On June 14th of this year, Jack White unleashed what was arguably one of the best performances in the 13 year history of the Bonnaroo festival.
In an expansive field in Manchester, TN, filled with approximately 70,000 fans, White let loose a tour-de-force, 26-song, two-hour and forty-five minute career-spanning set. From White Stripes songs like “Hotel Yorba” and “Icky Thump” to Raconteurs numbers such as “Top Yourself” and “Steady, As She Goes” through “Blue Blood Blues” by the Dead Weather…not to mention a wide selection of his solo material and covers of two surf rock classics “Pipeline” by the Chantays and “Misirlou” by Dick Dale. And Led Zeppelin’s “The Lemon Song”? He did that too.
In order to celebrate a show of such historical heft, Third Man Records has decided to dedicate the entirety of its 22nd Vault package to this performance.
Three vinyl LPs (white, blue and black), housed in a soft-touch, telescoping box, topped off with a lenticular television on the cover…this is by far the most ambitious Vault package yet. The audio has been mixed by Third Man’s in house engineer, three time Grammy Award-winner Vance Powell and stands as a marked improvement over the on-the-fly board mix heard in webcasts, YouTube uploads and shady downloads.
In addition, there will be a DVD of the FULL performance, re-edited from the original raw footage by Brad Holland (filmmaker extraordinaire), for a truly memorable visual document of the evening.
We could’ve stopped there…but anything worth doing is worth overdoing, right?
Also included in the package will be four high-quality 8x10 photographs from the evening shot by David Swanson. Suitable for framing, timeless, these will increase the value of your home tenfold.
(said to the guys in production) “Is that all? NO?!?!? Are you kidding me? What else could we offer?”
Apparently we’ve lost our minds and gone as for to include a customized Jack White patch, a replica backstage pass sticker AND a poster in this beast of a package.
You want a custom-designed USB with super-secret extra added bonus materials too? Have at it.
If this package doesn’t make you happy…nothing will. Subscriptions are open now, get yours in before the October 31st deadline.
Jack White Live From Bonnaroo setlist:
Icky Thump
High Ball Stepper
Lazaretto
Hotel Yorba
Temporary Ground
Missing Pieces
Steady, As She Goes
Top Yourself
I’m Slowly Turning Into You
Freedom at 21
Three Women
You Don’t Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You’re Told)
We’re Going to Be Friends
Alone in My Home
Ball and Biscuit
The Lemon Song (Led Zeppelin)
Encore:
The Hardest Button to Button
Hello Operator
Pipeline (The Chantays)
Misirlou (Dick Dale)
Sixteen Saltines
Cannon
Blue Blood Blues
Astro
Love Interruption
Little Bird
Seven Nation Army
EPIC
Does this mean that the USB contains a digital version of the whole concert as well?
This package is so beautiful! I cannot wait for it! What a well done job, TMR!
This is so amazing, I can’t wait!
@Marilyn, do you know what issue of Uncut that is? Ryan is one of my favorites, glad to see this last year he seems to have grown up a bit and let things go.
Oh Hell yes.
I hope the audio mix includes a lot of crowd noise for certain songs (I’m Slowly Turning into You, We’re Going to be Friends, Seven Nation Army).
I’m always bummed when the recording doesn’t do the awesome bonnaroo crowd justice.
Love this: “It was like watching everybody in the music industry get what they deserve at the hands of this guy out of Detroit who’s seriously, seriously consumed the power of the mythological s–t from Led Zeppelin and the blues elements,” Adams tells Uncut. “I mean, think about that: rock n’ roll starts with the blues, and the real industrial part of music dies with the blues — with a f—ing blues champion. Like all of a sudden here’s this hero, and you can’t manufacture what that is … that’s the sickest story ever.”
Read More: Ryan Adams Calls Jack White a ‘Blues Champion’ | http://diffuser.fm/ryan-adams-jack-white-blues-champion/?trackback=tsmclip
The Vault almost lost me last quarter with yet another live White Stripes album (how many is that? 5? 6?). Good thing I held off. This is exactly the kind of package that makes being a Vault member worth it…professionally done recording, DVD, and enough esoteric extras to keep it all interesting. Great job.
The only Bonnaroo set that surpassed Macca and MMJ in my book. This show haunts my dreams to this day!
This is a most excellent surprise this morning. Look at all the goodies! You guys have outdone yourself; totally can’t wait for this. Should be getting #21 in the mail today (fingers crossed) so is a Vaultastic day for me!