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Equipped with what he called a “dream screen, dream team and dream scheme,” American guitarist John Mayer was free to unpredictably shift between personas at the Bell Centre Saturday, the second date on his 2017 The Search for Everything tour.

The sensitive acoustic singer-songwriter known for soft-serve ballad Your Body is a Wonderland was there to make the masses swoon, but so to was the technically proficient bluesman with an admiration for Robert Johnson and Jimi Hendrix. Even Mayer’s unfiltered wit, which historically hasn’t translated well in interviews, found its way into an over two-hour long set that featured four different band configurations.

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The Search for Everything is also the name of his upcoming seventh album, due out April 14 after being teased via three EP’s. And as the name might suggest, the 39-year-old Connecticut native isn’t interested in compartmentalizing — his nearly two-decade career was up for scrutiny on this night, whether or not it neatly fit together.