Showing posts with label Jack White. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jack White. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

The Dead Weather @ Bowery Ballroom, 4/14/09




Well, it should come as no surprise that Jack White is also a good drummer.  I'm a Jack White fan first.  I love The White Stripes and like The Racounteurs.  I don't expect The Dead Weather's music to compare to either but it was one hell of a fun show.  I'm still giddy over seeing White in a 550 capacity venue and as I, and everyone else, had hoped, he picked up the guitar for one song to remind all of his rock star worthiness.  That will be my fondest memory and was well worth the price of admission.  While the talk going in was on White, I think everyone walked out last night completely floored by Alison Mossheart.  I don't even love her voice but it's impossible not to be awed by her commanding stage presence.  The band played like they've been together for years (as many of them have).  It was uncompromising rock n roll and I'm certainly not going to complain abou that.  

Monday, February 12, 2007

ALIVE!

This was not on last night. Nothing remotely close to this caliber of performance aired last night. It aired three years ago, the Grammys, 2004. I was somewhere else. Not watching. Wherever I was, I was probably spinning Elephant wishing I could see Jack White, in all of his badness, rip through it live. What little residue of displeasure that may have remained in my mind regarding Jack White's Coca-Cola ad has kindly left my body, and the building.

Friday, February 09, 2007

At last. The 20.

Via Frat, because I couldn't locate the magazine during my lunch break. In no particular order. Because that is the way that David Fricke did it. And I love him for that. This list is Metro D approved. At least from my half. Without further adieu, the Top Twenty New Guitar Gods...

Tom Morello

John Mayer

Derek Trucks

John Frusciante

Luther Dickinson

Nels Cline

Warren Haynes

Jim James & Carl Broemel

Adam Jones

Kaki King

Mike McCready & Stone Gossard (are those the guys in Pearl Jam?)

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (and my subscription is saved)

Ed O'Brien & Johnny Greenwood

Chuck Garvey & Al Schnier

Matt Pike

Jack White

Sunday, November 19, 2006

Sunday YouTube Greatness

Radiohead - "No Surprises"


Iggy Pop - "The Passenger"


Jeff Mangum - "Holland, 1945"


Black Flag - "Filthy & Miserable"


The Strokes & Jack White - "New York City Cops"