Comments on: Jimmy Page Gets Loud

By: The Rome Review | Boles Blues

The Rome Review | Boles Blues — Mon, 23 May 2011 13:15:57 +0000

[...] more than a year ago, I started reading some rumors online that one of my favorite musicians, Jack White, was collaborating with some musicians on an ambitious studio album that would ultimately be called [...]

By: Feeling the Needle and the Damage Done | Boles Blues

Feeling the Needle and the Damage Done | Boles Blues — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:42:02 +0000

[...] on September 27, 2010 by Gordon Davidescu For the most part, when a musician/band sets out to record an album, there is much deliberation involved as to what songs are going to go onto the album. Do they write [...]

By: David W. Boles

David W. Boles — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:23:01 +0000

Love that, Gordon! They’re my new favorite band! SMILE!

By: Gordon Davidescu

Gordon Davidescu — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:17:54 +0000

Makes the ideology of “The Residents” seem praiseworthy, I guess. They’re a band that has been playing for 30+years and yet almost nobody knows the actual identities of the musicians. They are known just for the music they make.

By: David W. Boles

David W. Boles — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:14:25 +0000

He’s pretty much confessed he did it for a “mind-f*ck” for his audience and, later, he then said he did it because he thought audiences would think it was cute and the press wouldn’t harass him about having a romantic interest in her. It all sort of blowed up in his face, though. A lie is a lie.

By: Gordon Davidescu

Gordon Davidescu — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:10:41 +0000

Maybe he was just that not thrilled with his birth surname? Or thought it would make for a more interesting band story? Musicians are a silly lot sometimes.

By: David W. Boles

David W. Boles — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:03:49 +0000

So neat, Gordon!
The Jack White lie I am most interested in was the pointed and public one where he said Meg was his sister — when she was not — and then he later married her and divorced her. What was the point? Why stake such an important lie to only have it render you later?

By: Gordon Davidescu

Gordon Davidescu — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:36:10 +0000

David,
I’m currently a member of two groups: Third Man Record Vault, and the Ten Club. The former covers all bands that are under the Third Man Record label including The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather — all Jack White bands — and other musicians. Every three months I pony up $60 and they send me super cool stuff that can’t be had anywhere else as well as access to videos and a plethora of other stuff.
The Ten Club is a lot cheaper but it only involves the 7″ record single once a year and a magazine that they really don’t send as often as they say they do.
I’m okay with the Jack White lie actually. It must have been odd to take his wife’s name, or maybe his management at the time told him that it would be strange for mainstream America to have a husband that took his wife’s name. Either way, I almost never care about the personal to-dos of artists and focus on the work they produce instead.

By: David W. Boles

David W. Boles — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:50:26 +0000

I’d be curious to see what you think of Jack in the movie, Gordon. The film does seem to be generational: Jimmy in the early 70′s, Edge in the late 80′s, Jack in the late 90′s… so I should be pulling for Edge, but Jimmy outstrips them both in terms of magnitude and passion.
How many fan memberships do you have? How do you feel about Jack’s lies about his real name and his singing with his “sister” that never was?
There’s a scene in the movie where he’s bleeding all over his guitar because he’s playing it so hard and the blood everywhere is so overdone… it clots and drips down on vibrating strings… that the gag quickly turns one off from anything he has to say because he’s trying too hard to be important and neat. Artists suffer — but some pretend artists only pretend to suffer.

By: Gordon Davidescu

Gordon Davidescu — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:35:19 +0000

I am biased. I will admit it. I am a huge fan of both the White Stripes and the Raconteurs and have a paid premium membership that says so. Jimmy is, however, still light years above them both.