# Who Did You Think I Was guitar solo > The guitar solo on Who Did You Think I Was by John Mayer Trio (2005) starts at about 2:26. From the album Try!. Played on a Fender Stratocaster. Canonical URL: John Mayer Trio, 2005, from *Try!*. Solo by *John Mayer*. The trio's mission statement: a tough, riff-driven blues-rock workout where Mayer trades his pop persona for snarling Strat licks over Steve Jordan and Pino Palladino. Who Did You Think I Was by John Mayer Trio is #3 in our ranking of the best John Mayer guitar solos. The solo is played by John Mayer and the song was released in 2005. ## In our lists - [The Best John Mayer Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/john-mayer-guitar-solos/) — #3 ## Sources ### Who played the guitar solo on Who Did You Think I Was? John Mayer played the solo on John Mayer Trio's Who Did You Think I Was (2005). ### What guitar was used on the Who Did You Think I Was solo? A fender stratocaster, according to widely reported accounts. --- GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)