I have seen the stripes a number of times, great stuff. Racontears or whatever I have seen once, it was ok, Jack however was brilliant as usual.
anyway, I think Jack is an up and coming great guitar player.
JACKISTHEBESTJACKISMYHEROILOVETHEWHITESTRIPESANDTHERECONTEURSANDILOVEMEGTOOBUTILOVEJACK.
::comes back in room a minute later, clears throat, regains small semblance of dignity::
uh, yes. what i meant to say was, i do enjoy Jack’s rough-and-tumble playing style. i’ve long felt him to be a chap to keep one’s eye on.
good day.
You have a stain on your pants.
The only thing that bugs me about the Stripes is THERE’S NO BASS!! Maybe I’m weird but you NEED bass to hold the song together. He can do it fine on the studio albums since they can pipe it in but everytime I’ve seen some clip of live White Stripes is feels like something’s…missing. Get a bass player, Jack!! It’d make you the greatest guitarist alive! Even Clapton and Hendrix needed a lil bass and drums.
Stevo
Bill Frissell, Joe Lovano, Paul Motian
You have gotta check that trio out.
actually, there are two. they are called: THE WHITE SPOTS.
and check out The Raconteurs to hear Jack in a band “proper”. Broken Boy Soldiers is an outstanding rock album.
and the work he did with Loretta Lynn is very good as well.
Jack’s so dreamy.
This of course began with the blues tradition of Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers. Hound needed no bassist, because he was a fierce guitar player as well as polydactyly (a man with the rare distinction of a sixth finger on both hands). Hound felt the bass added too much depth to his band’s sound as well as “muddied” up his solos. Hound decided it best to exclude such an instrument.
Fast forward to today’s garage-blues-punk sound and you have the HouseRockers retro-active model in full effect for The John Spencer Blues Explosion as well as White Stripes. I believe that Jack White also found the bass-less band lineup much to his benefit sonically. Thus, both aforementioned bands sound quite full without the addition of lower end strings. Jack makes up for this shortcoming in guitar tone. I have seen the Stripes twice before they really hit the big time, and they were explosive and an engaging live musical experience.
if you can’t see them up close and in person, watch the Live Under Blackpool Lights DVD. see why the Stripes are as reveared as they are.
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Have to admit, I liked the White Stripes the moment I heard them, wasn’t huuge about em
…butt…Blackpool Lights let me know what they really are about…bein’ fuckin’ awesome.
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No bass? Sounds like a Cramps rip off to me. Only the Cramps had talent and wrote good material. The White Stripes are just a really watered-down, mainstream version of the Cramps, but Jack White is no Lux Interior or Poison Ivy. I know I know, the Cramps invented this formula that works and stuck with it their whole carreer, with little to no variation from album to album, but c’mon, they invented a completely unique style of music, best described as Psycho-billy and they put on probably one of the wildest live shows taboot. I bet Vern’s seen them a time or two…whatever happened to that kid?
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I’ve tried sending him pm’s, it doesn’t work, his accounts deleted.
::rim shot::
::dead silence::
::GR deletes his account::
Maybe we should give Hasil Adkins a little credit. I think the Cramps were obviously influenced by him…
That video of the Cramps playing in the mental institution is CRAZY… check it if you can…
the Stripes are schoolyard heros and if you don’t agree with me right now i’m gonna delete my account. i’m not fucking kidding you assholes. yes i am i’m totally kidding. you goddamn jelly dodgers. thanks ICC. i loves the brits. i like the show Little Brittain tremedously. come back Vern. i wish i could do a better scottish accent. gev us a kess, ay.
I would have to concur with the Hasil influence on the Cramps. It is quite obvious. Lux has also cited Hound in interviews.
Can your pussy do the dog?
Crazy…I’d never even heard of Hasil Adkins…looks like some crazy shit…I’ll have to read more on this guy, like why he doesn’t have an album until the 1980’s.
After the mid-1990s, Hasil began performing less often, though he retained his popularity with music critics and celebrants of all things outsiderish, such as Joe Coleman, and John Zorn. Hasil has had a very strong influence on the band The Cramps, who he played a number of shows with. Adkins’s cult status is kept alive to the present day by the growing appreciation of, and demand for, the work of mavericks and misfits. He retains a fan base, particularly amongst followers of outsider music.
Regardless, the Cramps would totally beat Jack WHite to death and make love to his corpse.
Regardless, I still love them.
Their new single, “Icky Thump”, is out. It’s nasty, in a good way!