“I could finally quieten down this noise in my head... the best in the room is sitting over there – and it doesn’t have to maybe be me”: John Mayer says that when Jeff Beck was in the room, he felt he could finally relax about his guitar playing

John Mayer and Jeff Beck.

John Mayer has discussed the strange sense of relaxation he experienced whenever he was in the same room as Jeff Beck – with the virtuoso describing the feeling of a weight being lifted when he found himself in the orbit of the late electric guitar icon.

Mayer made the comments in an appearance on a recent episode of the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast [below], following an anecdote from O’Brien about his own experience watching Mayer perform.