Of all the images I’ve put on this website, ones that I’ve found on Google Images and put onto here to add a bit of variety (have a problem, see my Image Policy), there is only one that draws in the crowds.

Constantly, and I mean constantly, I’m seeing Google Image searches from all sorts of regions come back to here. It is amazing. The image I just found while finding images for this article actually didn’t come with any explination.

The other day I got an e-mail from someone,

Well i was surfing the web and i looked up Adam Levine on Google Pic’s and then i saw one that lead me to your blog, which was the one of Adam kissing John Mayor… why? Do you know?

I remember looking it up for curiosity sakes yonks ago, but here’s your answer. It wasn’t that easy to find, because others, just like myself, mentioned it slightly and never explained.

According to youcurseatgirls on the OhNoTheyDidnt community at LiveJournal, they said:

this was from a concert in august or september in atlanta that i went to this year. it was the last show of the tour and they were playing “pranks” on each other like john and his band played “this love” and also maroon 5 dressed up as groupies and stormed the stage. it was hot.

If you did not understand that, basically it was a “prank” on John Mayer.

In an interview with VH1, James Valentine gave details on how John Mayer came into the picture:

Right after high school I went out and signed up for a summer session at Berklee, which was essentially like guitar camp. I didn’t know a soul when I got there, but met this jazz guitarist from Seattle, and then John. He was 17, and this sorta Stevie Ray Vaughan protégé. At the time he wasn’t singing or writing songs. He was just interested in shredding, like the rest of us.
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Me and John and Ryan, this guitarist from Seattle, instantly clicked and were obsessed with playing. When we weren’t taking classes during the day, we’d go and jam, and we wrote all these songs for three guitars, that were really funny, like these weird instrumental fusion sort of pieces. I kept in touch with John over the next couple of years, and went to one of his early shows at the House of Blues, right as we were still in the studio, I think. I handed him the Maroon 5 songs. He dug it, and eventually we got out on the road with him. He talked about us a lot, and really raised our visibility… which was important for our band.

John asked if Maroon 5 would like to open for his tour during 2004, so they did. Judging by the comment left on LiveJournal, the day was on August 29th 2004.

That is all I could find. The subject seems to be very quiet (hardly any press about it, so could only find peoples first hand comments). In fact, the images for it are pretty sparse. If you would like to show your appreciation for the John Mayer/Adam Levine pairing, for friends or whatever, fanlist website Tangled Squares is there for you to do - whatever (the last update to that site was just for the sake of updating).

What is John Mayer up to these days? Well, there is the John Mayer Trio, with Steve Jordan and Pino Palladino live album out. Plus, he has his third solo album lined up, Continuum, for release next month, can’t wait.