The White Stripes: Ball and Biscuit (live). Jack White’s guitar gets a multi-dimensional scream going, with vocals to match. I first came across him while scrolling Rolling Stone’s list of 100 Greatest Guitarists last year. He got my attention because almost everyone else on that list was at their peak last century. Jack exploded onto the scene in the 90s and by the 2000s was pretty much the most influential rock muso on the planet. Here’s what the RS panel said about him: “By the turn of the century, new-metal grinders and post-grunge plodders had given loud guitars a bad reputation. Then Jack White hit the reset button. With each savage riff, he reconnected hard rock and roots music and showed that a blues-based band could escape what he calls note-pushing Stratocaster white-blues bullshit. And he didnt let his analog leanings prevent him from ingenious use of a DigiTech Whammy pedal – the secret behind the faux-bass thunder of Seven Nation Army and the screaming leads of songs like Ball and Biscuit. His passion-laced tenor vocal is similar to Robert Plant’s, who owned the tenor category last century, and I see him also as Jimmy Page’s successor. The Led were at the forefront of that revolutionary era in the 70s of hard-edged blues rock fusion. With the distinctive edgy JW signature, White picks up the baton and runs with it. Jack White - practically a one-man LZ for the 21st C LOL. https://youtube/watch?v=xMZh9OtAeSY
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 23:33:22 +0000
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