Jack White
“Over and Over and Over”
limited edition one-sided tri-color, 200 something copies pressed, complete with custom picture sleeve that will be slightly different from the standard released version
Do you guys know how pumped I am?
For the record, I first heard this monster riff in 2005 at Jack’s house while he and Meg were recording “Get Behind Me Satan.”
I am pretty sure that the “Blue Orchid” riff pre-dates this one by a few days, but in my mind, they exist hand-in-hand. While “Blue Orchid” smashed that recording process wide open and gave Jack the inspiration to make that album as bad ass as possible, THIS riff, inarguably, is ten times stronger. I feel like Jack was originally calling it “Thermonuclear Counter-Thrust” but maybe I’m just imagining that. I can find no contemporaneous documentation of that name.
There are two takes of demo recordings of this song from 2005 (with the riff played solely on fuzz bass). There are demo recordings from 2007 with the White Stripes trying it in rehearsal leading up to the tracking of the “Icky Thump” album. Imagine the guitar profile more in line with the octave-pedaled presence of the song “Icky Thump” and that’s a good start for understanding the 2007 version. I guess the Raconteurs tried it but I never heard any evidence, same with the Dead Weather. It was apparently the main track that Jack and Jay-Z worked on together in 2009, under the title “Ray Bans” or “Behind My Ray Bans” and although I’ve never heard that working, I’m told to imagine the phrase “Behind my Ray Bans” to coincide with the last five notes of the riff.
As Jack has already said, this had been his white whale. We sincerely considered including the ’07 demo as part of the “Icky Thump X” Vault package last year. I have no recollection of Jack ever previously giving me such an impassioned plea…”I just really think we shouldn’t put this on the Vault” he said. My response was pretty matter-of-factly, “Well, it’s your label, so please don’t feel like you have to convince me.” Maybe he was trying to convince himself?
Regardless, at the end of 2017 when Jack finally had played me this version you hear now, upon the end of the song, I looked at him and said “I’ve been waiting twelve years to hear this song with lyrics.”
The final version of this song is everything I’d ever dreamed it would be. It is my favorite moment on the album, with the coda to “Humoresque” being a close second. I cannot wait to see this monster unleashed unto a sell-out crowd at Little Caesar’s Arena, a stone’s throw away from the Gold Dollar where this whole mess got started.
I’ve got an extra copy of this limited tri-color to give away here. AUTOGRAPHED by Jack White, today, explicitly for this purpose. Don’t use my give-away here as an excuse to miss going to any number of the listening parties we’re throwing at record stores worldwide though. Even though we’re giving away tri-colors at the listening parties, none of those will be autographed. Man we spoil you kids.
As for the giveaway, post a comment, can be about whatever, but maybe talk about a significant wait you’ve endured in life. Can be funny, pithy, in iambic pentameter, whatever. The “best” comment will be solely determined by me. Please chime in by noon central time on Tuesday, March 13th.
***WINNER HAS BEEN CONTACTED***
2,000 years and he ain’t shown yet
The most significant wait of my life was 4 months. From the time my mom was diagnosed until the day she passed. Initial window was 6-8 months, but 4 felt like forever.
While you’re waiting for life to happen, blessings come along alone, troubles often come together. Let the tricolor be that blessing to help deal with the rest of the drek.
I’ve never wanted to get married, but I always dreamed of one hell of a divorce.
Waiting in line for 8 hours to see Jack in Nashville the night he reunited with the Raconteurs and blew the crowds mind, best night of my life
My boyfriend was my coworker for 10 years and I was crushing hard on him basically that whole time but he was married. No funny business between us – a great friendship. One day, I hear he was getting divorced. I was a little afraid to make the move I thought I would never get to make…And then he made the first move. We have been together for 3 years this May (and he’s going to Jack’s show in Rochester with me). I also say he had to wait his whole life for me as he’s 20 years older than me…not in a pervy way…I’m 33.
Not sure if I should write about waiting for 10 hours at over 30 degrees Celsius with absolutely no water before Opener Festival in 2014 or waiting for 12 and half hours in November 2014, Cracow, it was as cold as Europe can get in November. Both before Jack White shows, still not sure which was more extreme.
I’ve waited 52 years for a Superbowl victory and the Eagles finally did it this year. I’ve also waited forever to see Jack play and I finally will this summer at Ommegang Brewery.
The world is a cruel and confusing place. The simplest answers to problems are so elusive and misconstrued and never taken to heart. We are all doomed to repeat the same mistakes, unless we learn from them. We seem to never learn from them. Let’s change that. Oh and ice cream is great. Yeah, ice cream is awesome.
There’s a series of books about cars titled “The Car Book”, “The Used Car Book” “The Van Book”, etc. by Jack Gillis- and since stumbling on them at a book store I can’t help but to imagine this Jack penning books about cars in his free time under a lesser-know name.