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Hit the Jack Jack

Craig McAllister

Edit 15th January 2008.

It appears that the link below wasn’t working properly. If you’ve tried and failed to download the whole show, please try again using the link in the sentence below. Thanks!

To celebrate the dawning of 2008, here’s a fantastic sounding White Stripes New Year’s Eve show. Recorded on the 31st December 2000 at the Magic Stick in Detroit, it features Jack ‘n’ Meg in fine, if slightly drunken form. “Hello everybody,” slurs Jack. “Is it the New Year yet? I guess it’s not the best idea that we go on last. Everybody gives you a drink every 5 minutes…..”

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Straight off the soundboard you get electric versions of AC/DCs ‘Let There Be Rock’ and ‘Dog Eat Dog’ and Iggy Pop’s ‘I’m Bored’! In between the best stuff from the White Stripes first 3 albums and a marriage propoasal from the stage, you get the usual cover of ‘Jolene’ before the set finishes with Meg doing a well out of tune rendition of the Velvet Underground’s ‘After Hours’, which is really saying something if you consider just how out of tune Mo Tucker sings the original. There’s also a mystery bass player for the first two numbers. He/she may well be from one of the support groups (Detroit Cobras, Von Bondies, Soledad Brothers, The Come Ons – what a line up) but no amount of googling sheds light on why the White Stripes chose this night to fleetingly feature a bass player. Maybe you know?

Apparently this show was to be released as a live album, but was pulled when it was pointed out how drunk the band were at the time. The thing is you don’t really notice, and a sloppy sounding White Stripes still sounds fantastic to these ears.

The show’s setlist was:

 Let There Be Rock

Dog Eat Dog

You’re Pretty Good Looking

Hello Operator

Death Letter

Little Bird

Lord, Send Me an Angel

Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground

Apple Blossom

Broken Bricks

Cannon

Truth Doesn’t Make a Noise

Jolene

I’m Bored

Let’s Build a Home > Goin’ Back to Memphis

Suzy Lee

After Hours

It’s a belter folks  (sorry, no cover art this time)

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Happy New Year! See you in 2008

Published by Craig McAllister

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6 thoughts on “Hit the Jack Jack”

  2. I can’t find a way to download this show. ANy help? I would REALLY love to hear it. I missed going to this show and would love to be able to hear it.

    Thanks

  4. Awesome, awesome, awesome. I used to have a .flac version of this awhile back, but spring cleaning got the best of me one year. Great to have another copy!

  5. Thank you so much for this show – I kind of found it by accident. It is decent quality and a lot of songs I haven’t heard them do before – definitely a speaker-melter! Also, Jack and Meg could be awesome at their drunkest. Thanks again.

  6. hey the link no longer works and i was trying to listen can you re post it i would appreciate i am a huge fan

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