And the "secondary" side projects have also adopted color schemes. Both The Dead Weather and The Raconteur's first albums have a black and white cover with yellow hints. Both side projects second album's artwork have more yellow in it, but by their third albums, both have more fully adopted secondary colors schemes--the bold green of "Help Us Stranger" on The Raconteurs side, and a sharp purple and orange on the cover of The Dead Weather's "Dodge and Burn". That's some solid artistic commitment and continuity.
Also The White Stripes, is three words, made up of three colors red, white, and black. Also “Three” Man Records. And in his solo career, Black, White, and Blue. Also, like it says he wraps everything around that number. It is so interesting. That’s why I love Jack White and he and The White Stripes. But, Nirvana is still my favorite. But The White Stripes is either second or third, or tied with Linkin Park at second.
@@surfinpiratedude I always felt like there was less commitment to the colour schemes with both The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather and instead focused more on the aesthetic of the music. Like The Raconteurs’ music feels very retro and hearkens back to an older age like the 60’s whereas the dead weather embodied a gothic and darker appeal. But yeah either way Jack White is a legend and has great attention to detail, I just feel that it is way more prominent on The White Stripes and his solo career
One fun fact you didn't mention : Nikola Tesla was also obsessed with the number 3, and Jack White used a Tesla tower on the top part of the image for Third Man Records! Peace from France 🍻
3 is a deep rabbit hole with Jack White. When I saw him on the boarding house reach tour. I took the time to count all the things in 3s. Off the top of my head besides the mic stand he had a guitar stand with 3 guitars on the left and right of him. The stage riser had 3 stairs. The keyboard player had 3 keyboards. There were more but that's just what I remember off the top of my head.
My god, that first White Stripes album sounds so so good. Huge drums and guitar, on a good system you feel like you’re there. I wish more albums took a lighter approach to production.
thats a top 3 video idea id love to see. id love it if he talked what happened after they got successful with combat rock and how Joe felt about it cause so much happened after that with topper and mick being kicked out and then the whole this is England fiasco etc..
I too have been obsessed ever since Schoolhouse Rock informed me that, 3 is a Magic Number. 333 is my signature for everything. Love Jack and the number 3. It's a beautiful combination. 👍👍👍
Great overview, Polyphonic - but, you missed on additional "3" influence on JW: Nikola Tesla. JW uses the Tesla tower as part of the Third Man image. In a PBS documentary I watched, it talked about how Tesla was obsessed with the number "3" - to the point where when he would stay in a hotel he would only stay in rooms where they number was divisible by "3". Great work - keep going - I enjoy your videos. Best to you!
Something else to note about "The Big 3 Killed My Baby" is that it refers to the Big 3 automakers in Detroit that ruined the city when the factories shut down. Jack was paying homage to his hometown while also keeping it 3.
not necessarily about the factories that shut down but their lack of creativity and reliability. In the song he refers to Tucker which was a car maker ahead of his time and finally discloses that by 'baby' he doesn't mean girlfriend, he means his common sense. And my baby's my common sense so dont feed me planned obsolescence yeah my baby's my common sense
Yes! Mark Knopfler is easily one of the greatest guitarists and song writers of his time. Not only is his work with Dire Straits incredible so is his solo career that’s still going to this day. Plus he’s been knighted for his contributions to music. Would love to see a video specifically about him actually but Dire Straits works as well
I know I asked you to do a video bout the band called Death but could you please do a video on Talk Talk and Mark Hollis? He was a talent that not alot of people know of and appreciate, and Talk Talk were a criminally underrated band. im still shocked by his passing to be honest.. rest your head Hollis..
@@j0hnn13K honestly that would be a great idea! id love to learn more about Bob marley. I always end up listening to artist who were inspired by his musical style from the clash to the police.
@@airshipprodigy5668 Not necessarily. If you listen carefully to that section you'll hear that he's also playing the thirds, so not only power chords. The video is trying to push the idea of 3s a bit too much lol..
woah!!! I commented on your first Jack White video about his obsession with the Number 3 and you said you'd make a video on it someday. For some reason I NEVER SAW IT UNTIL NOW! My ex-boyfriend built a lot of the custom doors that Jack White has in his Third Man Records shop in Nashville and even the DOORS have a tiny relevance to the number 3, at his request.
At the rate/level of quality that Polyphonic's uploading, it's easy to think you're trying to rack up the funds for a vacation. I get it. I hear Kokomo is lovely this time of the year.
One is the minimum amount of legs needed to make a stable table. Actually you don't even need a leg. A box could be a table and thus you wouldn't need any feet. If you consider a table only a table when it's a platform capable of holding items without it being a box or cylinder than it has to have legs. The size of the feet determines the stability of the table. If you consider a table only a table when it has a platform capable of holding things and having (a) leg(s) but lacking a foot or feet, then 3 is the minimum amount of legs needed to create a stable table. So I partly agree.
No making a leg wider would be cheating, if you were to take a round table with a radius of 4 feet, and then make the legs out of an incredible strong material and as thin as possible with the material still existing it would take a minimum of three legs to correctly balance it
Let's not forget Fredrik Thordendal of Meshuggah and his strange obsession with the number 33. I suspect it's the number of years it will take for him to construct his new spaceship, the Sol Niger Within II after the first one failed to bring him back to his home planet/dimension.
Knocked another one out of the park! I’m continually blown aware by the content and visuals of your videos! I get excited every time I see the notice that an episode has dropped. Keep up the great work!
Speaking of primary colors, White Stripes projects prominently featured the color red, Jack White solo projects feature the color blue, and his label Third Man Records feature the color yellow.
On SNL the other night (S46:E2), Jack performed a combination of 3 different works (Ball and Biscuit, Don’t Hurt Your Self, Jesus is Coming) and was also only given 3 days notice that he was needed for the show.
At 3:33 there are two pictures of third man records. Each has three little figures in the middle. That makes six, six divided by two (how many posters are shown). Comes back to.....3. WOW MIND BLOWN
You touched on it in the end of the video but I feel it’s important to note that Jack has three main projects, The Dead Weather, the Racontuers and the White Stripes (now substituted by his solo work)
This was actually one of my favorite things about the white stripes and Jack in general. This video still did a great job showing me examples I didn't notice. Great work!
Btw his drum in the dead weather had three snares, three toms and three cymbals (ride, crash and hi hat) and the bass drum had a picture of dracula's three brides (at some point). And third man records has an yellow triangle shaped car.
Only you man, only you make quality music related trivia content that I didn't even know I wanted to learn about. Polyphonic beats out every other wanna-be music insight channel.
Good video, missed opportunity by not mentioning Tesla, who also had the same obsession with three. You even showed the tesla tower that Jack White III repeatedly uses. Always enjoy
Detroit, where White was raised, and also home to one of the locations of Third Man Records, is home to the Big Three auto manufacturers - Ford, GM, and Chrysler.
A clever fellow and clearly a Master Mason (3rd Degree -- or 33rd???), I'm quite happy to benefit so directly from Mr. White's exploration of Masonic symbolism via the contemporary arts. [ III ] To these ears, his work with The Raconteurs remains a singular musical alchemy. Always saw The White Stripes as a lucrative proof of concept experiment. Three thumbs up...
I just realized he used the three primary colors for his different projects: white stripes is red, third man is yellow and solo is blue. Mind blown
oh YEAH MAN! .... that's just SO DEEP!
whatever
And the "secondary" side projects have also adopted color schemes. Both The Dead Weather and The Raconteur's first albums have a black and white cover with yellow hints. Both side projects second album's artwork have more yellow in it, but by their third albums, both have more fully adopted secondary colors schemes--the bold green of "Help Us Stranger" on The Raconteurs side, and a sharp purple and orange on the cover of The Dead Weather's "Dodge and Burn". That's some solid artistic commitment and continuity.
Also The White Stripes, is three words, made up of three colors red, white, and black. Also “Three” Man Records. And in his solo career, Black, White, and Blue. Also, like it says he wraps everything around that number. It is so interesting. That’s why I love Jack White and he and The White Stripes. But, Nirvana is still my favorite. But The White Stripes is either second or third, or tied with Linkin Park at second.
@@surfinpiratedude I always felt like there was less commitment to the colour schemes with both The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather and instead focused more on the aesthetic of the music. Like The Raconteurs’ music feels very retro and hearkens back to an older age like the 60’s whereas the dead weather embodied a gothic and darker appeal. But yeah either way Jack White is a legend and has great attention to detail, I just feel that it is way more prominent on The White Stripes and his solo career
One fun fact you didn't mention :
Nikola Tesla was also obsessed with the number 3, and Jack White used a Tesla tower on the top part of the image for Third Man Records!
Peace from France 🍻
Kevin WinterMadness He also mention Tesla in his song “Astro”
Square root of three is used lot in electrical engineering.
Kevin WinterMadness he also has a Tesla car
In his record album Elephant it also includes a picture of Nikola Tesla's lightbulb
Not to mention, in the Jim Jarmusch film Coffe and Cigarettes, where he plays his own role along with Meg, he actually built a Tesla coil : )
Missed opportunity to be sponsored by adidas
Honestly still could at some point
Who knows? We might get an ad for addias shoes or clothing that plays at the beginning of the video.
I noticed he wears often wears adidas tubulars recently, now i get it lol. what a beautifully obsessed genius.
A 3 das
3 is a deep rabbit hole with Jack White. When I saw him on the boarding house reach tour. I took the time to count all the things in 3s. Off the top of my head besides the mic stand he had a guitar stand with 3 guitars on the left and right of him. The stage riser had 3 stairs. The keyboard player had 3 keyboards. There were more but that's just what I remember off the top of my head.
his new guitar had 3 pickups :)
all the guitars had three pickups except the acoustic and the seven nation army guitar
There were three big screens in the back for visual effects (at least in the Madrid show I was)
pretty cool
Yeah, 3 Nation Army was a major hit......his most popular hit.
Er, that's Seven Nation Army.....
@@54Tangerine woooosh
The biggest *woooosh* that's ever woosh'ed on this channel
It's the hittiest of all his hits.
I just realized Seven Nation Army is made up of 7 notes.
Jack White also had 3 bands. The Stripes, Raconteurs and Dead Weather.
Actually even rn you could argue for his solo career, raconteurs and the dead weather
7:15
Nah. He was in the upholsterers and goober and the peas too.
The go, jack white and the bricks, 400 pounds of punk, the fuck ups
He split his solo band into two too. The women The Peacocks and the men, I don't remember their title.
jack white is so legendary i love that man. not only is his music incredibly interesting, but the way his mind works is so intriguing.
i totally agree
🎶 Threeeeee is a magic number... 🎶
But One is the loneliest number.
Yes, it is, its a magic number
Blind Melon!💜
Dewey Finn?
Damn fine multiplication rock..That was my Sat morning jamz 70s
Shouldn't this video be uploaded on March 3rd? I mean, its only 3 days away.
Such a missed opportunity
Yeah it would’ve been posted on the third day in the third month
Indeed. Who can forget his great hit ‘Three Nation Army’?
Its seven nation army, get it right! (Not serious)
@@shellshock5350 lol
@Razzle Dazzle #notatall
My god, that first White Stripes album sounds so so good. Huge drums and guitar, on a good system you feel like you’re there. I wish more albums took a lighter approach to production.
If only Jack White was Gabe Newell 😢
LOL!!!
can anybody please enlighten me?
CheesecakeLasagna Gabe Newell hasn’t released Half-Life 3. If Jack White was Gabe Newell, he would have released Half-Life 3. 3, 3, 3!
But but but if Jack White was Gabe Newell, what would we do with Gabe Newell?
Wreckof theHesperas He would be a rockstar
A video on The Clash would be great!
thats a top 3 video idea id love to see. id love it if he talked what happened after they got successful with combat rock and how Joe felt about it cause so much happened after that with topper and mick being kicked out and then the whole this is England fiasco etc..
I’d like to see this too. I’ve heard of them and about them but I’d love to see a synopsis of that band because I know how influential they were.
The Clash is my favourite band, hope he makes it someday
That’s a great idea
I’d love to see that
I too have been obsessed ever since Schoolhouse Rock informed me that, 3 is a Magic Number. 333 is my signature for everything. Love Jack and the number 3. It's a beautiful combination. 👍👍👍
Great overview, Polyphonic - but, you missed on additional "3" influence on JW: Nikola Tesla.
JW uses the Tesla tower as part of the Third Man image. In a PBS documentary I watched, it talked about how Tesla was obsessed with the number "3" - to the point where when he would stay in a hotel he would only stay in rooms where they number was divisible by "3".
Great work - keep going - I enjoy your videos. Best to you!
That's something Valve can learn from
Nathan Rodriguez I made a similar joke just the other day when Valve came up in conversation lol
Half Life Alyx is a start...
LP Records spin at 33 and A THIRD per minute
COINCIDENCE?!?!
Jack held his first guitar at age 3.
#notsure
*talks about holy trinity*
"after these *revelations* "
Even Schoolhouse Rock had the "Three is a magic number" thing figured out.
Something else to note about "The Big 3 Killed My Baby" is that it refers to the Big 3 automakers in Detroit that ruined the city when the factories shut down. Jack was paying homage to his hometown while also keeping it 3.
not necessarily about the factories that shut down but their lack of creativity and reliability. In the song he refers to Tucker which was a car maker ahead of his time and finally discloses that by 'baby' he doesn't mean girlfriend, he means his common sense.
And my baby's my common sense
so dont feed me planned obsolescence
yeah my baby's my common sense
Maybe we're both right en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Three_Killed_My_Baby
Love the videos! It'd be cool to see a Dire Straits one sometime.
Cole Ryan Brewer Wholeheartedly agree!
STRAIGHTS STRAIGHTS STRAIGHTS
Yes! Mark Knopfler is easily one of the greatest guitarists and song writers of his time. Not only is his work with Dire Straits incredible so is his solo career that’s still going to this day. Plus he’s been knighted for his contributions to music. Would love to see a video specifically about him actually but Dire Straits works as well
That would be so cool
Yeeeeessss
I know I asked you to do a video bout the band called Death but could you please do a video on Talk Talk and Mark Hollis? He was a talent that not alot of people know of and appreciate, and Talk Talk were a criminally underrated band.
im still shocked by his passing to be honest.. rest your head Hollis..
I second this, do a Talk Talk special :) (Edit* and unrelated, do one about how Bob Marley made a "local" music style, a worldwide loved music.)
@@j0hnn13K honestly that would be a great idea! id love to learn more about Bob marley. I always end up listening to artist who were inspired by his musical style from the clash to the police.
@@SunFlower-jo2vn yeah, i'd love to see a special on him, his work, and influence as well :)
Yes!! I freakin love Jack White & everything he does. I really like his little quirks too, very unique individual.
The vinyl version of Lazaretto also plays in 3 speeds. It has tracks in 33, 45, and 78 rpm.
The editing and motion graphics in this video is superb! Great work!!
This channel could make videos about Jack White every week and have interesting content forever. This man is unlike anyone else
You have a real nice aesthetic going on in this one man! Great editing.
Power chords are not groups of 3 notes though - that would be a triad.
iTs NoT a ChOrD iTs An InTeRvAl
technically, isn't it three notes being played tho? just one of them being an octave of another note
@@airshipprodigy5668 Not necessarily. If you listen carefully to that section you'll hear that he's also playing the thirds, so not only power chords. The video is trying to push the idea of 3s a bit too much lol..
A power chord is root, 5th, and octave. Thats three different notes buddy
@@davidstoneback6159 A power chord can also be just the root and fifth...
Make more on Jack (thank you)
XaveSaves YES!
I mean there has to be a third video on Jack.
Would love to see a video on Nick Cave!
Little Bird, I Can’t Wait, and Black Math are some of my favorites. Jack White is truly one of the greatest rock stars of our time.
"Let's take a closer look"
Favourite tagline
woah!!! I commented on your first Jack White video about his obsession with the Number 3 and you said you'd make a video on it someday. For some reason I NEVER SAW IT UNTIL NOW!
My ex-boyfriend built a lot of the custom doors that Jack White has in his Third Man Records shop in Nashville and even the DOORS have a tiny relevance to the number 3, at his request.
At the rate/level of quality that Polyphonic's uploading, it's easy to think you're trying to rack up the funds for a vacation.
I get it. I hear Kokomo is lovely this time of the year.
What about his obsession with the word Little?
One is the minimum amount of legs needed to make a stable table. Actually you don't even need a leg. A box could be a table and thus you wouldn't need any feet. If you consider a table only a table when it's a platform capable of holding items without it being a box or cylinder than it has to have legs. The size of the feet determines the stability of the table. If you consider a table only a table when it has a platform capable of holding things and having (a) leg(s) but lacking a foot or feet, then 3 is the minimum amount of legs needed to create a stable table.
So I partly agree.
My god, Jack is living in threes.
Illiminati Confirmed
avoid the number 3 at all costs!
@@atlantisfoundry no
1:33 Actually, you could make a table with 1 leg if you balanced it properly
Or one very wide leg
Or 2.
OR 10, OR OR 41, NO NO NO ONE-THOUSAND THATS IT ONE-THOUSAND LEGGED FUCKING TABLE.
No making a leg wider would be cheating, if you were to take a round table with a radius of 4 feet, and then make the legs out of an incredible strong material and as thin as possible with the material still existing it would take a minimum of three legs to correctly balance it
Let's not forget Fredrik Thordendal of Meshuggah and his strange obsession with the number 33. I suspect it's the number of years it will take for him to construct his new spaceship, the Sol Niger Within II after the first one failed to bring him back to his home planet/dimension.
Please do a video on Jefferson Airplane, one of the pioneers of psychedelic rock!
Make more Bob Dylan videos xD
Isn’t Third Man Records named after Third Man Upholstery?
The compression on Stop Breaking Down was pretty poor. But overall, this is yet another fantastic video!
Love your videos. I'd love it if you made a Brian Eno video, or one on some of the psychedelic Miles Davis eras
Three natural Hair colors. Blond, Brunette and Redhead.
33 and a Third is the size of LPs and they spin at 33RPMs
Ball and biscuit is the best thing Jack White ever did
Visually speaking this is probably the prettiest video i've seen
Knocked another one out of the park! I’m continually blown aware by the content and visuals of your videos! I get excited every time I see the notice that an episode has dropped. Keep up the great work!
Speaking of primary colors, White Stripes projects prominently featured the color red, Jack White solo projects feature the color blue, and his label Third Man Records feature the color yellow.
3 is Alchemy : Mercury, Sulfur, Salt !
(So does the colors Red, Black, White and Yellow).
the number three is the key to every T Bone Burnett song . its hidden in plain sight .
Don't forget the way his drums where set up for the dead weather
On SNL the other night (S46:E2), Jack performed a combination of 3 different works (Ball and Biscuit, Don’t Hurt Your Self, Jesus is Coming) and was also only given 3 days notice that he was needed for the show.
“If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe.” -Nikola Tesla
At 3:33 there are two pictures of third man records. Each has three little figures in the middle. That makes six, six divided by two (how many posters are shown). Comes back to.....3. WOW MIND BLOWN
Don't hurt yourself featuring Jack on Beyoncé's lemonade is the third song on the album.
You touched on it in the end of the video but I feel it’s important to note that Jack has three main projects, The Dead Weather, the Racontuers and the White Stripes (now substituted by his solo work)
5:06 Their first album cover is three vertical film strips. III
Hey love the vid could you do a video on the Allman Brothers Band or derek and the dominoes
You should do either the wall or quadrophenia
What to say about those albums that is not said before in a thousand other reviews???
Augusto Raugust nobody else gets the same views he does and has the same level of quality
Oooooh, hey! I recommended this video to you like a year ago. That's so awesome that you actually made it. :D
Gee I was born on the 3rd day of the 3rd month at 3:33 . Jack white and I are made for each other!
melody rhythm and harmony °□°
This was actually one of my favorite things about the white stripes and Jack in general. This video still did a great job showing me examples I didn't notice. Great work!
That should tell you something that Polyphonic can make two vids about Jack White. You are really talented. Keep up the good work
Btw his drum in the dead weather had three snares, three toms and three cymbals (ride, crash and hi hat) and the bass drum had a picture of dracula's three brides (at some point). And third man records has an yellow triangle shaped car.
I love Jack White and I love the videos that have been done on Jack White and The White Stripes. Awesome video.
2 videos on one day? Am I dreaming?
3 really is a magic number. I remember discovering it myself. Very similarly to Jack. An epiphany.
Only you man, only you make quality music related trivia content that I didn't even know I wanted to learn about.
Polyphonic beats out every other wanna-be music insight channel.
The White Stripes = 3 words = 3 = Illuminati confirmed!
I'm a simple man. I see Jack White, I click like!
this man needs to help Valve
He’s gonna be the man to make Half Life 3
2:38 in the music video for "Over and Over and Over" is my favourite "Jack White #3" easter egg.
Good video, missed opportunity by not mentioning Tesla, who also had the same obsession with three. You even showed the tesla tower that Jack White III repeatedly uses. Always enjoy
School House Rock told me THREE IS A MAGIC NUMBER as well.
I'm obsessed with even numbers
Was waiting for Jack White video for so long, thanks! 🖤
I love these videos on jack white.
Detroit, where White was raised, and also home to one of the locations of Third Man Records, is home to the Big Three auto manufacturers - Ford, GM, and Chrysler.
Any time now we're getting a rap record in triplets from him.
Can't forget his single Over and over and over
Jack White also has a love affair with vinyl… That spins at 33 1/3 rpm
Jack White was once 3 years old and then when he hit his thirties he actually was 33 for an entire year.
They were a duo, he plays six strings guitars with 2 fingers, uses more than three pedals, uses two twin reverb amps.
Jack White AND most all literature, scripture, poetry, comedy... 3's a charm
Released this 3 years ago.....well played
I’m still waiting on a whole ass video just for my boys Black Sabbath.
Most of the guitars he was playing on the boarding house reach tour had 3 pickups too.
I love minimalism and lots of it!
Could you do something on Nathaniel Rateliff? Maybe a look at one of his early solo albums? Anyways, great work as always
He’s looking to make 23 albums revolving around the number 3 so that he can call the last one “Nice”
Clever
Dude, your video editing is on point!
A "three" that I noticed at one of his concerts, his visuals were projected on to three big screens
A clever fellow and clearly a Master Mason (3rd Degree -- or 33rd???), I'm quite happy to benefit so directly from Mr. White's exploration of Masonic symbolism via the contemporary arts. [ III ] To these ears, his work with The Raconteurs remains a singular musical alchemy. Always saw The White Stripes as a lucrative proof of concept experiment. Three thumbs up...
Three Dollar Bill, Y'all is Jack White's favorite Limp Bizkit album.
Oh right, Arin Hanson was awesome on White Stripes