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June 9, 2008

Something Else #11: White Stripes

Today's Off-Day Musical Guest: the White Stripes.

Jack White and Meg White formed the White Stripes in 1997. The Detroit duo play a raw mix of rock, punk and blues -- generally only guitar and drums. For years, the duo presented themselves as brother and sister, but they were actually married. Fun Fact: Jack, born John Gillis, took Meg's last name. They divorced in 2000, but continued recording and performing together.

What I'm posting: 1999 FM broadcast, two 2001 John Peel BBC sessions and a July 2007 concert at Madison Square Garden. And other stuff!

20 comments:

  1. These mp3s [224 kbps] are for personal use only. Any attempt to make money from selling these shows will turn you into a Yankee fan.

    February 3, 1999
    WDET Radio Broadcast
    Detroit, Michigan
    01 Interview
    02 Sugar Never Tasted So Good
    03 Interview
    04 The Big Three Killed My Baby
    05 Do
    06 Interview
    07 Jimmy The Exploder
    08 Interview
    09 Screwdriver
    10 Interview
    11 Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground
    12 Interview

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    July 25, 2001
    John Peel - BBC Radio 1
    01 Let's Shake Hands
    02 When I Hear My Name
    03 Jolene
    04 Death Letter
    05 John The Revelator
    06 Astro-Jack The Ripper
    07 Hotel Yorba
    08 I'm Finding It Harder To Be A Gentleman
    09 Screwdriver
    10 We're Going To Be Friends
    11 You're Pretty Good Looking For A Girl
    12 Bo Weevil
    13 Hello Operator
    14 Baby Blue

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    November 8, 2001
    John Peel - BBC Radio 1
    01 Lord Send Me An Angel
    02 Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground
    03 I Think I Smell A Rat
    04 Goin' Back To Memphis
    05 Little Room
    06 The Union Forever
    07 The Same Boy You've Always Known
    08 Look Me Over Closely
    09 Looking At You
    10 St. James Infirmary Blues
    11 Apple Blossom
    12 Rated X
    13 Jumble Jumble
    14 Little Girl That Says

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    July 24, 2007 (A and B)
    Madison Square Garden
    New York, New York
    01 Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground
    02 When I Hear My Name
    03 Jolene
    04 Hotel Yorba
    05 Cannon
    06 Icky Thump
    07 Do
    08 Death Letter
    09 In The Cold, Cold Night
    10 A Martyr For My Love For You
    11 I'm Slowly Turning Into You
    12 I Think I Smell A Rat
    13 Wasting My Time
    14 300 MPH Torrential Outpour Blues
    15 You Don't Know What Love Is
    16 Fell In Love With A Girl
    17 Ball And Biscuit
    18 [encore break]
    19 Blue Orchid
    20 I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself
    21 Little Ghost
    22 We're Going To Be Friends
    23 Little Bird
    24 Catch Hell Blues
    25 My Doorbell
    26 Seven Nation Army
    27 Boll Weevil
    Tradeable flac files for the MSG show are here.

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    Four other shows from 2007: June 13, June 14, June 17 and June 24. See also here and here.

    Non-White Stripes Bonus: A November 1964 video featuring 17-year-old David Bowie talking about The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-Haired Men!

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  2. 0-0 after 4. Hochevar has only given up 1 hit. Mussina, 2 hits.

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  3. Great stuff! Keeping with the rock/blues duo thing, have you listened to the Black Keys at all?

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  4. DONG. 2-0 KC in the seventh.

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  5. Royals hold the lead for exactly zero outs. 2-2.

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  6. Guillen dongs off Mo! Two games in the last three Mo gives up a dong in a tie game in the ninth! 3-2 KC, still top 9.

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  7. Rivera gives up a leadoff HR to KC for the second time in this four-game series. Can the Yanks come back again and produce a walkoff hit, or is it back to .500 with them?

    A-Rod starts by singling to the pitcher.

    Allan, REM 6/6/08 in Chicago is up on DIME, looks decent.

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  8. Soira BARELY holds on. Two on and two out versus Chad Moeller and he hit him! But got Milk Dud to ground weakly to first.

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  9. Yanks rally (which to them = swinging bunt, walk, HBP) to load bases in ninth, but lose as Melky weakly grounds out! 3-2 KC final.

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  10. Yanks rally (which to them = swinging bunt, walk, HBP) to load bases in ninth, but lose as Melky weakly grounds out! 3-2 KC final.

    Well, at least they kept the rally going, rather than killing it.

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  11. What little I have heard of the Black Keys I like. Should hear more.

    Zen: Already got it! Man, the oldies in the set lists are blowing my mind!

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  12. And the MFYs fall back to .500. So sad.

    Meanwhile Mauer's within 50,000 votes of Tek in All Star balloting. I'm sure it's nice to have the honor, but I'm not sure Tek's knees agree.

    Lugo's within a million votes of Jetes. What's up with that.

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  13. Lugo's within a million votes of Jetes. What's up with that.

    Electronic voting can cause very strange results.

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  14. Re that 6/6 REM gig:

    Very nice quality ... and the opening is dynamite!

    Living Well Is The Best Revenge
    These Days
    Begin The Begin

    What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
    Pilgrimage

    Fuckin' A!

    I have been following the set lists on remring.com -- they have not yet played Radio Free Europe.

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  15. Here is a list of all pre-Green songs played by REM at the shows so far:

    May 23, 2008
    Second Guessing
    Gardening At Night
    Disturbance At The Heron House
    West of the Fields
    Time After Time (annelise)
    The One I Love

    May 24, 2008
    These Days
    Auctioneer
    Life and How To Live It
    Harborcoat
    The One I Love

    May 29, 2008
    Pretty Persuasion
    Sitting Still
    Fall On Me
    The One I Love

    May 31, 2008
    Little America
    West of the Fields
    Wolves, Lower
    The One I Love
    Driver 8
    Life And How To Live It

    June 1, 2008
    These Days
    Begin the Begin
    So. Central Rain
    Disturbance at the Heron House
    Fall on Me
    Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars)
    The One I Love

    June 3, 2008
    Welcome to the Occupation
    Cuyahoga
    The One I Love
    Feeling Gravity's Pull
    These Days
    Fall On Me

    June 5, 2008
    These Days
    Disturbance at the Heron House
    Shaking Through
    West of The Fields
    Auctioneer
    The One I Love
    Welcome to the Occupation
    Fall on Me (w/Johnny Marr)

    June 6, 2008
    These Days
    Begin The Begin
    Pilgrimage
    The One I Love
    Pretty Persuasion
    Fall On Me (w/Johnny Marr)

    June 8, 2008
    These Days
    7 Chinese Bros.
    The One I Love
    Begin The Begin
    Second Guessing
    Fall On Me (with Johnny Marr)

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    I hope someone makes a CD of the best of these older tunes when the tour is done -- maybe in the order of the albums.

    I think I have the Nero program to do it myself, but I have no idea how. Maybe I should read up.

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  16. By the way, remember all those MFY fans who were poohpoohing Leter's nohitter by saying "yeah, but it was against Kansas City"? The same KC we swept that series? The MFYs just dropped two of four against KC at home.

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  17. Incredible variety on the old stuff from REM, indeed. They must have about 40 songs rehearsed.

    The Stripes I came to late. I really liked the Elephant album. Really, really liked it. There was something very immediate and genuine about it. I didn't feel the same about the Satan album, though. Nothing's really grabbed me of theirs -- or I haven't grabbed onto it -- since the Elephant album.

    I have heard criticisms of Meg's drumming. Not sure if it's worth the hullabaloo. She might be limited but there's nothing wrong with that if it's all the music requires.

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  18. finally something else for me. love it. thanks.

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  19. White Stripes - another band my sons turned me on to.
    Back in the Kazaa days of song searching (which is where I mined some of my favorite live stuff) I started seeing their name in my song library. Happened quite a bit, that business of stuff I didn't recognize mysteriously appearing. They were one of the few I held on to after my son got his own computer. Not my usual cup of tea, but the music is good and I can't stand to drink the same tea alll the time.

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