Love the last two posts of this thread (no not this one). the gravity at the Chapel has one of the most blistering endings I've heard and is spot on. -Thanks Pat

I think the band volume going down is incredibly important to a lot of Mayer's work. Don't get me wrong -great post, very insightful. It's not that I disagree about the power of songs to change lives, but it's Mayer's solos that draw me, his music. I can play a ton of his stuff but couldn't sing one of is songs all the way through. I find myself figuring out the incredibly melodic stuff just to find out what the heck he's doing and the more I figure out the less I seem to understand. Just figuring it out doesn't seem to get me any closer to finding out where he's reaching down to get it from. I know he listens to horn players (he mentions Frank Morgan in the audio of AGT) but who else?

So let me ask a question in the interest of learning. Where would you say the influence for those Gravity openers be coming from?