Where the Light Is: John Mayer Live In Los Angeles (Live at the Nokia Theatre, Los Angeles, CA – December 2007)

John Mayer

专辑价格：11.79欧元

FLAC | 44.1kHz/16bit

规格：22首

流派： 流行

发布：2008-06-30

公司：John Mayer

专辑介绍:

在加利福尼亚州洛杉矶的诺基亚剧院录制的《光在哪里：约翰·梅尔洛杉矶现场》中，歌手/词曲作者兼吉他手约翰·梅尔在三种不同的乐队环境中表演：原声三人组、电三人组和大型合奏团。因此，从2003年的专辑《Heavyer Things》开始，到2005年的《Try！约翰·梅耶尔三重奏现场演唱会，以及他2006年获得格莱美奖的作品《Continuum》。从本质上讲，这场音乐会旨在展示梅耶尔从旋律柔和的摇滚和流行音乐到民间独奏数字和摇滚蓝调的能力。总的来说，这种自负是有效的，可以说，这场音乐会确实照亮了梅耶尔精湛的音乐才华。然而，将这场音乐会分割成如此特定的美学声音，会失去梅耶尔音乐会通常具有的一些多样性。需要注意的是，这场音乐会也有DVD和蓝光版本，在那里你可以看到每个乐队，并欣赏乐团的多样性。也就是说，对于词曲作者梅耶尔的粉丝来说，你真的不能输，因为这个家伙很难想出一首糟糕的歌曲，而粉丝们最喜欢的《女儿们》和苦乐参半的《停下这列火车》等曲目真的受益于梅耶尔在这里给他们的原声读物。同样，梅耶尔将《你以为我是谁》、《秃鹫》和他对吉米·亨德里克斯的《大胆如爱》的灵感演绎放在了中间的电子三人组中，为音乐会注入了能量，完美地为最后一个大型合奏集的流行/蓝调聚宝盆奠定了基础。从热门歌曲《等待世界改变》开始，梅耶尔的最后一盘（第二盘）确实是大多数粉丝都会喜欢的一盘，因为它发现梅耶尔和他的明星搭档一头扎进了《为什么是乔治亚》和《我不相信自己（爱你）》等深情的数字中同时也为诸如史蒂维·雷·沃恩（Stevie Ray Vaughan）启发的雷·查尔斯（Ray Charles）热门歌曲《我不需要医生》（I Don’t Need No Doctor）的改编作品（这是约翰·斯科菲尔德（John Scofield）与梅耶尔（Mayer）客串的《我就是这么说的》（That’s What I Say）中听到的数字）等蓝金块腾出了空间。诚然，《光在哪里》是一部庞大而雄心勃勃的作品，但对于梅耶尔来说，它是一个充满活力的展示品，他总是大放异彩。

Recorded at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, California, Where the Light Is: John Mayer Live in Los Angeles finds singer/songwriter and guitarist John Mayer performing in three different band settings: acoustic trio, electric trio, and large ensemble. As such, the evening works as a nice representation of Mayer’s work beginning with the 2003 album Heavier Things and continuing through his creative reinvention as a modern electric blues artist with 2005’s Try! John Mayer Trio Live in Concert and finally his smash Grammy-winning 2006 effort, Continuum. Essentially, the concert is designed to showcase Mayer’s ability to move from melodic soft rock and pop to folky solo numbers and rockin’ blues. Generally, the conceit works and the concert does shine a light, so to speak, on Mayer’s virtuosic musical chops. However, segmenting this concert into such specific aesthetic sounds loses some of the diverse flow a Mayer concert usually has. It should be noted that the concert is also available on DVD and Blu-ray, where you get see each band and appreciate the diversity among the ensembles. That said, for fans of Mayer the songwriter, you really can’t lose, as the guy is hard-pressed to come up with a bad song, and tracks like the fan favorite “Daughters” and the bittersweet “Stop This Train” really benefit from the acoustic reading Mayer gives them here. Similarly, by putting “‘Who Do You Think I Was,” “Vultures,” and his inspired take on Jimi Hendrix’s “Bold as Love” in the middle electric trio section, Mayer builds the energy of the concert, perfectly setting up the pop/blues cornucopia of the final large ensemble set. Beginning with the hit “‘Waiting on the World to Change,” Mayer’s last set (on disc two) is really the set most fans will gravitate toward, as it finds Mayer and his backing group of stellar sideman diving headlong into such soulful numbers as “Why Georgia” and “I Don’t Trust Myself (With Loving You),” while also making room for such bluesy nuggets as his Stevie Ray Vaughan-inspired reworking of the Ray Charles hit “I Don’t Need No Doctor” (a number heard on John Scofield’s That’s What I Say with Mayer as guest). Admittedly sprawling and ambitious, Where the Light Is is nonetheless a dynamic showcase for Mayer, who never fails to shine.
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