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[VEDHEAD27]

(Here we go...now it's ready!) :p ;)


I had an appreciation thread for this amazing duo last year but it has since been deleted (not right). It's time to resurrect the praise!!


Absolutely LOOOOOVE this band! I'm seeing them for the first time on FRIDAY and I'm soooo excited. :D Been dying to see these guys live! I hear they are beyond phenomenal. Wouldn't expect anything less when it comes to The White Stripes.

Jack White is easily one of the most talented musicans out there imo. The man blows my mind!!! His entire approach to music making is right on! So raw and simple...garagy/studio vibe, classic blues-drenched guitar...his fierce, unique, confident, sexy, painful, intense, pleading vocals. One reviewer summed up the power of his voice perfectly saying...

"White is as clever with the words as he is with melding his voice to suit certain moods. Even when the emotion is affected, it still hits home."


Yes! And clever, amazing lyrics is right!


Meg's primal, simplistic approach to the skins is awesome! Love it! I remember in one interview with Jack he was saying how he wanted it that way to add an innonence and child like quality to it all. He said if the drum style was techy it would totally defeat their approach, overall sound/feel and what they are trying to accomplish as musicians/artists. HELL YEAH! I really dig Meg's drumming and think it perfectly matches the mood.



Minimalist rock'n'roll that KICKS YOUR ASS!!! This duo is fuckin amazing!



It's so hard to pick a fav song or album when it comes to this band and all this talent. Such diversity but what always remains constant is their catchy, unqiue, original, rockin, punk R&B sound/vibe!!!! Songs vary from an intense rockers that make ya stomp all over like a mad woman/man.....to emotionally raw ballads that tug at your heart. :o


The new album continues to blow me away. This album is solid proof why I love this band and what makes them SO damn great. Not only are they just original and unique as hell, but they're also not afraid to take risks and change things up. Jack totally letting a strong blue grass country influence shine through, showcasing other talents of sound...marimbas, lots of piano etc. The album is very lyrically driven. The lyrics are exceptionally great on this one! Some really beautiful things going on.

Jack definitely continues to grow drastically with each album. I think GBMS was a HUGE leap for him. He is on it more than ever! And Meg still bangin away beautifully and complimenting each and every sound in such a perfect way. Ah these guys can do no wrong. As a friend of mine recently put it, "i swear.. those guys could put out a song of jack farting into a mic with distortion on it, and somehow it would be cool". :P HA! Serioulsy though!! They HAVE *IT*! Get Behind Me Satan is by far one of my fav albums of the year (and in general). It gets better and better with each listen. WHITE STIPES are back and then some.


In summary....HAIL HAIL the WHITE STRIPES!!1 Again, cannot wait to witness this power live. :D




Speakin of those emotional, intense, rockin, heart tuggers....I'm gonna kick off the thread of praise with one of my favs from the new album..... :o







>> FOREVER FOR HER (Is Over For Me) <<

I blew it
And if I knew what to do, then I'd do it
But the point that I have, I'll get to it
And forever for her is over for me
Forever, just the word that she said that means never
To be with another together
And with the weight of a feather it tore into me
Then I knew it
All the work that it took to get through it
On the wings of a feather that flew it
Fell onto my shoe it cut up into me

Well, everybody's reaction is changing you
But their love is only a fraction of what I can give to you
So let's do it, just get on a plane and just do it
Like the birds and the bees and get to it
Just get out of town and forever be free
Forever, I wonder we could stay together
It could change if you want for the better
Just turn down my shirt and lay down next to me

I blew it
And if I knew what to do, then I'd do it
But the point that I have, I'll get to it
And forever for her is over for me
Forever, just the word that she said that means never
To be with another together
And with the weight of a feather it tore into me

Well, everybody's reaction is changing you
But their love is only a fraction of what I can give to you
Well, let's do it, let's get on a plane and just do it
Like the birds and the bees and get to it
Just get out of town and forever be free
Forever, I wonder we could stay together
It could change if you want for the better
Just tug at my shirt and lay down next to me

[PaulJam]

I was only a casual fan until I saw them headline at this year's Glastonbury and was absolutely BLOWN AWAY. They stole the show. After that I bought the new album and I must say it's very impressive. I'm definitely lovin all the percussion....time will tell if it stands the test of time.

-Paul

[VEDHEAD27]

Awesome Paul! Damn, yet another person that was blown away live. Ooooh I am getting SOOO pumped over here!!:D

[MeddleDeal]

I have to add my 2 cents to this band...I am still blown away by their talents...only 2 people in that band?! :eek: They make GREAT music together, and it meshes all so well. I can't wait to see them this Friday w/VEDHEAD (thanks for inviting me to the show girl;))

I always have much respect for the White Stripes, yeah, they are simple, but sometimes simplicity is best! :D I LOVE Meg's drumming, her approach is simple, but very rhythmic. She is not trying to be the next Neil Pearl, she is just being her banging away on the drums. Another drummer I admire (next to Janet Weiss from Sleater-Kinney)

And Jack, what an amazing talent this man is. Making catchy songs for all of us to remember them by. I LOVE Seven nation Army, how he tuned down his guitar to sound like a bass. I give much props for that man...he is such a genius and even MORE props, even though they are HUGE, he always manage to find the time to produce local bands in his hometown of Detroit. ROCK ON to the WHITE STRIPES!! :D

This thread was LOOONG over due!!;)

[MissYouAllDay]

I am also a huge fan. Well I am becoming one. That song you posted the lyrics to, the one after doorbell. That is one of the best songs of the year I say. Amazing.

I bought Elephant and it was amazing. I was skeptical of this new album cause I didn't love blue orchid, but somebody bought it for me as a present and now it's my favorite album of the year. That song is totally misrepresentative of the album.

I think Jack white is a talented man. And Meg is what she needs to be.

[kdpjam]

i like them. have most of their stuff but have not listened to the new one that much.. i do think it would be cool to see them live ;)

[VEDHEAD27]

Nice to see some lovin for this INCREDIBLE band! :D

Meddle, I hear ya...down tuning that bass is such an awesome touch. I remember it being said by someone that the last band to hit it THIS big without an actual bass player was The Doors! :eek: Pretty trippy.

Awww MissYouAllDay!!! :D So glad you share the same intense love for that song. It definitely stands out to me as well. One of the best songs of the year! I agree. :)


kdpjam, you should listen to Get Behind Me Satan some more!! :D


Can't wait to see these guys TOMORROW@!@# :eek: :D


Gonna BUMP it up with another fav....one that gets listened to in full on repeat mode. Looooove this song.......



..I WANT TO BE THE BOY...


I want to be the boy that warms your mother's heart
I'm so scared to take you away
I tried to win her over right from the start
But something always got in the way
We've been sitting in your backyard for hours
But she won't even come out and say hi
While my mother baked a little cake for you
And even dreaded when you said goodbye
What kind of cartwheels do I have to pull?
What kind of joke should I lay on her now?
I'm inclined to go finish high school
Just to make her notice that I'm around

Well nothing I come up with seems to work
It feels like everything I say is a lie
And never have a felt like such a jerk
I'm afraid to even open my eyes
Because I really don't want her to judge me
I want to her really know who I am
And then, and only then she will love me
Well at least that was the plan

If ever a boy needed a holiday
If ever a girl needed someone to hold
I just hope I don't act the same way
By the time that I get old

I never said I was the heir to a fortune
I never claimed to have any looks
But these kind of things must be important
Because somebody ripped out my page
In your telephone book

I want to warm her heart

[{[No_Code}]]

i woudn't say it in a better way!!! i absolutely love WS

the best band now-a-days. Along with Arcade Fire. Easily

All their albums are GREAT... perfect songs...

Jack White is indeed a music genius...
Get Behind Me Satan is the best 2005 album. And maybe the best WS album as well!

[poorgirl23]

Saw them in Portland last night for the third time and was completely blown away once again. Jack is just fucking brilliant with a guitar, or pretty much an instrument actually. You'll have a great time tomorrow! :)

[CM1847]

Really wish they were coming anywhere near me on this tour, I would love to get to see them sometime. Probably the best band out there right now that is at their peak. They've been at their peak their last four albums and dont' look to be slowing down anytime soon. I'm going to pick up their DVD just to make me a little more upset I don't get to see them live, ha.

Anyway, great band, i was a fan before GBMS but I didn't get really really into them until I got their new album.

[VEDHEAD27]

AWESOME guys! Keep the love coming strong! :D

{[No_Code}], there you are buddy! :)


~~~~> OMG TODAY IS THE DAY!!!!! :eek: :D


YES poorgirl23!!! I just talked to a friend that saw them in Portland the other night too. He said they played BALL & BISCUIT and JOLENE! HOLY SHIT! I will FLIP OUT if I hear those 2!! :eek: WOOOOOW. He also said they played a pretty kick ass mixture of ALL the albums. Hell YES!

I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOO excited I'm about to pop! haha.

Again, this duo is beyond amazing & JACK really is a musical mastermind. Bottom line. :D It's blows my mind how much music can come out of one person. :o

[lovin kind]

im having chills with this temperature

[Kenny Olav]

I LOVE Meg's drumming, her approach is simple, but very rhythmic. She is not trying to be the next Neil Pearl, she is just being her banging away on the drums.

An angry Rush fanatic says...

It's Neil Peart, damnit! PearT!

[VEDHEAD27]

haha. Nice lovin kind! :) This duo/talent is for sure chill inducing. :D


Whoa Kenny Olav! All is good buddy. Simple mistake. Rush fans are hardcore man. Shit! I actually had someone strangle me cuze I happen to not be a fan of Geddy's voice. :eek: Please don't hurt me!! haha. No kidding!! Scary shit. Seriously hardcore! Anyways, no worries, I know it was a simple innocent mistake on Meddle's part. Let's just all get along & play nice. :)





BUMPIN it up with another -WS- classic! Incredible what just an amazing voice and beautiful guitar can accomplish. Simple and perfect!




(= We're Going To Be Friends =)

Fall is here,hear the yell
back to school,ring the bell
brand new shoes,walking blues
climb the fence,books and pens
I can tell that we're going to be friends

Walk with me,Suzy Lee
through the park and by the tree
we will rest upon the ground
and look at all the bugs we found
then safely walk to school
without a sound

Well here we are,no one else
we walked to school all by ourselves
there's dirt on our uniforms
from chasing all the ants and worms
we clean up and now its time to learn

Numbers,letters,learn to spell
nouns,and books,and show and tell
at playtime we will throw the ball
back to class,through the hall
teacher marks our height
against the wall

And we don't notice any time pass
we don't notice anything
we sit side by side in every class
teacher thinks that I sound funny
but she likes the way you sing

Tonight I'll dream while I'm in bed
when silly thoughts go through my head
about the bugs and alphbet
and when I wake tommorow I'll bet
that you and I will walk together again
cause I can tell that we're going to be friends

[red mos]

White stripes are a definite favorite of mine. I hope they put that Brazil show out on dvd soon, I know the actual show is probably longer than what mtv aired.

[pychosinlove]

Seven nation army rules !

[Kenny Olav]

Whoa Kenny Olav! All is good buddy. Simple mistake. Rush fans are hardcore man. Shit! I actually had someone strangle me cuze I happen to not be a fan of Geddy's voice. :eek: Please don't hurt me!! haha. No kidding!! Scary shit. Seriously hardcore! Anyways, no worries, I know it was a simple innocent mistake on Meddle's part. Let's just all get along & play nice. :)

I'll let it pass for now, but next time I will summon the wrath of By-Tor and the Snow Dog!! :D

[Kenny Olav]

Anyway, I dig on the Stripes, but not so much the new disc.

[Skitch Patterson]

An angry Rush fanatic says...

It's Neil Peart, damnit! PearT!


second!


.

[western pearl]

Thanks for giving attention to one of the best bands out there right now. Originality seems pretty hard to come by these days. WS somehow seem to find ways to put out great music that sounds similar but unique compared to their older stuff. I missed out on tickets to the Detroit show this october. i was so bummed... hungover as well.

[MeddleDeal]

second!


.

:rolleyes:

[PearlStripes]

I don't think it's possible to describe how amazing a White Stripes show is to someone who's never been to one. I've been to hundreds of concerts and have never been so blown away as I was when I saw them in Kansas City, 2003. (Now have tickets to the Kansas City show on the 23rd). How was the show last night? Here's an awesome link, Jack and Conor. I live in Omaha and have caught Bright Eyes several times over the years.
http://www.calendarlive.com/music/pop/cl-ca-songwriters10oct10,2,4672775.h tmlstory

[MeddleDeal]

I don't think it's possible to describe how amazing a White Stripes show is to someone who's never been to one. I've been to hundreds of concerts and have never been so blown away as I was when I saw them in Kansas City, 2003. (Now have tickets to the Kansas City show on the 23rd). How was the show last night? Here's an awesome link, Jack and Conor. I live in Omaha and have caught Bright Eyes several times over the years.
http://www.calendarlive.com/music/pop/cl-ca-songwriters10oct10,2,4672775.h tmlstory


OMG!! The show was AMAZING!! Totally blown away!! :eek: VEDHEAD and I were just overwhelmed by that band. How Jack just ran around playing every single instrument on stage. He was really showcasing his talents that night, and made me even a BIGGER fan, so big in fact that I want to get ALL of their albums!! :D

They have such chemistry on stage, Jack playing and singing to Meg, truly adorable!! And seeing him play marimba (from what i could see) was the highlight of the night for me. :)

They played Seven Nation Army, The Hardest Button to Button, and they even played We're Going to Be Friends..such a great show, and i HIGHLY recommend checking this band LIVE!!

[VEDHEAD27]

AHHHHHHHH!!!!!

*explodes*

This show was out of control people!!!! I was
soooooo worn out afterwards but I just could not even begin to sleep
after all that! :eek: Got home late last night and immediately put on
some White Stripes! haha. Kept the outrageous WS night flowing. :D The
show just pumped me up so much! I don't think I'm coming down for quite
awhile and that is ok by me. :D

JESUS!!! Where to begin?!

Well, first things first....

BALL & BISCUIT and JOLENE! HOLY SHIT! I will FLIP OUT
if I hear those 2!! WOOOOOW.


<~~~~ flipped out (to say the very least)

:eek:!!!! They played BOTH frickin songs!!!!!!! Holy shit. 2 of the MANY
highlights of the evening. These 2 were SUPER highlights though. OMG!!
Ball & Biscuit?! How daaaaamn out of this world/sexy is this song?!
Always been one of my absolute favs and live it was taken ALL to another
level. The song just possess you....forces you to grind the air! Good
god. So damn intoxicating. I cannot get over this one. Jack just going
off!!! Shit. No words left about this one. WOOOOOOW is about all I can
say at this point. :eek:


JOLENE?! I just need to say this is one the most beautiful covers ever.
Jack shined brighter than ever live on this gorgeous song. So much
emotion it was almost hard to watch. The man's voice was shivering,
pleading...sounded like he was about to cry. He poured it ALL out in
this beautiful song. Completely blown away!


Just like my friend from Portland noted, they definitely played a
mixture of ALL albums. So damn cool. A little bit of everything. Such
fan pleasers. :D

Meddle and I were about 6 rows back from the side of the stage...
PERFECT view of Meg, her set was facing right towards us...and a perfect
view of Jack center stage. I could not have asked for a better spot...or
a better show!!!

As we suspected, Blue Orchid opened things up just kicked everything
into place!!! The crowd was instantly bouncing all over and pumped as
fuck! The 2 just came out ready to rock and that they did....NON-stop!
It was seriously like a second break and them BAM another song. Soooo
kick ass! Just enough time to catch your breath. haha. The stage set up
was really cool. Awesome apple GBMS back drop, little shell lights,
white plants, ....everything all red and white...incredible red lights
flashing all through the show too. Oh and Jack's outfit was fuckin HOT.
Long tailed lookin coat with a top hat, some cute ass booty huggin black
paints with some red strips inserted on the sides! :D This man's style
just rocks all around, musically and then some. But ok, getting
too carried away with that. :p


Some other songs we got...



Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground - this one tore it UP!

I Think I Smell a Rat - Ok, love the guitar work on this one and
experiencing all this fierce in your face shredding and thrashing was
AWESOOOOME!!!

Offend In Every Way - LOOOOOVE this song!!! Was so fuckin excited to get this one. :D

When I Hear My Name - Nice treat! Such raw WS! The breakdown
kicks so much ass.

Passive Manupulation - twice! Go Meg!:D

Little Ghost -hell yes!!

The Nurse - Jack fuckin those marimbas up. :p This one was VERY
cool live.

My Doorbell - Cathcy as hell! This instant classic song had the
whole place clappin and singing along.


>> ENCORE....

Jack came out solo and bust out....

I'm Lonely (But I Ain't That Lonely Yet)- painfully beautiful,
fuckin mesmerizing...just Jack and that piano. :o


I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself - definitely one of my
most listened to WS tracks. LOOOOVE this song! Yet another one that
rocked even more live and made my night.


Hotel Yorba - Crowd was going off with this classic!!! Loved it!



Forever for Her (Is Over for Me)- :o!!! Um HI....first song I
chose to kick start the thread of praise! MissYouAllDay knows. ;) This
one was even more gorgeous than on the cd. Jack completely owning every
bit of my heart and soul for sure. He straight up demands it on this
masterpiece!



We're Going to be Friends- JUST bumped this thread before I left
and posted this song. looove this one and was so feelin it today. Was
very excited to get this beauty.


OK this was a funny part of the night. Not even midway into the song a
big ass 104.9 beach ball flew up on stage....Jack stopped singing and
said "What the fuck is this?! A radio promotion?!?!" ha. He took the
beach ball and threw it off to the side of the stage then was like
"now...as I was saying..." and burst back into the song. :p

When it was over he said "now if we get blacklisted from that radio
station and they refuse to play our music...I would like a written
apology for them interrupting my song!!!" LOL!!!


Seven Nation Army - Daaaaamn! I mean what needs to be said? This
song pleases all. Kicked even more ass live.


Boll Weevil - closed the show with this badboy. Jack got the
entire crowd to sing along. Amazing!! Talk about going out with a bang.





EVERYTHING I loved about these 2 was taken to an even higher level last
night. The love and respect is skyrocketing at this point....and here I
already thought it was at an all time high. HA! Seeing them live done
did it. Ooooh, and here I thought Jack was already a musical
genius....experincing that live?!!? :eek: Like Meddle said, he man had
so many instruments set up on that kick ass stage and all through the
night he kept running over to different ones for different songs. It
really is mind blowing to witness this much music come out of ONE
person. The man is SO DAMN AMAZING!!!! It makes me mad how talented he
is. haha. Like how in the?! You are soooo fuckin incredible guy. Jesus!
Is there anything you CANT do? Putting us all to shame. :p hehe. A few
times during the night he completely had me STUCK...just in complete aw,
unable to move. The sounds he makes come outta that guitar are
unbelievable. From shreding, to making it weep, all twangy and drenced
in blues, to makin it all distorted and chunkified, to making it sound
like bass, ..etc etc. There are just so many damn sounds that come outta
this man and so many with his main instrument alone. I LOVED the way he
owned it all up there! He just oozes such confidence.

I've read in the past that doesnt like to feel comfortable on stage, he
wants nothing to feel rehearsed...he wanted everything stripped down,
vulerable and all natural...so him and Meg NEVER rehearse. Well damn.
Yet another thing that blows my mind cuze the attitude says I OWN THIS.
I guess when you're this mighty rehearsing isn't necessary. hehe. Really
though, excellent touch on that and everything does just seem so natural
up there. Witnessing the chemistry betweem him and Meg was great! They
totally engage each other. I love how Jack has a mic set up center stage
and then one in front of Meg. It was very cute how he'd just run over to
her set and sing to her....sharing the spotlight the entire time. They
were having lots of fun during Little Ghost...laughing away. Adorable.
Speaking of Meg... damn, she is really sexy on those skins. All her
little playful flirty faces she'd make at Jack, her little
pauses/poses....the way she's feels the music and gets down while
confined to a stool. She's awesome and really has such a prescence. I
don't think I'll ever look at the *girl* the same again. She is for sure
a *woman* now. hehe. :p




At the end of the show Jack thanked Berkeley/SF for being the FIRST city
to ever like them outside of Detroit and how he will never forget
that. AWWW!! :D


Overall, I am just completey blown away and even deeper in love (incase
you can't tell). ;) It's a damn shame that I don't get paid until the
16th or else I would definitely try to go to the 2nd show tonight. I am
soooo thirsty for more live WS. It's no joke...this band takes it all to
another level live. I will never get over this

[PaulJam]

Glad to hear you enjoyed yourself so much. They definitely seem to get better and better.

[March to Fuzz]

Meg loves those cymbals on the new album. Great sound.

[VEDHEAD27]

Thanks PaulJam! Man I am still in total shock and disbelief...soooo incredible. Meddledeal and I cannot stop going off about it!


Meg loves those cymbals on the new album. Great sound.


YES! Agreed! This is another thing Meddle and I were talking about....loooooooove the cymbal usage on this new album. Meg crashes the hell outta those things. So awesome on The Nurse too...how they just come crashing outta nowhere. Love that!


Oh I forgot to mention, Jack was fuckn shit up soooooo much on the sexy ass BALL & BISCUIT that he broke a string on his guitar. The song is too sexy for it's own good...even the man himself got carried away with it. :D

[Toolgarden]

I bought white blood cells when it first came out and loved it. I don't know why I didn't keep up with them. What cd should I get next?

Great review, by the way ved.

[VEDHEAD27]

Awwww, thanks Toolgarden! :D That show was by far one of the greatest things I've ever experienced. This band is TOO MUCH!

White Blood Cells is a kick ass album. I highly recommend that you get De Stijl next. Love that album! Love em all, but yeah. :p That's what I'll recommend. Whatever you decide to go with though you really can't go wrong. ;)

[MissYouAllDay]

Wicked review.

Jack White is a crazy motherfucker (in the words of dave grohl last night).

I am getting more and more pumped to see them all the time. Sept 16th. The molson amphitheatre is one of the best places to see a concert in NA too.

[VEDHEAD27]

Thanks MissYouAllDay! FOREVER FOR HER?! Can you believe that shit?! :o :o :o


Jack White is a crazy motherfucker (in the words of dave grohl last night).



Say whaaa? haha. Please do elaborate. :D


Oooo I'm excited for your show too. That's gonna be here so soon!! Damn! I know you'll have an incredible time no matter what BUT...here's to hoping you also get to experience FOREVER FOR HER. :)

I'm truely excited for any/everyone that's going to see these guys. I now "fully" understand. ;)

[sigh eternally]

wow... what an amazing review! thanks for that info. now I am even more pumped to see them again, four nights in a row starting later tonight.
with all the excitement, i just cant get to bed, and thats on top of 4 days in vegas going with minimal sleep.
i'll be dead by the end of the show on the 18th.

did you pick up any merchandise at the show?

[VEDHEAD27]

AHH SIGH!! Starting later on TODAY!!?! :eek: I WANNA GO! I WANNA GO! FUCK, I'm kickin myself for not being able to go yesterday. While I was VERY grateful for all that I got and experienced...I was telling Nadia..."if they play Red Rain & As Ugly As I seem at the second show I will be so jealous" Guess what they played?????? HA! God I wish I coulda gone!!! Well, next time they come around I'm going all out sigh~style. ;) hehe. Hopefully I won't be so strapped for cash cuze of PJ shows like I am this time around. :p


Glad you enjoyed my review bud. I'm just in aw of these 2 more than ever and there is no way I'd be able to sleep either if I was you. Good lord!!!! Here's to hoping you survive ;) :D

Merch...I wanted the baby-t with the dead tree on it SO damn bad. Shit was $30 bucks though and I had no money. :( When I say I'm broke I mean I'm B-R-O-K-E. I had $5 to my name. haha! I definitely plan on buying that one later on down the line though. They had a cute ass tote bag too!


HAVE A BLAST!!!! 4 days of heaven right there. :eek: I'm still so high from ONE.

[sigh eternally]

i'm gonna pm you. hope you're still up.

[VEDHEAD27]

i'm gonna pm you. hope you're still up.


Rock stars never sleep. ;)

[rage333]

ROCK ON WHITE STRIPES. I love this band more than anything.

[VEDHEAD27]

ROCK ON WHITE STRIPES. I love this band more than anything.


FUCK YEAH!! AWESOME!! :D


Jack White is suuuuuuuch a bad ass motha!


I love how the man can reach my heart and soul with his gorgeous slow numbers....and at the same time make me rock the fuck out like there ain't no tomorrow. GREAT balance! Best of all worlds. :)


BUMP it up with another beauty........

OH the power of just this voice and some gorgeous ass, crsytal clear, heavenly guitar!!! :o





˚˚I'm Bound To Pack it up˚˚

I've thought about it for a while
and I've thought about the many miles
but I think it's time that I've gone away

The feelings that you have for me
have gone away it's plain to see
and it looks to me
that you're pulling away

(Chorus)
I'm gonna pick it up
I'm gonna pick it up today
I'm bound to pack it up
I'm bound to pack it up
and go away

I found it hard to say to you
that this is what I have to do
but there is no way that I'm gonna stay

there are so many things
you need to know
and I wanna tell you before I go
but it's hard to think of just what to say

I'm gonna pick it up
I'm gonna pick it up today
I'm bound to pack it up
I'm bound to pack it up
and go away

I'm sorry to leave you all alone
you're sitting silent by the phone
but we've always known there would come a day

The bus is warm and softly lit
and a hundred people are ridin' it
I guess I'm just another running away

I'm gonna pick it up
I'm gonna pick it up today
I'm bound to pack it up
I'm bound to pack it up
and go away

Oh yeah, yeah

[MeddleDeal]

BUMP for the ALMIGHTY WHITE STRIPES!! :D

sigh eternally-we want to hear a FULL report on that show...if you aren't too tired!! :)

[sigh eternally]

night number 2 at the greek theater blew away the previous night's show. still shocked that these shows arent sold out, as they seat only 6,000 people. the band bolted onto the stage in a flash and ripped open with Black Math. I dont have the complete setlist, but I remember (not in order):

Black Math
Little Ghost
I Think I Smell a Rat (little tease, not the whole song)
Passive Manipulation x2 - once with piano, other with electric guitar
Denial Twist
Seven Nation Army
My Doorbell
As Ugly as I Seem
We Are Going to Be Friends -with Brendan Benson
Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground - on piano
Blue Orchid
The Big Three
I Fought Piranhas
Love Sick
The Nurse
Boll Weevil
Death Letter
Do
Hardest Button to Button
Lets Shake Hands
Yorba
Girl You Have No Faith in Medicine
When 'I Hear My Name
I Think I Smell a Rat
Ball and Biscuit
Forever For Her

Jack was making jokes about Paris Hilton as it seemed she was in the first row behind the pit from where I was standing. he said something about the crowd sounding like her dog Tinkerbell being thrown underneath a truck and getting squished, and how he checked with PETA and it was okay for him to say that. The last 10 minutes he must have mentioned Paris 6 or 7 times. He was upbeat and digging the vibe. I remeber Eddie's qoute about the Greek Theater being "the devil's backyard" as orange lights made the trees surround the venue look otherworldly, and Meg's shadow from the lights hitting her behind her drumkit could be seen on the trees making it look like a 6 story monster was bashing away with sticks as the bright summer moon rose above the head of her massive shadow, almost looking like a glowing crown.
It was really an amazing vibe tonight.
and I still have two more shows to go to.

thanks to idrather be for being so kind to me. love ya. hope you enjoyed the show!!!! and I hope to seeya there thursday!

more to come...

[MissYouAllDay]

Hey all,

Whats the biggest show the stripes have played thats not a festival. Like where they are headlining? Will the molson amphitheatre be it?

I wish I coulod see them in a tiny club, that would be insane. The Foos were also talking about how the amphitheatre was their biggets show ever (15000), hmmmmm. I wonder.

You guys have the blackpool lights DVD? It's pretty wicked, if not too rockin :)

What is really cool is that my doorbell is gettin played as a single here on the radio. How cool would it be for such a bizarre song (by mainstream standards) to become the next seven nation army. Honestly that song is so insanely catchy once you get over the "weirdness" of it.

I really hope it does well.

[VEDHEAD27]

Thanks SO much for the review Scott!! :D

Wow, sounds like an amazing show. Bolted on stage and immediately shreddin it up with Black Math?! :eek: Shit. That says a lot right there...the night was bound to kick major, MAJOR ass. Awesome set! Awww, you guys got Love Sick too?!?!?! :o Sooo beautiful!!!!! When I Hear My Name!? Oooh man, LOVE that song! :D Damn...and of course As Ugly As I Seem AND Forever For her! Both? *faints* Wooooow. :o

LOL! Paris was there? Jack seems like he was in great spirits...all joking about her dog? hehe. What? He said "I'm in charge tonight"? ha! What a badass! :D And I absolutely LOVE your description of Meg shadows and those trees...sounds totally haunting...like it just completely added to the experience/vibe and made it that much more. Very cool! Awww Lizzy went with you??? Yes! Hope she enjoyed herself? How could she not? ;)

Thanks again for the review. Can't wait to hear more. Damn....you still have 2 more nights!!! Lucky punk. haha. :p



Heeeey MissYouAllDay...we "missed" you around here. ;) :D

YES, blackpool DVD is fuckin amazing. Love it!

Hmmm, not too sure about the biggest show?


And YES...My Doorbell is getting played sooooo much here as well. It really is such a cathcy ass song. It is doing very well over here. I actually know a few people that have been turned onto Get Behind Me from hearing that song alone. It's getting stuck in heads all over the Bay Area and making people fiend for some WS. :D


Oooh speaking of radio....

In my previous review I talked about the balloon incident on Friday night...well apparently it happened at the Saturday night show too and this time it was even worse. A local radio station (Live 105) here keeps talking about it. :eek: I guess another balloon flew up and stage and Jack cursed out the station and told everyone they shouldnt listen to them...then left the stage for like 10 minutes or some shit? :eek: Sounds like he was pissed and just not even having it at ALL. Now this local radio station keeps going off about Jack not liking "their balls" and how they are giving all "their balls" away...so call when you hear the sound of a ball interrupt a White Stripes song and you will win a Live 105 beach ball. This is all being done so "their balls" will no longer be all up in peoples faces. Daaaamn. It's insane. haha.

[VEDHEAD27]

Just read that BECK showed up at the show tonight and played bass on Denial Twist!!!! *dies* HOLY SHIT!!!!!!! :eek: SIGH....you guys are getting fuckin spoiled rotten over there. SHIT! Sounds like a super incredible show!!!!

[soundgrunger]

Alright! It's about time i wrote something about this AMAZING and KICK ASS show, right Lyd ;)!!!! Aug 8 baby! At the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver (night 2).

My friend and i had seats in the 10th row Centre Orchestra (the venue is all seating)!! Fuckin INCREDIBLE seats! We had the perfect spot of the stage. The opening band, the Greenhornes, were awesome; my friend and i both loved them! The drummer was hilarious and they played some wicked tunes (i have to remember to get their cd). Then finally, the white stripes took to the stage and ripped right into When I Hear My Name! The place was nuts! The lights were awesome! And i have to add, the stage setup was fuckin beautiful! I commented to my friend about the ws setup crew wearing their black suits, red shirt, top hat outfits--it totally kicked ass (loved it!) and then on stage everything was in red, white and black...wicked glowing white palm trees surrounded the stage and the apple backdrop was the perfect surface from which to illuminate the red 'devilish' lights and atmosphere. Meg's silhouette on the side wall expanded and shifted to complete the satanic setting! It was PERFECT !

The rest of the setlist is as follows:

When I Hear My Name
Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground
Blue Orchid
Love Sick
My Doorbell
Do
Cannon-John The Revelator
Passive Manipulation
Instinct Blues
Little Ghost
Hotel Yorba
Truth Doesn't Make A Noise-Lord, I Just Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes
Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning-Death Letter-Grinnin' On Your Face
The Nurse
Same Boy You've Always Known
Forever For Her (Is Over For Me)
I Fought Pirahnas
Let's Build A Home
Ball And Biscuit

Encore Break
You're Pretty Good Looking
Hello Operator
Red Rain
Seven Nation Army
Boll Weevil

Came out of there in a euphoric state--the show was a high in itself and the band totally tore the roof off the place! Man huge props to Meg and Jack for putting on such a fuckin amazing show the night after they apparently put on another great show (i only went to night 2, now i wished i would have had tix for the first one and caught both!!) The set was perfect, they sounded great, and the crowd was awesome too!

[{[No_Code}]]

(= We're Going To Be Friends =)

Fall is here,hear the yell
back to school,ring the bell
brand new shoes,walking blues
climb the fence,books and pens
I can tell that we're going to be friends

Walk with me,Suzy Lee
through the park and by the tree
we will rest upon the ground
and look at all the bugs we found
then safely walk to school
without a sound

Well here we are,no one else
we walked to school all by ourselves
there's dirt on our uniforms
from chasing all the ants and worms
we clean up and now its time to learn

Numbers,letters,learn to spell
nouns,and books,and show and tell
at playtime we will throw the ball
back to class,through the hall
teacher marks our height
against the wall

And we don't notice any time pass
we don't notice anything
we sit side by side in every class
teacher thinks that I sound funny
but she likes the way you sing

Tonight I'll dream while I'm in bed
when silly thoughts go through my head
about the bugs and alphbet
and when I wake tommorow I'll bet
that you and I will walk together again
cause I can tell that we're going to be friends

WHAT A BEAUTIFULL TUNE!!!

[VEDHEAD27]

']WHAT A BEAUTIFULL TUNE!!!


Indeed!


**
And we don't notice any time pass
we don't notice anything....
**


*sigh*

:o


And I just loooooooove the ending...."that you and I will walk together again". People were cheering SO loud at the show when he got to the part. Loved it. :)

[sigh eternally]

leaving right now for the fourth and final L.A. show.

i'm really going to soak this one in. you never know if you'll ever be able to see any band again whenever they play the last night in your town, so I'm going to rock the fuck out.

[VEDHEAD27]

YES!!! Soak it in nice and thick!! I'm lookin forward to all the juicy details. God, after that super incredible night last night ( :eek: ) I'm so excited to see what they have in store for you guys tonight. Wow! Rock the fuck out with a vengeance!

Have a BLAST bud! :D




Oh also, great review of your show Dolly!! So glad you finally posted it here. :)

[PearlStripes]

Heading to Kansas City to see them on Tuesday night. I'll send a review and try to remember the setlist. Keep the thread going!

[Pat H]

I got into them right after Elephant came out. I finished buying their albums two weeks later. I've been hooked ever since

[VEDHEAD27]

Awesome PearlStripes & Pat H! :D

PearlStripes, I look forward to your review. Heck yeah let's keep this thing going.


SIGH~~>.......I saw the set tonight....you fuckin got RED RAIN?!?! :eek: I KNEW that shit was gonna happen. AHHH! Damn I bet that one sounds insanely amazing live!! :eek: You already know....this girl needs details boy! Details! :D

You also got You've Got Her in Your Pocket!!! Same Boy!! Black Jack Davey!? :eek:

Little Bird!!
Little Ghost
Little People
Little Room

:eek:

???

Wooooooooow. :o



Someone also said during I smell a rat Jack started singing "I think i smell bananas, b-a-n-a-n-a-s" real fast. LOL!!!!! TOO much! What a "little" goofball. :p

This show sounds completely out of fuckin control!

[sigh eternally]

yep. easily one of the longest shows i've seen them put on. Jack said during the second encore that they would try to play as many songs as they could, and they sure as hell did.
funny as hell to hear that B-A-N-A-N-A-S part during "...rat".
jack's guitar fucked up before (if i remember correctly) same boy you've always known, and he threw it down on the floor and said "this isnt going to work", so he grabbed the acoustic.
they did a slow/fast version of Fell in Love...
hardcore fans went apeshit with Black Jack Davie. Mr. White just fucking RIPPED tonight. he was a man possessed. Like a Michaelangelo or a Picasso with a guitar, he created a vast aray of breathtaking art and tonight the Greek Theatre was his canvas.
a jaw-dropping masterpiece.

...god there was just so much to tonights shows that it's hard to try to remember it all. perhaps the board over at www.whitestripes.net can fill you in with a TON more details than I could. after 4 nights of rocking out, climaxing with this marathon, I'm just plain tired.

i need sleep.

goodnight, children of the corn.

p.s. - if you miss the stripes during this tour, you are a damn FOOL. and dont give me that "i dont like bands that dont have bass players" line, or "Meg sucks as a drummer". if you actually believe that stuff, you need to go back to special ed class.

[amentvedder]

Big fan. Just got GBMS and it's so good. I really dig the funky piano on My Doorbell! Love them

[VEDHEAD27]

NICE amentvedder!! Yeah that piano work is great on Doorbell. ALL of the piano work on GBM just blows me away. This man/band is brilliant.




Wow sigh! I'm so glad you survived buddy. Good god that finale really sounds like it was such an out of this world show!!



Mr. White just fucking RIPPED tonight. he was a man possessed. Like a Michaelangelo or a Picasso with a guitar, he created a vast aray of breathtaking art and tonight the Greek Theatre was his canvas.
a jaw-dropping masterpiece.

*applauds*

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DESCRIPTION!!!! :o :D

Yeah I heard the man was ON FIRE. Someone up front said his hands were shaking, like he was seriously just sooooooo possessed. haha. LOVE IT! :D I heard about his little comment during SAME BOY, when he switched guitars...something like "I'm sure on the back of your ticket there is a guarantee that guitars WILL be in tune" :p hehe. Sounds like he was on FIRE and in great spirits once again. They sure loved it the hell up in LA.

I had RED RAIN in my head all day yesterday. I kept thinking "it's gonna happen!!" All those sounds?! :eek: God. I'm really aching to hear how this one sounded.


I was also very, very touched to see You've Got Her In Your Pocket. People on the WS board said Meg was lip singing along with Jack...just totally feeling it. :) A lot of people said they were nearly moved to tears by this performance. I'm not surprised. This is one hell of a powerful, heart breakingly gorgeous song. :o



Now I gotta BUMP it up with this one. And not to just post all the slow songs :p but I am a SAP over here and Jack really reaches my heart with these little numbers. So powerful....just him and his instrument of choice mixed with some gorgeous ass romantic/touching lyrics?! :o

*bows down to.......



~YOU'VE GOT HER IN YOUR POCKET~
You've got her in your pocket
And there's no way out now
Put it in the safe and lock it
'cause it's at home sweet home

Nobody ever told you that it was the wrong way
To trick a woman, make her feel she did it her way
And you'll be there if she ever feels blue
And you'll be there when she finds someone new
What to do
Well you know

You keep her in your pocket
Where there's no way out now
Put it in a safe a lock it
'cause it's home sweet home

The smile on your face made her think she had the right one
Then she thought she was sure
By the way you two could have fun
But now she might leave
Like she's threatened before
Grab hold of her fast
Before her feet leave the floor
And she's out the door
'cause you want

To keep you in my pocket
Where there's no way out now
Put it in a safe a lock it
'cause it's home sweet home

And in your own mind
You know you're lucky just to know her
And in the beginning all you wanted was to show her
But now you're scared
You think she's running away
You search in your hand for something clever to say
Don't go away
'cause I want


To keep her in your pocket

[VEDHEAD27]

Thanks for giving attention to one of the best bands out there right now. Originality seems pretty hard to come by these days. WS somehow seem to find ways to put out great music that sounds similar but unique compared to their older stuff.


Hey, you are VERY welcome....and I could not agree with you more on everything said there. ;) :)

[amentvedder]

I know it's been posted but it's so fukin good! I love this bit, the lyrics are class :D

Well, everybody's reaction is changing you
But their love is only a fraction of what I can give to you
Well, let's do it, let's get on a plane and just do it
Like the birds and the bees and get to it
Just get out of town and forever be free
Forever, I wonder we could stay together
It could change if you want for the better
Just tug at my shirt and lay down next to me

[VEDHEAD27]

No worries at all! Just beeeeautiful amentvedder. :D I mean really, can this song/those words ever be praised or posted enough? :o


OOoooooo, has anyone seen the MY DOORBELL video?! I'm aching to see this badboy. It premired last night on Nickelodeon :p but I don't have frickin cable! Booo! Looks like it's also up at MTV.COM but for some damn reason I can't load their vids. :confused:. Soooo aching to see it! These guys always put out super cool videos. Would we expect anything less from the mighty duo? :)

[soundgrunger]

No worries at all! Just beeeeautiful amentvedder. :D I mean really, can this song/those words ever be praised or posted enough? :o


OOoooooo, has anyone seen the MY DOORBELL video?! I'm aching to see this badboy. It premired last night on Nickelodeon :p but I don't have frickin cable! Booo! Looks like it's also up at MTV.COM but for some damn reason I can't load their vids. :confused:. Soooo aching to see it! These guys always put out super cool videos. Would we expect anything less from the mighty duo? :)
I've seen it Lyd! and of course IT ROCKS! :D what else can we expect ;)
It's all black and white and filled with little kids and candy-- waaay cute!! :)

[amentvedder]

No worries at all! Just beeeeautiful amentvedder. :D I mean really, can this song/those words ever be praised or posted enough? :o


OOoooooo, has anyone seen the MY DOORBELL video?! I'm aching to see this badboy. It premired last night on Nickelodeon :p but I don't have frickin cable! Booo! Looks like it's also up at MTV.COM but for some damn reason I can't load their vids. :confused:. Soooo aching to see it! These guys always put out super cool videos. Would we expect anything less from the mighty duo? :)

Yeh the video seen it a few times now and of course it's the coolest! Black & white, has kids in it Jack plays piano then plays a big stand up bass thing like a mofo! heheh Meg looks pretty Jack looks hot!
Ive always been a fan but Get Behind Me Satan has me obsessing about them!

[Pat H]

the white stripes make awesome videos, and My Doorbell was no exception

[VEDHEAD27]

Awwww, I saw it guys!!! :D Sooooo fuckin cute is right!! I was all frantic and freaking out .... didn't even think to just go to whitestripes.com. :p hehe.

Awesome video! Love the entire feel of it. All the happy little kids?! It's so playful and fun. Made me smile. :)



Meg looks pretty Jack looks hot!


Oh agreed!! Meg looks very, very pretty...love the hairdo! And Jack!?!? Whooooa there. YEP....hot, hot, HOT.

These 2 seriously have such a kick ass style, all around.

[VEDHEAD27]

Ive always been a fan but Get Behind Me Satan has me obsessing about them!


HA!! I know really!! Always loved them as well but Get Behind Me certainly has made the love and respect even stronger. SEEING THEM LIVE is what has completely done it for me. It's over now! Went from loving to "obsessing about them" for damn sure! :D ;)

[amentvedder]

HA!! I know really!! Always loved them as well but Get Behind Me certainly has made the love and respect even stronger. SEEING THEM LIVE is what has completely done it for me. It's over now! Went from loving to "obsessing about them" for damn sure! :D ;)

Desperate to see them! Next chance i get - i'm there..


If you think that a kiss is all in the lips
C'mon, you got it all wrong, man
And if you think that our dance was all in the hips
Oh well, then do the twist :D

[PearlStripes]

I just spent an hour on the KC show review and just lost it......



SHIT!!!!!!

[PearlStripes]

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[PearlStripes]

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[PearlStripes]

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[PearlStripes]

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[PearlStripes]

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[VEDHEAD27]

Ooooooh NO PearlStripes!! :( That sucks. Awww, I'm dying to hear your review. Hopefully you'll get the motivation to try again. :)


From what I did see of the set, the following sounded waaaay fuckin cool.....


Pretty Good Looking - Jack added part of the munchkin song from the Wizard of Oz.?!!? WTF?? :p

Passive Manipulation - JACK singing???

Oooo & Cold Cold Night too!

:eek:


What a set!! The encore looked straight up out of control. :D

I'm Lonely (But I Ain't That Lonely Yet)
Red Rain
Seven Nation Army
Boll Weevil

Wow, I'm sure you had an unbelievable time!! You got Red Rain too?! :eek: Details of how this sick ass little # sounds live pleeeeease. :D

[VEDHEAD27]

****************************** **
the coldest blue ocean water
cannot stop my heart and mind
from burning
everyone who's in the know says
that's exactly how it goes
and if there's anything good about me
I'm the only one who knows
****************************** **




:o :o :o

This song hasn't been mentioned??!?!?! Easily one of my top favs...maybe even top 5! :eek: This song makes me tear up instantly! It demands to be felt over and over and over again (part of the repeat club without a doubt!;) ) So powerful/stricking/absolutely fuckin gorgeous.. The way his voice sounds so broken!?! Barley getting those words out. :( :o Makes me wanna hug the man nice and tight!

The song SHINES.

.......



˙˙THE SAME BOY YOU'VE ALWAYS KNOWN˙˙

You fell down of course
and then you got up of course
and you started over
forgot my name of course
then you started to remember
pretty tough to think about
the beginning of december
pretty tough to think about

You're looking down again
and then you look me over
we're laying down again
on a blanket in the clover
the same boy you've always known
well I guess I haven't grown
the same boy you've always known

Think of what the past did
it could 've lasted
so put it in your basket
I hope you know a strong man
who can lend you a hand
lowering my casket

I thought this is just today
and soon you'd been returning
the coldest blue ocean water
cannot stop my heart and mind
from burning
everyone who's in the know says
that's exactly how it goes
and if there's anything good about me
I'm the only one who knows

[sigh eternally]

...
I roll over in bed
Looking for someone to touch
There's a girl that I know of
But don't ask for much
She's homely, and she's cranky
And her hair's in a net
And I'm lonely, but I ain't that lonely yet

I get my friend when I need one
I need someone to be one
I take anybody I can get
And sometimes I wanna call you
And I feel like a pet
And I'm lonely, but I ain't that lonely yet

I go down to the river
Filled with regret
I go down and I wonder
If there was any reason left
I left just before my lungs could get wet
I'm lonely, but I ain't that lonely yet

And I love my sister
Lord knows how I've missed her
She loves me
And she knows I won't forget
And sometimes I get jealous
Of all her little pets
And I get lonely, but I ain't that lonely yet
Yeah I get lonely, but I ain't that lonely yet

[PearlStripes]

"The Big Three Killed My Baby"

The big three killed my baby
no money in my hand again
the big three killed my baby
nobody's coming home again

Their ideas made me want to spit
a hundred dollars goes down the pit
30,000 wheels are rollin'
and my stick shift hands are swollen
everything involved is shady
the big three killed my baby

The big three killed my baby
no money in my hand again
the big three killed my baby
nobody's coming home again

Why dont you take the day off and try to repair
a billion others dont seem to care
better ideas are stuck in the mud
the motors runnin' on tuckers blood
dont let them tell you the future's electric
cause gasolines not measured in metric
30,000 wheels are spinnin'
and oil company faces are grinnin'
now my hands are turnin' red
and i found out my baby is dead

The big three killed my baby
no money in my hand again
the big three killed my baby
nobody's coming home again

Well i've said it now, nothings changed
people are burnin for pocket change
and creative minds are lazy
and the big three killed my baby

And my baby's my common sense
so dont feed me planned obsolescence
yeah my baby's my common sense
so dont feed my planned obsolescence
im about to have another blowout
im about to have another blowout

[Cornflakegrl98]

i love "the big three killed my baby", that is an awesome song. "stop breaking down" is another one of my favorites.

i am so pissed at myself that i'm missing their show here in Coney Island, it's like 5 minutes away from my house, but i blew all of my concert money on u2 tickets. sounds like the stripes are putting on some cool shows and it's cool to see that the setlist is just not GBMS heavy.

[PearlStripes]

It's not too late.

September 24
Keyspan Park
Coney Island, NY

September 25
Keyspan Park
Coney Island, NY

Just saw them in Kansas City. Jackie White is fucking unbelieveable. BLEW ME AWAY!! Half of the time you're rockin' and half of the time you are in complete awe. I haven't looked up your posts and don't know if you've seen them live before, but if not, a White Stripes show is a once in a lifetime experience. Unless of course, you get to see them more than once in your lifetime.

[VEDHEAD27]

Awww great choice Scott! :o What a beauty. The man pours it out full force on that one.

YES! Another great pick PearlStripes. :D

Right on Cornflakegrl98. Showing some love!! :D And I definietly agree with you, it's awesome how much they mix up that set. Ahh this band just mixes it up non-stop. Loooove it!


Half of the time you're rockin' and half of the time you are in complete awe.

Oh AMEN!! That is the damn truth!!! It's insane how talented this person is. It really does leave you completely stuck. Awww, and I LOVE how he calls himself "Jackie". :o :p hehe. So fuckin cute. And this accent is too damn much!! :D


Cornflakegrl98 ~ she's right...it's not too late. You should try!!! Find a way!! hehe. :D I have always wanted to see them live but let the years pass by...finally seeing them this year did indeed blow me the hell away! It made me regret not seeing them sooner and not getting more tickets this time around. LOL! They really are sooooooooo amazing. It's all taken to out of this world levels live. To be in the presence of all this greatness?!! :o To witness first hand all this magic?! To feel these unimaginable sounds running through your veins?! Wow! :o Again, you should reeeeally try to find a way. :D


BUMP it up with what has become one of my favs. I always really dug the song, but after seeing it live I am offically in love. This one shreds your ass off something fierce. Jack is sooooo into this shit!!! And when he hits the "Ah,ah,ah,ah,ah"!? EH! That break down is sooooo fuckin incredible!



Also, this line succeeds in making some people melt.....

"Well maybe I'll put my love on ice"

Jesus Jackie! :o


*bows down to the shredding masterpiece that is.........



-+x[BLACK MATH]x+-

Don't you think that I'm bound to react now?
Well, my fingers are definitely turning to black now
Yeah, well maybe I'll put my love on ice
Teach myself, maybe that'll be nice
Yeah

My books are sitting at the top of the stack now
The longer words are really breaking my back now
Maybe I'll learn to understand
Drawing a square with a pencil in hand, yeah

Ah,ah,ah,ah,ah
Ah,ah,ah,ah,ah

Mathematically turning the page
Unequivocally showing my age
I'm practically center stage
Undeniably earning your wage
Well maybe I'll put my love on ice
And teach myself, maybe that'll be nice, yeah

Listen master, can you answer a question?
Is it the fingers, or the brain
that you're teaching A lesson?
I can't tell you how proud I am
I'm writing down things that I don't understand
Well, maybe I'll put my love on ice
And teach myself, maybe that'll be nice

Yeah,yeah,yeah

[Pat H]

If you think that a kiss is all in the lips
C'mon, you got it all wrong, man
And if you think that our dance was all in the hips
Oh well, then do the twist
If you think holding hands is all in the fingers
Grab hold of the soul where the memory lingers and
Make sure to never do it with the fingers
Cause I'll tell everyone in the world

But he was thinking about the girl
Ya, but he's thinking about the girl, oh

A lot of people get confused and they bruise
Real easy when it comes to love
They start putting on their shoes and walking out
And singing "boy, I think I had enough"

Just because she makes you feel wrong
She don't mean to be mean or hurt you on purpose, boy
Take a tip and do yourself a little service
Take a mountain turn it into a mole

Just by playing a different role
Ya, by playing a different role, oh

The boat ya you know she's rockin' it
And the truth well ya know there's no stoppin' it

The boat ya you know she's still rockin' it
The truth well you know there's no stoppin' it

So what, somebody left you in a rut
And wants to be the one who's in control
But the feeling that you're under can really make you wonder
How the hell she can be so cold

So now you're mad, denying the truth
And it's getting in the wisdom in the back of your tooth
Ya need ta spit it out, in a telephone booth
While ya call everyone that you know, and ask 'em

Where do you think she goes
Oh ya, where d'ya suppose she goes, oh

The truth well you know there's no stoppin' it
And the boat well ya know she's still rockin' it

The boat ya you know she's still rockin' it
And the truth ya you know there's no stoppin' it

You recognize with your back in the back?
That it's colder when she rocks the boat
But it's the cause hittin on the Cardinal Laws?
'bout the proper place to hang her coat

So to you, the truth is still hidden
And the soul plays the role of a lost little kitten but
You should know that the dark is one kitten?
She's been singing it all along

But you were hearin' a different song
Ya you were hearin' a different song
But you were hearin' a different song



this is one of my favorites off of Get Behind Me Satan

I think that Get Behind Me Satan will be my album of the year

[amentvedder]

If you think that a kiss is all in the lips
C'mon, you got it all wrong, man
And if you think that our dance was all in the hips
Oh well, then do the twist
If you think holding hands is all in the fingers
Grab hold of the soul where the memory lingers and
Make sure to never do it with the fingers
Cause I'll tell everyone in the world

But he was thinking about the girl
Ya, but he's thinking about the girl, oh

A lot of people get confused and they bruise
Real easy when it comes to love
They start putting on their shoes and walking out
And singing "boy, I think I had enough"

Just because she makes you feel wrong
She don't mean to be mean or hurt you on purpose, boy
Take a tip and do yourself a little service
Take a mountain turn it into a mole

Just by playing a different role
Ya, by playing a different role, oh

The boat ya you know she's rockin' it
And the truth well ya know there's no stoppin' it

The boat ya you know she's still rockin' it
The truth well you know there's no stoppin' it

So what, somebody left you in a rut
And wants to be the one who's in control
But the feeling that you're under can really make you wonder
How the hell she can be so cold

So now you're mad, denying the truth
And it's getting in the wisdom in the back of your tooth
Ya need ta spit it out, in a telephone booth
While ya call everyone that you know, and ask 'em

Where do you think she goes
Oh ya, where d'ya suppose she goes, oh

The truth well you know there's no stoppin' it
And the boat well ya know she's still rockin' it

The boat ya you know she's still rockin' it
And the truth ya you know there's no stoppin' it

You recognize with your back in the back?
That it's colder when she rocks the boat
But it's the cause hittin on the Cardinal Laws?
'bout the proper place to hang her coat

So to you, the truth is still hidden
And the soul plays the role of a lost little kitten but
You should know that the dark is one kitten?
She's been singing it all along

But you were hearin' a different song
Ya you were hearin' a different song
But you were hearin' a different song



this is one of my favorites off of Get Behind Me Satan

I think that Get Behind Me Satan will be my album of the year

I love this song!!

Today i bought Under Blackpool Lights on DVD, can't wait to watch it ....ah dvd's u can hear AND see :D

[amentvedder]

-+x[BLACK MATH]x+-


Ah,ah,ah,ah,ah
Ah,ah,ah,ah,ah



That is my fave bit of that song :D No need to explain, Jack sings it lol

[Pat H]

I love this song!!

Today i bought Under Blackpool Lights on DVD, can't wait to watch it ....ah dvd's u can hear AND see :D


it's a very awesome DVD

[PearlStripes]

"It's all taken to out of this world levels live. To be in the presence of all this greatness?!! To witness first hand all this magic?! To feel these unimaginable sounds running through your veins?! Wow! Again, you should reeeeally try to find a way".

- Well said VedHead27

I think we're witnessing live, one of the all time greats in the history of rock (although he's a composition of various styles). And that's in very select company. The man is going to do some amazing things down the road in addition to the accomplishments he's already achieved. Jackie White is an artist. And they don't come around very often. Especially in this corporate environment. He's well respected, but doesn't get near the recognition he deserves. In due time however, anyone that missed an opportunity to see him live, upfront in a small venue for an inexpensive price during his White Stripes days, before he truly branches out, will be kicking themselves. He's going to be so busy with all of his projects, that seeing him and Meg on stage with all these great songs will become a less fequent opportunity I'm thinking. By the way, does anyone know the release date for Jack's new release with the other musician (forgot name - Brandon Something??) from Detroit? Supposed to be this winter. This other musician was comparing the already completed album to Nevermind. Now that's a lofty verbal venture..

One of my favs -

Hey little apple blossom
what seems to be the problem
all the ones you tell your troubles to
they don't really care for you
come and tell me what you're thinking
cause just when the boat is sinking
a little light is blinking
and I will come and rescue you
lots of girls walk around in tears
but that's not for you
you've been looking all around for years
for someone to tell your troubles too
come and sit with me and talk a while
let me see your pretty little smile
put your troubles in a little pile
and I will sort them out for you
I'll fall in love with you
I think I'll marry you

[PearlStripes]

http://www.mtv.com/music/video/index.jhtml?_lpvid=55665

[PearlStripes]

......it's Brendan Benson

[rage333]

What is the project called? I know it has the rhythm section from the Greenhorns, Brenden Benson and Jack White. But what is their name? Not to mention when will this come out?! Fuck I'm so excited. But dare I say does this mean the end for the White Stripes? I hope not.

[PearlStripes]

EJ: There has been a lot of rumor and speculation in the press about you making this album with Jack White or possibly even joining The White Stripes. How did you hook up with Jack White?

Brendan: I just met him thru friends when I moved back home to Detroit, and I when heard The White Stripes play I was like, "Man, this guy is incredible". We got together a few times and became friends. It started that I'd record his songs, his and White Stripes songs he was writing. Then it got to be I'd do a show and play his songs and he'd play mine, and then we did a show where we played each other's songs. I was really thrilled because I heard a couple of things that I had played with on the finished White Blood Cells. Mind you, it wasn’t an official collaboration, just friends hanging out having a good time.


He also said there was no truth to joining the White Stripes. I haven't heard a release date for the album, the name of the album or the name of the band or project. Looking forward to it though! I can't get enough of 'ol Jackie White.

[PearlStripes]

They're called The Raconteurs

http://www.themodernage.org/2005/06/jack-whites-new-quartet-to-drop-album.html

[PearlStripes]

...........some more info however


JACK WHITE AND BRENDAN BENSON NAME SIDE PROJECT




BRENDAN BENSON and JACK WHITE have named the side project they’ve been working on together.

As revealed by NME.COM the pair have made Detroit’s “answer to ‘Nevermind’” and are now calling Raconteurs.

“We’ll probably be coming out with a new record next year,” White told Billboard. “We’re almost done with it. It’s something totally new for me – two songwriters working together. Dual vocals, dual lead guitars, dual songwriting duties.”

White added that it wasn’t just him and Benson creating the record, they now had a full band featuring Jack Lawrence on bass and Patrick Keller drummer (Greenhornes).

“It’s a brand new band,” declared White. “It’s not just me and Brendan. Patrick and Jack are very talented musicians. The songs are giant. They’re really large.”

No release date has been set for the Raconteurs’ album, however nothing is expected until White finishes promotional duties for the new White Stripes album ‘Get Behind Me Satan’.


(and)


JACK WHITE has been recording BRENDAN BENSON’s latest album in DETROIT.

White admitted this week that he wanted to make the new White Stripes record at Benson’s house.

However, it has now also been revealed that Benson’s third LP ’Alternative To Love’ is being recorded with the guitarist, following in the footsteps of Loretta Lynn’s last album ’Van Lear Rose’ - produced by White.

Benson said: "Jack's doing his own record, and I don't know too much about that. But Jack and I started making a record together. We've got 11 or 12 songs recorded, but not completely finished. We still need to sing vocals on some of the songs."

Currently supporting Keane on their UK tour, Benson is also using his house as the studio to record the album. The pair started work in August, with the record expected to hit the shops in March.

He said: "He lives two or three blocks away from me, and we've been friends for a really long time. So this just seemed like a good excuse to see what would happen when we worked together. It seems to be working out."

Describing the sound of the album, Benson told MTV News: "It's weird, man. There's stuff on there that sounds like Cat Stevens, and there's some stuff on there that sounds like Led Zeppelin. I can say some of the stuff sounds like pure Jack White. You can hear it and say, 'Oh, that's a Jack White song.' I don't know if people are going to think it's crap or brilliant. I have no idea."

Recorded with The Greenhornes’ bassist Jack Lawrence and drummer Patrick Keeler - who appeared on Lynn’s album too – ’Alternative To Love’ will have the finishing touches added when Benson returns to the US next week.

All four musicians are prepared to head out on the road in support of the album.

Benson added: "It's really great, man. People have got to hear it. Jack and I both sing. And it's kind of like a Lennon/McCartney thing, if I may be so bold. And I'm not comparing the musicianship, just the fact that we're each kind of bringing in our own songs. And we both have different sounds and aesthetics, which adds a whole other aspect to it."

(and)


Benson Readies 'Love,' Records With White



By Troy Carpenter, N.Y.



Detroit-based pop/rocker Brendan Benson is gearing up for a big 2005. His new solo album, "The Alternative to Love," is set to be released in March via V2 Records, and amidst an anticipated heavy slate of touring, Benson hopes to release a duo record he's been working on with Jack White of the White Stripes.

"The Alternative to Love" is the follow-up to 2002's critically acclaimed "Lapalco" (Startime International), and was recorded entirely at Benson's home studio in Detroit's Belle Isle neighborhood. Rocking album opener "Spit It Out," bittersweet breakup song "Between Us" and the convoluted but catchy title track highlight the set.

Benson plays all instruments, but he had help in the "Alternative" sessions from drummer Matt Elgin and harmonica player/backing vocalist Chris Plum, among others. Benson tells Billboard.com that working in his home studio affords him the opportunity to continually tweak songs-in-progress as fancy strikes.

"I also like to paint, and in painting it's very obvious to me when to stop," he explains. "But in music I don't know when to stop. I can't resist that compulsion. In the end it might be the kitchen sink in that song, but I think it's still going to have life just because I had so much fun doing it."

Neighbor White is another collaborator who's been spending a lot of time at Benson's house lately. Benson says the pair is putting finishing touches on a collaborative album recorded with Greenhornes bassist Jack Lawrence and drummer Patrick Keeler that will hopefully see release sometime next year.

"It's kind of a little of everything," he says of the album. "I've got songs that I've pretty much written and he added lyrics to it. And he brought some songs, or actually made a bunch of 'em up on the spot. It's cool, different stuff. Some of it sounds like Jack and some of it just sounds like Cat Stevens or something."

[{[No_Code}]]

Brendan Benson is awesome too!

two great songwriters together. Hopefully a great album

Jack is a genius of 00's

[VEDHEAD27]

Thanks PearlStripes, and AMEN...I agree with everything you said as well. ;)


But,.........




Describing the sound of the album, Benson told MTV News: "It's weird, man. There's stuff on there that sounds like Cat Stevens, and there's some stuff on there that sounds like Led Zeppelin. I can say some of the stuff sounds like pure Jack White. You can hear it and say, 'Oh, that's a Jack White song.' I don't know if people are going to think it's crap or brilliant. I have no idea."
h sing. And it's kind of like a Lennon/McCartney thing, if I may be so bold. And I'm not comparing the musicianship, just the fact that we're each kind of bringing in our own songs. And we both have different sounds and aesthetics, which adds a whole other aspect to it."


!!!!!!!


Benson added: "It's really great, man. People have got to hear it. Jack and I both sing. And it's kind of like a Lennon/McCartney thing, if I may be so bold. And I'm not comparing the musicianship, just the fact that we're each kind of bringing in our own songs. And we both have different sounds and aesthetics, which adds a whole other aspect to it."



!!!!!!!


Holy WOW! :eek: Sounds fuckin incredible!!! I cannot wait for this. :D

[March to Fuzz]

i love "the big three killed my baby", that is an awesome song. "stop breaking down" is another one of my favorites.

i am so pissed at myself that i'm missing their show here in Coney Island, it's like 5 minutes away from my house, but i blew all of my concert money on u2 tickets. sounds like the stripes are putting on some cool shows and it's cool to see that the setlist is just not GBMS heavy.
The Stones did "Stop Breaking Down" on Exile On Main Street, the Stripes do a nice job with it too.

[{[No_Code}]]

best 00's band. along with Arcade Fire!

[{[No_Code}]]

i fucking love Isis cover! on self titled album

[PearlStripes]

I'll have to check out Arcade Fire.

But I would say that the best two bands out there now are The White Stripes and Bright Eyes. If you don't have I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning, you really need to check it out. It will be an album that will be listened to for years and years to come.

[amentvedder]

it's a very awesome DVD

OMG Pat H you can say that again. That is the best DVD i ever saw. I thought Eddie Vedder gave a raw really passionate performance but compared to jack! jeez this guy is like a machine, he just rips it up one song onto another! The crowd at Hardest Button and Hotel Yorba was unbelievable!! Highlight for me was maybe You're Pretty Good Looking... amazing. I can't stop thinking about this DVD and can't wait to get home and watch it again!! If you're a fan and haven't seen this - i will refund you myself if you don't enjoy it!!!!!!!!!!!! :D:D:D

[PearlStripes]

White on White
Jack and Meg White remain rock & roll's biggest mystery
By DAVID FRICKE


Jack White pulls his black Ford pickup truck to the curb on a quiet, tree-lined street in his native Detroit and hits the 'play' button on the CD player in the cherry-red dashboard. He turns the volume up to deafening and grins proudly as howitzer-fire drumming and squeals of distorted guitar rattle the windshield. There are bursts of marimba, too, which sound like someone shaking a bag of bones. The singing is really just shouting, and the lyrics are kid stuff: "You're my top special, baby/Top! Top!" But the total effect is elementary, irresistible ecstasy.
Jack is playing "Top Special," a new White Stripes track recorded a week earlier with drummer Meg White -- who is sitting quietly in the back seat -- for a special Japanese single. The chorus, Jack says over the din, is a phrase popular with Japanese teens: "It basically means 'You're my best friend.'"

There is no better way to describe the White Stripes themselves. A few days later they perform "Top Special" for an adoring audience at Keller Auditorium in Portland, Oregon, the fifth stop on their current U.S. tour, promoting the Top Five album Get Behind Me Satan. But Jack and Meg are playing to each other. He stands at a mike set at the foot of her kit, his eyes pinned on her as he sings and thrashes his guitar. She looks up at him with the same undivided attention as she keeps steady, thundering time.

It is a perfect picture of a remarkable bond. Publicly, Jack and Meg, both thirty, claim to be brother and sister, even though a Detroit newspaper blew their cover a couple of years ago, revealing them to be ex-husband and -wife (married in 1996, divorced in 2000). But on their five albums as the White Stripes, and especially onstage, there is no mistaking the truth of their relationship. They make music like inseparable kindred spirits. "It will always be us two," Jack says of the Stripes over lunch that day in Detroit. "I will never do the White Stripes with another drummer. She'll never do it with another guitarist."

The White Stripes are at a commercial and creative peak. Satan is their third hit album in a row, following the 2001 breakthrough White Blood Cells and 2003's Elephant. Satan is also their boldest record, combining the Stripes' whiplash rock and Jack's passion for vintage blues and country music with a gothic-roadhouse tension scored with grand piano and marimba. "There is an authenticity about everything Jack does," says T Bone Burnett, who produced Jack's solo tracks on the soundtrack to the 2003 film Cold Mountain. "I don't know many people under thirty who have done the research Jack has done -- and can do a credible Blind Willie McTell cover."

The White Stripes are, in most ways, Jack's creation. He writes the songs, plays everything except drums and devised the band's peppermint-stripe color scheme. And he does almost all the talking. "I'm just a very shy person," Meg confesses at lunch, although she defends the primal quality of her drumming with sweet firmness. "That is my strength. A lot of drummers would feel weird about being that simplistic."

Born John Gillis in 1975, Jack (who took Meg's surname when they married) actually started out as a drummer, at age five. But music was not his first career choice. In high school, Jack, a Catholic, seriously thought of entering the priesthood. After graduating, he considered joining the Marines but instead worked as an upholsterer and, for a time, as a gofer on TV car-commercial shoots. "I could see that it was impossible to get your ideas across, with all the people -- the soundman, lighting people, producers -- you had to go through," he says. "I suppose that put me in the direction of a two-piece band."

Jack played drums and guitar in several Detroit garage bands (Two Part Resin, the Go, Goober and the Peas, the Hentchmen) before he and Meg, another Detroit native, made their local live debut in 1997. Jack soon found that underground cool came at a price. "We were everybody's secret band," he says. "Then our second album [De Stijl] came out, and it was 'Oh, they're not that good anymore.' When we hit the mainstream, I had to go through that game all over again, on a worldwide scale."

Jack may be a reluctant star, but he is a fireball in conversation. He speaks at high speed, his brown eyes looking directly at you like derringer barrels, and his laugh is a series of short, sharp bangs, like a string of firecrackers going off. For more than three hours, over two sessions, he goes into excited detail about, among other things, the Captain Beefheart and Gun Club records that blew his teenage mind, the album he produced for his idol Loretta Lynn (2004's Van Lear Rose) and the record he's finishing with his new band, the Raconteurs, formed with fellow Detroit rocker Brendan Benson.

"I've got enough time," Jack says cheerfully of having two groups at once. "I don't have a day job anymore." And Meg claims she is not worried about the effect on the White Stripes' future. "Jack's always done five things at once," she says. "He was in two other bands when we started this one. This is not unusual."

Get Behind Me Satan must be the most overdubbed album you've ever made. Did you worry about how you would perform those songs live? A duo can only make so much music without tapes and samples.

I've always centered the band around the number three. Everything was vocals, guitar and drums or vocals, piano and drums. So what's the difference? I can only play one thing at a time. The minimalism is still there: vocals, marimba and drums or vocals, grand piano and drums. Or I play piano, Meg plays timpani and she sings. It's all in threes.

The whole point of the White Stripes is the liberation of limiting yourself. In my opinion, too much opportunity kills creativity. I remember in high school, a friend of mine had a magazine with a story about some popular band of the time that was recording an album. The story said they had eighty guitars in the studio to choose from and that there were over 120 tracks of guitar on this one song. Good Lord! Listen to the Stooges' Fun House. You know there can't be more than one track of guitar on there [laughs]. Maybe two.

But when I first saw the White Stripes live, it took me a while to get used to the hole in your sound. I kept asking myself, "Where's the bass? Where's the bottom?"

I can see that. I was in high school when I first heard the Flat Duo Jets. They were a guitar/drums band, and I thought the same thing. Then, within months, they became my favorite band. Some kind of rawness hit me, and I saw there was no need for anything else.

A year ago, I listened to the first tape Meg and I made. It's a recording of the first time we played together. It still sounds raw and cool. We did [David Bowie's] "Moonage Daydream." Then we wrote "Screwdriver," our first song. There was a red screwdriver sitting on the table. We wrote the song that afternoon, and it hasn't changed at all since that day.

When we play a song I wrote, it's the White Stripes covering a Jack White song -- that's the best way to describe it. I write most of my songs on piano and acoustic guitar. Then I show it to Meg, and it's like, "OK, how can we do this onstage?" That becomes the way we do it, from then on.

Are there times when Meg's style of drumming is too limiting -- that you can't take a song as far as you'd like to go?

No. I never thought, "God, I wish Neil Peart was in this band." It's kind of funny: When people critique hip-hop, they're scared to open up, for fear of being called racist. But they're not scared to open up on female musicians, out of pure sexism.

Meg is the best part of this band. It never would have worked with anybody else, because it would have been too complicated. When she started to play drums with me, just on a lark, it felt liberating and refreshing. There was something in it that opened me up. It was my doorway to playing the blues, without anyone over my shoulder going, "Oh, white-boy blues, white-boy bar band." I could really get down to something.

Do you think the brother-sister thing was a miscalculation -- that you overdid the mythmaking?

I saw a review of our new album, and it said, "Every single component of the White Stripes is a gigantic lie." What does that mean? Have I sat down and said I was born in Mississippi? No. Did I say I grew up on a plantation and learned how to play guitar from a blind man? I never said anything like that. It's funny that people think me and Meg sit up late at night, in front of a gas lamp, and come up with these intricate lies to trick people.

But because you present that relationship as fact, it obscures your real connection as a couple -- the truth and value of what you play together.

I want you to imagine if we had presented ourselves in another fashion, that people might have thought was the truth. How would we have been perceived, right off the bat? When you see a band that is two pieces, husband and wife, boyfriend and girlfriend, you think, "Oh, I see . . ." When they're brother and sister, you go, "Oh, that's interesting." You care more about the music, not the relationship -- whether they're trying to save their relationship by being in a band.

You don't think about that with a brother and sister. They're mated for life. That's what family is like.

So when did you come up with the idea?

I'm not saying I came up with anything [laughs]. It's like people thinking we would be more real if we went onstage in jeans and T-shirts. How ignorant is that, to think that because they don't wear a suit onstage that someone is giving you the real deal? People do come and see us and think, "Look at all these gimmicks." Go ahead, man. Go ahead and think that.

(Excerpted from RS 982, Sept. 8, 2005)

(Posted Aug 25, 2005)

[Pat H]

White on White
Jack and Meg White remain rock & roll's biggest mystery
By DAVID FRICKE


Jack White pulls his black Ford pickup truck to the curb on a quiet, tree-lined street in his native Detroit and hits the 'play' button on the CD player in the cherry-red dashboard. He turns the volume up to deafening and grins proudly as howitzer-fire drumming and squeals of distorted guitar rattle the windshield. There are bursts of marimba, too, which sound like someone shaking a bag of bones. The singing is really just shouting, and the lyrics are kid stuff: "You're my top special, baby/Top! Top!" But the total effect is elementary, irresistible ecstasy.
Jack is playing "Top Special," a new White Stripes track recorded a week earlier with drummer Meg White -- who is sitting quietly in the back seat -- for a special Japanese single. The chorus, Jack says over the din, is a phrase popular with Japanese teens: "It basically means 'You're my best friend.'"

There is no better way to describe the White Stripes themselves. A few days later they perform "Top Special" for an adoring audience at Keller Auditorium in Portland, Oregon, the fifth stop on their current U.S. tour, promoting the Top Five album Get Behind Me Satan. But Jack and Meg are playing to each other. He stands at a mike set at the foot of her kit, his eyes pinned on her as he sings and thrashes his guitar. She looks up at him with the same undivided attention as she keeps steady, thundering time.

It is a perfect picture of a remarkable bond. Publicly, Jack and Meg, both thirty, claim to be brother and sister, even though a Detroit newspaper blew their cover a couple of years ago, revealing them to be ex-husband and -wife (married in 1996, divorced in 2000). But on their five albums as the White Stripes, and especially onstage, there is no mistaking the truth of their relationship. They make music like inseparable kindred spirits. "It will always be us two," Jack says of the Stripes over lunch that day in Detroit. "I will never do the White Stripes with another drummer. She'll never do it with another guitarist."

The White Stripes are at a commercial and creative peak. Satan is their third hit album in a row, following the 2001 breakthrough White Blood Cells and 2003's Elephant. Satan is also their boldest record, combining the Stripes' whiplash rock and Jack's passion for vintage blues and country music with a gothic-roadhouse tension scored with grand piano and marimba. "There is an authenticity about everything Jack does," says T Bone Burnett, who produced Jack's solo tracks on the soundtrack to the 2003 film Cold Mountain. "I don't know many people under thirty who have done the research Jack has done -- and can do a credible Blind Willie McTell cover."

The White Stripes are, in most ways, Jack's creation. He writes the songs, plays everything except drums and devised the band's peppermint-stripe color scheme. And he does almost all the talking. "I'm just a very shy person," Meg confesses at lunch, although she defends the primal quality of her drumming with sweet firmness. "That is my strength. A lot of drummers would feel weird about being that simplistic."

Born John Gillis in 1975, Jack (who took Meg's surname when they married) actually started out as a drummer, at age five. But music was not his first career choice. In high school, Jack, a Catholic, seriously thought of entering the priesthood. After graduating, he considered joining the Marines but instead worked as an upholsterer and, for a time, as a gofer on TV car-commercial shoots. "I could see that it was impossible to get your ideas across, with all the people -- the soundman, lighting people, producers -- you had to go through," he says. "I suppose that put me in the direction of a two-piece band."

Jack played drums and guitar in several Detroit garage bands (Two Part Resin, the Go, Goober and the Peas, the Hentchmen) before he and Meg, another Detroit native, made their local live debut in 1997. Jack soon found that underground cool came at a price. "We were everybody's secret band," he says. "Then our second album [De Stijl] came out, and it was 'Oh, they're not that good anymore.' When we hit the mainstream, I had to go through that game all over again, on a worldwide scale."

Jack may be a reluctant star, but he is a fireball in conversation. He speaks at high speed, his brown eyes looking directly at you like derringer barrels, and his laugh is a series of short, sharp bangs, like a string of firecrackers going off. For more than three hours, over two sessions, he goes into excited detail about, among other things, the Captain Beefheart and Gun Club records that blew his teenage mind, the album he produced for his idol Loretta Lynn (2004's Van Lear Rose) and the record he's finishing with his new band, the Raconteurs, formed with fellow Detroit rocker Brendan Benson.

"I've got enough time," Jack says cheerfully of having two groups at once. "I don't have a day job anymore." And Meg claims she is not worried about the effect on the White Stripes' future. "Jack's always done five things at once," she says. "He was in two other bands when we started this one. This is not unusual."

Get Behind Me Satan must be the most overdubbed album you've ever made. Did you worry about how you would perform those songs live? A duo can only make so much music without tapes and samples.

I've always centered the band around the number three. Everything was vocals, guitar and drums or vocals, piano and drums. So what's the difference? I can only play one thing at a time. The minimalism is still there: vocals, marimba and drums or vocals, grand piano and drums. Or I play piano, Meg plays timpani and she sings. It's all in threes.

The whole point of the White Stripes is the liberation of limiting yourself. In my opinion, too much opportunity kills creativity. I remember in high school, a friend of mine had a magazine with a story about some popular band of the time that was recording an album. The story said they had eighty guitars in the studio to choose from and that there were over 120 tracks of guitar on this one song. Good Lord! Listen to the Stooges' Fun House. You know there can't be more than one track of guitar on there [laughs]. Maybe two.

But when I first saw the White Stripes live, it took me a while to get used to the hole in your sound. I kept asking myself, "Where's the bass? Where's the bottom?"

I can see that. I was in high school when I first heard the Flat Duo Jets. They were a guitar/drums band, and I thought the same thing. Then, within months, they became my favorite band. Some kind of rawness hit me, and I saw there was no need for anything else.

A year ago, I listened to the first tape Meg and I made. It's a recording of the first time we played together. It still sounds raw and cool. We did [David Bowie's] "Moonage Daydream." Then we wrote "Screwdriver," our first song. There was a red screwdriver sitting on the table. We wrote the song that afternoon, and it hasn't changed at all since that day.

When we play a song I wrote, it's the White Stripes covering a Jack White song -- that's the best way to describe it. I write most of my songs on piano and acoustic guitar. Then I show it to Meg, and it's like, "OK, how can we do this onstage?" That becomes the way we do it, from then on.

Are there times when Meg's style of drumming is too limiting -- that you can't take a song as far as you'd like to go?

No. I never thought, "God, I wish Neil Peart was in this band." It's kind of funny: When people critique hip-hop, they're scared to open up, for fear of being called racist. But they're not scared to open up on female musicians, out of pure sexism.

Meg is the best part of this band. It never would have worked with anybody else, because it would have been too complicated. When she started to play drums with me, just on a lark, it felt liberating and refreshing. There was something in it that opened me up. It was my doorway to playing the blues, without anyone over my shoulder going, "Oh, white-boy blues, white-boy bar band." I could really get down to something.

Do you think the brother-sister thing was a miscalculation -- that you overdid the mythmaking?

I saw a review of our new album, and it said, "Every single component of the White Stripes is a gigantic lie." What does that mean? Have I sat down and said I was born in Mississippi? No. Did I say I grew up on a plantation and learned how to play guitar from a blind man? I never said anything like that. It's funny that people think me and Meg sit up late at night, in front of a gas lamp, and come up with these intricate lies to trick people.

But because you present that relationship as fact, it obscures your real connection as a couple -- the truth and value of what you play together.

I want you to imagine if we had presented ourselves in another fashion, that people might have thought was the truth. How would we have been perceived, right off the bat? When you see a band that is two pieces, husband and wife, boyfriend and girlfriend, you think, "Oh, I see . . ." When they're brother and sister, you go, "Oh, that's interesting." You care more about the music, not the relationship -- whether they're trying to save their relationship by being in a band.

You don't think about that with a brother and sister. They're mated for life. That's what family is like.

So when did you come up with the idea?

I'm not saying I came up with anything [laughs]. It's like people thinking we would be more real if we went onstage in jeans and T-shirts. How ignorant is that, to think that because they don't wear a suit onstage that someone is giving you the real deal? People do come and see us and think, "Look at all these gimmicks." Go ahead, man. Go ahead and think that.

(Excerpted from RS 982, Sept. 8, 2005)

(Posted Aug 25, 2005)


that's an awesome interview. I'm definitely going to pick up the new interview so that I can read the rest of it.

I havent been able to get Get Behind Me Satan out of the player lately. I love that album

[lowlight10]

I'm seeing them tonight for the first time, and this thread has me pretty damn excited! I'm listening to the show from 8.7.05 in Vancouver at the moment, good stuff.

if anybody needs to great seats for the show tonight, email me at mbhatia10@yahoo.com. I have 2 extras together.

[Cornflakegrl98]

The Stones did "Stop Breaking Down" on Exile On Main Street, the Stripes do a nice job with it too.

oh wow, that's a stones cover? i'm a casual stones fan, i didn't know that, thanks for the info, i'll check out their version :)

[VEDHEAD27]

Wow PearlStripes! Thanks for the incredible read. Ahhh Jackie White! *sigh* :o Every single thing I read about the man makes me love and respect his super talented ass even more. :D

There are so many things I wanna highlight about that kick ass interview but for now I'll just go with....

But Jack and Meg are playing to each other. He stands at a mike set at the foot of her kit, his eyes pinned on her as he sings and thrashes his guitar. She looks up at him with the same undivided attention as she keeps steady, thundering time.


Awww, it's so true!! I looooove that! :D They do totally engage each other on stage. That chemisty is incredible. And hell yes, I love all his Meg love! That shit is way too damn cute for words.

Ooooo, "Top Special"???? I wanna hear!!! *stomps like a brat* :p And the interviewer is damn right, they are for sure at such a creative peak. This man is UNSTOPPABLE! Daaamn, and he's always been like that!? A-mazing. :o


lowlight10, wow bud...you are IN FOR IT! Feel free to share all the details with us. HAVE A GREAT TIME!!!! :D



BUMP it up with one that I {{love}} very much. Can you feel this sucker or what?!!?




∞I CAN'† WAI†∞

I can't wait till you try to come back girl
when things they don't work out for you
who do you think you 're messing with girl
what do you think you're trying to do?

who do you think you 're messing with girl
what do you think you're trying to do?
do you really think I want be left out girl
who do you think you're fool

First you said I was blind
and it's gonna be different this time
I thought you made up your mind
I thought you made up your mind
I thought you made up
I thought you made up
I thought you made up your mind

So many times I've gotten used to this
this old idea of being all alone
tell me how I'm supposed to get through with this?
I wish this house felt like a home

who do you think you 're messing with girl
what do you think you're trying to do?
do you really think I want be left out girl
who do you think you're fool

First you said I was blind
you certainly took your time
I thought you made up your mind
I thought you made up your mind
I thought you made up
I thought you made up
I thought you made up your mind







P.s. Some SEXY ASS line forced me to add it to my sig ;)


P.s.s. The guy that I'm seeing took it upon himself to tell me the other day that while he likes The White Stripes a lot, he sees "nothing original about them"!@#!@#!$#$ :eek: :eek: OUTRAGE! OUTRAGE!! What in the shit?!@!?@!@? PEOPLE!!! How in the?!?! :mad: :eek:
Whew.....ok.....all I gotta say is it's a good thing he has so many great things going for him in other areas.... ;)

[VEDHEAD27]

:D :D :D

Just took a break and went and got the Rolling Stone. Can't wait to read it all. Great pictures up in here too!!!!

[PearlStripes]

Actually, it's a Robert Johnson cover. The Stones covered him too.

[{[No_Code}]]

I'll have to check out Arcade Fire.

But I would say that the best two bands out there now are The White Stripes and Bright Eyes. If you don't have I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning, you really need to check it out. It will be an album that will be listened to for years and years to come.

i love I'm Wide Awake It's Morning! great album

but i think the best two bands right now is Arcade Fire and The White Stripes

great interview in the RS

[lowlight10]

great show in chicago last night (8/29). I was very impressed with both Jack and Meg's talent. and anybody who thinks they arent original needs to open up their ears and mind.

[amentvedder]

great show in chicago last night (8/29). I was very impressed with both Jack and Meg's talent. and anybody who thinks they arent original