One of the coolest things White has done in his long career is starting his own record label, Third Man Records. Not only does he release all his own music, but he has signed new artists and helped launched their careers, including country music star Margo Price. The main headquarters is located in Nashville, but White also has a shop set up in his hometown Detroit.
At his last solo tour in , White had a company called Yondr at every tour stop, with locked pouches for fans to hold their phones in during the show.
The pouch is sealed, and if fans need to use it during the show, they can use it in a designated spot at the venue. As someone who saw White live during that tour, it was a weird experience having your phone on but in a locked pouch. It certainly served as a way to make fans feel more present -- at least, for me it did. White sees many of his experiences as worth documenting, and he had hired a film crew to record him and Corner talking about the house. He wore a tight black suit, a black shirt, a yellow tie, and yellow plastic wing tips for the occasion.
While the crew set up indoors, he paced in the driveway. His bright shoes rising and falling against the pavement made him appear to be dancing. The camera crew was in the living room, at one end of the house. Corner sat on a couch and White sat in a chair beside him, as if on a talk show.
White asked Corner what his favorite part of the house was. White asked what the rain sounded like on the flat roof. He has two young children, a boy and a girl, from his second marriage, and he said that his ability to make the rain louder had led them to believe that he controlled the weather. When the phrase occurred to White, he thought he might use it if he was ever hired to write a song for a Bond movie.
He was born John Gillis, and was the seventh son and last child among seven boys and two girls. One of his brothers is deceased, and White is sometimes plagued by the thought that he might be the last in his family to die, after holding vigils for the others. His siblings include a postal inspector, a property manager, a child psychiatrist, a pastry chef, and a musical archivist and musician. I asked one of his brothers, Stephen Gillis, what White was like as a child.
He also did radio-and-TV repair, and that merged into hi-fi systems. He had reel-to-reel tape recorders, and we always had music. When he was twenty-one, he opened his own shop and called it Third Man Upholstery, because he was the third upholsterer on the block.
Black and yellow, the colors of Stanley tools, signify work for White, and were the colors of his business. He had a yellow van and a yellow cutting table, and he wrote his invoices in black crayon on yellow paper.
Jack and Meg married in , and he took her name; he is legally John White. They lived in the house that he had grown up in, which he had bought from his parents, in a neighborhood called Mexicantown. Maybe I said a couple things. She sat down and did it. Neil Yee, who owned the place, told me that most bands put their amplifiers on the floor or on chairs.
White put his on a pedestal draped with a red cloth. He and Meg wore red-and-white clothes. Most of the audience stepped outside to talk or smoke.
Buick was intrigued by the clothes and the care that White took to arrange the stage. Buick had inherited a little money from his father, and he used some of it to record Detroit bands and issue vinyl singles. About five weeks later, having heard the White Stripes a few more times, Buick saw White in a club and asked if he would like to make a record.
White asked how much it would cost. A few weeks passed before Buick saw White again and could explain. Buick pressed a thousand copies, which the band sold at their shows and which Buick took to record stores and clubs around the Midwest. After making another single with Buick, the White Stripes made three albums with an independent label in California, then signed with V2 Records, in the U.
We were from the scenario where there are fifty people in every town. Something about us was beyond our control, though. Is everybody out of their minds? Jack and Meg divorced in For years, Jack was crestfallen. Jack says that she was endlessly criticized for the simplicity of her playing, and he wonders whether the assault finally wore her down.
She did nothing fancy, but she did something astute and original. She played almost entirely on the beat, with no adornments, which left silence and vacancies in places that more conventional drummers usually fill.
She was a novice when she started, but by the end she had developed a refined version of minimalism. White is tall and physically imposing. In civilian life he looks a little like Astro Boy. He has a high forehead, a sharp nose, and a pliable face. His speaking voice is husky, and lower than you might expect if you knew only his singing. He says he is a vocalist more than a singer.
He drinks coffee steadily. His stage manner is agitated. You have to work yourself up into a frenzy. With Jack White now handling drums, the band retreated to the studio and recorded an energetic debut, Horehound , in a matter of weeks.
Released in , the album was well-received on both sides of the Atlantic, cracking the Top Ten in America and peaking at number 14 in the U. Encouraged by such success, the Dead Weather began working on a second album during the fall, with the intention of previewing several new songs during an Australian tour in early In the meantime, White secured enough free time to appear in a movie -- the guitar-themed It Might Get Loud -- and produce an album for his wife, songwriter Karen Elson.
The first solo outing from White , the bluesy, typically idiosyncratic Blunderbuss , named for a muzzle-loading firearm that was a precursor of the shotgun, arrived on April 24, It promptly debuted in the American charts at number one, the first White -associated album to do so. The Dead Weather released their third album, Dodge and Burn , in September , and a year later White issued Acoustic Recordings , a double-disc compilation of acoustic numbers from his various projects.
In April , he released a surprise instrumental single called "Battle Cry. In March , the strange, sprawling Boarding House Reach was released, peaking at number one on the Billboard The following year, he was back with the Raconteurs for the group's third album, Help Us Stranger.
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