That's a great interview, explains a lot. I'm disappointed in some of his choices (Pro-Tools, Jack?) but they are his choices.curseofhalos wrote:https://www.rollingstone.com/music/feat ... es-w517705
I do disagree whenever he says the White Stripes was "Jack White solo." I mean, I get what he's trying to get across. But there's a reason nothing he's done outside the Stripes feels like the Stripes (with the exception, of course, of the Upholsterers). The simplified structure is IMPERATIVE for the White Stripes FEEL. If you take any Stripes song and add complicated instrumentation to it you get... Well, you get Jack White solo. And it doesn't work anywhere near the same level.
If Meg had played anything other than a simple BOOM! BOOM! beat I don't think anyone would've taken an interest. The White Stripes (and Jack White) would've been lost in a sea of others trying to do what they were doing. They would be just another band on a worn-out VHS of the garage rock phase in Detroit in the late 90's. The BOOM! BOOM! was important.