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"Neon" is a song performed by John Mayer and written by Mayer and his former songwriting partner Clay Cook. The two wrote the song while they were known as LoFi Masters. The studio edition of the song appears as track five on Mayer's platinum album, Room for Squares.
[edit] Versions
The song appeared twice in Mayer's initial indie EP, Inside Wants Out, once simply under the title "Neon", which is a vocal acoustic version, and a second time as "Neon 12:47 AM" which is a live version with a full band, but was notably much shorter than the first version. Mayer then re-recorded the song for his first full studio album, Room for Squares, merging elements of the two EP versions (i.e., the length and lyrics of the first and full band from the second). The song has later appeared on two of Mayer's live albums; Any Given Thursday, and returning to its acoustic form as a guitar and vocal duet between Mayer and David Ryan Harris on the album as/is.
[edit] Guitar use on "Neon"
The guitar from the cover of Room for Squares is the guitar which Mayer plays on "Neon". "Neon" is the only song from the album that Mayer used this guitar for, and he has the guitar tuned uniquely with the low E string dropped to C (i.e., CADGBe). This is not, however, Drop C tuning, as Drop C has the E string dropped to C and all other strings dropped by one whole step (I.e. CGCFAD). The style employed by Mayer for the piece is noted for the strumming hand only using the thumb and index finger.
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