![]() Soon, Dylan’s heroes were White’s as well. It was an album that was meant to sound like it was 100 years old, aching to recall the long-dead blues artists that had inspired rock’s early greats like Bob Dylan, whose “One More Cup of Coffee” was covered on The White Stripes. ![]() Their debut, 1999’s The White Stripes, was an ornery, bluesy collection of distorted guitars and rough-hewn vocals. “It would defeat the purpose of centralizing on these three components of storytelling, melody and rhythm.” ![]() “Anyone else would be excess,” he explained in 2002. (He took her last name.) The following year, they started playing together, him on guitar, her on drums - no other musicians. White had been part of different groups, but the one that stuck was the White Stripes, which he formed with Meg White, whom he’d married in 1996. “I suppose that put me in the direction of a two-piece band.” “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,” White once observed about production shoots. on commercials - before deciding that music was his passion. “I was thinking at 14 that possibly I might have had the calling to be a priest,” he once said, later adding, “Blues singers sort of have the same feelings as someone who’s called to be a priest might have.” He tried out different gigs - upholsterer, working as a P.A. He was born John Gillis, a kid equally enthralled with drums and Catholicism. Remember when life's biggest mystery was if Jack and Meg White were married or siblings?- Steve Agee January 15, 2016 That third album, released around Independence Day in 2001, changed that - in particular, one song off it. He’s a guy who never aspired to be fashionable who wound up being that for a little while. It’s not just his love of vinyl and vintage recording equipment that makes him seem a little out-of-touch - although, to be fair, when he was a young man, he loved those things, too. “Seven Nation Army,” the opening track off the White Stripes’ fourth album, Elephant, now plays on a loop during sporting events, reducing it to a sonic cliché. Not unlike Dave Grohl, he’s become the one rock guy that non-rock listeners seem to like, which has left him seeming like the normcore representative for a genre way past his prime. ![]() If anything, it’s possible you are sick of the guy. It’s been a very long time since no one has heard of him, or his old band. Jack White just turned 47 and his fifth solo album, Entering Heaven Alive, comes out on Friday. “ John Waters said, ‘Success is doing what you want to do, how you want to do it.’ That’s pretty much where we are, and it’s a pretty good place to be.” “The dream of MTV and playing huge places seems to be like death,” he says. White, who’s 25, doesn’t sound like a guy looking for his big breakthrough, though. Maybe the songs are just good.”īut the band is working on their new album, the one that might capitalize on that hype. “We don’t have anyone managing us no one’s sending our records out to press or pushing us with radio or anything. “It seems to be really, really odd to end up in Rolling Stone,” the frontman, Jack White, says. But this is a time of Papa Roach, Linkin Park, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Creed - there’s not a lot of mainstream interest (even in the alt-rock world) for an old-school blues-rock duo consisting of a brother and sister. Well, not no one: They’ve put out two albums, and they just landed in Rolling Stone, which has featured them as one of the bands worth putting on your radar. It’s the spring of 2001, and no one has heard of the White Stripes.
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