You gotta know that if you weren’t familiar with Mac Miller, you were about to be, whether you would have seen him at a festival, or a friend was going to catch a show and tell everyone they knew about it (like I did.) Mac put in the work. I thought that was so endearing, especially seeing as he would go on to play one of the best sets I’d seen in a very long time. He was nervous, and honest about it with the audience. The last time I saw him, he was playing Hotel Cafe’ in Los Angeles for a crowd of 100 people. I gave him whatever guidance I thought I had the right to, having been through the press ringer in the past and wanting him to understand that none of that noise could ever really take a bite out of the music he was about to put out. He was so funny I just kind of stopped typing “LOL” back in our texts. I grabbed the nearest guitar in the room and within a couple of hours we had finished a tune that made me so incredibly happy to have a part in, not to mention we established a nice little friendship. It means we don’t need to say another word, it’s going down. I didn’t expect to play on his album the day he played some songs for me at his house, but when I heard “Small Worlds,” I gave it a short, chirpy little “yup,” which is the highest praise I can give a track.
You don’t get there without a lot of work, and Mac had put the work in. That’s incredibly hard to do, to evolve and get better and more focused while your career is already underway. John Mayer shared a heartfelt letter reminiscing about the life of Mac Miller on Saturday. Elton John dedicates Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me to Mac Miller: “Mac, wherever you are, I hope you’re happy now” 😢 /oJHNfVFqdz
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