In essence, John Mayer is no longer telling magazines that his penis is racist. That's an old data set—decades old. John Mayer is no longer that boy. John Mayer is a man now. John Mayer is a man who recently blew up a Winnebago."Some people still say, 'That guy’s a dick,'' acknowledges Mayer. "And I go, 'Well, any of that data you’re working off of is really old.' I mean, I can tell you for sure that I haven’t been a dick in many years. That’s a really outdated take."
John Mayer is a man who soundtracks breakfasts, and he's fine with that.Last year, for his 40th, Mayer and some pals blew up a Winnebago. This was in Montana, a little ahead of his actual birthday. Chad Franscoviak, Mayer’s longtime sound engineer, arranged the whole thing, a surprise dinner theater-type excursion in which Mayer and some other “good guys” jumped in a vehicle loaded with paintball guns to chase some “bad guys” to their hideout -- the vintage Winnebago, tucked in a quarry. Mayer and Franscoviak loaded it up with actual explosives, Mayer fired an actual 50-caliber rifle into it, and … kablooey. Then they sent their cars off a cliff.
John Mayer is a man who thinks about Mason Ramsey "a lot.""I would love to make music for the club," says Mayer, the same way he says most things: in a patient, matter-of-fact tone, with a hint of amusement at his own complexity. "I make music for the omelette on the Sunday after the club, and I’ve got to be OK with that, and I am OK with that."
Yes, John Mayer stares into the abyss. But only when his phone dies.He lights up talking about the 11-year-old Walmart Yodeling Boy, Mason Ramsey, whose Instagram handle is @lilhankwilliams: “An interesting case … What if he’s singing about, like, having money stolen from him? Him with 14-year-olds—14 being the oldest person in the band—and they’re singing about shooting dice and breaking a bottle over someone’s head? Yo, I’m in."