Bono and Jack White wonder: Just how immortal is rock music?

jack white is a hard working family man.

I would love to see some of you limp-wristed, bitter, hackneyed, internet critics/creeps say 'douche' to his face.

where are the dellusions of grandeur? ...because he's into the number 3? logic 101 for some people here.

Srsly dude?

- all the albums critically acclaimed and millions sold
- 6 Grammy Awards
- rocked a thousand shows worldwide (voted best live act in RS)

these are not dellusions. they are the products of talent and hard work.

lol

roll over beethoven

http://www.motifake.com/image/demotivational-poster/0908/this-is-what-it-looks-like-funny-rabbit-argue-internet-dumb-demotivational-poster-1250976231.jpg

lol

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if only playing the guitar was that easy

I can't say whether Jack White is a douche or not, but if you don't see that today is far and away the best time to connect to people through music, you are at least totally crazy.

More popular than ever: music
Less popular than ever: paying for music

Jack White blaming technology popularized after he hit puberty for contributing to the death of romance == Old man on the porch yelling YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN

Clearly what Bono really meant is that he's more valuable as a musician than any classical composer will ever be.

More popular than ever: knowing as many band names and album titles and the 'skinny' on each one.
Less popular than ever: paying attention, obsessing over a favorite band, knowing all the lyrics, wearing the t-shirts...

I think Jack is being cynical about how disposable music is to the ipod generation. It's hard to tell if he cares that much about it. I think in interviews it's easy to come off as blunt about things. I sort of feel the same way about today's 'music lovers,' and I'm not selling anything. Here's a conversation I hear all the time:

Joe: Have you heard band X
Alex: I've heard of them. Are they any good?
Joe: They're supposed to be pretty good. I've only heard song Y, and it was alright.
(they both turn back to their laptops, nothing happens)

It's like Sammuel Beckett's "Waiting For Your Favorite Band"

geez, I'm not a fanboy or anything but this is silly... it's not like he took out an ad in the New York Times that said DESTROY ITUNES or whatever, although that would be pretty funny... he was asked about his opinion about the state of rock music and gave his opinion

more popular than ever: knowing as many band names and album titles and the 'skinny' on each one.
Less popular than ever: paying attention, obsessing over a favorite band, knowing all the lyrics, wearing the t-shirts..

yeah Jack is perhaps being cynical / oversimplifying things a bit, but I think his statement is worth an actual debate. it seems stupid to immediately dismiss someone that suggests something in the past was better as if the convenience of new technology is constantly propelling toward the best of all possible worlds.

"Rock brought together rhythm, harmony and top-line melody: rhythm for the body, top-line melody for the mind, and harmony for the spirit. That's a very powerful concoction. Classical music has harmony and top-line melody, but it didn't have rhythm. That's why rock 'n' roll surpassed it."

Why hasn't anyone set up a debate between Bono and Roger Scruton yet? It'd be a blast.

Also:

http://g.sheetmusicplus.com/Look-Inside/large/4002407_01.jpg

(I hear that he has rhythms he hasn't even used yet.]

Eleven years behind on this, but I had no idea Jack White covered "Love Is Blindness" until he performed it tonight at Barclays Center. (He recorded it for a tribute album to Achtung Baby - the same recording was then used as a B-side then contributed to the soundtrack of Baz Luhrmann's ridiculous adaptation of The Great Gatsby.)

Show was amazing, the best guitar playing I've seen at a show in a very long time, and he really worked the crowd (which reciprocated in full). Very few masks though - I wore one but I'm really hoping I don't get COVID. And yes, Jack did look like a Batman villain as Josh mentioned in another thread - that white make-up impressively never came off no matter how many times he wiped the sweat off his face.