John Mayer Plays Emotional Tribute To Jerry Garcia At End Of Phoenix Concert
By Scott Bernstein Aug 3, 2017 • 7:00 am PDT
John Mayer has ended each show of his The Search For Everything Tour by sitting down at a piano and delivering a solo piano rendition of “You’re Gonna Live Forever In Me” off his recently released album. Mayer called an audible on Tuesday night in Phoenix as he instead honored what would have been Jerry Garcia’s 75th birthday had the Grateful Dead guitarist not tragically died in 1995.
The rest of John’s show at Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix on Tuesday stuck to a similar gameplan to other tour stops. Up first was a full band segment followed by an acoustic interlude, John Mayer Trio section and full band reprise. After an initial encore of “Born & Raised” and “Gravity,” Mayer returned to the stage by himself. The Dead & Company guitarist sat down at the piano and banged out a beautiful version of “Friend Of The Devil.” Mayer thanked the crowd as “Ripple” played over the P.A.
Watch fan-shot footage of “Friend Of The Devil” captured by laurapa202:
Setlist
- Moving On and Getting Over
- Clarity
- Helpless
- Rosie
- Who Says
- Your Body Is a Wonderland
- Dreaming With a Broken Heart
- Walt Grace's Submarine Test, January 1967
- Free Fallin'
- Who Did You Think I Was
- Vultures
- Every Day I Have the Blues
- In the Blood
- Stop This Train
- Edge of Desire
- Slow Dancing in a Burning Room
- Waiting on the World to Change
- Born and Raised
- Gravity
- Friend of the Devil
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