Monday, October 01, 2012

No NPR convention on Sunday night; JW fans got the memo!...


I want love to:
Make me stand up all night Sunday
And shake my bones with music
Then send me on my merry way, deaf n satisfied

Johnnyknotes:  Drove down to NYC mid-afternoon Sunday to meet G-Man...  Found an Irish pub in Times Square (boy, that's real difficult! LOL) to grab some food and watch the end of the Ryder Cup matches...  Young Italian or Spanish gent watching next to us actually offered me a handshake after Martin Kaymer's clinching putt.  And what's with no good/good on those Tiger/Molinari putts?  Bush league, Cpt. Jose Maria....  Lots of scalpers outside Radio City Music Hall... We're in the 3rd mezzanine at 8 o'clock for Pokey LaFarge & the South City Three. Pokey, who fancies himself as sort of a modern day Hank Williams, says it's going to be a good night after spending time at McSorley's following last night's show. Decent 45 minute set... Intermission... Last night's fiasco is the elephant in the room... Jack blasts onto the stage with guitar screeching and his all-chick backing band, The Peacocks (drums, keyboards, standup/electric bass, fiddle, pedal steel, keyboards and backing vocals/percussion), looking hot and sounding hotter!... No sitting tonight (referencing his NPR convention rant, meaning, I think, those with quintessential good taste in music, but NO passion and energy)!... Drops his guitar after final song of the set, leaving the last note playing indefinitely (cool move)... Crowd roars; no anxiety whatsoever about a repeat of Saturday...  ENCORE entrance to deafening cheers:  Freedom At 21, Sixteen Saltines,Seven Nation Army, and a wonderful version of Goodnight, Irene...  It was a good night. Thanks, G-Man, for inviting me...$37 parking!

View from the 3rd mezzanine at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday night (G-Man video):


6 things Jack White was trying to tell us at Radio City Music Hall 
Rolling Stone review of Sunday show
Some great pics here

JACK WHITE SETLIST 9/30/12 (via)
Missing Pieces
Weep Themselves to Sleep
Love Interruption
Hotel Yorba (The White Stripes song)
Top Yourself/Maggie's Farm (The Raconteurs song)
Cannon/John the Revelator (The White Stripes song)
Screwdriver (The White Stripes song)
Rock Island Line
Blue Blood Blues (The Dead Weather song)
Trash Tongue Talker
Papa Was a Rascal (James Booker cover)
Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground (The White Stripes song)
I'm Slowly Turning Into You (The White Stripes song)
We're Going to Be Friends (The White Stripes song)
Hip (Eponymous) Poor Boy
Hypocritical Kiss
Ball and Biscuit (The White Stripes song)
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Freedom At 21
Sixteen Saltines
Seven Nation Army (The White Stripes song)
Goodnight, Irene (Lead Belly cover)

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