Jack White

[danny la rouge]

What happened to greatness?

It was privatised.

 

[Annierak]

Me too, but this is good! It's not the sort of movie you associate with her anyway! See it!

Ok ok,

I'll see it when i get chance

 

[clandestino]

Anyone, this thread was not about the comparison, i just said he is my fave guitarist and picked on the generally regarded best guitarist ever and said i preferred him. Still think they are working in roughly the same field tho, thats not an outrageous statement.

I also rate White above Page, Knopfler or Clapton, simply cos i love the way he makes the guitar sound, but that is my opinion.

I also love Malkmus and prefer him to Hendrix cos i love his riffs, so in my opinion he is better, and i don't care about technical excellence, cos when did that produce the best music? Just about how good the guitar on the songs sounds, and for me no one does it better than Jack White.

Because you're making these comparisons, because you're rating him as a guitarist rather than a songwriter, because "Seven Nation Army" (brilliant though it may be) totally detonated everything that was great about the White Stripes, is why I don't care about Jack White anymore.

 

[butchersapron]

More an angelina fan then?

 

[cliche guevara]

Right, don't get me wrong here because I'm a fan of the White Stripes, don't think they're incredible just like their music, but Jack White is a pretty poor guitarist. Comparing him to Hendrix is ridiculous. Do any of you who are saying he's incredible actually play guitar? A blind one armed monkey could play the entire White Stripes back catalogue within an hour of first laying eyes on a guitar. All he plays is power chords and simple riffs with so much distortion and effects that the mistakes don't show. Any one of you could play most White Stripes songs.

 

[butchersapron]

I couldn't.

 

[D'wards]

I couldn't.

Nor me, i can only play the intro to daytripper

 

[clandestino]

More an angelina fan then?

It's more like this really.

Good Jack White is pop (and Pop Art) Jack White:

Bad Jack White is rock (and unfortunate facial hair) Jack White:

 

[butchersapron]

Right, don't get me wrong here because I'm a fan of the White Stripes, don't think they're incredible just like their music, but Jack White is a pretty poor guitarist. Comparing him to Hendrix is ridiculous. Do any of you who are saying he's incredible actually play guitar? A blind one armed monkey could play the entire White Stripes back catalogue within an hour of first laying eyes on a guitar. All he plays is power chords and simple riffs with so much distortion and effects that the mistakes don't show. Any one of you could play most White Stripes songs.

Is this relavent?

 

[cliche guevara]

They are really, really easy. All power chords, not even proper chords. If I taught guitar, I'd use White Stripes as some of the first full songs I taught, because they're so simple and recognisable.

 

[DotCommunist]

So, what does the phrase, being anal, ie. numbering toothpicks, have to do with my arse? Anyone?

It's from anal retentive, i e, someone who walks around clenching thier arsehole and probably has trouble shitting

or so im told

 

[cliche guevara]

Is this relavent?

When people are claiming he's an excellent guiatrist, yes?

 

[Madusa]

He looks like a chubbier Johnny Depp there

 

[chazegee]

It's from anal retentive, i e, someone who walks around clenching thier arsehole and probably has trouble shitting

or so im told

 

[Annierak]

He looks like a chubbier Johnny Depp there

Johnny Depp on cream cakes

 

[D'wards]

Right, don't get me wrong here because I'm a fan of the White Stripes, don't think they're incredible just like their music, but Jack White is a pretty poor guitarist. Comparing him to Hendrix is ridiculous. Do any of you who are saying he's incredible actually play guitar? A blind one armed monkey could play the entire White Stripes back catalogue within an hour of first laying eyes on a guitar. All he plays is power chords and simple riffs with so much distortion and effects that the mistakes don't show. Any one of you could play most White Stripes songs.

As i said earlier, i don't really care about technical excellence - just about how good he makes the guitar sound.

like saying Pollock is shit cos anyone can sling a lod of paint at a canvas.

 

[butchersapron]

It's more like this really.

Good Jack White is pop (and Pop Art) Jack White:

Bad Jack White is rock (and unfortunate facial hair) Jack White:

Fair dos. Fair dos indeed.

tbf, the music hasn't suffered as much as it might.

 

[butchersapron]

When people are claiming he's an excellent guiatrist, yes?

Only if you imagine that means technical excellence, But what sort of soul dead book-lurner would do that?

 

[cliche guevara]

As i said earlier, i don't really care about technical excellence - just about how good he makes the guitar sound.

like saying Pollock is shit cos anyone can sling a lod of paint at a canvas.

I don't disagree, I love the dirty sound he makes. But literally anyone could do it, it's all distortion and effects, no talent. His actualy playing leaves a lot to be desired, Hendrix he is not.

 

[butchersapron]

They are really, really easy. All power chords, not even proper chords. If I taught guitar, I'd use White Stripes as some of the first full songs I taught, because they're so simple and recognisable.

You couldn't teach me.

 

[butchersapron]

His actualy playing leaves a lot to be desired,

BINGO!

 

[cliche guevara]

Only if you imagine that means technical excellence, But what sort of soul dead book-lurner would do that?

There is a big difference between "Jack White makes a fantastic sound with his guitar" and "Jack White is an excellent guitarist."

 

[butchersapron]

There is a big difference between "Jack White makes a fantastic sound with his guitar" and "Jack White is an excellent guitarist."

No there isn't.

 

[cliche guevara]

You couldn't teach me.

Only because you don't want to learn.










Unless you don't have any figers or something, in which probably not. And sorry about your fingers.

 

[butchersapron]

Only because you don't want to learn.

That takes me back

 

[cliche guevara]

No there isn't.

In that case you can be an excellent guitarist. Jack White is an excellent frontman, he's full of charisma, individuality, has massive stage presence, and his voice bonds so well with his style of playing. You could be the most talented guitarist in the world, and not have any of that, but it wouldn't mean you weren't talented. Just like his style doesn't mean he is talented at playing guiatr, because he's certainly talented at being a frontman.

 

[exosculate]

That takes me back

What has your ability to play something got to do with the quality of the music?

 

[chazegee]

Unless you don't have any figers or something, in which probably not. And sorry about your fingers.

Didn't stop Django Reinhardt.

 

[cliche guevara]

Didn't stop Django Reinhardt.

Kind of ruined Tony Iommi though. [/contraversial]

 

[Superdupastupor]

saw the raconteurs last night.
good 2 1/2hrs non-stop music.

shit crowd/ shit venue meh.

his head is in the right place. topclass song writer n.b 'Carolina Drama"

fairly handy guitarist.


looks good holding a guitar.

noted cola fan

Hendrix doesn't really get enough praise as a song writer IMO.
also he was masterful at any style he put his mind too