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***
Longest wait……Jack finally coming back to Arizona since July 18, 2006! I try and bring up My home state to Jack when he is in chat to let him know he is missed here :) I still remember that Raconteurs show very well – think it was was same year as Kill Bill so Bang Bang was tossed in the mix, along with Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy! Pumped to see him in August and bring the heat to AZ!
I’ve been waiting almost 39 years for this tri-color jack white’s vinyl.
The longest wait i have ever endured?
four years to see him playing in a live concert, and…oh yes I, I remember another situation in which I had to wait a looooong time to get what I really wanted but, oh My, I can’t write it here.
“Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet” Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I was waiting at a very old & dirty bus stop, drawing absurdities in my notepad, like sexy sea creatures for example… and suddenly I thought to myself, “There is not much difference between this old bus stop and a lobster with a boob job.” But there is some difference, you see… One is a crusty bus station, and one is a busty crustacean.
I’ve waiting over a decade to see Jack White live and finally I will thanks to my vault membership and the pre-sale.
I waited in traffic in the pouring rain for the listening party at Spillers Records in Cardiff (howling in rage and hammering the steering wheel) and did not make it in time. By the time I got there it was over and after closing time. But because they are lovely people and the owner Ashli Todd is a wonderful human being she let me in and played the record again just for me in my own private listening party. It’s a amazing record. So funky and glitchy. I think it might be Jack’s best.
This is why record shops and actual physical records are so very important. No download could ever have given me The pure joy that record did. I love Jack’s music and the absolute attention to detail he brings to everything he does. I hope whoever gets the signed 7” absolutely loves it and experiences the pure I got from hearing the album for the first time. Peace and joy to all apart from Trump and all other bigots
Last night, I dreamed I visited Sarah McLachlan. First, I had to sign a sheet of paper on a clipboard in her kitchen. Then I sat in her office and ate cookies with her. She was moving some boxes around and organizing papers in a file cabinet. She was tired but friendly. In the backyard, there was a pin full of chickens. I heard them clucking in the distance. It was a warm spring day. Our conversation was short. It was mostly small talk, but it was still cool to meet her. After we chatted a little while, I shook her hand and left. I backed out of the driveway thinking, “Well, I just met Sarah McLachlan. That was neat.” ….Now then, I bet you’re wondering what Sarah McLachlan has to do with Jack White and tri-color records and white whale songs. Sadly, we’ll never know. That’s just how dreams work sometimes. Oh well, oh well, oh well.
When I woke up this morning, I did not think I would be writing a poem about this particular topic in iambic pentameter, and posting it on the internet, but here we are!
THE WAIT
Describe my longest wait to win the prize?
The longest wait I have endured is clear
The only wait with dire consequence
It burned when I peed, so I had to know
How long does it take for the test to show?
I met her on Saturday, week ago
Peed in a cup and the long wait began
How long until they know; takes forever
Is infinite relative, appears so
Do I want a call? Is no news good news?
3 days pass, feels like 300,000
The phone rings. It’s the doctor “Please Come in”
The longest drive, the anticipation
Please sit down on the bench. Results are in.
Negative never felt so positive
The first thing i ever ordered through the mail was a planet of the apes model. i found the ad in a planet of the apes magazine of course, this was 1974 and i was ten or eleven. I road my bike to the post office to pick up a money order in u.s funds and the proper stamp for mailing to the states, went home filled out all the paper work addressed the envelope and waited 6 to 8 weeks . 6 to 8 weeks to a ten year old might as well be a life time away, nevertheless i completely forgot about it probably after a month. a few weeks later on a saturday morning i heard a knock on the door and to my surprise a mailman delivering my model on a saturday morning. it was like christmas and it feels that way every time i receive something in the mail still.
Ben, I don’t know you but that was a fantastic read. Thank you for those details. ‘Jack and Meg are funny, they got a modern, backward, liberal, family code.’ -Wayne Coyne
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The longest wait i have ever endured is still going on (seeing jack perform live). a couple years ago when i broke out of my rap music phase i was looking for something new and overheard a very familiar song in a commercial on tv and i found that song to be “fell in love with a girl” by the white stripes. I started to listen to more of their music and i fell in love with it. Hearing Jack talk about the beauty of vinyl records in videos made me eager to get my own and I could never thank him enough for that. Now I own every white stripes record and all 3 (soon to be 4!) of Jack’s solo records. “over and over and over” has been on repeat in my car since it was released and now that I know it started out as a white stripes song I love it even more. A signed tri-color 7’ is too good to be true! but now im waiting for Jack to come to the Santa Barbara Bowl like a teenage girl in the 60’s that just got Beatles tickets. ps my hair is growing out and im going for that Cobain/Blackwell length lol