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***
Oh, this is easy. It’s the current wait I am anxiously enduring now. Awaiting for the SXSW 2018 announcement from TMR! Oh the agony!!!!
I want to talk about perseverance. I always wanted to see Jack White in live, because I am a fan, and to see an artist that you love in stage it is the holy grail. I remember the first time that I could see him, it was in 2008 (god 10 years ago!) with The Raconteurs in the festival Rock En Seine. I missed The White Stripes, but Jack White with the crasy band Brendan Benson, Jack Lawrence and Patrick Keeler, it was very great too. I was so excited, but nobody wanted to come with me. I missed Jack… In 2010 The Dead Weather was announced at Paris. I was too slow to buy tickets, and I couldn’t pay the price on ebay. I missed Jack a second time. The July 2nd ,2012, he was announced at the Olympia. Guess what, it was a Monday and it was the first day of my summer work. Noooooooooooo ! I remember going in the mall, for my work, there was a wall and imagine my face when I saw « tonight, the amazing Jack White at the Olympia ». I missed him fot the third time. But in 2014 I smelled something good. Jack was announced at the Olympia again. I was not alone, my girlfriend could comme with me (check). I bought tickets in early access (check). The show was a saturday and I didn’t work (check). I saw him the June 29, 2014, I was in front of the scene. It was so beautifull, so generous, so crazy, so great so awesooooooooooome. Certainly one of the best day of my life. Imagine me with the eyes of a child who see santa clause. But Jack White is real. So with perseverance you can realize your dreams, Never give up ! Everything is possible.
P.S. This year I think I will miss Jack, but I am patient, we have time, his career is not over (and over, and over).
The late, great Tom Petty said it best, “the waiting is the hardest part” but sometimes the anticipation is better than the payoff. The fun is in the journey.
I mean honestly. I’m from Philadelphia. I didn’t get into Jack until Icky Thump. Since then I now own almost all studio albums from all his bands on vinyl. Let’s not get into why Jack NEVER COMES TO PHILLY. Let’s just talk about how I check every tour and never see Philadelphia there. Never. Ever. So my most significant wait is waiting for Jack to come to Philly. Which honestly makes me a pretty fortunate individual. I don’t even care if I win the record. I do want to. But even more. I’d like to see Philadelphia win a spot on his tour. So call him and give him my plea. Tell him we have homes here if he’s looking for one. If he can’t afford a hotel I’ll let him stay at my place. Hell, he can even use my apartment as the venue. Come back to Philly Jack. You won’t need a mirror lol.
Well, my grandma’s been waiting for the return of Jesus Christ for quite some time. A part of me wants it to happen so she isn’t let down. But a bigger part of me wants to see her disappointed. I’m not quite ready to jump off the roller coaster.
I’ve been waiting since 01 to find an autograph of JW’s to add to my collection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm8paBMbZTA
I don’t have anything clever to say, but I do want that beautiful 7in from that man… NO WAIT NOT LIKE THAT
Haiku in Waiting
Over and Over
and Over, we lie in wait
for ear bombs to drop
Oh… and this one time we camped out in TMRs parking lot for like 30 hrs and when it was time to open… We had yo wait some more…