On Jack White's new song "Archbishop Harold Homes" he sings about coming to your town and tearing it all down, looking to help us all find bliss, and doing so with little notice. He's now applied that thought to his current tour. Instead of announcing his new run of shows in the traditional manner, Jack White has once again found ways to do things his way and like only he can. Just last week he announced he was coming to the New York area to play Jersey City's White Eagle Hall on Monday night, a venue that's less than a tenth the capacity of a place he'd have no issue selling out. To boot, tickets were Will Call only and your ID had to match the name on the credit card order to get in, giving scalpers the boot and making sure this was a night for real fans only. As the intimate venue began to get packed and the lights went down, you could've had me convinced that just before he took the stage someone went up to Jack White and told him "I don't think you can actually play guitar," because for the next two hours he made it his mission to level the building with his almighty power and ferocity. Ripping into the first track from the new record, he was a blast of energy from the moment he stepped on stage and absolutely tore it up with massive walls of sound. "That's How I'm Feeling" continued on with epic riffs and had the crowd bellowing back with roars of "ah ha" and "oh yeahs" as he lashed away, his guitar like a battle axe and him acting like a commander taking his troops into battle. Playing a large majority of his latest album, it was a killer surprise when he blasted into "Black Math" from the White Stripes' masterpiece Elephant and the crowd went wild before he turned back into his latest cuts. By the time he actually got to "Archbishop Harold Homes," the audience was once again amped up and jumping up and down to the sinister riffs and rhythms White was unleashing on the room and then he kicked things up when he barreled into "Bombing Out," another whiplash inducing track that rocked with absolute fervor. As the band dished out the beat for "Catch Hell Blues," White once again dug deep to whip out a mind blowing solo. After a brief break, the band walked back on stage and dove into the Raconteurs tune "Broken Boy Soliders," another great surprise moment that saw the band locked-in to their tight and illustrious groove that really became a sight to behold. Earlier than expected, he cut into the iconic riff of the world renowned "Seven Nation Army" and the room came alive with electricity as the building began to shake and the floor started to bend right along with the motion of the song. An always impressive song, hearing to played with such power and force in such a small room made it feel even larger than life. Digging out "Fell in Love with a Girl" was another major moment of the night and took the crowd by surprise once again as he spread out the song with even more passion and he laid in to some filthy, dirty blues rock which perfectly set up "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" as a final chapter of the night. After seeing so many behemoths of arena rock there's still few that can hold a candle to Jack White and time and time again he proves that he's a generational talent that has no signs of passing the torch to the next godfather of rock and roll.
Set list:
02 "That's How I'm Feeling"
03 "Tom Cat" [Muddy Waters cover]
04 "It's Rough on Rats (If You're Asking)"
05 "Number One With a Bullet"
06 "Black Math" [The White Stripes song]
07 "Archbishop Harold Holmes"
08 "Why Walk a Dog?"
09 "Bombing Out"
10 "Underground"
11 "Suzy Lee" [The White Stripes song]
12 "Catch Hell Blues" [The White Stripes song]
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13 "Broken Boy Soldier" [The Raconteurs song]
14 "Seven Nation Army" [The White Stripes song]
15 "I'm Slowly Turning Into You" [The White Stripes song]
16 "Freedom at 21"
17 "Fell in Love With a Girl [The White Stripes song]
18 "What's the Rumpus?"
19 "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" [The White Stripes song]
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