Meg White Is Amazing!!

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.

Matt OTM re: her drumming

That could just as well be an ultragrrrl sex tape as a meg white one. It looks like what I imagine every Killers/My Chemical Romance fan sex tape to look like.

fapfapfap

Yeah, now that you mention it, it actually *does* look a little bit more like Ultragrrrl.

How is Meg live?

very unsteady tempos, the one time i saw the stripes play. no, i don't expect neil peart, but it did detract from their sound imo. OTM about the ride cymbal bashing too, but i still think she sounds pretty good on the records

she didnt mean 'live' like that

I just don't understand these conceptions of Meg's drumming not being completely integral to the White Stripes' "sound" (as if there are parts she's not doing justice too, or that they could be played better by some other drummer - Meg's minimalist style is one of THE identifying hallmarks of the band. Its like saying the Sparks are okay but Ron Mael's piano playing really holds back the material or something)

agreed

meg white RIP

I prefer Vanessa Hudgens. As the White Stripes drummer.

hahah

haha when i saw this thread title i was wondering if it was an old thread or if someone was easily impressed w/ sex tapes

she IS a huge part of the stripes sound and they are all the better for it, but she still uses the cymbal bashing trick too much

Yeah, I totally agree about her drumming - further evidenced by the fact that that other band Jack White is in with a "real" drummer completely blows.

she should get some other cymbals

and a gong

ride cymbal is the best cymbal

She certainly does know how to ride a cymbal, amirite?

(NB, I haven't actually clicked on that link)

She does have some nice tom-toms
She does have good stick control
Her single stroke role is impeccable

(roll)

looks like he's gonna give her a Pearl Export for her birthday!

Whoa dude.

omg

oh god gross is that what white stripes refers to *weeps for lost innocence*

pitchfork.com is anti-tits.

pitchfork.com is a farm-supply website, I'm sure they've got a hookup on some sort of milking device

roffle!

nabisco in paragraph mode >>> nabisco in 50 one-liners mode

Fair play to the guy for giving it the old "finger in the mouth" routine, but that always makes me feel like I'm inspecting a racehorse for tooth decay.

fingers in mouth is instinctive act of primal lust, not opportunity for some reflective lulz

You probably shouldn't post to this thread.

"*urp*"

http://www.fototime.com/CDFE35079D5DA7D/standard.jpg

l-r: ilx, offed

jagger surprisingly otm

whats next, passantino otm about rap music that isnt non phixion?

You probably shouldn't post to this thread.

-- Dom Passantino, Monday, 24 September 2007 19:51 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

if i need a sex tape from the burger king handicapped stall ill IM you

There are lots of things I can spin multiple paragraphs out of, but "there's a sex video on the internet and the girl looks vaguely like Meg White" is SO not one of them.

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