Jack White - Blunderbuss

I suppose being an obsessive blues fan means rewriting the influences into nuevo misogynist bilge.

cuz "Sixteen Saltines" is crap.

the whole show is up, and it's not bad. it starts about 10 minutes in.

http://www.youtube.com/user/JackWhiteVevo/unstaged

the setlist:

with the girls backing

Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground
Missing Pieces
Freedom At 21
Love Interruption
Hotel Yorba
Two Against One
Top Yourself
I'm Slowly Turning Into You
Blue Blood Blues
Take Me With You When You Go

with the boys backing

Sixteen Saltines
I Cut Like A Buffalo
Weep Themselves To Sleep
Trash Tongue Talker
You Know That I Know
We're Going To Be Friends
Hypocritical Kiss
Hello Operator
Carolina Drama
Seven Nation Army

favorite misogynist moment is in "Top Yoursef," where he growls:

"How you gonna rock yourself to sleep, when I give up that midnight creep, girl...
Yeah how you gonna get that deep, when your daddy ain't around to give it to you..."

Finally picked this up - it's a lot better than I expected. Really love the middle group of songs, Love Interruption, Blunderbuss, Weep Themselves to Sleep ...the piano and slightly, I dunno, honky-tonk/country-fied approach really suits him.

I feel like he's still got a lot of artifice in his songwriting that he needs to get rid of. He feels too self conscious still or soemthing, like he's trying to prove something with his songs. I think if that ever goes away and he writes from the heart he'll be incredible.

I like the artifice, at this stage in the game a rich white guy playing blues-rock is about as artificial as you can get so he might as well play around with it.

This is a pretty good album, better than the Dead Weather at least, I agree that middle section is the strongest, although I need to give it time to sink in a bit more.

i think Get Behind Me Satan was pretty from the heart tbh. in fact i think most of jack's stuff is from the heart. its just that jack's got a weird heart.

I don't like thinking about artifice vs "from the heart" as a binary anyway but I think it's especially unhelpful with this record. The whole album is clearly about the emotions following a split with his bandmate and/or his wife, only dressed up in fantastical narratives.

he's a fraud cuz that one song sounds like the beginning of 'heart shaped box'

i think that binary is unhelpful with jack in general because he is a uniquely self-aware artist who nevertheless writes from a very wounded and self-involved perspective. every time i've interviewed him i've marveled at how he seems, simultaneously, unaffected and yet playing me as an interviewer. he is sharp as heck. i don't think this album is as 'plainly' about the split from karen/meg as you suggest, but i also think that's a prime motivator. the thing with jack white is, you never quite know when he's cluing you into how john gillis really feels. that's part of his magic, why he's more interesting than, say, the potatoes in the black keys.

Jack White is not a sexist!

http://www.paintingmania.com/arts/gustave-caillebotte/large/portrait-man-writing-his-study-151_8902.jpg

"Jack White... not... a... sexist. Got it."

This was a better response to the Jessica Misener article imo

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/apr/27/jack-white-problem-women-laura-barton

certainly not since Dylan has an artist played with our perceptions the way that White does

Not to mention that White, né Gillis, did something the overwhelming majority of men are too threatened by women to do: he took his wife’s surname.

Where did he take it?

xp Yes well I'm not cosigning every line but I like the gist. I thought Misener's argument relied on cherrypicking, misreading and faulty information.

I think the article is fine, just pondering JWhite's 'use' of his wife's surname: Where did that happen?

Um, all the time? He calls himself Jack White, after Meg White. Or are you thinking of Karen Elson?

Well, yeah I was.

OK, being 'pka' is not the same as actually taking yr wife's surname in marriage.

http://consequenceofsound.net/2013/08/karen-elson-obtains-restraining-order-against-ex-husband-jack-white/

Somehow I missed that they'd even divorced, but this is a pretty gross development. Stop being a creep, Jack White!

White wanted Elson to contact their kids’ private school in an effort to get their kids out of a class in which another entertainer’s child was present. White said that he feels that entertainer 'ripped off' his music, the order said.

Any guesses as to who that might be?

Dan Auerbach, I bet.

xpost You don't remember their weird "divorce party?"

I didn't even know who Karen Elson was until he released her album (and then immediately ceased paying further attention).

The leaked emails are gruesomely fascinating. He really hates the Black Keys.

http://www.tmz.com/2013/08/02/jack-white-wife-karen-elson-black-keys-singer-dan-auerbach-divorce-restraining-order-email/

can you blame him

Two balding men fighting over a limited edition BluesHammer comb.

funny that jack white is enough of a celeb to be covered in TMZ. i guess he did date renee zelweggz about 20 years ago.

The only good thing that could come of this is a a fight between Jack White and the BK's combative drummer, who seems a good match for him.

there's only one way to settle this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27oKgNUfWFI

Don't blame the guy for hating Black Keys

I'm too in love with the image of Jack White shooting surly glances at Dan Auerblech as they sit next to each other in those tiny little grade school desk/chair combos on parent-teacher night.

Those emails don't seem that bad either

I'm too in love with the image of Jack White shooting surly glances at Dan Auerblech as they sit next to each other in those tiny little grade school desk/chair combos on parent-teacher night.

Man, White is such a passive aggressive dick in those emails. "Karen, this would be so much better if you didn't get lawyers involved and just did what I said. Don't be stupid. Plenty of people deal with divorce and child custody and visitation rights without a lawyer getting involved. Really, when it comes to divorce and kids, handshake deals and verbal agreements seems the obvious way to go."

To his credit, at least he's not complaining about money.

xpost oops - sorry the school image cracks me up too... jack trying to ignore him, wearing some kind of modified matador outfit, dan trying to invite himself over to jam

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTVG8TezZTWrAfcfdP9zo9NUetoOAxBrKBQ7cJ3Z--c3LzQ3PZU

Man, White is such a passive aggressive dick in those emails.

Before u judge bro maybe you should read Karen's emails.
What? We don't have them?
Then don't judge bro

I don't know what she's written, but only ONE of them has filed a restraining order.

you know what the right thing to do is? not treat the children's father like shit. their father who sat alone on his birthday, who is currently not painting rocks with his kids from their trip because their mother didn't get any with them for our project.

Poor Jack White and his rocks project. Can we all get together and send some rocks to Jack White?

the missing rocks for the project is the saddest thing in there - that's some squid & whale-level real divorce tragicomic shit.

I felt a little dirty reading those emails, but if those are indeed the ones that got her the restraining order, thats bullshit. Those are not violent in any way. He sounds like every married guy in the world, ever. He should spell-check grubbing, though.

Alas, the reason people deal with/through lawyers is illustrated perfectly by those (one sided or not) emails.

i can't imagine anyone sounds good in e-mails from a custody battle, but cc'ing your ex in e-mails complaining about how you want a lawyer, and then freaking out over the fact that you might have to spend parent-teacher night in the same vicinity of one of the black keys....yeesh

e-mails about how she wants a lawyer, i mean

He sounds a bit bratty, but do you get violent or menacing? Did your read that and think "Karen Elson is unsafe"?

it's almost as if this was decided by legal professionals that are privy to more information than just the e-mails that have been leaked to the public and we don't actually know everything about the situation

no one has mentioned how ironic and sad it is that jack white is complaining about someone ripping his music off?

it's hysterical. white men born in the 1970s fighting over who invented the blues!

i did