@@thecourierNCR really? Lmfao!! Ha he be ha ha okey dokey there Hero. Ride that chute right into the trees. Presidential medal of freedom too!! Be ha Less than minus low below under Move out n draw fire It's your turn
He's a once-in-a-generation type of character/talent/voice. I'm thankful I'm here to experience it. He will make it to future generations, unlike many of his peers. He's legit.
I had a dream once that I met the White Stripes. Somehow it was before White Stripes became famous, I opened the door in an old motel and it was Jack and Meg White having band practice. I was shocked and told them "you don't understand, you're going to become incredibly famous!" (like a superfan) and they just kind of smiled and nodded. When I woke up I realized it was the Little Room!
"all it matter was the attitude of the song" that shit spoke to me,man. being a song writer and singer,you know,with no actual band,no fancy equipment. I used to get really frustrated thinking that my songs were too "empty" just because I didn't have other instruments playing along with me. I'm so glad I found this.
I never knew this of Jack. I've heard him singing this in a live version of Death Letter, and it is my favorite life-song of his. But it has an even deeper meaning for me knowing this... I'm going to check out some Son House now!
Just happened to me. I watched the live show of Death Letter. Led me to Son House. OMG Son House is beyond amazing. His voice, the way he plays guitar with his whole body, I mean he wasn't young on the 2nd pass thru but when he started to play he moved and played like a young man.
Hearing Jack White's opinion about this one song tells me why I like Jack White so much. Years from now he will be remembered as a special moment in American music.
"I didn't know you could do that, just singing and clapping" This is so interesting and makes so much sense given The White Stripes's bare-bones and minimalist approach to songwriting
i love they way he says "thats my favorite song". You can hear the honesty in his voice.... and you really get a sense of how much the record changed the way he sees, listens to, and plays music. I mean i know he plainly says it. But its almost like you can hear how much his soul burns for this kind of music. how much music means to him.
I agree. Music is not just about rules, difficulty, & 'how much'. It's also about what it brings out in people. The emotions that boil to the surface & scald you to the point you have to tap a foot, nod your head, or wiggle your body. I'm a fan of White because he's stripped rock back down to it's bare minimum, without the glossy laser light shows, the usual lineup of a supporting cast, the 'voice-lessoned to death' singing.
proof that this music ,American blues ,will never die .I'm 61 yrs. old and to see a relatively new music star (sorry, Jack) in love w/ the music of Son House is like fresh air in the spring .I wonder if ol' Son House ever imagined that record being played in 80 years or so.
Jack is a music educator to the generation. Like Clapton was before him. I think the two of them deserve tremendous credit for keeping young people connected to the American blues tradition. Jack has also brought a lot of people to rockabilly as well. As a blues rock fan for many many years - I just listened to the original Gene Vincent recording of Baby Blue for the first time yesterday - thanks to Jack and - oh yea - thanks to that little old thing called youtube.
Nice old National. Look up the video of Son House playing that guitar on "Death Letter". His hands must have been made of leather, the way he plays that thing. I tried doing it once, been playing guitar for 21 years, and I cut my fingers to fucking ribbons. Son was a badass, in the literal sense (convicted murderer).
The way he feels about music and art, is the reason I love Jack. He just gets it. If it weren't for his music, I'd never have known where to look within myself for the things I create. The first time I heard him, I knew I would never forget what I was hearing, because it lit up this place within me that I hadn't known was there, and I started to know who I was and what I was going to do with the life I had. Thanks Jack White, for being my biggest inspiration.
thank you!!!!!!! I just watched it and I fell in love with it just like how Jack White fell in love with it the first time he heard it. I didn't know the song title but I knew the band name so thank you!!
this guy is seriously a fucking REAL MUSICIAN! Now-a-days you don't see that many artists that listen or collaborate to a variety of different genres of music. I personally think that that is what makes true artist, other than the fact that he writes and sings his own music of course
Right there with you. Zeppelin introduced me to Willie Dixon and his Chess Box set introduced me to a whole lot of other artists. Jack introduced me to Son House 30 years later.
I'm totally with Jack here. As a teen, I used to play the hell out of this song whenever I was depressed. Son House felt blues with every cell in his body; purest of the pure.
"By the time I was 18 somebody played me Son House" sorry, but I don't believe him. Jack is an excellent slide guitarist and l believe that he loves the old bluesmen, I do too, but I'm pretty sure he discovered them the way the rest of our generation did, he grew up idolizing groups like Cream and Led Zeppelin and then when they cited their influences as Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, Son House etc. he ran out and researched the hell out of Delta Blues music and found that he loved that type of music as well. Nothing wrong with that, I loved it too after I started listening to it, but claiming to have discovered it all on his own is just him trying to seem like he's so off the beaten path "in" on something the rest of us aren't.
This man is pretty much *the* epitome of the "hipster" movement. "The attitude" of a song, good God that's so corny. I imagine he is a nice guy, but the effort he puts into portraying this image - that he seems to believe himself - is a bit ridiculous. He's still a young artist though, so I guess that comes with it for some. That said, I started moving away from my pop influences around 18-21, so that isn't completely unreasonable that he found this music around then.
I grew up in NW Detroit about a block from Son House's grave....Son House is a thing in Detroit....seeing the grave and the folks visiting it had me into the Delta blues at a young age, a lot of my buddies too....Jack White is just a Detroit rhythm and blues, funk guy like me...you can't escape the blues in Detroit
He never says he discovered it on his own. He said someone showed it to him. This was before Wikipedia and other things were readily available on the internet that make it incredibly easy find whatever you want, so just listening to Zeppelin and others might lead you to Howlin Wolf, Robert Johnson, and Lead Belly, but Son House is less likely to come up. Also, the attitude/feel of the song is definitely a thing. That's pretty much all this song is, lacking any polish or arrangement, which is why it provoked such a reaction in him. That it could make him feel something strong without all the things he had come to expect in a song.
No. He has respect for the blues. A deep respect. He loves the simplicity and emotion the blues has in abundance and it resonates with him. He loves vinyl and has his own production company called Third Man Records, they re-release albums on vinyl.
Jack White is one of the most humble musicians of this era and probably ever, actually. He deals with guys like you all the time and doesn't care. He is true to what he feels art should be. Go ahead and grin in his face - He won't mind.
How would you know that? Do you know more than Jack knows about his own tastes and brain? And why wouldn't this be his favorite song? It is a lovely song, he has covered this and more over the years. It fits his music well. You're seem to be some weird idiotic troll, I just hope that isn't the case though...
Because he represents the absolute best of the new age of rock from 1995-now. Jimmy represented the late 60s and 70s, and the edge represented the 80s and early 90s. Besides, Jack is a phenomenal guitarist and musician.
This guy was prob at the radio city show, also prob wears humongous black rimmed glasses instead of the contacts that he wore for the first 20 years of his life.
Leonard Sullivan Since when was blues rock popular in the 70s or 80s? Blues rock was really only popular from 1965-1970. Music repeats itself over time. You see revivals of old genres. Blues rock was an unpopular subgenre from the mid 70s to the mid-late 90s
the edge does not represent rock in any way u2 is the most safe boring music ever, they should have called slash if they wanted an 80s rock guitar player but since they wanted the player diversity they included a guy that doesnt really play and tries to make a guitar sound like a synth on drugs , even following that approach tom morello or robert fripp would have been a way better choice
the first time i heared son house i went from liking the blues to loving it. used to be a hardcore punk rocker now im much more into blues, jazz and expiramental. Really helpeed me open my musical mind.
i LOVE jack white and i LOVE son house and i LOVE it might get loud. jack white is genious in every way shape or form and i think is one of the few musicians left alive that knows what he's talking about and plays for the love of music and not money and publicity
Jack White has an appreciation for the roots of the blues and rocknroll that very few other young artists have... Hats off toya Jack..... You have set the bar very high for yourself and your sis...... I expect great music with mounds of integrity from you for a loooooooooong time....hehe
........ Out of time tapping? Bad quality recording? More blues and feel and emotion went into this simple yet amazing song than the past 10 years top 40 charts combined. What a song. :D and what a guy jack white is!
I'm glad he's my idol, I'm proud to say that he's the reason I dream of becoming a famous musician, I'm glad that Jack White is my biggest inspiration. Jack, though you're never going to read this, I hope that one day I can stand on a stage in front of thousands and say to myself "Dude, that first time I heard Blue Orchid, that first time I heard Blue Veins, that first time I heard Icky Thump, that's the music, THAT'S THE GUY that inspired me and brought me here."
Never listened to any Jack Black music, solo or band(s) until I watched this documentary. Seeing his true love of music, his unique style and capabilities, and the respect of his peers, opened my eyes to some new music....& I am primarily a metal-head!
Jack White not only plays guitar amazingly, he also is exceptional on piano and drums, writes well and is a true artist, by any standard of the word. He hasn't been in my face enough so I wouldn't say he was in my face.at all really. And flash in the pan? What do you imagine he is trying to do or express and failing at so miserably? How would you go about whatever it is? Sure he puts everything he's got into what and wherever he's at.. But that's a rare quality in us humans, and so I admire him.
I have much respect for what Jack White has done to help Blues music. Having said that, I am very surprised that Son House's "Grinnin' in Your Face" is his favorite song. I first started noticing Blues music about 1954 & have heard an enormous amount of Blues music over the decades from the early Bluesmen to today & I can't agree that it's a special song. Son House made lots of great music though. Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson of Canned Heat did much to bring House back to public awareness
It's good that some people actually understand true artistry ....they're usually the ones who rise to the top and give the rest of us something to enjoy.
great song, great guitar player and i love that he brought blues back but please lighten up jack! you dont have to sit listening to it like your at a funeral service or your deep in prayer smile, life is good music is good, your favorite song should make you happy
Give thumbs if you learned something from this video. These words maybe changed everything I thought about the music. There are a lot of rediculous copycats in this world, but when the right man walk up to the stage, and this man knows exactly what hes doin' it doesn't matter how the rythm goes or can he sing powerfully or exactly in the note. Music gives part of you to someone else and many people can't do that well. Thats what I call soul, and only that matters.
Son House's delivery here is standard operating musical procedure for African-American blues and gospel singers. Jack re-creates well the procedure. WHITE STRIPES first album is infused with the procedure. That album is a virile blues album. Jack deserves all the accolades he's accumulated. His fans are lucky.
The Son House song was absolutely beautiful in the same vein that Jack White's guitar playing is today. It's crude, it's rude, and it's totally awesome.
This man understands music . . . . you can hear it in his art . . . in every one of his songs . . . the ghosts of the great artists before him permeate his creation . . . Of course Jack White digs Son House . . . Jack White is a true musician . . . a true artist . . . and a true genius.
Jack White is a committed and dedicated musician who has forged his identity through effort and passion in equal measure. To suggest that witchcraft is responsible for his abilities is an insult to him as an artist and a professional. Of course we won't see another Jack White (He is an individual human being) but there will always be musicians with the drive, passion and competence that he displays as long as there are people willing to offer support to these men/women.
"Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel." - Jimi Hendrix
I love that statement... it's so true. Glad you shared that
You can really see where Jack got his inspiration from. You can hear it in his singing. Love it.
Preach on...
riceball23 If you listen to Robert Jhonson and then listen to their first self titled album you can see the inspiration
took the words from my mouth
Blind Willie McTell also sounds eerily similar to Jack
I love how Jack just listens and feels it. He just shares it with us in silence, as to say do you feel it as I feel it?
I'm so thankful Jack White exists.
Me too !!!!!!!!!!!!
He's keeping Rock alive. Along with Dave Grohl
in america yeah, we need to respect matt bellamy for the UK
@@thecourierNCR really? Lmfao!!
Ha he be ha ha okey dokey there Hero.
Ride that chute right into the trees.
Presidential medal of freedom too!!
Be ha
Less than minus low below under
Move out n draw fire
It's your turn
F tards
He's a once-in-a-generation type of character/talent/voice. I'm thankful I'm here to experience it. He will make it to future generations, unlike many of his peers. He's legit.
Jack whites song "Little Room" is maybe one of the shortest, yet one of my favorite songs
I had a dream once that I met the White Stripes. Somehow it was before White Stripes became famous, I opened the door in an old motel and it was Jack and Meg White having band practice. I was shocked and told them "you don't understand, you're going to become incredibly famous!" (like a superfan) and they just kind of smiled and nodded. When I woke up I realized it was the Little Room!
I discovered Son House when I was 15. That was my gateway into classic rock, hard rock, metal, metalcore, hardcore, etc. I absolutely love Son House.
"all it matter was the attitude of the song"
that shit spoke to me,man. being a song writer and singer,you know,with no actual band,no fancy equipment. I used to get really frustrated thinking that my songs were too "empty" just because I didn't have other instruments playing along with me.
I'm so glad I found this.
I never knew this of Jack. I've heard him singing this in a live version of Death Letter, and it is my favorite life-song of his. But it has an even deeper meaning for me knowing this...
I'm going to check out some Son House now!
HolandaChiquita that’s what it’s all about!
Just happened to me. I watched the live show of Death Letter. Led me to Son House. OMG Son House is beyond amazing. His voice, the way he plays guitar with his whole body, I mean he wasn't young on the 2nd pass thru but when he started to play he moved and played like a young man.
Is it the nova scotia version? If it's not, check that live version of death letter out, it is my favorite live performance of anything all time!
Yup, rock n roll is all about attitude. if you can't feel it you can't play it.
1971SuperLead RICK AND MORTY!!!!!!!! Fuck yeah
+1971SuperLead read that in morty's voice
1971SuperLead Thank you! Good to see people who understand that.
Hearing Jack White's opinion about this one song tells me why I like Jack White so much. Years from now he will be remembered as a special moment in American music.
"I didn't know you could do that, just singing and clapping"
This is so interesting and makes so much sense given The White Stripes's bare-bones and minimalist approach to songwriting
All the excentricities aside, Mr. Jack White is a blues man...
You obviously haven’t seen some of the legendary Blues men.
Jack White is severely underrated. It's nice to see a modern guitarist with such an appreciation for some of the greatest music ever recorded.
i love they way he says "thats my favorite song". You can hear the honesty in his voice.... and you really get a sense of how much the record changed the way he sees, listens to, and plays music. I mean i know he plainly says it. But its almost like you can hear how much his soul burns for this kind of music. how much music means to him.
I remember when a close family friend showed me this documentary. Can't thank him enough for it, really. Impacted me so much...
me too bro :)
I agree. Music is not just about rules, difficulty, & 'how much'. It's also about what it brings out in people. The emotions that boil to the surface & scald you to the point you have to tap a foot, nod your head, or wiggle your body. I'm a fan of White because he's stripped rock back down to it's bare minimum, without the glossy laser light shows, the usual lineup of a supporting cast, the 'voice-lessoned to death' singing.
ugh .. this man has my heart and soul.
astroboirap haha! nope.
mae mumbles
Same XX
The movie was amazing and it made me love Jack White even more.
Grinnin' in your face is an amazing song. It's just Indescribable, it's a feeling, it's a truth being told with great, genuine and pure emotion.
He's brilliant, and so unique, authentic, everything he does is art.
His inspirations are felt in his music. He is so real. I love the blues element he takes in and so much more. I love you Jack White
It doesn't matter that the timing was off, or he didn't sing perfect pitch, its about the soul, "It's about one man against the world"
You honor those old timers Jack. You better know it!
I am so happy that our generation got a true bluesman to listen to.
This is where he gets his fucking shaky vibrato, it makes sense now.
how long did it take you to realize that? Real question. Did you not know that he sings plays the blues.
Wow. Just bought this album today. And just saw this clip. Meant to be
Son House was an absolute legend. You can hear his influence in lots of bands and artists.
love, love, love him. I feel the blues and folk running thru his veins
Death letter is my favourite song.
I didn't know he was playing a part from this one in his performances.
I love this guy.
Jack's voice sounds like that of an old friend I've had for a long time
I love Jack White so much He's so inspirational
Son House Grinnin in your face
Love Son House,Robert Johnson all the true greats. "Grinnin' in Your Face" is one of my faves for the same reason Jack loves it.
For me it's Stevie Ray Vaughn and Merle haggard those are my biggest idols
+gcsgt2104 Dude that is unnecessary. Stevie and Merle were awesome.
Vaughan...
After watching It Might Get Loud, I have LOTS of respect for Jack White! His love of blues is awesome!
Am I the only one that adores his chubby cheeks
So love Jack Whites voice and band, Awesome he is, can't wait to catch a show here in Arkansas again. Awesome soul he is ♡
Son House reminds me of Leadbelly, I really like that era of music
I loved this scene when I saw it. As a fellow Son House fan, I salute you, Jack!
sounds like freedom ;)
proof that this music ,American blues ,will never die .I'm 61 yrs. old and to see a relatively new music star (sorry, Jack) in love w/ the music of Son House is like fresh air in the spring .I wonder if ol' Son House ever imagined that record being played in 80 years or so.
Stevie Nicks needs to hear this. Breaking up Fleetwood Mac because he grinned when she won a grammy or some shit.
Wait what 😂 I don’t know that story
@@jonathanstache1634 Yeah. She was making some speech at a benefit concert and he smirked or something stupid like that.
Jack is a music educator to the generation. Like Clapton was before him. I think the two of them deserve tremendous credit for keeping young people connected to the American blues tradition. Jack has also brought a lot of people to rockabilly as well. As a blues rock fan for many many years - I just listened to the original Gene Vincent recording of Baby Blue for the first time yesterday - thanks to Jack and - oh yea - thanks to that little old thing called youtube.
jack remind me of edward scissorhands. :D
This video was responsible for my love of old blues music! Thanks Jack White and thanks to the uploader!
Peep that guitar on the album cover
Nice old National. Look up the video of Son House playing that guitar on "Death Letter". His hands must have been made of leather, the way he plays that thing. I tried doing it once, been playing guitar for 21 years, and I cut my fingers to fucking ribbons. Son was a badass, in the literal sense (convicted murderer).
The way he feels about music and art, is the reason I love Jack. He just gets it. If it weren't for his music, I'd never have known where to look within myself for the things I create. The first time I heard him, I knew I would never forget what I was hearing, because it lit up this place within me that I hadn't known was there, and I started to know who I was and what I was going to do with the life I had. Thanks Jack White, for being my biggest inspiration.
The song is called 'Grinnin In Your Face'
thank you!!!!!!! I just watched it and I fell in love with it just like how Jack White fell in love with it the first time he heard it. I didn't know the song title but I knew the band name so thank you!!
Truth
Son House had some great stuff and some fucking monster hands
Jason Divine grinning in your face
this guy is seriously a fucking REAL MUSICIAN! Now-a-days you don't see that many artists that listen or collaborate to a variety of different genres of music. I personally think that that is what makes true artist, other than the fact that he writes and sings his own music of course
Like Zep turning me to the great Blues artists, Jack did the same with turning me to Son House. The Spirituals
Right there with you. Zeppelin introduced me to Willie Dixon and his Chess Box set introduced me to a whole lot of other artists. Jack introduced me to Son House 30 years later.
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I'm totally with Jack here. As a teen, I used to play the hell out of this song whenever I was depressed. Son House felt blues with every cell in his body; purest of the pure.
"By the time I was 18 somebody played me Son House" sorry, but I don't believe him. Jack is an excellent slide guitarist and l believe that he loves the old bluesmen, I do too, but I'm pretty sure he discovered them the way the rest of our generation did, he grew up idolizing groups like Cream and Led Zeppelin and then when they cited their influences as Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, Son House etc. he ran out and researched the hell out of Delta Blues music and found that he loved that type of music as well. Nothing wrong with that, I loved it too after I started listening to it, but claiming to have discovered it all on his own is just him trying to seem like he's so off the beaten path "in" on something the rest of us aren't.
This man is pretty much *the* epitome of the "hipster" movement. "The attitude" of a song, good God that's so corny. I imagine he is a nice guy, but the effort he puts into portraying this image - that he seems to believe himself - is a bit ridiculous. He's still a young artist though, so I guess that comes with it for some. That said, I started moving away from my pop influences around 18-21, so that isn't completely unreasonable that he found this music around then.
I grew up in NW Detroit about a block from Son House's grave....Son House is a thing in Detroit....seeing the grave and the folks visiting it had me into the Delta blues at a young age, a lot of my buddies too....Jack White is just a Detroit rhythm and blues, funk guy like me...you can't escape the blues in Detroit
He never says he discovered it on his own. He said someone showed it to him. This was before Wikipedia and other things were readily available on the internet that make it incredibly easy find whatever you want, so just listening to Zeppelin and others might lead you to Howlin Wolf, Robert Johnson, and Lead Belly, but Son House is less likely to come up.
Also, the attitude/feel of the song is definitely a thing. That's pretty much all this song is, lacking any polish or arrangement, which is why it provoked such a reaction in him. That it could make him feel something strong without all the things he had come to expect in a song.
No. He has respect for the blues. A deep respect. He loves the simplicity and emotion the blues has in abundance and it resonates with him. He loves vinyl and has his own production company called Third Man Records, they re-release albums on vinyl.
Is 2chains in this movie?
after watching this movie I start to respect Jack White. I like his view on music, emotions, how he connects wit other artists music. :-)
so can jack teach me how to be cool or...?
He already has if you were listening.
BollocksUtwat id never thought of that but ur right! Thank you mate
Jack White is one of the most humble musicians of this era and probably ever, actually. He deals with guys like you all the time and doesn't care. He is true to what he feels art should be.
Go ahead and grin in his face - He won't mind.
Sorry, but that's not Jack White's favorite song; he's trying to be cool.
Wat
And you know this how?
He is a fan....He has covered a couple of Son House tracks over the years
How would you know that? Do you know more than Jack knows about his own tastes and brain?
And why wouldn't this be his favorite song? It is a lovely song, he has covered this and more over the years. It fits his music well.
You're seem to be some weird idiotic troll, I just hope that isn't the case though...
hahahaha right!!!
I totally agree with you hahaha man I litterally laughed out loud when I read your comment. so true.
You know Jack White is awesome when a video of him LISTENING to a song gets a million views
This guy.... seriously??? Why was he in this movie? All the other "greats" must have had scheduling conflicts
Because he represents the absolute best of the new age of rock from 1995-now. Jimmy represented the late 60s and 70s, and the edge represented the 80s and early 90s. Besides, Jack is a phenomenal guitarist and musician.
This guy was prob at the radio city show, also prob wears humongous black rimmed glasses instead of the contacts that he wore for the first 20 years of his life.
hahaha agreed. Totally over-rated in my opinion, his music is a simplistic re-hash of music that had been done a thousand times over from 1960-1980!
Leonard Sullivan Since when was blues rock popular in the 70s or 80s? Blues rock was really only popular from 1965-1970. Music repeats itself over time. You see revivals of old genres. Blues rock was an unpopular subgenre from the mid 70s to the mid-late 90s
the edge does not represent rock in any way u2 is the most safe boring music ever, they should have called slash if they wanted an 80s rock guitar player but since they wanted the player diversity they included a guy that doesnt really play and tries to make a guitar sound like a synth on drugs , even following that approach tom morello or robert fripp would have been a way better choice
I knew this song long before i knew jack white or saw this movie and it is truly an awesome song
He’s such a poser. He probably liked Right Said Fred in high school.
Johnny Polo haha I like jack white but you’re right. He is a bit isn’t he
Yeah, because Right Said Fred sounds exactly like something Jack White would listen to. Got any proof that he's a poser?
Marknetick Oh God.....
I'm Too Sexy hahaha
I love Jack White, but that's fucking funny!!!!
So simple but so powerful, so emotional! We know where Jack gets his roots! 👍😍
the first time i heared son house i went from liking the blues to loving it. used to be a hardcore punk rocker now im much more into blues, jazz and expiramental. Really helpeed me open my musical mind.
i LOVE jack white and i LOVE son house and i LOVE it might get loud. jack white is genious in every way shape or form and i think is one of the few musicians left alive that knows what he's talking about and plays for the love of music and not money and publicity
Jack White is the coolest guy on the planet. I swear, he's so amazing.
I hope he never loses his vision of music!
Jack White has an appreciation for the roots of the blues and rocknroll that very few other young artists have... Hats off toya Jack..... You have set the bar very high for yourself and your sis...... I expect great music with mounds of integrity from you for a loooooooooong time....hehe
Sun House..I grew up on Delta Blues..all kinds of artists..that was when I was 15..I'm 27 now!!
That is cool having those old recordings.
Fantastic documentary!! 🤘🤘
Genius!! Jack White would've held his own as a musician in any era 👏👏
........ Out of time tapping? Bad quality recording? More blues and feel and emotion went into this simple yet amazing song than the past 10 years top 40 charts combined. What a song. :D and what a guy jack white is!
AMEN Jack! This is so true...the attitude, the essence of what music and artistic expression is all about.
I'm glad he's my idol, I'm proud to say that he's the reason I dream of becoming a famous musician, I'm glad that Jack White is my biggest inspiration. Jack, though you're never going to read this, I hope that one day I can stand on a stage in front of thousands and say to myself "Dude, that first time I heard Blue Orchid, that first time I heard Blue Veins, that first time I heard Icky Thump, that's the music, THAT'S THE GUY that inspired me and brought me here."
never discovered how awesome he was till i saw this movie. gained much respect and became a big fan.
Never listened to any Jack Black music, solo or band(s) until I watched this documentary. Seeing his true love of music, his unique style and capabilities, and the respect of his peers, opened my eyes to some new music....& I am primarily a metal-head!
Jack White not only plays guitar amazingly, he also is exceptional on piano and drums, writes well and is a true artist, by any standard of the word. He hasn't been in my face enough so I wouldn't say he was in my face.at all really. And flash in the pan? What do you imagine he is trying to do or express and failing at so miserably? How would you go about whatever it is? Sure he puts everything he's got into what and wherever he's at.. But that's a rare quality in us humans, and so I admire him.
I have much respect for what Jack White has done
to help Blues music. Having said that, I am very
surprised that Son House's "Grinnin' in Your Face"
is his favorite song. I first started noticing Blues
music about 1954 & have heard an enormous
amount of Blues music over the decades from the
early Bluesmen to today & I can't agree that it's a
special song. Son House made lots of great
music though. Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson of Canned
Heat did much to bring House back to public
awareness
It's good that some people actually understand true artistry ....they're usually the ones who rise to the top and give the rest of us something to enjoy.
great song, great guitar player and i love that he brought blues back but please lighten up jack! you dont have to sit listening to it like your at a funeral service or your deep in prayer smile, life is good music is good, your favorite song should make you happy
The blues started it all. ALL. Don’t anyone go forgetting that.
Everyone has that moment with music. For me it was The Pixies. Still never got the same feeling as when I first heard them...
And this is why I love Jack White, among many other reasons.
Bought this song yesterday...heard it on the radio :D
Give thumbs if you learned something from this video. These words maybe changed everything I thought about the music. There are a lot of rediculous copycats in this world, but when the right man walk up to the stage, and this man knows exactly what hes doin' it doesn't matter how the rythm goes or can he sing powerfully or exactly in the note. Music gives part of you to someone else and many people can't do that well. Thats what I call soul, and only that matters.
Getting some shivers right about now.
Great suggestion, Jack! Thanks!
This guy is the real deal...and my favorite in "IMGL".
The Blues is at the heart of what Rock music is today.
You can really hear the bits that Jack borrows for his own music... I love this.
Son House's delivery here is standard operating musical procedure for African-American blues and gospel singers. Jack re-creates well the procedure. WHITE STRIPES first album is infused with the procedure. That album is a virile blues album. Jack deserves all the accolades he's accumulated. His fans are lucky.
he's doing his thing.I don't know his music all that well besides the songs on the radio but I'm sure we could jam and have a good time
The Son House song was absolutely beautiful in the same vein that Jack White's guitar playing is today. It's crude, it's rude, and it's totally awesome.
Jack White, Hound Dog Taylor are some of my inspirations. I'm going to create music and I'm really excited for the band to get up!
Because, THAT'S rock 'n roll and rock 'n roll is life.
This man understands music . . . . you can hear it in his art . . . in every one of his songs . . . the ghosts of the great artists before him permeate his creation . . . Of course Jack White digs Son House . . . Jack White is a true musician . . . a true artist . . . and a true genius.
Jack White is a committed and dedicated musician who has forged his identity through effort and passion in equal measure. To suggest that witchcraft is responsible for his abilities is an insult to him as an artist and a professional. Of course we won't see another Jack White (He is an individual human being) but there will always be musicians with the drive, passion and competence that he displays as long as there are people willing to offer support to these men/women.
I agree, Wenders. He's been making the most interesting music of the last 10 years.