The White Stripes @ Glass House Review
The White Stripes @ The Glass House
July 28, 2005
Anybody regret driving to the Glass House in the middle of the day to stand in line for tickets? Or paying scalpers a king’s ransom? How about waiting since the night before for a prime spot upfront? Nope. It was worth it.
By 8:15 the venue was filled to capacity with everyone holding their positions. At 9 Jack and Meg strutted onto the stage and it was all business. Jack did his usual intro, “I’m Jack and this is my big sister Meg.” The crowd roared after recognizing the first notes of “Wild Orchid,” the first song of the set.
The White Stripes played over 20 songs with one break in just under 2 hours. There was no chit chat, just the cranking out of song after song. Jack and Meg also interchanged songs and played their popular cover song “Jolene” in two parts – a flawless transition into “My Doorbell” then back into “Jolene.” Perfect.
The Glass House turned into a sauna somewhere in the middle of the set. Towards the end of the show Jack commented, “we have one more song left and I’m sure you’re all happy about that after standing for hours sweating in this heat.”
The Glass House was hot. But The White Stripes performance was hotter.
wow that is some serious dedication! sounds like it was a great show and well worth it. i was on stage for the white stripes at coachella a few years back and i took some really awful photos:
http://eecue.com/images_archive/eecue-images-20520-CIMG0273_jpg.html
oh well my camera is much better now.. here is the photo I took of you guys at the golden gopher:
http://eecue.com/images_archive/eecue-images-23870-folks_from_losanjealous.html
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Their Coachella performance was so so. But the Glass House show was amazing. They played everything I wanted to hear. The new stuff sounds great live, much better than I expected it to be.
thanks for the pic eek, i spotted it on flickr a while back.
re: stripes…decent band (jack’s decent, anyway)…nonetheless i just can’t justify spending more than $5 on them live due to that fateful mainly-empty show back in 2000 at the now-defunct al’s bar, summer 2000…