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Steve Jordan Made Continuum With John Mayer. 20 Years Later He Tells All

Ed Struijlaart

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Steve Jordan (co)produced and played drums on Continuum, the album that turned John Mayer into a guitar hero. Twenty years later, he tells the whole story: the trio that started in a single day, the label boss who didn't hear a hit, and the trio album that's still in the can. And he talks about playing on 6 new John Mayer tracks for John's upcoming album!

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CHAPTERS
0:00 Cold open & intro
1:23 Steve Jordan joins the show
1:40 Meeting John Mayer
4:05 Stitched Up & Herbie Hancock
8:53 How the John Mayer Trio started
13:33 Try! John's stake in the ground
14:50 The label didn't believe in it
20:18 Waiting On The World To Change
22:40 The sound of Continuum
28:21 Choosing drums for every song
30:30 In Repair: written in one day
31:47 A tour booked before there were songs
33:23 Memphis & the Al Green mic
34:43 Steve's favorite Continuum track
35:27 How Vultures was born
41:23 The lost trio album
43:29 Jazz Foundation of America
53:09 New projects: The Verbs, Robert Cray, Buddy Guy
56:50 John's new album

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20 Comments

@EdStruijlaart Creator 1 month ago (edited) Pinned

Steve gave me over an hour of Continuum stories. Which Continuum track means the most to you? (Nederlandse kijkers: dit najaar toer ik met de theatershow Gitaarmannen 4: Continuum over dit album, kaarten via gitaarmannen.nl/continuum

@gabrielbenjamin3171 1 month ago (edited)

Steve was definitely talking about Over and Over at 18:40

@Shobhit.30 1 month ago

This is basically a treasure chest for John Mayer fans, My inner John Mayer nerd is having the time of his life 😂...Great interview 💙

@mvm3016 1 month ago

I’ve been following Steve since he was a teenager playing. If anybody hasn’t checked out his playing on John Schofield “who’s who“ it’s worth it if you could find it. His early days with the Letterman band but so much session work. Steve is one of those rare drummers that not only is a master of what he does but is the complete musician who understands music better than most drummers.

@handsolo1546 1 month ago

Steve Jordan is so effortlessly badass. His drumming on Motherless Child with Clapton, Live version and John Mayer Aint no sunshine Crossroads are the best music I have ever heard.

@JonasArthurMusic 1 month ago

To this day, I have yet to hear anyone compliment Steve on what a great singer he is! Go back to John Meyer‘s live in LA from 2007 and listen to that trio set. It’s not Pino harmonizing, but Steve!

@lckl74 2 weeks ago

This is a gem, thank you so so much

@bluesman6873 1 month ago

Wooow man.... wat een genot!

@jimib3 1 month ago (edited)

I wonder if the secret song is over and over. But John did play it on his radio show so maybe not

@harryplaysdrums 1 month ago

Great interview! Steve’s my all time favourite. Continuum if my favourite album of all time and Steve’s contribution changed my approach to drumming and now production.

@CamiloVelandia 1 month ago

Amazing!!!!!! So many gems!

@jerrythomas9041 1 month ago (edited)

Great interview!!! You really did your research. Also Steve is a genius on his approach to every song

@JordanAllenClark 1 month ago

SJ, the GOAT ❤

@LucasHaneman 1 month ago

Man, I love your videos. This one was really special to me as the album was an important part of my musical development as well. The only questions I would’ve loved you to ask are what that symbol actually was, and what the bass drum actually was on “waiting on the world to change. “ :-) great great interview.