White Stripes No More

[walkonby]

i'm curious tmul . . . what bands do you worship and find to be the shit shit?

[DeathFromAbove1979]

Is there a good gigography of them somewhere?  Was the Patriot Center show one of the last ones they ever did?  Looking back I'm glad I went to that even though Jack was pissy about the sound the entire show.

Brian

He apologized for it sounding "Donkey", he was pissy. But still rocked it. I have a recording of that show too.

[DeathFromAbove1979]

As a gigposter collector, I'm kinda sad because the Stripes poster artist and merch designer, Rob Jones, made some really amazing prints for them over the years.

If I'm not mistaken their Patriot Center gig had a red/white/black face of George Mason himself on it.... I think. And it was like 50$.

[Vas Deferens]

belle and sebastian, later stuff 

i'm curious tmul . . . what bands do you worship and find to be the shit shit?

[Thousand Made-Up Loves]

i'm curious tmul . . . what bands do you worship and find to be the shit shit?

Bands with competent drummers and songwriters who can write songs with more than three chords.

[Thousand Made-Up Loves]

V_D, right on.

[Jaguar]

belle and sebastian, later stuff 

i'm curious tmul . . . what bands do you worship and find to be the shit shit?

Haha! The consummate ironic hipster! 

[reggie]

If I'm not mistaken their Patriot Center gig had a red/white/black face of George Mason himself on it.... I think. And it was like 50$.

According to expressobeans, "The man pictured in this poster is one of the leaders of the French Revolution named Maximilien Robespierre."

[DeathFromAbove1979]

i'm curious tmul . . . what bands do you worship and find to be the shit shit?

Bands with competent drummers and songwriters who can write songs with more than three chords.

Hater. One of the best guitar players of this generation. Funny how 1 man can be in 3 different bands using just 3 chords every song he plays... hm.

[DeathFromAbove1979]

If I'm not mistaken their Patriot Center gig had a red/white/black face of George Mason himself on it.... I think. And it was like 50$.

According to expressobeans, "The man pictured in this poster is one of the leaders of the French Revolution named Maximilien Robespierre."

Alright, to be fair I didn't know how either looked. Awesome poster though!

[Brian_Wallace]

i'm curious tmul . . . what bands do you worship and find to be the shit shit?

Bands with competent drummers and songwriters who can write songs with more than three chords.

I believe it was Stephen Malkmus who once posited the theory of mediocre drummer vs great drummers.   I agreed 100%

Basically, it was that the better a drummer got in a band, the worse the band got.

Some of the examples Malkmus used was R.E.M. and Husker Du.

Some of my examples are the fact that Rush is one of the most God-awful bands ever.  They're in Springsteen range.  And Neil Peart is supposed to be drummer god...blah blah blah.

Guns N Roses.  Technically, Matt Sorum is a much better drummer than Steven Adler.  But they SWUNG with Adler. 

I think people who think Meg White is a crappy drummer are ignorant.  Because some people think Charlie Watts is a crappy drummer, too.

Brian

[Relaxer]

RIP Meg's Cans

[Jaguar]

I think people who think Meg White is a crappy drummer are ignorant.
Brian

Thank you, Brian but still I think she's a crappy drummer... and I still love you.   

Besides, I'm much more impressed with Jack's package than Meg's shakers. 

[kosmo vinyl]

Jack White's best work are

1. White Blood Cells
2. The Go

Bonus: The recordings he did with The Hetchmen

and to prove how un-hip i am, i had no idea until well after the fact that Jack White was in The Go and I'm fairly certain I talked to him at the Black Cat when they played there.

The White Stripes best show would have been at the 9:30 Club for WBCs, it was pre-ego inflation and he was still a bit ah-shucks about the attention.   Post WBCs his output has been mediocre  except for the occasional great single.

[wml7]

Don't worry guys they will get back together and play some major festival, just like every other band that has broke up