Chords for John Mayer - Jones Beach Back Stage Tour (part 1).wmv

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[Bm] Hello everybody!
_ Out there on [C] Ustream land, it's John Mayer here at Jones [Bm] Beach in Wontog,
[Ab] New York.
_ We are here right before soundcheck and I thought that I would take you around
a real backstage tour.
Everybody always says, hey can I come backstage, can I come backstage.
I say there's [B] nothing much backstage and then the more I think about it I realize actually
there is really cool stuff backstage and I should give you the official first ever real
tour.
[Gb] So the first thing to note is that Jones Beach was built over 600 years ago and if
you're speaking a different language put your headphones on.
There's also simulcast going.
No this is the first place I ever saw a show, Jones Beach, 1996, Dave Matthews Band and
[B] actually Dion Ferris featuring a younger David Ryan Harris playing guitar.
A little trivia
for you.
The layout of Jones Beach is a little bit different than most venues.
Come along
and we'll show you.
Because it's on the water it's a little [Ab] bit more of a run around [E] to
get where we're going.
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_ _ [Eb] _ _ This way. _ _
[B] _ _ _ This is my breathing apparatus. _
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So I have to admit I'm
not all that jaded [Bb] because the first time you walk [Ab] and see Jones Beach again, [Gb] you walk
you realize this is where the show is going to go [N] on.
_ [Gb] Where so many great shows go on
all the [N] time.
I have to say it's up there with Madison Square Garden and Hollywood Bowl. _
_ And the weather's holding up.
It's going to be [Gb] beautiful.
Surrounded by water.
_ _ So let's
go walk up on stage.
Because there's water all over the back, you know, there's a_ _ _ _
Get on the [D] stage from the front.
_ How everybody gets there.
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_ _ Okay so now we're backstage.
[G] We're
officially now.
This is where you would not [Gb] have been able to come through.
You can come
through.
_ [Db] This is where you would not have been able to come through.
This is where somebody
would have said stop can I see your pass.
So now we are officially backstage. _
So we're
on stage right.
[Bb] That's Guitar Land.
_ This is I believe some train stuff and some rowdy
stuff.
I mean [Gb] that's all rowdy [E] stuff actually.
_ _ Who's wheezing [D] here?
_ _ _ _ _ This [C] is Guitar World
here.
Many many options.
Far too many.
And that would be the first of a long [C] list of
luxuries in my life that I'm super thankful for because this is like a guitar shop on
wheels.
And kept [Ab] in perfect tune and order by [D] one Rene Martinez who I think is [G] sitting
there. _ _ _ _ _ _
[N] And we'll see more of the stage later when we go out there. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ So now we're going to
enter sort of the mother brain of the backstage.
This is Chad Franskowiak, [Db] runner house engineer.
A message to you Rudy.
Who's Rudy?
We're on Ustream right now.
Hi.
Streamers?
[F] Yes.
_ _ [Eb] This is Ina's room.
[Gb] So the first thing [Db] _ that's sort of a [Fm] unique thing is that for me the
backstage is not like Rockstar and then everybody else sort of like serving me.
It's like I
[Eb] think of the backstage like the backstage at the Tonight Show or Letterman like a talk
show sort of like television backstage where everybody's working on the same production
_ [F] and this is Ina.
She's not there right now but Ina does ticketing.
If you've ever been
given a ticket upgrade, Ina was responsible for that and she wrestles the big guys [N] for
the money at the end of the night.
_ _ Some roller casings. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ There's no other backstage like Jones
Beach.
Most of them are pretty universal but this one is pretty unique.
_ So we'll go around
this way.
This is catering, a little catering hut. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[B] _ _ [Bb] _ _ This is the heart of the tour.
This is
the production office.
This is everybody working hard on advancing [Bb] where we're going
next, [F] hotels, travel, ticket requests, [Bb] _ pretty much everything.
Everything [G] ends up sort of
being done here so if I [Bbm] put a request in to somebody or someone else puts a request in,
it usually ends up getting administered here. _
Charging some radios.
Assistant [Bb] tour manager
down the hall. _ _
[Gb] _ _ So yeah, for most of the day, this is where you can pop in and hang out
and pretty much I bug everybody.
I'm like I just want to play and everyone else is doing
real work so they have to still sort of [F] humor whatever I want to talk about while they're
sending emails and being on the phone and stuff so I'm a nuisance most of the day, [Ab] _ sort
of. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ Ken Healy, he's shy.
Say hi to Ustream.
Hello Ustream.
_ _ This is a real [N] dressing room
tour.
This is not a get the dressing room ready, there's going to be a tour dressing
room tour.
So this is the official, legit, real deal dressing room tour.
I haven't changed
a thing about it.
These are my road cases.
_ Yeah, I got a lot of shoes.
This is my sort
of my traveling computer world with phones.
This is my office.
This is my little baby
office that rolls.
_ _ _ It's the same phone number every day.
I run a digital phone line.
I can
sit and have the same sort of settings on everything.
I just have the screen in front
of me.
_ _ This is kind of unique to the backstage.
We got the bar area.
It's fun to hang out
in before and after the show.
_ You've got, _ you know, fitness is really an easy thing
to do when you're on a summer tour.
You can run the stairs, you can run the grass over
the amphitheater and then come in and do a little bit of weight work.
[Db] _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ And then [Db] _ _ this is
my sort of wardrobe [Bb] area, my closet of sorts. _
This is where I just [Eb] sit and think about
what I'm going to wear.
I just sit and ruminate _ _ on what exactly I'm going to piece together
normally.
[F] _ _ _ [G] _ This is a collection of what I believe to be the finest plaids in the world. _
So I'm
going to break one of these out tonight.
Maybe I'll go for this [B] tonight. _ _
How many pop the
tags at, see?
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And _ [B] that's the dressing room.
[Gm] There's not a ton to do [E] in a dressing room.
There's always a stack of things to sign.
This is sort of like a [Db] traveling lawsuit. _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ [G] I would show you the refrigerator, but that's way too cribs.
[N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Oh, you know what?
Let's go
upstairs.
I've seen a show here one time.
I saw Sting up from this box.
Sort of like
the VIP ticket holder box area.
It's actually a really fun, I would like to do a show from
up here. _ _ _ _
[Db] _ _ _ _ This is where you would stand with other industry people and pretend to pay attention.
[Gb] Basically just talk about each other's work.
_ [Ab] The artist below.
[E] _
_ _ _ _ I don't believe this was
[N] here last time, which makes me want to ask what exactly happened to cause this to get
put up. _
_ _ _ _ _ Let's get a 3D view of this. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ And this stage starts getting set up at like 9 o'clock
in the morning.
So definitely all my respect goes out to the crew for setting the stage
up. _ _ _ _
_ _ [Db] It doesn't take as much to break it down, obviously.
[Ab] I think they've got it down to
like 90 minutes or [F] 70 minutes, somewhere in there.
But [Bm] setting up is obviously much, much
longer.
So [N] everything that seems second nature to me technologically is because these guys
sorted everything out for hours. _
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