Tried and tested...

Listened to the album I mentioned yesterday. The John Mayer Trio - TRY! Good stuff. The boy's shed that teen pop image and has grown into a brilliant blues/rock 'n' roll guitarist. The album has some nice rock enriched covers of Hendrix and Ray Charles and some of Mayer's own work (Daughters and Something's Missing). Steve Jordan (drums) and Pino Palladino (bass) complement him superbly to create what can be simply described as 'good stuff'!
Mayer's voice though is still a bit of a let down... He is an excellent singer, no doubts about that. I heard 'you're body's a wonderland' and 'why georgia' first so I tend to associate his voice best with such songs... For the rocky renditions this time around his voice falters. Though the guitarwork more than makes up for that, one does feel the lacuna of a good voice in the trio.

Bottom line(s).. if you like good guitar intensive rock, pick it up. If you believe that John Mayer is best with a thousand swooning teenage girls, most of them without even a chance in a million of having a body resembling any kind of wonderland, then forget it.

About hangover cures.... no matter what the world says about coffee, orange juice, multivitamins, Jeeves' pick-me-up, water, the powder from some himalayan herb... the only thing that really works is another shot of the vodka watermelon... Alcoholically yours.

Have a feeling that I'm coming down with a viral fever. Time to concoct my elixir involving numerous nefarious phamacological products of doubtful FDA approval.

PS think my bird flu?