1/27/2024 0 Comments White stripes reunion![]() And throughout Friday’s show he spoke about the Raconteurs’ beginnings at Benson’s old home on Detroit’s East Grand Blvd., lamenting that the group - whose longtime utility man Dean Fertita, of Queens of the Stone Age and Iggy Pop’s Post Pop Depression band, also hails from Detroit - didn’t capture enough video footage of its formation.Īt one point White also played civic booster, commanding the crowd to “give up the suburbs and move into the city of Detroit and take this motherf-er over!” On July 11 White hosted an all-star baseball game at Hamtramck Stadium, a former Negro League field he’s helping to restore. ![]() White and Benson celebrated the former’s 43rd birthday on July 9 with an acoustic show at Third Man Records’ Detroit store and record pressing plant. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With 'Help Us Stranger'įriday’s show was the culmination of a busy homecoming week for the Raconteurs. “Steady, As She Goes” closed the night with a widely smiling White leading a call-and-response sing-along with the crowd. ![]() The characteristically frenetic White, who managed to knock over his microphone stand just minutes into the show during the opening “Bored and Razed,” played piano on “You Don’t Understand Me” and switched between guitar and keyboards during the lengthy “Top Yourself.” “Consoler of the Lonely,” the bluesy “Now That You’re Gone,” “Hands,” “Sunday Driver” and “Blue Veins” were attacked with a communal devil-may-care exuberance, while “Live a Lie” channeled vintage, late-’60s Detroit-style punk.īenson-fronted songs such as “Old Enough” and the new “Somedays (I Don’t Feel Like Trying)” softened the set, slightly, with a Laurel Canyon-styled folk rock vibe. ![]() After 10 Years, Here's How The Raconteurs Are Roaring Backĭebuting a stage production that included subtly striped columns and a textured backdrop drawn from the Help Us Stranger graphics (as well as plenty of green lights, also from the album’s motif), The Raconteurs took off from the tight polish of their recordings to stretch, expand and improvise on most of the songs. ![]()
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