; in 2021 Mayer found his way to the heart of this song in the way that he’s previously done with “Althea”, “Deal”, and “Brown Eyed Women”. Not long after that, the first of only two uninterrupted versions of the classic pairing of “Scarlet Begonias” and “Fire On The Mountain” on the entire tour would be another highlight.

NEW YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA

The tour’s third date was Dead & Company’s first post-lockdown show in a stadium, and seeing the band walk onstage at New York’s Citi Field made us feel like things were sort of getting back to normal. While the fact that the song had been overheard being played at soundcheck took the surprise factor away for some, the band opened the show with their debut of “Let The Good Times Roll”, a staple of Grateful Dead shows from 1988 onwards. Not only does this one fit the vibe like it always did, but the “everyone sing a verse” lyrics also allow monitors and PA levels to be adjusted as needed.

The second set kicked off with “Eyes Of The World” for the only time on the tour, and the “Drums” section would feature the debut of Voices Of The Rainforest , recordings sourced in Papua, New Guinea by Hart that included video footage to go along with them. The tour’s sole version of the elusive “Spanish Jam” followed “Space”, and aside from “Althea” and the encore of “The Weight”, the second set’s song list could have come from a Grateful Dead’s 1974 “Wall Of Sound” show.

We’ll talk more about the tour’s next four shows in Philadelphia, Bethel, Darien Lake, and Saratoga Springs in the Top Shows section at the end of the recap. And directly after them, the opening leg of the summer tour ended on a Saturday night at Hershey Stadium , which was the first night of Grateful Dead music at the venue since the OG band’s 1985 rain-soaked classic . Intentionally or not, Dead & Company’s show paid immediate homage to the peak of that 1985 night by starting with “The Music Never Stopped”, before deftly weaving Weir’s 90s-era Dead tune “Easy Answers” into it, a tricky tune that Dead & Company handle far more deftly than their predecessors. Later, the second set’s highlights came from another kaleidoscopic “Here Comes Sunshine” from Mayer, Weir’s second reading of “Death Don’t Have No Mercy”, and the tour’s sole performance of “Quinn The Eskimo” as the encore.

SUMMER TOUR, LEG 2 – SEPTEMBER 2nd — 18th

MASSACHUSETTS AND CONNECTICUT

These three New England shows clearly meant a little something extra to Wilton, CT native and Berklee College Of Music student John Mayer, who’d posted a photo of the Wilton exit on I-84 and also say as much on the day of the first show. The band would also take the opportunity to actively treat this trio of shows as a distinct group by starting and ending the three-show run (two nights at XFinity Centre   Amphitheatre  [aka Great Woods] in Mansfield, MA, and one at Hartford’s Xfinity Theatre ) by starting and finishing the run with the two halves of “Playing In The Band”, and the band would also split the tour’s first appearances of “Dark Star” over the two Great Woods shows as well. The aforementioned show-opening version of “Playing” combined seamlessly with “The Wheel” to last a combined 30 (!) minutes, while the second set kicked off with one of Mayer’s best versions of “Deal” on the tour, complete with him simultaneously fanning his guitar while repeatedly jumping up and down like a pogo stick.

After Friday’s Great Woods show (which we’ll talk more about in the Top Shows section at the end) and a day off on Saturday, the band made its way down I-84 to Hartford and picked right up where they’d left off, with a first set so stacked that the songs could have actually comprised a 1980 second set by the Grateful Dead if “Drums” and “Space” were added, and included “Shakedown Street”, “Samson & Delilah”, and “Franklin’s Tower”. The second set’s highlights came from the tour’s first versions of “St. Stephen”, “William Tell Bridge”, and especially “The Eleven”, and Hartford also scored the tour’s sole version of “Werewolves Of London” as the encore. All three nights of the New England run were strong individually, but collectively the shows wove themselves together into a distinct trio.

OHIO AND MICHIGAN

Next up was a drive west on I-80 to Ohio and the Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls just south of Cleveland. As the band took the stage Mayer quickly won the “best-dressed band member” award by sporting a black satin shirt that would have passed Studio 54 ’s dress code, and he’d also deliver the tour’s sole version of “Next Time You See Me” early in the show before a strong pairing of “Cassidy” and “Bird Song” closed the first set. The second set truly caught fire with the version of “Eyes Of The World” preceding “Drums”, and the show’s peak occurred via an absolutely gorgeous transition from the end of “Standing On The Moon” into the extended final verse of “Viola Lee Blues” along with a lengthy, standout version of “Not Fade Away” to close the set.

Three days later the next stop was DTE Energy Music Theatre in Clarkston, MI (aka Pine Knob), whose first set featured a rare mid-set placement of “New Speedway Boogie” just before the tour’s first version of The Beatles ’ “Dear Prudence”. The second set’s highlight came early via Burbridge’s gorgeous vocal take on the Garcia/Hunter ballad “Comes A Time”, complete with an equally gorgeous closing solo by Mayer. If you were there you got lucky, because it was the only one on the tour.

Later highlights came from the “China Cat Sunflower” and “I Know You Rider” pairing that led into “Drums”, and the relaxed-but-welcome tour premiere of “I Need A Miracle” following “Space”. The following day found the band moving fast down I-75 to the Riverbend Music Center in Cincinnati for a show on Mickey Hart’s 78th birthday, but we’ll talk about that one in detail later, in the Top Shows section.

MISSOURI, INDIANA, AND ILLINOIS

The summer tour remained in the Midwest for its last week, with shows at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre in St. Louis, MO (aka Riverport) and the Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center in Noblesville, IN (aka Deer Creek) that we’ll go over in detail in the Top Shows section at the end. From there, the summer leg closed with a pair of weekend shows within the friendly confines of 107-year-old Wrigley Field in Chicago. However, before the first show on Friday night , Mother Nature dropped a thunderstorm that caused two delays and worked heavily against the band.

The first set started late, was marred by equipment issues, and was then cut short after four songs. It was followed by a second set whose rushed pre-“Drums” did at least contain the sole “Dancing In The Streets” of the tour, but fortunately, the closing run of songs after “Space” was much stronger, with “Morning Dew” as the night’s highlight. The “Ripple” encore made for a nice finish, but overall, this was a rare off-night.

This wasn’t lost on the band, who’d make it up for it the following night . The first set started with a trio of second-set songs (“Althea”, “Uncle John’s Band”, and “He’s Gone”) and also contained the tour’s sole version of “Little Red Rooster”. But even better was the sprawling, generous second set that ran nearly two hours and contained, in Deadhead shorthand, “China” > “Rider”, “Estimated” > “Eyes” and “Help” > “Slip” > “Frank”. Yes, all of those in the same set plus “Milestones” and “Days Between” too, and after a double encore of “Brokedown Palace” and “Touch Of Grey” the band headed home for a two-week break before the fall leg commenced.

SONG STATS AND FUN FACTS

MOST AND LEAST PLAYED SONGS

Over the course of 31 shows the band played 119 different songs, aside from the “Drums” and “Space” segments each night during second sets. There was actually a 13-way tie for first place in the “most played song” category, with the following songs getting eight airings each: “Dark Star”, “Althea”, “The Other One”, “Deal”, “Playing In The Band”, “Uncle John’s Band”, “China Cat Sunflower”, “I Know You Rider”, “Bertha”, “Scarlet Begonias”, “Fire On The Mountain”, “Not Fade Away”, and “Franklin’s Tower”.

Right behind all those there was a 7-way tie for second place, with the following songs getting seven plays each: “Help On The Way”, “Slipknot”, “Let The Good Times Roll”, “Casey Jones”, “Jack Straw”, “Shakedown Street”, “New Speedway Boogie”, and “They Love Each Other”. On the other end of the statistics, 23 songs were only played once, with 14 shows getting one of them, the Raleigh, Bethel, and St. Louis shows each getting two, and the Dallas show getting three.

2021 DEBUTS

Dead & Company only added three new songs to the repertoire in 2021, but they were all winners. The Reverend Gary Davis  blues dirge “Death Don’t Have No Mercy” debuted on the tour’s opening night ( Raleigh 8/16 ), and Sam Cooke ’s 1964 party anthem “Let The Good Times Roll” opened up the tour’s third show ( New York 8/20 ). Both these songs remained in regular rotation for the entire tour, but the version of The Rolling Stones ’ “The Last Time” would sadly be a one-off, making its sole appearance at Darien Lake on August 25th as a dedication to Stones drummer Charlie Watts , who had passed away the day before.

ALTHEA’S HOT SPACES

In 2019 “Terrapin Station” was the song whose location in Dead & Company shows would constantly bounce around, but in 2021 Mayer’s signature song “Althea” moved into this welcome role. Over its 8 appearances, it kicked off the second set twice ( Cuyahoga Falls 9/7 and Los Angeles 10/31 ) and appeared in the body of the second set’s pre-“Drums” twice ( Atlanta 10/12 and Phoenix 10/25 ), but it also opened a first set ( Chicago 9/18 ), led directly into “Drums” ( Hershey 8/28 ), came out of “Space” ( New York, 8/20 ), and served as the encore ( Red Rocks 10/19 ).

SCARLET > FIRE AND FRIENDS

Another thing Dead & Company setlist architect Matt Busch did to keep people guessing in 2021 was add one or more songs into the middle of the “Scarlet Begonias” > “Fire On The Mountain” pairing, one of Deadheads’ most beloved song combinations since March 1977. This pairing was played 8 times in 2021, all in second sets, but only 2 were “traditional” and flowed directly into one another (Bristow 8/18 and Los Angeles 10/31 ). During the other six airings, the following songs flowed between them: “Help On The Way” and “Slipknot” (Saratoga Springs 8/27), “Viola Lee Blues” ( Clarkston 9/7 ), “Deal” ( Chicago 9/17 ), “Uncle John’s Band” ( Charlotte 10/11 ), “Estimated Prophet” and “Eyes Of The World” ( Red Rocks 10/19 ), and “Touch Of Grey” ( Phoenix 10/25 ).

THE STORYTELLERS SPEAK

Another welcome change in 2021 was that the tour’s livestreams on Nugs.net now had hosts to fill the “Dead Air” before the first set and during intermission. They were familiar faces, too: Gary Lambert and David Gans , two longtime torchbearers of the Deadhead community who host Tales From The Golden Road , the weekly call-in show on Sirius XM’s Grateful Dead channel.

Not only was it fun to watch them recap sets and manufacture on-the-fly conversation to fill the final minutes before the band took the stage for the second set each night, they were also joined by guests of prominent stature from all eras of the Grateful Dead universe, and these are less than half of the names: GD family members ( Trixie Garcia ), OG GD extended family members ( Ken Babbs , Rosie McGee ), those who make official GD music releases happen ( David Lemieux , David Glasser , Mark Pinkus ), a podcast host ( Jesse Jarnow ), a Nugs founder ( Brad Serling ), and a musician or two ( Don Was , Branford Marsalis , Denise Parent , Jeff Mattson , and some random guy named John Mayer).

YOU SHOULD BE MADE TO WEAR EARPHONES

When Dead & Company took the stage in Darien Lake on August 25th , there was a surprising sight on stage right: John Mayer was wearing headphones during the show, though aside from that he played and sang normally. And as soon as it got to intermission, Dead Air host Gary Lambert texted Mayer to ask about them, and Mayer texted him right back so Gary could get the word out: the headphones were to protect his hearing against (further) tinnitus and hearing loss, but they also help him to hear the band more fully, as he has the band’s front-of-house engineer mix piped in, so he’s hearing the very same mix by front-of-house engineer Derek Featherstone that Deadheads do. Want a pair for yourself? Go here .

FALL TOUR – OCTOBER 11th — OCTOBER 31st

NORTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA, AND TEXAS

Originally, the fall leg of the tour was supposed to start with a pair of shows in Florida, in West Palm Beach on October 6th and Tampa on October 7th. However, on September 28th the band canceled these shows and issued refunds, citing “routing and logistics” as the reason and not elaborating further.

A week earlier the band had also added two dates at the 9,000-capacity Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado. This was a surprising move for a band who draws over four times that number just up the road at Folsom Field in Boulder on a summer Saturday , but they’d pull this off by booking the shows on a Tuesday and Wednesday night in late October.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the Tarheel State of North Carolina hosted their second kickoff show of the tour at PNC Music Pavilion in Charlotte on October 11th. The opening “Let The Good Times Roll” was now clearly a band favorite, and it would be the only song of the night that wasn’t a Grateful Dead original. It was followed by an early-show surprise of “Cassidy” in the second slot, and the set’s highlight was the expansive “Bird Song” closer.

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The second set neatly incorporated half of the Grateful Dead’s classic 1970 Workingman’s Dead LP, starting with “Uncle John’s Band” between “Scarlet Begonias” and “Fire On The Mountain” before “Drums”, and finishing with a post-“Space” segment of “New Speedway Boogie”, “Black Peter”, and “Casey Jones”. The following day the band traveled to Atlanta’s Cellairis Amphitheatre (aka Lakewood), which seems to have become a charmed venue for the band. Dead & Company’s two previous shows there in 2017 and 2019 were each among that year’s best, and since it happened again at Lakewood in 2021 we’ll talk about that one in more detail in the Top Shows section at the end.

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Well before Dead & Company arrived in Texas for a pair of shows in Dallas and Houston, the state created one of the year’s biggest political controversies by passing Senate Bill 8, a nefariously crafted abortion restriction bill that’s outrageous enough that it could be overturned by the most conservative Supreme Court in a century. Weir had already made his public pronouncement on the issue by posting photos of his and his wife’s attendance at the San Francisco edition of a national Women’s Rights march that took place on October 2nd, and the band’s first set at Dallas’ Dos Equis Pavilion would say much more.

After opening with the sole “Man Smart, Woman Smarter” of the tour, the rest of the set featured songs about beloved female characters in the Grateful Dead’s universe: “Bertha”, “Queen Jane Approximately” (the only one of the tour), “Brown Eyed Women”, “Peggy-O”, and “Sugaree”. After the dust settled from all that, the second set kicked off with the only “Deep Ellum Blues” of the tour as a friendly callout to the notorious Dallas nightlife district that spawned the song. Later on, the extended version of “The Other One” just before “Drums” would be the highlight of the show, and the band closed the night with one final, gentler political plea via their “Liberty” encore.

The band headed 210 miles south on I-45 the following day for a show at the Cynthia Woods Pavilion outside Houston, with the band competing against the Friday Night Lights of Texas high school football. Two of the first set’s big plays came from the hoped-for songs with local references (“El Paso” and “Jack Straw”), and the second set’s touchdowns came from yet another classic with a local reference (“Truckin’”), versions of “St. Stephen” and “The Eleven” whose jams took some slight darker turns, and one of the tour’s two versions of Miles Davis’ classic “Milestones”. Lastly, there was a classic sliver of sibling-style banter onstage after the “Black Muddy River” encore, an hour or so before Weir turned 74 and Mayer turned 44 on October 16th:

Burbridge: “An early ‘Happy Birthday’ to John and Bob!”

Hart: “The birthday boys…How cute.”

On paper, this was as good as things could get for Dead & Company and Deadheads in 2021, with two shows at the legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, just west of Denver. But just before the first show started, as the temperature was dropping to a bone-chilling 34 degrees, there was a stunning announcement.

Drummer Bill Kreutzmann had contracted a non-Covid 19-related illness and would not play , and Wolf Bros and Ratdog drummer Jay Lane would fill in for him. And when we say stunning, we mean it: Kreutzmann himself couldn’t recall ever missing a show in his entire career, which is fair, because a look through Deadbase revealed he had missed only one, on 11/22/68 .

Rallying, defiant versions of “Not Fade Away” and “New Speedway Boogie” started the show and the “Eyes Of The World” in the second set would be the show’s powerful highlight, but at the conclusion of “Casey Jones”, the cold conditions and equipment issues forced Mickey Hart offstage for the rest of the night, leaving new guy Lane out there on his own for the closer and first-ever “Althea” encore. No pressure, man. It was a beautiful but cold setting and it was definitely a Dead & Company show, but the drummers’ circumstances made for an uncommon night onstage.

The second Red Rocks show on October 20th took place under a full moon, with slightly higher temperatures ranging from the low 50s into the 40s during the show. Lane would fill in for Kreutzmann for a second straight night, and the first set featured a nice run of 70s-era songs highlighted by “The Wheel” and “Black-Throated Wind”, while the 80s were represented by what was possibly the most relaxed version of “Hell In A Bucket” ever. And while the second set was solid throughout and highlighted by “Terrapin Station”, two quick moments after “Space” stood out: during the closing jam of “All Along The Watchtower” Lane unleashed a powerful blast of drumming that rippled right through the entire band, and then got in a second one with the same effect during the climax of “Standing On The Moon” two songs later.

While Lane has played with Weir for decades and was already familiar with a sizable chunk of the Grateful Dead’s catalog, these were breakthrough moments for him with Dead & Company, right after being airdropped into this madness. Two days later, the tour resumed just 25 miles down the road at Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre in Greenwood Village with another pair of shows , and Lane continued filling in for Kreutzmann at both of them. Lane’s surges would prove a good omen for the Fiddler’s Green run, and his new-guy energy would help those shows become two of the tour’s best. We’ll talk more about them in the Top Shows section at the end.

ARIZONA AND CALIFORNIA

The weather warmed up considerably once the band moved on from Colorado to Arizona, but even more importantly, Kreutzmann was back on his drummer’s throne for the Monday evening show at Phoenix’s Ak-Chin Pavilion . Not only were Kreutzmann and the band in fine form all evening, the setlist would make fans of the Grateful Dead’s “dirty 80’s” era very happy: aside from the encore, every song could have been from a 1984 Dead show. In particular, we loved Burbridge’s “China Doll” and the “Let It Grow” from the first set, and the second set trio of “Scarlet Begonias”, “Touch Of Grey”, and “Fire On The Mountain”, a sequence the Grateful Dead would only do twice, on July 3rd, 1984  and July 13th, 1984 .

Next up was a drive west on I-8 to the North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre in Chula Vista, CA, just outside San Diego. Local boy (and World’s Tallest Deadhead) Bill Walton turned up, and beaming visage and outstretched arms were consistently broadcast on the video screens to the delight of the crowd, while the first set’s highlights came from another great “Cumberland Blues” and the “Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo” closer. However, the Chula Vista show would be set apart by its second set song choices, which included five songs from the Grateful Dead’s 60’s era and a looser, slightly rawer vibe to go with them: “St. Stephen”, “The Eleven”, “New Speedway Boogie”, “Death Don’t Have No Mercy”, and “Good Lovin”.

The tour concluded with a drive up I-5 for three sold-out shows at the iconic Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, with many folks taking advantage of Halloween weekend by dressing for the occasion on all three nights. (Skeletons were far and away the most common costume, followed by a respectable number of people dressed as The Dude from The Big Lebowski .)

Both sets on opening night were bookended by a Weir/Barlow classic: the first set started and finished with “Playing In The Band”, with highlights between them coming from “Deal”, “All Along The Watchtower”, and “High Time”. Not to be outdone, the second set kicked off with “Sugar Magnolia” and finished with its coda, “Sunshine Daydream”, with highlights in between coming from a dense “Slipknot!” and a lengthy “Estimated Prophet”. There was a somber note to this set, however, as right before the band started “Sugar Magnolia” Weir quickly said the song was “for Rob”. This rare onstage dedication was for Rob Lawson , Weir’s longtime driver and confidant who was in his final days and who would pass away on November 1st, the day after the tour ended.

Hollywood Bowl’s middle night on Saturday was rolling smoothly along after a first set highlighted by “It Hurts Me Too” and “Tennessee Jed”, and a second set that started with an agreeable run of “Jack Straw”, “Sugaree”, and the classic pairing of “China Cat Sunflower” and “I Know You Rider”. However, before the band could start a fifth song Kreutzmann would leave the stage, and most of the band followed while Hart handled the “Drums” segment largely on his own. It turned out the band had prepared for this possibility and had kept Lane on hand, as he took Kreutzmann’s place for the remainder of the show, which had a heavier, more serious vibe during “Throwing Stones” and “Days Between” before the more upbeat, celebratory vibes of set closer “One More Saturday Night” and encore “U.S. Blues”.

The following morning on Halloween, Kreutzmann took a light tone on a social media post and apologized if he’d “spooked” anyone with his absence, while disclosing that he’d come back too soon from his illness and Lane would fill in for him one last time for that evening’s Halloween tour closer , and we’ll talk a little more about that one in the Top Shows section below.

TOP 8 SHOWS, PLUS 4 HONORABLE MENTIONS

The What A Long, Strange Trip It’s Been tour lasted 31 shows and 77 days, and it more than lived up to its name, as you’ve read here and/or experienced firsthand. Over that time there were some shows that stood out from the others, and we kept track of them along the way. Since this Dead & Company tour was longer we expanded the customary Top 5 to a Top 8, and to 4 Honorable Mentions instead of the usual 3. So with a resounding Rhythm Devils drum roll and without further ado, here are 2021’s top Dead & Company shows, in chronological order.

TOP 8 SHOWS

August 21st – Philadelphia, PA

Just before the band took the stage for the fourth show of the tour, word came down that tonight’s show would have no intermission due to severe incoming storms and would instead consist of one solitary set that had to end by 10 p.m. But the Philly crowd took it all in stride and pushed the band the way they always have, and after a pair of rainbows formed over the stadium during the third song, “Jack Straw”, the band was off to the races for the rest of the night, with the pre-“Drums” highlights coming from Chimenti’s lengthy, fiery Hammond B3 organ solo in “Franklin’s Tower”, and a 35-minute journey through “Terrapin Station” and “The Other One”. However, the faster-tempo-than-usual “Morning Dew” that closed the set would not just be the peak of this show. Instead, Mayer’s closing solo ensured this song was the peak moment of the entire tour, and it will remain one of his signature moments with Dead & Company.

August 23rd – Bethel, NY

One of the trademarks of any band led by Bob Weir is that there’s an avoidance of nostalgia or simply recreating past glories. Weir’s focus is all about creating something new each night, so after a solid first set featuring four 80s-era Weir/Barlow classics, Weir stepped to his microphone at the beginning of the second set and delivered the biggest surprise of the tour.

Since the stage they were on that was adjacent to the site of the August 1969 Woodstock Music & Arts Festival and the Grateful Dead’s utterly disastrous five-song set there (thunderstorms caused life-threatening technical issues), Weir announced a “do-over” of that set, 52 years later. And to the crowd’s disbelief and joy, they’d run through “St. Stephen”, “Mama Tried”, “Dark Star”, “High Time” and “Turn On Your Lovelight”, and it would go a lot better this time. To finish the night off, “Ripple” would be the perfect encore at this proving ground of hippies with the best of intentions trying to make a huge rock festival work before anyone had truly figured out how exactly to do it.

August 27th – Saratoga Springs, NY

The 20-minute “Bird Song” that closed the first set of this show featured a jam with a heavy metal level of intensity, with David Gans and Gary Lambert later declaring it one of the best performances of the song by anyone in its 50-year history. The second set would stand up to it, too, with the front half featuring a sequence of “Scarlet Begonias”, “Help On The Way” and “Slipknot!” that recalled the Grateful Dead’s exploratory 1976 approach to each of these songs, and the show’s peak would be the definitive-D&C-version-so-far of “Cumberland Blues” out of “Space”, followed by Weir delivering the tour’s best version of “Days Between”. On its fifth try, the venerable Saratoga Performing Arts Center finally hosted a Dead & Company show that channeled the intensity of the Grateful Dead’s legendary 80s-era shows there.

September 11th – Cincinnati, OH

For the first time in Dead & Company’s six-year history, a show took place on a band member’s birthday, and the band would celebrate drummer Mickey Hart’s 78th trip around the sun by leading the crowd through a version of “Happy Birthday To You” before the second set, which was inspired and seamless. Highlights came from its opener of “The Other One” that would conclude over an hour later after journeys through “Uncle John’s Band”, the “Help On The Way” > “Slipknot!” > “Franklin’s Tower” trio and another top-notch “Cumberland Blues” coming out of “Space”. The first set stood out too, thanks to a well-chosen run of five early-70’s Grateful Dead originals: “Tennessee Jed”, “Here Comes Sunshine”, “Loose Lucy”, “Mr. Charlie”, and “Looks Like Rain”.

September 15th – Noblesville, IN

The venue we still call Deer Creek once again served as the location for a night of magical Grateful Dead music. The first set peaked with Weir’s dramatic reading of the tour’s sole version of Bob Dylan ’s “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall”, and the second set got off to an unconventional start with Mayer leading the band through a stand-alone version of “Sugaree”.

But from there, the band would head straight to 1969 and stay there for the rest of the set, and if you allow “Space” to be considered the equivalent to “Feedback”, they’d play the entire Live Dead  double album, slightly out of sequence and with the additions of “Drums” and “Casey Jones”. Once again, while it remains rare for Dead & Company to make clear and conscious nods to big, specific happenings from the Grateful Dead’s past, when it does happen the results tend to be pretty big as well.

October 12th – Atlanta, GA

For the third time in three Dead & Company shows at Lakewood, the show made our best-of-tour list. This one started with the best first set of the tour, which kicked off with 19 minutes of “Shakedown Street” and was later bolstered by the band’s then-and-there decision to try out the original, faster 1973 arrangement of “They Love Each Other” without ever having rehearsed it. It worked. But the second set eclipsed it, with an opener of “Playing In The Band” that segued into the first “Crazy Fingers” in two years.

After Mayer delivered his signature song “Althea”, the version of “China Cat Sunflower” > ”I Know You Rider” that followed lasted for an eye-popping 28 minutes, nearly three times the 10:35 duration of the Grateful Dead’s benchmark version from Europe ‘72 . Hart’s segment on The Beam at the conclusion of “Drums” was also the tour’s best, and with all of this it’s unsurprising that the band ran so late with their set that the gorgeous set-closing reprise of “Playing In The Band” would be the final number of the night. But by then, an encore wasn’t really necessary.

October 22nd – Denver, CO

After a first set that drew from six different eras of the Grateful Dead’s live repertoire, the second set kicked off with a stand-alone “Sugaree”. Once again it was a seemingly odd choice, just like it was in Deer Creek , but once again it would precede a continuous psychedelic blast that would last for the remainder of the set. This time, every song (including “Sugaree”) could have come from a Grateful Dead show from 1971, and the set’s centerpiece that was the highlight of the fall leg of the tour: a 45-minute excursion of “Dark Star” > “The Other One” > “Drums” > “Space” > “Dark Star” > “The Other One”.

Sets containing both of these open-ended classics were extremely rare after 1971 with the Grateful Dead, and it’s only happened a couple times before with Dead & Company, but this is the first instance we know of where either band played both songs and split them both in half in the same set. The band knew they’d nailed it all too, and they remained dialed-in for the “Wharf Rat” and “Sugar Magnolia” closers. Oh, and we almost forgot: Weir’s delivery of the “headlight” verse in “I Know You Rider” was the best one we can remember.

October 31st – Los Angeles, CA

Jay Lane had to sit in for Kreutzmann again on this night, but not for the first time; the band used the last night of the tour to stack the setlist and go for broke. The first set was highlighted by the opening “Samson & Delilah” and second-set-intensity versions of “Uncle John’s Band” and set-closer “Terrapin Station”. The second set closed out the tour with a list of favorites and stone-cold classics dished out with no-tomorrow energy, including opener “Althea”, a “Dark Star” > “El Paso” suite, and another strong “Eyes Of The World”. Following “Space”, the band dealt out the first uninterrupted “Scarlet Begonias” > “Fire On The Mountain” since the tour’s second show in Bristow back in August, and then follow it with a substantial “Morning Dew” to close the set. Enough classics for you? The only drawback was “Werewolves Of London” being cut from the encore because of the venue curfew, but by this point one could just blame it on the Dew and smile.

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August 25th – Darien Lake, NY

This day started on a somber note for pretty much everyone who’s ever liked rock ‘n’ roll, as the sad news came from London that Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts had passed away the day before at the age of 80. The news wasn’t lost on the band, who debuted their version of the Stones’ classic “The Last Time” as the Grateful Dead’s Steal Your Face skull logo broadcast on the venue screens with the Rolling Stones’ tongue logo in place of the lightning bolt.

The overall vibe of the show also contained several nods to the time when the Rolling Stones were young men and the Grateful Dead were even younger: “Viola Lee Blues” and “Cold Rain and Snow” date back to the Dead’s earliest days when the Stones were a big influence, but they also didn’t shy away from playing “New Speedway Boogie”, the song that memorialized the one time the bands tried to play together, with disastrous results, at Altamont Speedway in December of 1969. All in all, it was the celebration of the backbeat of one of rock’s greatest bands while also acknowledging that same band’s dark and dangerous side. And, just being able to hear “Truckin’” in Buffalo again was a joyous little celebration all by itself. This show had the dark and the light in spades.

September 3rd – Mansfield, MA

Connecticut native and Berklee College of Music student John Mayer was excited and nostalgic about the trio of shows that took place in New England over Labor Day weekend (two at Great Woods in Massachusetts and one at Xfinity in Connecticut), and the second night of Great Woods would just barely outpace the other two in a strong weekend of shows. The first set featured no fewer than four songs with Mayer on lead vocals (“Cold Rain & Snow”, “Dire Wolf”, and “Sugaree” on his own, plus shared vocals with Weir on “Mississippi Half-Step”), followed by a second set that allowed numerous opportunities for Mayer to run wild as a player, including the big second set jam that started with “Truckin’” and ended over an hour later with “Morning Dew”. To wrap it up, Mayer would team up with Weir to belt out a perfectly-timed “U.S. Blues” encore to send everyone back out into the Massachusetts night.

September 13th – St. Louis, MO

The timing of this show ended up coinciding pretty closely with the announcement of the Grateful Dead’s Listen To The River box set, featuring seven complete shows played in St. Louis from 1971 to 1973. And setlist assembler Matt Busch made sure to take note of the location with “Big River” and “Black-Throated Wind” and their direct references to St. Louis making the first set, and St. Louis native Chuck Berry ’s signature song “Johnny B. Goode” would get its sole airing of the tour as the encore. In between, the second set had a decidedly late-1978 vibe to it, with a “Bertha” > “Good Lovin” opener, and a mid-set “Shakedown Street” before “Terrapin Station” begat “Drums”, with “Wharf Rat and “Sugar Magnolia” serving as the two post-“Space” set closers.

October 23rd – Denver, CO

Numerous shows on the tour were consistently strong from start to finish, but this final of the four shows in Colorado (and the fourth with Lane filling in for Kreutzmann) had that little something extra the whole way through that sets it apart. The first set nestled five classic 1970’s Garcia/Hunter songs (“Shakedown Street”, “Ship Of Fools”, “Brown-Eyed Women”, “Crazy Fingers”, and “Here Comes Sunshine”) in between two of the late Jerry Garcia’s most reliable Grateful Dead covers in “Iko Iko” and “Going Down The Road Feeling Bad”. Following that, the second set’s otherness came from the unusual turns in the jams in the opening “Truckin’” and the all-three-verse version of “Viola Lee Blues” that followed, with late-show highlights coming in the from of “Cumberland Blues” and a mesmerizing “Stella Blue”.

Dead & Company’s next shows take place from January 7th–10th and January 13th–16th, 2022 at the annual Playing In The Sand event in Cancun, Mexico. Get more information here .

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John Mayer concert review, setlist and photos from his solo tour debut in NJ

John Mayer has been working towards this show for a long time.

“There’s no tour in my entire life I’ve thought about more than this one,” Mayer told the sold-out crowd at the Prudential Center in Newark on Saturday night. It was the opening engagement of Mayer’s solo and mostly acoustic arena tour, and the seven-time Grammy winner was laying it all on the line.

The results were nothing less than breathtaking, two hours of raw, peerless wonder.

Mayer made a habit of showing audiences different versions of himself from over the years, starting with the radio-dominating pop wonder initially introduced to the world with the “No Such Thing” success of two decades ago.

He became a soulful rocker in the “Continuum” days. The John Mayer Trio showcases his undeniable skill as an incendiary guitarist. He spent years as a back-to-the-land troubadour, and, for nearly a decade, he’s stunned as a Jerry Garcia successor in the Grateful Dead legacy act Dead & Company. In 2021, he delivered the wonderful curveball “Sob Rock,” a work of yacht rock revivalism that displayed a disarming amount of wit, vulnerability and self-awareness.

Fans can be forgiven for wondering: So, who is John Mayer?

On Saturday night, it was clear that he’s all of the above, and then some.

Heading into the Prudential Center, the audience knew precious little, beyond the fact that Mayer, following an opening set by JP Saxe, would be alone on stage.

“I began my career on stage with only a guitar and a microphone,” Mayer wrote in an Instagram post announcing the tour in January. “A lot has changed since then, but I knew one day I’d feel it in my heart to do an entire run of shows on my own again, just like those early days. It took a couple of decades, but I feel it now."

As for the setlist?

“I’ll be playing old songs. Newer songs. Songs you haven’t heard that I’ll be road testing — all on acoustic, electric and piano,” Mayer teased.

That utilitarian description belies the impact of Mayer, alone on stage, leading a sea of the devoted through a retrospective sing-along across his career to date.

Everything was in play, and what’s remarkable is how, at this point, so much of Mayer’s repertoire is in conversation with itself.

“Neon,” a guitar showcase that’s been a persistent concert highlight since its introduction on his 2001 debut LP “Room for Squares,” was as hypnotic as ever – but 20-plus years later, it’s grown warmly shaggy, with a pleasantly weathered patina that invokes his near-decade spent in the land of the Dead.

Much later in the night, he used a gorgeous double-neck Martin guitar to traverse through the Dead’s “Friend of the Devil” and made it sound, in the best possible way, like a John Mayer song.

Mayer noted on stage that when he first announced this run of solo dates, fans in the comments section of his social media channels quickly began clamoring for deep cuts. He certainly obliged. “Home Life,” a “Heavier Things” (2003) highlight not played live since 2005, retuned to the stage for the first time in 18 years.

“Home Life” is a song that clearly means a lot to Mayer; he has a tattoo for it on his arm, and he prefaced its most powerful verse – “I can tell you this much, I will marry just once, and if it doesn't work out, give her half of my stuff” – by telling the audience, “These words still ring true.”

The “marry just once” passage of “Home Life” echoed a poignant passage in the “Sob Rock” ballad “Shouldn’t Matter But it Does,” played early in the night: “It could have been always, it could have been me, we could have been busy naming baby number three.” It was particularly striking when juxtaposed with “Driftin',” a new song debuted on Saturday night: “Put my leather jacket on to play the part of ‘Bad Boy John,’ the brokenhearted vagabond who wandered into town.”

A consummate crowd-pleaser, Mayer followed “Home Life” with his biggest hit of the night, the 2001 bedroom eyes serenade “Your Body is a Wonderland." He did so in self-effacing fashion, telling the Newark crowd “I have a thing for stupid (and) sincere,” comedically wincing at the song’s “bubblegum tongue” lyric and telling the audience afterwards, “It’s a balancing act.”

Saturday’s show was a surveying job with Mayer, now 45, taking stock of his life and career so far. Using six-string, 12-string, electric, double-neck and resonator guitars, as well as piano and harmonica, Mayer guided the audience through a meditation on how far he (and they) have traveled over the years, and also glanced towards the future.

Following the Newark debut, the tour plays Madison Square Garden in New York City on Wednesday, March 15. The 19-date schedule ends Friday, April 14, at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles.

Mayer will be back in our area for Dead and Company’s farewell tour this summer. The band plays Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia on Thursday, June 15, and Citi Field in New York City on Wednesday, June 21, and Thursday, June 22.

Setlist for John Mayer at the Prudential Center in Newark

“Slow Dancing in a Burning Room”

“Queen of California”’

“Shouldn’t Matter But it Does”

“In the Blood”

“Why Georgia”

“Split Screen Sadness”

“Home Life”

“Your Body is a Wonderland”

“Stop This Train”

“New Light”

“You’re Gonna Live Forever in Me”

“The Age of Worry”

“Free Fallin’”

“Waiting on the Day”

“In Your Atmosphere”

“Friend of the Devil”

“If I Ever Get Around to Living”

"Edge of Desire"

“Walt Grace’s Submarine Test, January 1967”

“Born and Raised”

This article originally appeared on Asbury Park Press: John Mayer concert: Setlist, photos, review of NJ tour debut

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Concert Review: John Mayer at State Farm Arena

Seven-time Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter John Mayer made his second trip to Atlanta in 2023 on his solo tour. The tour is the first time Mayer’s done a tour without a band. Mayer had previously performed at State Farm Arena in March with Joy Oladokun opening for him. After a successful spring tour, Mayer decided to come back to ATL in the fall, this time with singer-songwriter JP Saxe opening.

I started the night in the highest seats you could get in State Farm arena. The setup of the stage was very minimalist, with a couple of rugs on the floor, two pianos on the left side, a couple guitars on the right, and a mic in the middle. There was also one big LED screen in the middle with two smaller ones on the side. JP Saxe opened the show. He's best known for his song, “If the World Was Ending.” Saxe had released his new album, The Grey Area , a month prior and the visuals on stage were similar to the outfit Saxe wore in the cover: Red, yellow, green, and blue paint melting to make boarders for the LED screen.

To be honest, I didn’t like Saxe’s performance. His style of singing was spoken word verses mixed with a Lewis Capaldi-like belting for choruses. All of his songs were sad and depressing and there wasn’t anything special about them instrumentally. But my main gripe with Saxe’s performance was his piano/guitar playing.

Since it was the John Mayer Solo tour, Saxe played alone. He started off on piano before changing to guitar for a couple of songs and ended back on piano. Saxe needed an accompaniment behind him. He was not able to play and instrument and sing at the same time. While playing piano, he would shake his hands off in the middle of a song because they got tired. When he tried to get back on track for a song, he would either be off beat or play the wrong note. This would happen multiple times per song.

Saxe’s a decent piano player, but he wouldn’t play anything interesting while singing. His guitar playing was worse and sometimes he would barely strum the guitar. One song he sang completely a cappella. The only compliment I can give is he got better when he played his bigger songs at the end, but he wasn’t great. This was my first taste for Saxe, and I was not impressed.

After a brief intermission, Mayer would take the stage and started with “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room” on acoustic guitar. Mayer would play the majority of the show on a normal acoustic guitar. The crowd lit up after the first strum of Mayer’s guitar. Even though Mayer had a grand piano on stage, he never touched it. This was because Mayer was sick during this show. After finishing the song, Mayer proclaimed, “Johnny’s got a cold,” and explained that some songs may not sound the same vocally. However, Mayer said that he typically overdelivers whenever he was sick and “to strap in for a great show.”

If Mayer wouldn’t have said he had a cold, I wouldn’t have noticed any difference. He was phenomenal on guitar, weaving songs together by intricate leads. Vocally, he also sounded fantastic and hit most of his high notes. This tour is one where you could go to multiple dates and get completely different shows. Mayer was very fluid with his song choices, often taking sign requests and remembering songs he could play with the key his guitar was currently in.

After the first four songs, a representative for State Farm Arena came all the way up to our section and offered us tickets to a lower bowl section. Because of this, I missed a little of “Neon,” but got a fantastic view of the rest of the concert. The view from the previous seats weren’t great and I couldn’t even see Mayer from the angle we were at. I was only able to see one of the LED screens for the first four songs. So, I was extremely grateful for being able to move seats and actually get a great view of the show.

The Atlanta show was very nostalgic for Mayer. He had cut his teeth in ATL and lived in Duluth as a young artist over 20 years ago. Many of the songs off of his debut album, Room For Squares , came from his time living in Duluth. One of these songs was “3x5,” which Mayer played after explaining the headspace he was while writing it. Mayer also played interviews and promo videos from Continuum and Room For Squares during short breaks for water or a guitar change.

Other than the acoustic guitar, Mayer played two other types of guitars during his set. He played a silver 12-string resonator on “Walt Grace’s Submarine Test, January 1967.” This song sounded fantastic and was paired with water visuals on the LED screen. Mayer would then switch the resonator for a double-neck acoustic guitar for his final two songs, “If I Ever Get Around to Living” and “Edge of Desire.” Both of these songs were Mayer’s strongest from a guitar standpoint, so it made sense for them to go on last.

If felt like an out of body experience watching these two songs live. Mayer’s voice drew the audience in on “If I Ever Get Around to Living” and his solo was astounding. There were no crazy visuals for this song, just a strong focus on Mayer’s talent. On the final song, Mayer dimmed the lights, and the LED screen went to black and white. The screen showed an extreme closeup on Mayer playing out of his mind while flashing lights shined everywhere around him. I’ve never been the biggest fan of “Edge of Desire,” but after watching the song get played live, I think it’s one of Mayer’s best.

Mayer would play a brief encore of “Comfortable” and “Free Fallin’,” but after that the show was over. If you went to the show expecting songs from every era of Mayer’s career, you got your money’s worth. Mayer played four songs off of Heavier Things and Born and Raised , three songs off of Continuum , Sob Rock , and Room For Squares , two covers, and one song off of Paradise Valley , Battle Studies , Where the Light Is , and the Inside Wants Out EP. The only album that he didn’t play any songs off of was The Search for Everything . I’m a little sad about that since it’s my second favorite album from him, but he did have a song from it on the setlist before he got sick.

Overall, I highly recommend going to see any of the remaining tour dates of the solo tour if you can. Mayer gives a once-in-a-lifetime show and proves how great of a musician he is. Each setlist is different, which means you could get songs that Mayer hasn’t played in years or new songs he’s workshopping. Like this show where Mayer played a cover of “Under Pressure” by Queen for the first time ever live. If you’re looking for amazing guitar playing and great vocals, check out John Mayer’s solo tour.

1. Slow Dancing in a Burning Room

2. Daughters

3. Wild Blue

4. I Don’t Trust Myself (With Loving You)

Room For Squares Interview

6. Who Says

7. Waitin’ on the Day

8. Come Back to Bed

9. Under Pressure

10. Last Train Home

12. In Your Atmosphere

13. Something’s Missing

Continuum Interview

14. Stop This Train

15. Something Like Olivia / Split Screen Sadness / New Light Medley

16. The Age of Worry

17. Your Body is a Wonderland

12-String Resonator

18. Walt Grace’s Submarine Test, January 1967

Double-Neck Acoustic

19. If I Ever Get Around to Living

20. Edge of Desire

21. Comfortable

22. Free Fallin’

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John Mayer announced a solo acoustic arena tour featuring 19 stops in North America this week. “I began my career on stage with only a guitar and a microphone,” he shared. “A lot has changed since then, but I knew one day I’d feel it in my heart to do an entire run of shows on my own again, just like those early days.” 

This comes after Mayer announced his departure from Columbia Records last year. John made it pretty clear that he was not calling it quits, stating that, “I love music more than ever, and I believe some of my best work still lies ahead.”

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This tour will be his first solo endeavor since the departure. It will include “acoustic, electric and piano” picks of songs from his discography. Of all the songs he has to his name, here are 20 songs we hope he plays on his solo tour, with a focus on the acoustic and piano favourites.

  • ‘Still Feel Like Your Man’
  • ‘Dreaming With A Broken Heart’
  • ‘Stop This Train’
  • ‘Why Georgia’
  • ‘In Your Atmosphere’
  • ‘The Heart of Life’
  • ‘Free Fallin’

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  • ‘Born and Raised’
  • ‘I Will Be Found (Lost At Sea)’
  • ‘The Age of Worry’
  • ‘Love is a Verb’
  • ‘Emoji of a Wave’
  • ‘I Guess I Just Feel Like’
  • ‘Shouldn’t Matter But It Does’
  • ‘Dear Marie’
  • ‘Daughters’
  • ‘No Such Thing’

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John Mayer Is Hitting the Road Solo for an Acoustic Tour: Here Are the Dates

The singer-songwriter's trek will feature his guitar work.

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“I began my career on stage with only a guitar and a microphone. A lot has changed since then, but I knew one day I’d feel it in my heart to do an entire run of shows on my own again, just like those early days,” he shared . “It took a couple of decades, but I feel it now. I’ll be playing old songs. Newer songs. Songs you haven’t heard yet that I’ll be road testing – all on acoustic, electric, and piano.”

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As for the finer details, such as when fans can buy tickets, Mayer added: “Tickets go on sale to the public Friday, Feb. 3. at 9 a.m. local time. Presales start Wednesday, Feb. 1, at 9 a.m. local time and run through Thursday, Feb. 2, at 10 p.m.  Sign up to access presale tickets now at johnmayer.com.” Tickets will be sold via seated.

See Mayer’s post and the concert dates for the tour, below.

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Here are the tour dates:

  • Saturday, March 11                Newark, NJ                             Prudential Center                   
  • Monday, March 13                 Boston, MA                             TD Garden
  • Wednesday, March 15          New York, NY                         Madison Square Garden
  • Saturday, March 18               Pittsburgh, PA                        PPG Paints Arena
  • Monday, March 20               Toronto, ON                            Scotiabank Arena
  • Wednesday, March 22         Detroit, MI                              Little Caesars Arena
  • Friday, March 24                   Nashville, TN                          Bridgestone Arena
  • Saturday, March 25              Cleveland, OH                         Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse 
  • Monday, March 27                Atlanta, GA                             State Farm Arena
  • Wednesday, March 29         St. Louis, MO                          Enterprise Center
  • Friday, March 31                   Chicago, IL                              United Center
  • Saturday, April 1                    St. Paul, MN                            Xcel Energy Center
  • Monday, April 3                     Denver, CO                             Ball Arena
  • Wednesday, April 5              Phoenix, AZ                            Footprint Center
  • Thursday, April 6                  Palm Desert, CA                     Acrisure Arena            
  • Saturday, April 8                  Sacramento, CA                      Golden 1 Center
  • Monday, April 10                  Vancouver, BC                        Rogers Arena
  • Tuesday, April 11                  Seattle, WA                             Climate Pledge Arena             
  • Friday, April 14                     Los Angeles, CA                      Kia Forum

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John Mayer Announces North American Spring 2023 Tour

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Groundbreaking Solo Acoustic Arena Tour  

March 11 th  – april 14 th, tickets on sale starting friday, february 3 rd , at 9 am local time @ johnmayer.com.

For the first time in his career,   trailblazer  John Mayer  has set a groundbreaking solo acoustic tour for spring 2023. 20 years in the making, this audacious trek features solo performances by Mayer, leaning heavily on his acoustic guitar work with special performances on piano and electric guitar, in arenas throughout the U.S. and Canada. Produced by Live Nation, the tour kicks off Saturday, March 11 th , in Newark, New Jersey, at the Prudential Center and will run through Friday, April 14 th , in Los Angeles at the iconic Kia Forum. Tickets go on sale starting  Friday,   February 3 rd , at  9 AM  local time at  Johnmayer.com . A full listing of tour dates can be found below.

Known for an effortless blend of mind-blowing guitar playing, soulful voice and impeccable songwriting abilities, Mayer has lit up the charts with numerous massive hits such as “New Light,” “Gravity,” “Love on the Weekend,” “Heartbreak Warfare,” “Daughters,” “Waiting on the World to Change,” “Last Train Home,” and “Your Body Is a Wonderland.” The 2023 tour has been 20 years in the making and will feature rare, full acoustic sets from John Mayer performing these songs, and many more.  Singer-songwriters Lizzy McAlpine, Alec Benjamin, and a special guest to be announced at a later time, will open these concerts.

Presales start Wednesday, February 1, at 9 AM local time and run through Thursday, February 2, at 10 PM.  Fans can sign up to access presale tickets via  seated  now at  Johnmayer.com .

A limited number of VIP packages will be available including premium tickets, exclusive merchandise, and more!

Two pairs of front-row tickets will be auctioned off for each show on the tour through  charityauctionstoday.com . All proceeds from the ticket auctions will go to the Back To You Fund, which has supported many charities, including John’s Heart & Armor Foundation, as well as programs supporting at-risk youth and the homeless.

Check  Johnmayer.com  for full tour and ticketing information.

SPRING 2023 TOUR DATES:

Saturday, March 11                 Newark, NJ                             Prudential Center                   

Monday, March 13                  Boston, MA                             TD Garden

Wednesday, March 15             New York, NY                         Madison Square Garden

Saturday, March 18                Pittsburgh, PA                         PPG Paints Arena

Monday, March 20                 Toronto, ON                           Scotiabank Arena

Wednesday, March 22            Detroit, MI                              Little Caesars Arena

Friday, March 24                    Nashville, TN                          Bridgestone Arena

Saturday, March 25                Cleveland, OH                         Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse

Monday, March 27                  Atlanta, GA                             State Farm Arena

Wednesday, March 29            St. Louis, MO                          Enterprise Center

Friday, March 31                     Chicago, IL                              United Center

Saturday, April 1                     St. Paul, MN                           Xcel Energy Center

Monday, April 3                      Denver, CO                             Ball Arena

Wednesday, April 5                Phoenix, AZ                            Footprint Center

Thursday, April 6                    Palm Desert, CA                     Acrisure Arena            

Saturday, April 8                    Sacramento, CA                      Golden 1 Center

Monday, April 10                    Vancouver, BC                         Rogers Arena

Tuesday, April 11                    Seattle, WA                             Climate Pledge Arena             

Friday, April 14                       Los Angeles, CA                      Kia Forum

There’s nobody quite like  John Mayer . He has emerged as a GRAMMY® Award-winning artist, celebrated songwriter, and iconic guitar player all at once. The Bridgeport, CT native introduced himself on the quintuple-platinum  Room For Squares  in 2001 and has earned three #1 debuts on the  Billboard  Top 200 with the triple-platinum  Heavier Things  [2003], double-platinum  Battle Studies  [2009], and gold  Born and Raised  [2012]. In addition to selling over 20 million albums worldwide and gathering billions of streams to date, he has garnered seven GRAMMY® Awards, including  “Song of the Year”  for  “Daughters , ”  and has earned a record seven U.S. No. 1s on Billboard’s Top Rock Albums chart and 25 entries on the Hot Rock Songs chart, the most for any solo artist. In 2015, Dead & Company was founded, with Mayer on lead guitar as well as vocals. Since its formation, the band has completed seven tours, playing to four million fans, and has become a record-breaking stadium act. In 2021,  Sob Rock , Mayer’s eighth studio album was released to critical acclaim featuring the hits,  “Last Train Home”  and  “Wild Blue.”  

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What time is John Mayer on stage at London's O2 Arena?

John Mayer is set to bring his Solo Acoustic tour to London ’s O2 Arena this week to give his audience a cosier take on some of his heartfelt romantic numbers.

The US singer-songwriter is stopping off at the Greenwich venue for two nights, on Monday and Tuesday, as part of the European leg of his world tour. 

Later this week, he will head to the Netherlands for two nights in Amsterdam and then a one-night stop in Paris, before it’s back to our isles for Glasgow on March 27 and Dublin on March 29. 

Here’s what happened last time he played the O2 Arena.

And below is all you need to know ahead of Mayer’s shows. 

Who is supporting John Mayer? 

Madison Cunningham, a folk singer with three albums under her belt. has been given the nod for the European dates. She is very much in the spirit of Americana and will provide a perfect warm-up for Mayer’s soulful numbers. 

When will John Mayer be on stage? 

Doors open at 6.30pm and our educated guess is that Cunningham will be on stage by around 7.30pm, giving enough time for Mayer’s team to set up. 

By recent precedent, Mayer will be on stage at around 9pm and has been winding up with Free Fallin’ before 11pm. 

But don’t leave it to chance; in a recent gig in Copenhagen, he caught a few out by turning up at 8.40pm. Maybe his parking ticket was about to expire. 

Londoners , you’ll be absolutely fine to get home as the Jubilee line is running a good service all the way to Stanmore until 12.20pm. However, it’s always best to check the latest travel updates ahead of your journey.

Can I still get tickets? 

Yes. Tickets are still on sale from £50 for both nights, available from axs.com .

What might Mayer’s setlist be? 

Anything goes and don’t let our guide be the gospel on this. But, for an indication, he played the following numbers at his recent gig in Stockholm . 

Slow Dancing in a Burning Room

Shot in the Dark

Queen of California

Shouldn’t Matter but It Does

No Such Thing

Waitin’ on the Day

In Your Atmosphere

You’re Gonna Live Forever in Me

Stop This Train

The Age of Worry

Your Body Is a Wonderland

In the Blood

Walt Grace’s Submarine Test, January 1967

If I Ever Get Around to Living

Edge of Desire

The Heart of Life

Free Fallin’ (Tom Petty cover)

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There’s nobody quite like John Mayer. He has emerged as a GRAMMY® Award-winning artist, celebrated songwriter, and iconic guitar player all at once. The Bridgeport, CT, native introduced himself on the quintuple-platinum Room For Squares in 2001 and has earned three No. 1 debuts on the Billboard Top 200 with the triple-platinum Heavier Things (2003), double-platinum Battle Studies (2009), and gold Born and Raised (2012).

In addition to selling over 20 million albums worldwide and gathering billions of streams to date, he has garnered seven GRAMMY® Awards, including Song of the Year for “Daughters.” Plus, Mayer has achieved a record seven U.S. No. 1s on Billboard’s Top Rock Albums chart and 25 entries on the Hot Rock Songs chart, the most for any solo artist.

Dead & Company was founded in 2015 with Mayer on lead guitar as well as vocals. Since its formation, the band has completed 10 tours, performing to more than four million fans across 235 shows, and has become a record-breaking stadium act. In addition, $13+ million has been raised to support nonprofits and environmental and social causes.

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John Mayer has announced a solo acoustic arena tour.

The Connecticut-born singer-songwriter will begin the trek at the Prudential Center in Newark on March 11 and conclude it at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles on April 14. The run will also include a stop at Madison Square Garden in New York on March 15. 

Tickets go on general sale at 9am on February 3. Support will come from Lizzy McAlpine and Alec Benjamin on select dates, with a third special guest still to be announced.

Mayer will not be backed by a band as he has been previously. He explained why:

"I began my career on stage with only a guitar and a microphone. A lot has changed since then, but I knew one day I’d feel it in my heart to do an entire run of shows on my own again, just like those early days. It took a couple of decades, but I feel it now. I’ll be playing old songs. Newer songs. Songs you haven’t heard yet that I’ll be road testing - all on acoustic, electric, and piano."

Mayer's most recent album is 2021's 'Sob Rock'.

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John Mayer Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows

Sat March 11 2023 - NEWARK New Jersey - Prudential Center (USA) Mon March 13 2023 - BOSTON Massachusetts - TD Garden (USA) Wed March 15 2023 - NEW YORK New York - Madison Square Garden (USA) Sat March 18 2023 - PITTSBURGH Pennsylvania - PPG Paints Arena (USA) Mon March 20 2023 - TORONTO Ontario - Scotiabank Arena (Canada) Wed March 22 2023 - DETROIT Michigan - Little Caesars Arena (USA) Fri March 24 2023 - NASHVILLE Tennessee - Bridgestone Arena (USA) Sat March 25 2023 - CLEVELAND Ohio - Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse (USA) Mon March 27 2023 - ATLANTA Georgia - State Farm Arena (USA) Wed March 29 2023 - ST LOUIS Missouri - Enterprise Center (USA) Fri March 31 2023 - CHICAGO Illinois - United Center (USA) Sat April 01 2023 - SAINT PAUL Minnesota - Xcel Energy Center (USA) Mon April 03 2023 - DENVER Colorado - Ball Arena (USA) Wed April 05 2023 - PHOENIX Arizona - Footprint Center (USA) Thu April 06 2023 - PALM SPRINGS California - Acrisure Arena (USA) Sat April 08 2023 - SACRAMENTO California - Golden 1 Center (USA) Mon April 10 2023 - VANCOUVER British Columbia - Rogers Arena (Canada) Tue April 11 2023 - SEATTLE Washington - Climate Pledge Arena (USA) Fri April 14 2023 - LOS ANGELES California - Kia Forum (USA)

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    Slow Dancing in a Burning Room Play Video stats: 36: 2: Heartbreak Warfare Play Video stats: 8: 3: Last Train Home Play Video stats: 3: 4: No Such Thing Play Video stats: 2 : Neon Play Video stats: 2: 6: Assassin Play Video stats: 1 : Gravity Play Video stats: 1

  25. John Mayer Tour Statistics: Solo Acoustic

    View the statistics of songs played live by John Mayer. Have a look which song was played how often on the tour Solo Acoustic! setlist.fm Add Setlist. Search Clear search text. follow ... Tour Statistics. Song Statistics Stats; Tour Statistics Stats; Other Statistics; All Setlists. All setlist songs (1255) Years on tour. Show all. 2023 (54 ...