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A lot of the rest is utter waffle though. "The ability to take six straight lines and make them sound like curves and arcs and figure eights - that takes a lot of magic..." Give it a rest, mate.
"I've been working on this new lick for 5 years..." [cue exact same blues noodling that he always does].
Something about the "guitar circle of joy". Ugh. Bad images.
Personally I find celeb endorsees mighty cheesy and offputting, although I understand that's not the case for everyone. This is a PRS Strat, so if you like PRSs and Strats, this is your instrument. But it's so endowed with Mayerness that there's simply no room for the player's personality. The more he goes on about his involvement and that it's his perfect guitar, the less appealing it becomes for me personally, and surely for anyone who wants to take an instrument and make it their own. It's a four-figure fan T-shirt.
"I wanted to move the guitar away from the classic time period and move it into the modern period of Apple and Tesla." So you made a copy of a '50s Fender with a handful of tweaks and a weird headstock? Wow, that's never been done before [sarc]. Perhaps he should have a look at Millimetric to see how bringing the guitar into the 21st century is actually done.
I suspect for a man used to be being very successful, the initial lukewarm response and headstock ridicule he took very personally. Hence he's still plugging the thing a year after release, particularly now the novelty has worn off and he can get a word in edgeways. In the Guitar magazine NAMM article he actually says that he's got more patience for promoting the thing than its detractors have of criticising it. Which is a fair point, the design's in for the long haul.
If it was just a PRS guitar, that he was using, I'd be far more likely to buy.
However, by the time I'm able to afford one, perhaps they'll be more accepted by other players
Apart from that - I love Mayer's playing (even the newer stuff, vs the Continuum golden age), but I can't say I've been bowled over by his PRS move, both in terms of guitars and amps. To me he sounded a fair bit better on strats and two-rocks. Not sure how much of that is down to the guitars vs the amps, signal chain, etc. And I imagine vids on Youtube are not the best way to gauge his new live tone. So caveat emptor and all that
My band, Red For Dissent
If you think the headstock is bad try a Tyler !
The fact that so many people seem horrifyingly offended by them makes me actually want one.
Right everyone, back to quietly appreciating our beige living pods and daily supply of flavourless nutrient slurry.