1- John Mayer is a guitar collector and has collaborated with elite guitar companies to design his own instruments. He owns over 200 guitars
2- When he was 13, his father rented a guitar for him
3- Since 2015, Mayer has been touring with Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead.
4- While he was in high school, he started playing guitar at bars and other venues
5- In middle school, John Mayer played clarinet with little success
6- John Clayton Mayer was born on October 16, 1977 in Bridgeport, Connecticut
7- John Collects Watches
8- Mayer was stricken with cardiac dysrhythmia when he was seventeen, spending a week in hospital. The experience motivated him to write his first song. Admitted as a patient, and discharged as a songwriter.
9- John speaks Japanese.
10- With the June 2004 issue of Esquire, Mayer began a column called “Music Lessons with John Mayer”
11- By 2014, he had sold a total of over 20 million albums worldwide.
12- Michael J. Fox’s rockin’ guitar solo in Back to the Futureinspired Mayer to pick up the instrument at age 13.
13- He stopped drinking after having, what he says, was a six-day hangover after Drake’s 30th birthday party