Jack White
Kings Theatre
November 17

yep, that’s me, balcony center, rocking my Nats hat and Popeyes tee and rocking the fcuk out!!!

and yep, I was thoroughly thoroughly rocked.  It’s about time Jack!  You dropped a new hot album (‘Over and Over and Over‘ forever please, like the union!) and toured it, but only came to NY for a festival and I’m too old for that festival sh!t, and also I want a Jack show indoors!  EAT IT OUTDOORS!!  But you came back!  Indoors!  Wish I went to both of yer Kings Theatre shows, and wish I went to every show there ever (movie palace + music = MOVED ME PALACE!!), but this was still one night to truly remember (like the Titanic, cept if it never sank and triumphed at rocking so hard that it melted the faces of Nazis) 

Jack – you are our last hope.  Rock flows through you and out of you and into us.  No one your age and of our generation is doing what your are doing.  Keep doing it.  Steady as it goes, or unsteady.  Keep rocking the good rock

Bless your soul, and crazy hair, and crazy no-cellphone policy which wasn’t so awful after all (and kinda liberating!) 

Setlist – Over and Over and Over / Everything You’ve Ever Learned / Black Math / Corporation / Hotel Yorba / Love Interruption / Hello Operator / Why Walk a Dog? / High Ball Stepper / That Black Bat Licorice / What’s Done Is Done / We’re Going to Be Friends / Missing Pieces / The Hardest Button to Button / Carolina Drama

Encore – Lazaretto / Steady, as She Goes / Respect Commander / Connected by Love / Ball and Biscuit / Sixteen Saltines / Seven Nation Army

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I bought more CDs this year than I probably have in an entire decade!  it’s TRUE!!!! I WILL NOT LET PHYSICAL MEDIA DIE!!!

here’s what I listened to in 2016!!  all certified thightastic!

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you know my theory – see your favorite musicians in concert before you or they die…

Live By Night!

Raul Malo @ City Winery

31st Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (Deep Purple / Ste ve Miller / NWA / Chicago / Cheap Trick(  @ Barclays Center

David Gilmour @ Madison Square Garden

Pearl Jam @ Madison Square Garden

Flight of The Conchords @ The Heath at The McKittrick Hotel

Ellie Goulding @ Madison Square Garden

Guns N’ Roses @ MetLife Stadium

Paul McCartney @ MetLife Stadium

Pitbull @ the Prudential Center

Willie Nelson @ the Amphitheater at Coney Island Boardwalk

The Bangles @ Irving Plaza

Jeff Lynne’s E.L.O. @ Radio City Music Hall

Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam @ Beacon Theatre

Brian Wilson presents Pet Sounds – Celebrating the 50th Anniversary with Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin @ Beacon Theatre

Tidal X 10/15 @ Barclays

Sia @ Barclays

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here’s a bunch of misc music junk from TWS in 2016…

The The and They They

believe it or not, in my adolescents, I used to be even angrier about really dumb stuff

stuff auctioned off from The Estate of the late Syd Barrett, in 2006

Bantha 8-Tracks

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it sucks the most when musicians die, cause you can never relive their greatness visually like you can with actors.  it’s true!

Goodnight Sweet
Prince & Princesses

Jack White
Madison Square Garden
January 30th

Last time we saw Jack White ROCK out MSG, it was 2007, and the girl with the bouncy boobs was bouncing her boobs behind him, AND IT KICKED THE FCUKING BALL AND THE BISCUITLISTICS!!!!!!!!  They were two kids, playing to 18k people, and they somehow were able to own a building that’s built for giant acts.  Sure, at the time, they were a big act, but 6 years prior, they were playing the tiny Bowery Ballroom, a place better suited for their raw sound.  But Jack White’s sound now and forever knows no bounds.  ‘Seven Nation Army’ has become a sports stadium rally call, and now, Jack White can fill any sized venue to match those calls

Meg White is still sorely missed, but Jack, 7ish years later, has really done an amazing job to fill her (boobie) void.  Sure, having a full band helps, and at times, his band adds TOO much sound to Jack’s music, but they follow his lead, and we’d follow him anywhere he goes, cause it’s always steady as he goes.  His latest MSG set perfectly blended Stripes tunes with the stronger selections of his solo work + enough of the other side-project ditties (juss like his Roseland show of 3 years ago), but the larger venue made everything seem even larger, more vital.  Having Q-Tip come out to help didn’t hurt neither.  In fact, it cleaned and opened our ears even mo!  [editor’s note – we haven’t used a Q-Tip since 2009]

Setlist

Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground / High Ball Stepper /Lazaretto / Hotel Yorba / Temporary Ground / Cannon / Broken Boy Soldier / Cannon / Love Interruption / We’re Going to Be Friends / Three Women / Black Math (intro only to) Top Yourself / Ball and Biscuit

Encore – That Black Bat Licorice (with Q-Tip) / Excursions (with Q-Tip) / Sixteen Saltines / Astro / Steady, As She Goes / Would You Fight for My Love? / Just One Drink / Blunderbuss / Seven Nation Army

with out you Americas, there would be no White Stripes or magic or White Stripes Magic or Meg White’s boobs or Meg White’s boobs magic!!!

[via Tangible JW]

think they made new music in 2012.  coulda fooled us.  won’t be fooled again.  fool me once, and we won’t listen to new fool music ever again.  we doesn’ts, unless it’s from Ladytron or…

You Can Call
These Al-bums!!!

If Jack White Releases An Album They/I Will Come

Jack White – Blunderbuss

Warm Facts: Rodriguez Lives!

Rodriguez – Cold Facts

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Tunses For Toonces

‘Let My Baby Ride’ accordion style for Holy Motors | ‘Splitting The Atom’ by Massive Attack featuring Horace Andy | ‘DoYaThing’ by Gorillaz featuring Andre 3000 and James Murphy | ‘Razzmatazz’ by Pulp | ‘Bend Me, Shape Me’ by The American Breed | ‘Shambala’ by Three Dog Night | ‘Superstar’ by Keita Asari | ’25 or 6 to 4′ by Chicago | ‘The Logical Song’ by Supertramp | ‘You’re So Good to Me’ by The Beach Boys | ‘That’s Why God Made The Radio’ by The Beach Boys | ‘Love Interruption’ by Jack White | ‘Take Me With You When You Go’ by Jack White | ‘Skyfall’ by Adele | ‘Skyfall’ by Adele | ‘Diamonds’ by Rihanna | ‘Under The Westway’ by Blur | ‘Ici Londres’ by Chiara Mastroianni & Paul Schneider | ‘Sugar Man’ by Rodriguez | ‘Lady D’Arbanville’ Cat Stevens cover by Elton John | ‘Wicked Game’ by Gemma Hayes | ‘Room 237 – Dies Irae (End Titles)’ by Jonathan Snipes

[d-lode all in one handy zip!!!!!]

(look for ‘Click here to start download from sendspace’)

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Dangerously They Live

show of the year - Pulp @ RCMH

The Beach Boys/Al Jardine’s Face @ Beacon Theatre

Jack White @ Roseland Ballroom

The Polyphonic Spree @ Webster Hall

Neil Diamond @ Jones Beach

The Beach Boys/Al Jardine’s Face @ Jones Beach

Rodriguez @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue

ZZ Top & Lynyrd Skynyrd @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in MISSOURI!

Clannad @ NYSFEC

Donovan @ NYSFEC

Matthew Friedberger’s awful show @ Le Poisson Rouge

Leonard Cohen @ MSG

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BADBYE :(

goodbye Dick

goodbye Davy

goodbye Adam

and here’s what we stuffed in the past

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