John Mayer rocks mask in Beverly Hills… ahead of Grateful Dead streaming event

Seven-time Grammy winner John Mayer made sure to protect himself and others from the coronavirus pandemic by rocking a green mask in Beverly Hills on Wednesday.

California Governor Gavin Newsom made cloth masks and face coverings mandatory for all public outings on June 18.

As of Wednesday, there have been over 120K confirmed COVID-19 cases in LA County, which has led to 3,582 deaths – according to Johns Hopkins University.  

The 42-year-old musician’s sighting came two days before he’ll remotely appear on the Grateful Dead series, Shakedown Stream, hosted by David Lemieux and Gary Lambert.

John will discuss his five years touring with the Dead & Company on the chat show, which streams live this Friday at 5pm PST on the Grateful Dead YouTube Channel.

Grateful Dead’s original frontman Jerry Garcia passed away, age 53, from a heart attack in 1995 – leaving behind bandmates Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, and Bill Kreutzmann.

For the past few months, Mayer ‘challenged’ himself to write new music specifically on his acoustic guitar. 

‘I’ve tried to stop playing the guitar and start playing music on the guitar, and I know that sounds like a really stupid little semantic,’ the Connecticut-born bluesman said on Masterclass with Eric Harland on June 22.

‘If you’re going to demo it, no tricks; under record everything, don’t produce everything…everything has to work on the acoustic guitar. That’s the calculator. It has to work on it.’

John continued: ‘To me it is time to really be in that moment. I started feeling when I was playing with Dead & Company a couple of years in, the sort of zero gravity of the weightlessness of playing where the instrument goes away and it’s just you and the music – that’s perfection.’

However, Mayer is probably best known for bedding ‘sub-500’ women like Jennifer Aniston, Katy Perry, Jessica Simpson, Taylor Swift, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Minka Kelly.