Sunday, March 3, 2013

SCREW Interruption??


Jack, Jack, Jack (shaking my head). You are a man after my own heart.

One of the reasons I fell in love with Jack White is his obviously amazing talent and creativity  And he is certainly one that his creativity has risen beyond the rest. 

I know that I am a geek, a nerd, an oddball and was just recently described as eccentric (I took that as a compliment) but what I do know is the history of rock music and Jack White is the real deal. We haven't seen his likes since the Beatles and since it's just one person, probably since Buddy Holly. 

Jack is one the main reasons of the garage rock revival. Whenever you go out to a music store and you see vinyl records, you can thank Jack White for that revival. Now even the Beatles entire catalog has been issued on vinyl. Turntable and now retro "record players" are being sold.

Jack never stays the same. He is content to go out on his own, as his Grammy nominated album Blunderbuss proves, he made himself and Meg White household names during the White Stripes era, formed and melded with the Raconteurs with whom he earned three GRAMMY nominations including Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal for "Steady, As She Goes" and Best Rock Album for Broken Boy Soldiers in 2006. The group's last studio album was 2008's Consolers Of The Lonely, which reached No. 7 on the Billboard 200 and earned a GRAMMY nomination for Best Rock Album.

White's most recent band project, the Dead Weather, was formed in 2008 and featured the Kills lead singer Alison Mosshart and Queens Of The Stone Age guitarist Dean Fertita. The band released their debut album, Horehound, in 2009, followed by 2010's Sea Of Cowards. 


In 2012 White released his debut solo album, Blunderbuss, via Third Man Records, a label he founded in 2001. Produced by White, the album peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and earned three nominations for the 55th GRAMMY Awards, including Album Of The Year. Jack owns Third Man Records and he also owns the titles of producer, actor, wrote, produced and performed the theme song from the Daniel Craig James Bond "Quantum of Solace" with Alicia Keys. The list goes on and on. 

Even with 10 editors overlooking for expletives and a typical 10-second delay on the live Grammy Awards telecast, CBS is dealing with some disagreements over Jack White's appearance as it seems that Jack sang "fuck me" during his performance that went uncensored.

While singing his song "Love Interruption" with Ruby Amanfu, it sounded like Jack sang the word, leading to many viewers tweeting about Jack afterwards. CBS said that Jack sang the song like it was written, which was "fight me" so there was any problem with it. 

CBS also stated that the people who was in charge of that kind of thing were experienced with these shows and doing that type of delays. So CBS is standing behind the word fight.

I've listened to it over and over.

I think if you want to believe that he did say "fuck" you will believe you heard it. If  you believe he said "fight" you will hear that too. Voice inflection could have fooled the cameras as he turned his head slightly or something else.

Personally I think he probably did say it or at least I hope he did. Why? Because he is a fucking badass. It adds to the legend. Probably about 2008, the dude's place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was secure and you haven't seen THAT since the Beatles, I will guarantee you.

Jack White would look cool even if he couldn't play the guitar and there are a load of  people who agree with me. A most prominent fan of those would be Dan Lebatard of ESPN who commented on that very subject on his daily radio show on The Ticket in Miami.

Jack is the savior of rock and roll. He knows what it is about. I had the privilege of seeing him in concert back in October of 2012 and that was the best concert I ever attended.  It was cold, it was rainy but once the concert started Hannah and I didn't give a rats ass. You just completely forgot about it after he came on the stage.

I will travel to as many of his shows in the future as well as the Dead Weather.


Jack White is the now and future king of music. 

All hail the king.


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