June 30th

 

  On June 30th, 2007 I saw The White Stripes on their Icky Thump Tour play the Shaw Conference Centre in Edmonton. This show was crazy good!

Jack White Live in Edmonton Nov.2nd 2018

Last Friday my buddy Buzzard and I went to the Jack White concert at Rogers Place. This would be my first time seeing Jack White play a solo show. I was supposed to see him a few years ago solo at the Sonic Boom Festival here but got kicked out before he came on, long story, so I was looking forward to this one. I did see White Stripes here in 2007.

We missed the opening band Crown Lands, as we were having some drinks before the show.

For this show we were on the floor which was general admission. For this show and all Jack White concerts you are not allowed to use your cellphone, so as you walk into the venue the staff make you put your phone in a pouch which is then locked and only able to access your phone in certain spots of the coliseum.

We grabbed ourselves a couple of way too expensive beers and headed into the middle of the floor. I wanted to be fairly close to the stage for this show as I feel you can feed off the energy of the performance the closer you are. I was surprised that even Buzzard followed me in to the fray.

The stage had a screen behind it that had a countdown clock for the start of the show, and we got there at the four minute mark so it wasn't going to be long before the show started.

It was cool to be at a show where it felt very old school with no distractions of people taking selfies and pictures of the band and texting and updating Facebook and such. Hell people were even actually using lighters holding them up during a few songs. What I did notice was that when people don't have their phones there was a whole lot of pot being smoked, at least where we were anyways. Once one person lit up it was non-stop the rest of the show, which was cool by me. Made for a lot of grooving to the tunes and dancing and singing.

Jack opened the show with the song "Over and Over and Over" from his latest album Boarding House Reach and right after that it was a White Stripes song "Dead Leaves and Dirty Ground", the first of at least 8 from his former band. Jack mixed up the set pretty good playing a song from his other bands The Dead Weather "I Cut Like A Buffalo" and even a Raconteurs song "Steady, As She Goes" which was the first song of the encore.

Jack White and his band were amazing, especially Jack's guitar playing, he blows my mind, but I did find that the keyboards, in which there were two guys playing them was a bit overwhelming at times, it took away from jack's playing sometimes. the biggest sing-along's of the night were both White Stripe songs first was "We're Going To Be Friends" and the show closer "Seven Nation Army". This was a great show and really loved the no distractions through out the show, and the smell of weed was a nice touch too. Old school concert feel, loved it. Good times!!!

Seven Inch Saturday (The Flaming Lips)

Today's seven inch single is The Flaming Lips covering the White Stripes song "Seven Nation Army". The B side of this single is a spoken word thing called "The Jist" by the artist David Shrigley from England.

This single came out in 2005 and from what I have read it was a limited print of 100 copies from the London, England record label Azuli Records.

The Flaming Lips covering The White Stripes is good and definitely has the Flaming Lips twist to it.



Any concert news...The Flaming Lips will be playing in Edmonton on Sunday September 6th as part of the Sonic Boom Music Festival.

6 Years Ago Today...June 30th

It was six years ago today that I saw the White Stripes play in Edmonton at the Shaw Conference Centre.

Concert stats for the month of June...I have been to shows 25 out of 30 days in the month of June.
And have seen 54 different shows out of them 25 days.

Concert Shirt Of The Day Feb.4th (White Stripes)

Today's t-shirt is from the White Stripes concert A-Bomb, Cuz and I went to in 2007 at The Shaw Conference Centre here in Edmonton. I don't recall who opened for the White Stripes not that we saw them anyways. The line up to get into the venue was ridiculous, so Cuz and I went to the bar for an hour and came back when there was no line up. By then we were able to just walk right in, no line ups no hassle. We got in just as the White Stripes hit the stage. This was an awesome concert that rocked the whole way through, we lost each other during the show, but all agreed it was one hell of a concert.

I sure am glad I had the opportunity to see the White Stripes when I did, as they announced this week that they have disbanded the band, too bad cause I thought they were a great rock n' roll band.

Front.


Back.


Hand Bill for show.

White Stripes Album Review

This week The White Stripes release their first live album (Under Great White Northern Lights) which was recorded while on there Canadian tour in 2007 in which they played from coast to coast as well as dates in Whitehorse,Yellowknife and Iqaluit.It is basically a soundtrack for the documentary that also comes out this week. The album has 16 tracks on it which sound very raw and gritty and without a doubt no over dubbing on this live album. Sometimes it's hard to believe that it is only Meg on drums and Jack on guitar, holy shit can they make some noise for two musicians.
My biggest complaint of this double live album is that it doesn't let you know where any of the tracks were recorded. Would have been cool to know where they were recorded as A Bomb and I were at the Edmonton show on this tour. No liner notes or anything on the inside of album, kind of a bummer.
All and all a good live album. I would give this album a 6.5 out of 10.


As I said earlier in the album review, A-Bomb and I went to the show in Edmonton on June 30th at The Convention Centre. What a great fucking show it was too. All out rock n' roll very gritty and raw and balls to the wall rock. I would go out of my way to see them play live again for sure.