According to Consequence Of Sound, where I cut and pasted this from, Jack White performed a three hour set in Chicago, including an eleven song encore. which would make it just a little shorter than the last three times I’ve seen him combined, including an astoudingly disappointing Governors ball sett and two nights, for a combined two hours, at Radio City Music hall. And all I have to say is looking at the videos, my bet is I won.
To put it simply Lazaretto is one of his worst works to date, and three hours of his metallic shredding woulda had me ready to kill him among others. below you’ll find his cover of “Manic Depression” -just what the world needed. White has worn out all the good will his radio city residency had with me and then some. Personally, I think the bloke is an arrogant half wit who is stretched way too thin and who hasn’t written a great song since, I dunno, “Sixteen Saltines”.
Oh one more thing, is there any real difference between Consequence Of Sound and Stereogum? Or Spin for that matter, Pitchfork jump a little off the deep end but otherwise…
Whatever, here is the setlist and video.
Setlist:
High Ball Stepper
Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground (The White Stripes)
Lazaretto
Missing Pieces / The Big Three Killed My Baby (The White Stripes)
Hotel Yorba (The White Stripes)
You Know That I Know
I Cut Like a Buffalo (The Dead Weather)
The Same Boy You’ve Always Known (The White Stripes)
Three Women
The Rose With a Broken Neck
Freedom at 21
Cannon (The White Stripes) / Catfish Blues (Robert Petway cover) / Got My Mojo Workin’ (Muddy Waters cover)
Sixteen Saltines
Astro (The White Stripes)
Stones In My Passway (Robert Johnson cover)
Blunderbuss / Tell Me That It Isn’t True (Bob Dylan)
We’re Going to Be Friends (The White Stripes)
Entitlement
Top Yourself (The Raconteurs)
Encore:
Fell in Love With a Girl (The White Stripes)
Icky Thump (The White Stripes)
Manic Depression (The Jimi Hendrix Experience cover)
Steady, As She Goes (The Raconteurs)
Blue Orchid (The White Stripes)
You Don’t Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You’re Told) (The White Stripes)
The Hardest Button to Button (The White Stripes)
Just One Drink
Ball and Biscuit (The White Stripes) / Got My Mojo Workin’
Seven Nation Army (The White Stripes)
