White Stripes

you mean Meg White and David Coverdale

no wait I meant Jack Russell

argh joke ruined

had no use for them, but rip

people who get all hung up on meg white not being a technical enough drummer are one step away from demanding slap bass on white blood cells ie not getting it

"man i love that part in hotel yorba where flea totally hammers down the funk jam yeahhhhh!!"

Good time to quite IMO, they were last decade's thing. I don't think they ever put out an album I loved start to finish but they certainly had more fantastic songs than any 00s rock band I can think of except the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Plus, Jack White just had such obvious star quality and vocal presence in a way that very few 00s frontmen could even get close to.

looooooooool jjjusten

Ramones needed more guitar solos too

i did not expect hines ward to turn up in this thread! is he a big doug yule fan?

Meg is a great drummer fuiud

― ex-heroin addict tricycle (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, February 2, 2011 3:29 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Shakey Mo Tucker

also Lou Reed needed to sing with more melismas

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Bo Diddley should've replaced Jerome with Tito Puente

Ramones needed more guitar solos too

― bien-pensant vibe (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, February 2, 2011 11:07 PM (1 minute ago)

punch up beat on the brat with a DX7 funky organ patch and u have a deal

also the Cramps should have drafted Larry Graham to play bass. what's with this one-note bass line shit! get some slappin and poppin in there

Spacemen 3 would've sounded better with Bernard Purdie behind the kit

White Stripes know they're insufficiently goth for a '10s band. Times have changed.

lol waht Jack White totally has some goth in him

Maybe Mike Tomlin should start Antonio Brown instead of Hines Ward.

Spacemen 3 would've sounded better with Bernard Purdie behind the kit

dude, EVERYONE would have!

*sigh*

this conversation is always weird to me, because meg is pretty clearly not the problem with the white stripes

Not hiring Bernard Purdie and Larry Carlton was.

You can still be a terrible drummer and still be a perfect match for a band, tbh

Jack has some goth sure. Not sufficient goth.

Oh I know -- I'm playing with Shakes.

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go thread

I dunno, Steve Gadd could have put a few '50 Ways' style fills in there

insufficiently goth?

http://ll-media.tmz.com/2009/06/23/0622_white_todd_88588637-1.jpg

You can still be a terrible drummer and still be a perfect match for a band, tbh

speaking from experience i take it?

lol

was she addicted to heroin?

I prefer the Black Keys.

^^^ this is ridiculous

I'm pretty bummed out by this, even if it was obviously in the makings for some time. But I see the haters seem to be out in full force, so rather than be frustrated I'll just wander off to another thread.

haters? where?

"haters"

Pleased at this news.

The band may end, but the bad drummer lines last a lifetime.

Meg is a great drummer fuiud

― ex-heroin addict tricycle (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, February 2, 2011 3:29 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

No, fuck you.

― The Curse of Dennis Stratton (Bill Magill), Wednesday, February 2, 2011 10:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Maybe there wasn't as much as I initially thought, just these big ones popped out at my right away (not a pun on Meg's chest, or is it?). Anyway, I guess I shouldn't take is seriously because Bill Magill only pops into threads to be a complete and utter asshole.

yeah lol don't count bill magill posts!

anyway, i don't understand the appeal of this band and never really have but it seemed like a good day to sit on the sidelines given the news of their demise.

They'll be back at it again. Starting at Coachella in 7-8 years. Jack won't be able to resist the assload of cash the promoters will offer him.

He's gonna run out of old folks to "rediscover" and produce.

I mean, he'll do Linda Ronstadt, and say, "Okay Meg, let's take the money."

Now that they're gone, let's praise the shrewd marketing (maybe their greatest talent?) for hiding the fact that they were an occasionally excellent minor band.

― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, February 2, 2011 3:16 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

Alfred OTM, they did some good stuff but it's weird to think of how they were like THE rock band of the last decade.

considering that even Jack said Meg drummed "like a caveman or a little kid" I think it's OK to say she wasn't very good and that it was just part of the band's high concept conceit, whether you enjoyed it or not.

i contend that there is no way in hell they would've blown up like they did if the press didn't have that "are they brother and sister or hunsband and wife?" story to use (remember that?)

not sure they had an adequate replacement for #1 rock band of the 2000s-- like, who else would it be? kings of leon? linkin park? arcade fire?

mostly i think it's wack that the #1 rock band of the 2000s (and i wouldn't dispute that they are in most senses) dealt so comfortably with dull blues-isms

he'll do Linda Ronstadt

I would too, fwiw, even if now she looks like someone who has a show on the Food Network.

o wait

hey now

this news really bummed me out today.

playing De Stijl NOW.

i never really understood why meg white gets stick, i think she has her own way of playing drums which couldn't fit the music any better, she doesnt show off and her beats are always really catchy

on the other hand, however much i like jack white's guitar playing it is complete wank and he has gradually disappeared up his own tritone arse in the past few years anyway

it was definitely about time to end it though, novelty's worn off

(i'm not usually this negative)