John Mayer - Clarity
On my mission once there was this Busan stake music festival thing. It was apparently like a tradition that the stake president would ask the mission president to get the missionaries to make a little number. The year before (and I think the year before that too) the mission president told the missionaries to make a little "band".
Thus began one of the weirdest experiences of my mission. basically for like 3 P-days in a row we would get reimburssed to take the bus down to Busan and jam for like 5 hours. We listened to music, played like Led Zeppelin songs and just goofed off basically. But it was like Church-sanctioned Mission-President approved goofing off. President Song was a real hard-line, nose to the grindstone type of guy, so it was really odd. I remember him walking past while we were just kinda jamming to some pretty heavy guitar stuff and he just smiled and gave us a big thumbs-up.
Anyway, Geoff Cooper was the guy who spearheaded the whole thing. My MTC comp Ryan Holman was playing drums and he told Cooper I played bass so he got me to do it. Cooper is an amazing musician and a real big John Mayer fan so we played Clarity and Waiting on the World to Change. It kinda got me into John Mayer, before I had really just thought of him as some pop singer, but getting into the stuff and dissecting his music revealed a lot of complexity that i didn't realize before. Continuum helped a lot too, after I got home, it was a favorite album of mine for a while.
I wouldn't say it was the highlight of my mission, but it was definately an experience. In any case, we sounded pretty damn good.
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