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Originally Posted by WidespreadMule3
Yeah Mayer has really matured. I was incredibly surprised by that interview. Seems like he's really moved forward as a person and as a musician. It's crazy how Trey & John both progressed as already incredibly gifted musicians by playing with the Dead. I wonder if it's just having to learn another band's entire catalog or the actual musicianship challenges of the Dead.
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I'd say both were already "there," but it definitely improved Trey for the rest of 2015. That's one of the best summer tours Phish has had since 1.0.
For Mayer it helped because he was playing jazz really for the first time ever. Not just straight, rocking blues tunes anymore. Help>Slip>Franklin's, Estimated Prophet, Terrapin, etc all helped expand his playing even more. I think personally he's involved in something that's 100x bigger than he is. Any solo artist with a music pulse would probably experience the same thing he is right now. Being around older musicians with storied careers helped deflate his ego a tad too.
To be honest though, ever since his surgery he's been a much more humble person and this was before the Dead projects. Losing his voice really put things into perspective for him I'd say.