This is true, actually it is very true I saw Jack White at Radio city Music Hall in 2012 (here) and was so impressed I returned the very next day (here)and was still so impressed I went from considering a considerable loser after the Strokes blew him off the stage at this very venue when he was known as the White Stripes. And for two years, until the release of the huge dog Lazaretto and a subsequent show at Governors Ball such a drag that being front row DIDN’T HELP (here).
On Friday, I am going to the early performance by John Oliver at the Beacon and then double backing to MSG for Jack White. I know I’ll miss some but hey, life is hell, right?
I checked out the White setlist, more or less what I saw last summer, and I sure hope it is better, 5 songs from the excellent Blunderbuss but only 4 off Lazaretto, which suggest he realizes he dogged it proper, 8 White Stripes tracks, rwo from the Raconteurs (the best two as well) and nothing from Dead Weather.
So, I dunno, I guess much depends on which White wins out.
Meanwhile… here is the setlist and the Spotification.
Jack White @ Austin Music Hall – 1/25/2015 Setlist:
High Ball Stepper
Lazaretto
Icky Thump (White Stripes – First two verses, then into Hello Operator)
Hello Operator (White Stripes – then back into Icky Thump to end)
Just One Drink
Hotel Yorba (White Stripes)
Love Interruption
Weep Themselves to Sleep
Top Yourself (Raconteurs)
Three Women
We’re Going to Be Friends (White Stripes)
Blunderbuss
Encore:
Fell in Love With a Girl (White Stripes)
You Don’t Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You’re Told) (White Stripes)
Sixteen Saltines
Astro (White Stripes)
Steady, As She Goes (Raconteurs)
Missing Pieces
Ghost on the Highway (The Gun Club cover)
Seven Nation Army (White Stripes)
