Meg White Is Amazing!!

We're they born yet? *swoosh*

Completely neantherthal standards of technical proficiency are WHAT ROCK'N'ROLL IS ALL ABOUT.

That and being stick thin with big jugs.

EN I NOW IT.

i thought we were evaluating her drumming?

Sure sure is:

http://www.totallynsfw.com/videos/videos_meg_white_sextape/

that looks like a made-up comedy url

I don't think that's her.

http://www.holyshit.com/images/jenny_lewis_kissing_neko_case.jpg

http://M.assetbar.com/uua6DS6HG.gif

Would explain why she has cancelled tours due to acute anxiety.

oh, the poor thing. I feel so awful for her.

damn ghostrider's link didn't work. shame as holyshit are usually so reliable.

the link worked for me

neko looks like a good kisser!

"plus the big-breasted star of the sex tape keeps losing her rythm which is soo Meg White"

I'm at the office so I'll have to take you guys' word for whether this is a joek or not.

i really don't think its her.

which doesn't mean i didn't feel really ick watching as far as i did.

Hard to say. It does look more than a bit like her.

Especially the bit 'o' muffin-top.

it does look like her. if it actually is, i feel bad for her that something personal like that leaked. not that the video itself is all that embarrassing.

It looks *enough* like her, but when you see her in profile it pretty much invalidates it.

"plus the big-breasted star of the sex tape keeps losing her rythm which is soo Meg White"

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, September 24, 2007 4:17 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

people keep saying this and everytime i listen to white stripes i listen to her and her tempo is just fine. she gets the most undeserved bad rap of any drummer in history. i like her super stompy minimalism. like what do people want for that band? neil peart or some shit?

People talk shit abt Ringo too and he was awesome, e.g. Yoko's Plastic Ono Band record.

How is Meg live?

it's not her.
there are lots of big breasted brunettes in this world (thank god)ya know

NABISCO: ok but so let me note what i've been saying about meg white since 2000
NABISCO: EVERY GIRL IN MICHIGAN LOOKS LIKE THAT
GIRL: HA!
GIRL: really?
GIRL: pale? honkey?
GIRL: she's kinda cute
GIRL: you no like?
NABISCO: well every time i see her i just feel like i'm in grand rapids
FRIEND: gross
NABISCO: it's like some dutch guy had sex with dolls and then it rained for six years and now there are a million Meg Whites running around the woods being weird

it looks alot like her

the new single from the White Stripes:

"Every time i see her (I Feel Like I'm In Grand Rapids)"

people keep saying this and everytime i listen to white stripes i listen to her and her tempo is just fine. she gets the most undeserved bad rap of any drummer in history. i like her super stompy minimalism. like what do people want for that band? neil peart or some shit?

-- M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 24 September 2007 16:46 (6 minutes ago) Link

I think I've come around to the position that I'm not so much bothered by her clunky behind the beat playing as by the fact that she bashes the ride cymbal on EVERY PART OF EVERY SONG when, say, a closed hi-hat now and then would suffice.

Hmmm looks like rent isn't too bad in Grand Rapids...

Grand Rapids you heaven.

Try BIG Rapids -- cheaper and weirder. Hell, go for Tustin or Elk Rapids or something: it's basically like if you took Twin Peaks and re-cast it with 200 imaginary Jack-and-Meg offspring.

she gets the most undeserved bad rap of any drummer in history. i like her super stompy minimalism. like what do people want for that band? neil peart or some shit?

OTM

I'll get started on the mashup immediately.

(i guess i feel like performing very niche music for an attentive crowd is success to me, the chances i've had to do it)

ultimately what's better than this imo?

not much really

nothing imo, it is the greatest

i learned drums bc it was impossible to nail a drummer down for our band, they’re all in 3-5 bands already

That clip is fire

god yeah

also perfectly illustrates her importance, in the hands of a more conventional drummer that could have been a really corny blues workout, but it's just pummelling.

swingy / funky / in the pocket too. there's an effortlessness to it.

She's not being swingy or funky at all in that clip or ever

Those are rock solid eight notes w/ funky Jack on top. I mean she's still great, I just wanted to point that out

Basically playing 1/4 time spiritually if not officially, just a one-one-one-one heartbeat ploughing on into infinity. Ask most drummers to do that and they won't even understand the concept! I say this from bitter experience.

She's got good technique though, not locked up and playing from the elbow or anything, the stick's bouncing, nice big sound. Not saying this to be critical, just stuff I've worked on myself and I haven't seen footage of her playing in forever.

Plus, watching that clip, I think what is most striking is their combined energy. The whole was greater than the sum of its parts.

god jack white used to be so cool wtf

i like that jordan focused on meg's technique, not something i would've noticed a few years ago

i think the important thing is that the white stripes would've sucked majorly without her

Jack White peaked when he punched the Von Bondies guy.

Meg White is one of my heroes.And I am cool with an ethos that embraces Megness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-tOXU-qCd8

just came here to post that video, super enjoyed it. just don't read the comments, or the top of this thread, or ...

she turns 50 in december; something should be planned

Damn I didn't get her anything

Are the White Stripes the biggest festival reunion payday that hasn't gone for it? I imagine Coachella or Lollapalooza would roll up with a Brinks truck if they'd agree to play.

I think they're both doing fine, though. Jack has enough tiny hats.

XP Of the bands that feasibly could (i.e. no dead essential members), it's down to the Stripes and maybe like Dire Straits.

I wonder if she holds the distinction of the youngest drummer who has been able to retire.

Of the bands that feasibly could (i.e. no dead essential members), it's down to the Stripes and maybe like Dire Straits.

Spacemen 3, Sonic Youth, the Smiths (Andy Rourke not essential)

The Jam, though they mean nowt in America apart from a few Anglophiles.

Xp REM

Carrying over from the TayTay thread: OutKast

... although they actually did one of those at Coachella ten years ago.

Talking Heads have to be the biggest reunion holdouts.

(Andy Rourke not essential)

Rude!

Of the bands that feasibly could (i.e. no dead essential members), it's down to the Stripes and maybe like Dire Straits.

Spacemen 3, Sonic Youth, the Smiths (Andy Rourke not essential)

― Pierre Delecto

yeahhhh not sure the smiths would work

Decent chance the set ends with Johnny smashing his guitar over Morrissey's head so I'm on board with it.

The Coachella crowd vibing to "Sultans of Swing" would be amazing. "This was my grandpa's favorite song!"

OutKast did Coachella in 2014

^^I caught myself with that right after I posted them. Whenever I think OutKast reunion, I immediately flash on the Key & Peele sketch and forget that it actually happened.

The slogans Andre 3000 printed on his clothes during the OutKast reunion tour (he was at one point wearing literal price tags reading "SOLD OUT") make it unlikely there will ever be another.

I remember posting here myself one time about how Dire Straits were the biggest broken-up band that there was no demand for a reunion, but then I saw somewhere that Knopfler has been turning down stupid huge paydays from (European) promoters for years.

Interesting to think of which legacy act reunions would hold sway at a place like Coachella. The recent muted response to the Blur reunion makes me think a Kinks reunion might draw similar levels of apathy.

Oasis would get a good reception at a US festival.

Oasis would be victim to Gen X'er fans who are now too old to chase festivals. I think One Direction could still attract millennials with time and money to spend, though.

Dire straits reunion would be cool if they toured with some of the Tuareg/North African bands they influenced

Coachella’s owners have done an old people act festival on its own.
The timeframe for a legacy act being a headliner has, I think, shortened. The festival just isn’t as much of a draw for people above a certain ceiling, and with the audience being mostly people in their 20s wanting at most a revival of someone they loved in their teens or a childhood callback, I don’t know if Meg and the Stripes are it.

I feel like part of the late 90s/00s legacy acts being successful at the festival was the Pitchfork-esque cred of knowing an act that’s name-checked as having cred. And even that seems like a throwback to the earlier era. Maybe if something other than Seven Nation Army is a tiktok hit there could be enough pull

For a 22-year old the White Stripes were on the radio when they were a kid in the car with their parents, for a 30-year old "Icky Thump" was a middle-school jam

You could probably push back another ten years to the alt-rock heyday and capture an under-30 crowd (who have all been exposed to grunge via Youtube) but all those bands are either impossible to reunite (Soundgarden) or have carried on in zombie form (STP, Alice in Chains) anyway.

My kids know the Stripes catalogue like I knew the Beatles as a kid

it could work! Meg’s not coming back, though

I basically ILX me included is too cool to care but Jack White's popularity post White Stripes to a similar but somewhat different crowd is not to be underestimated

The Jam, though they mean nowt in America apart from a few Anglophiles.

I never got to see them; they came nowhere near the mountain west of the U.S. I'd welcome a reunion tour, although it's extremely unlikely they could match the energy that is apparent even in videos of their live performances back in the day.

(Andy Rourke not essential)

Rude!

And wrong! He was as important to their sound as Johnny.

Hell, I'd settle for a Style Council reunion.

The Jam won't happen ofc but Weller, Talbot, Dee and Steve played It's a Very Deep Sea at the end of the SC documentary