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.
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Jack White and TMR like Elvis and Graceland…only more hip and original!
My story is that I waited til after noon. Damn.
On a*
And I December night in 2003 in a little place called The Magic Stick I was trying to get the autograph of the one and only Tracy Mae Miller of Blanche Fame but there was some guy trying to chat her up so I waited patiently finally when he got up to leave I realized it was Jack White needless to say I was a gentleman enough to ask him for his autograph also I didn’t want him to feel bad or anyting LOL
Didn’t hit the noon mark, but here goes my significant wait period. Been married since 1999. My wife found out she has type one diabetes. Kids will have to wait until she gets it under control. Huge struggle. Pills first, shots, inhaler, then finally an insulin pump. Start “trying” for kids around 7 years later. 3 miscarriages later, my little girl was born in 2010 on MY BIRTHDAY. Best birthday present ever! She’s 7 now and LOVES JACK! I couldn’t be more proud! Longest wait I’ve ever had to endure, but one of the (two) gifts I’ve ever received! -Steven
Waiting for my appointment at the cardiologist (for heart rythim disorder) this month and this new Jack White album just sound as unsteady as my heart right now. I LIKE THE F***ING ALBUM!! KEEP IT UP JACK!!!
most all of my life has been spent on waiting. it isn’t until recently that i’ve figured out that I don’t know what it is i’m waiting for. I’ve spent hours and hours and hours, waiting for the old man to be done with his shift making furniture when i was boy and we lived in mexico. the old man worked, works, waiting, still waiting, for that big cash out. me and my big sis would wait in this boat of a van outside the shop. every so often I would go in there and he or his employees would teach me about upholstery or building a frame, it didn’t stick but the memory of it has. we ran an extension cord of power to the van so i can plug in a tv box so i can play NES. but mostly me and big sis would read old magazines, comic books, and when we felt creative we had coloring books. All this while big bro was out with no good people breaking into cars and ripping out car stereos for money. waiting for that big pay out. what happened though is he spent nights behind bars instead waiting to get out of there to breath in the freshly polluted mexican air. by third grade we had moved to border town USA and all that coloring was a gateway for drawing this and that. I had won a contest my school was holding. best drawing of mona wins a trip to meet the mighty mona and bucket of sweets. I won! mona was the hometown elephant, the one at the zoo. teacher was proud of me, all i could do was smile, i’m not much for words, the verbals anyway. that friday I had to claim my prize at the zoo. that same friday was the friday my papa and mama argued over who God knows what. turns out it was also the same friday my old man was waiting on for some hard drinks. I never got to meet mona.. never told my parents my portrait of the magnificent majestic mona was the best one.. i was waiting for the right time.
Hey Ben, it’s been a long time waiting for new Jack music, 2014 I was waiting for Jack concert in Guadalajara, already having some tacos when I got the news that the concert had been canceled, I want my tacos refund LOL, I got the money back from the tickets ha! Witing to go up there to Dallas and Houston shows :)
On my deathbed I will pray
To the gods and the angels
Like a pagan to anyone
Who will take me to heaven
To a place I recall
I was there so long ago
The sky was bruised
The wine was bled
And there you led me on
In your house I long to be
Room by room patiently
I’ll wait for you there
Like a stone
I’ll wait for you there
Alone
Thanks,
Mike
Waiting for people who think they know the reason behind every decision someone makes drink a tall frosty mug of ‘shut the fuck up’. Still waiting…