The fans at Madison Square Garden didn’t let a little snow keep them from John Mayer’s sold-out concert on Thursday night (February 25). Mayer has also had some adversity come his way over the past few weeks, after the backlash from his controversial comments in Playboy magazine.

Mayer took a moment onstage to thank his fans for believing in him through the uproar.

“I hate to come off like an a–hole ever, and thank you guys for believing that I am not an a–hole,” he told the crowd. “Never, ever in my entire life did I ever think that it would be a good idea to be an a–hole. But you know what? There’s plenty of a–holes who think the same thing, so I have to thank you.”

Mayer said he’s ready for a fresh start: “It’s a clean me now, people, clean me.”

When Mayer wasn’t thanking his fans for braving the elements, he and his five-piece band were rocking out the stage to a set list of songs from his current album, Battle Studies, as well as hits from his past, including “Waiting on the World to Change” and “Your Body Is a Wonderland.” He even succumbed to a section of cheering fans calling out for him to perform “City Love” from his breakthrough 2001 album, Room for Squares.

Even if the public isn’t convinced by his numerous apologies, Mayer had the Madison Square Garden concertgoers on their feet from show-opener “Heartbreak Warfare” to his encore — snow boots and all. The singer/songwriter even checked in with the crowd on Twitter after the show: “MSG crowd, will you tweet me when you get home safe? It’s bad out. Oh and HOLY SHNIKES. You were unreal tonight.”

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After igniting a firestorm over sexual and racial remarks he made in a Playboy interview, John Mayer issued an apology on his Twitter page Wednesday – for some of his comments.

“Re: using the ‘N’ word in an interview, I am sorry,” he Tweeted. “I should have never said the word and I will never say it again.”

Mayer used the slur when discussing whether he’s accepted by rappers like Jay-Z and Kanye West as one of their own.

“Someone asked me the other day, ‘What does it feel like now to have a hood pass?,’ ” Mayer told Playboy. “If you really had a hood pass, you could call it a n—- pass But I said, ‘I can’t really have a hood pass. I’ve never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, ‘We’re full.’ ”

The remark didn’t wash with his 3 million Twitter followers, who were unusually silent Wednesday. “They don’t make rehab centers for being an a-hole,” one wrote.

Mayer said nothing about his other controversial comments about his sex life with former flame Jessica Simpson – likening her to “sexual napalm” – but Simpson did appear to allude to them on her own Twitter page.

“Interesting day so far,” she wrote. “Hmm.”

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John is on the cover of Rolling Stone and the interview is great. Read it here:

John Mayer may be the king of the confessional Twitter, but all his 140-character missives about spectacular bowel movements don’t measure up to the explosion of deeply personal details he reveals to Erik Hedegaard in the new issue of Rolling Stone, on sale at your local newsstands now.

The 32-year-old singer-guitarist admits he prefers Continuum to his 2009 disc Battle Studies (”I know that I’m supposed to say that my newest is the best one. Bullshit,” he says), that he hasn’t stopped thinking about his split with ex-girlfriend Jennifer Aniston (”I’ve never really gotten over it. It was one of the worst times of my life”) and that his sex life has become an endless loop of new girls rejecting him in clubs (”Blowing me off is the new sucking me off!”).

Mayer’s in the midst of a massive 10-year record deal and enjoys the pleasures of late-night weed-and-video-game sessions, as well as his $20 million vintage watch collection, but what he truly wants, he tells Hedegaard, is to finally find a a female companion. But not just any girlfriend — Mayer is after “the Joshua Tree of vaginas.” “I’ll be happy when I close out this life-partner thing,” he says. “Think of how much mental capacity I’m using to meet the right person so I can stop giving a fuck about it.”

Grab the new issue for Mayer’s full advice for Tiger Woods (”I have masturbated myself out of serious problems in my life”) and more on his journey from bedroom guitar player to the most angst-ridden playboy in rock.

View the video at RollingStone.com!

John Mayer has given Guitar World magazine an exclusive interview, photo shoot and video lesson — see it all in the February 2010 issue, on sale now at newsstands everywhere! In the extensive cover story interview, John talks about his approach to guitar playing, living in the public eye, and the making of Battle Studies. The issue comes with a special disc that includes a private John Mayer guitar lesson in which he demonstrates his techniques and his interpretation of the blues classic “Crossroads.” For more information about the issue, visit guitarworld.com.

Guitarworld.com is also proud to be giving away an autographed John Mayer Fender Artist Series electric guitar and a Fender 1965 Princeton Reverb amplifier! To enter, visit guitarworld.com/mayer.

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