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***
Hello TMR!
I have been a major fan of Jack White ever since my first Dead Weather concert at The Pageant in 2010. I went into that concert a rather casual fan and left completely blown away. If it weren’t for Jack White, The Dead Weather and Third Man records I probably would have never started collecting records. Records are an important part of my life now. Living outside of St Louis, I am rather spoiled with wonderful record stores. My favorites are Vintage Vinyl, Euclid Records, and Planet Score Records. Last year the Third Man Rolling Record Store stopped by Vintage Vinyl! It was quite the experience! I was able to pick up my first Third Man Pressing! Since my first JWIII show at The Pageant, I’ve seen him one other time at The Fabulous Fox Theater in STL! I’ve also seen Lillie Mae live at Off Broadway, where after her set she walked up to me and gave me a hug! I look very forward to Jack’s return to Chaifetz this April! This new album feels adventurous and fresh! Thank you TMR for impacting my life in a most positive way. – Michael
So my lesson about waiting. When I was 20, I’d fallen in love. It felt weird, it was fraught with peril, and that’s how I knew it was real.
I’d sent an email, like a nerd, to the person I fell in love with. We’d actually spent time together, so it wasn’t an internet romance, but my main means of communication was emailing at that point. (We didn’t even have cell phones yet really)
4 days, no response, and I’d poured my heart out in this correspondence. It was probably a sappy ridiculous mess. I was living at the time with my best friend, and another fellow who was a travelling pipe organ repair man. I’d met this guy from Manchester that was crazy into the band Oasis, and after having a night of self-pity, Perry from Manchester comes over to show us why Oasis is great, along with his tambourine, and a bootleg concert tape he had on VHS.
None of us had a VHS player, and by about midnight, my friend the travelling pipe organ repair man says…
“I have a VHS player, but it’s in my mini-storage in Boston…”
Well, I had 3 days off in a row, and decided the best way to handle the situation was to pile us all into my 1992 Toyota Tercel, and drive from Memphis to Boston, to get a f’ing VCR. Yep, I was that far in the pity pit.
I get about 600 miles outside of Memphis and throw a rod in Wythville VA. I call my parents right as the sun is rising, just now informing them that I’d decided to take a trip without letting anyone know. We walked for 4 hours in the 100 degree heat, each passing citizen of Wythville informing us “The bus station is only about 10 minutes that way!”
By the time I had finished, I had 2nd degree sunburn. On the ride home, the patrons on the bus took turns making bets as to whether my pipe organ buddy was actually dead (he had a condition that made him unable to close his eyes when he slept)
I’d made it back to Memphis, burnt to a crisp, choking on my own ego, my rent money spent to get my buddies home, my car being towed back to Memphis via relatives in Kingsport.
That night, as I laid on the cold floor of a coffee shop, the person I fell in love with sent someone to hiss at me. (yes literally hiss). She hadn’t checked her email.
20 years later, here we are. Married, Still completely in love. I had finally learned how to properly wait.
Oh, how I want this autograph. Jack happened to be in my life 4 months ago. I was very bad from parting with the man who was in my life 13 years. My friend and I drank wine and talked a lot. And suddenly her son turned on the film “It Might Get Loud”. That’s all!!! Now I know almost all of Jack’s songs by heart.
Waiting for album
Heard about listening sesh
Yet somehow missed it
;-;
i’ve been waiting for this waiting to cease
for this stock still spinning
handheld milkfed cuffs
sweetly dripping molasses to the soles of my feet
i’ve been waiting at the window
silently
wishing for my dove’s return
at the door for the dead to rise
i’ve been waiting
for time to stop dropping & dripping
dragging so quickly
wailing to spin right off & implode
reborn
this waiting game i would leave behind
& rename a trap
i lost the key
Im super excited about the LORDE concert coming up.
I waited a long time for the snake skin 45 carrying case I ordered at the Desert Gold Pop-up Shop during Coachella. But it was worth it!
It’s a sensory burst of ear worms exploding joyously in my head on repeat forever.
Waited years to check out TMR in Nashville! Live in the uk , got so drunk on whiskey the night we arrived in Nashville that my visit to TMR was the worst and last hangover of my life.
I am still waiting for the day Third Man Records will be opening a storefront Record Shop – Record Pressing Facility in London!
Cheers Stelios