White Stripes.....kilts..pipers!

[Archangel]

You know, it's funny, they played here in London and my daughter and I went to see them. We like the Stripes, we have their albums. I, we, like minimal raw music and we're not elitist. Mudmen are my favourite live band right after the Rolling Stones. The Sadies and Stray Cats are my other favourite bands. However, we walked out an hour into the show. It was boring, really boring. That was the best seats I've had at that stadium and the sound was pretty good, for once.

I wished I'd caught their mini secret concert, I think that's about how much material they have.

That's us, hope the down east concert rocked, they were back "home", weren't they?

[cloves]

yeah apparently they have "family" in Nova Scotia. Whatever that means.

So wait a minute...you like the Stripes but walked out? Wow.....I didn't much care for them beofer the show, but having seen them have a whole new respect.
I couldn't beleive that much noise/energy/power was put out by just two people. I expected it to be really uhm....garagey...shoe gazery.....I dunno...something less. But what I got was Jack all over the stage, playing guitar and keys at the same time, Meg (akward and unbalanced behind her drum kit as she is) just pounding her drums, to the point of having to have a roadie come fix her pedal mid song. Awesome lights and stage set up.
The secret shows to my knowledge have only typically been about 5 or six songs long. Here in town they played for a solid hour. Left, then got the encore to come back and play for about another 20 plus minutes.
The crowd was totally into it...loads of fist pumping and singing along.
I had a fantastic time.
Maybe that's why, because I wasn't expecting anything, there was no way to be let down.

Oh, and I wasn't being elitest by my "raw and minimalistic" comment. Or at least I wasn't trying to be. I apologize if that's the way I came off. I've worked in a record store for the last twelve years....and if there's anything I've learned in that time it's that ALL music has merit.
I just wanted to state that the music I find myself drawn to lately has been really produced.