And because his rider banned bananas backstage. That and the fact that he beat up that guy from The Von Bondies. But we think he gets a bad rap for making it fashionable to put bass players out of work. Why he gets a bad rap: His style is certainly influential (White ignited the whole Black Keys feud by suggesting they ripped him off, a kind of reverse interpretation of 'Ebony and Ivory'). It is nothing short of a MacGyver episode. In it, White, alongside a cow, is able to construct a guitar out of a piece of wood and a nail.

(Sit down, Patrick Carney, don't make Jack White want to fight you again!) His guitar god status profile catapulted even higher with his appearance in the documentary It Might Get Loud. Why he's a guitar god: The man behind The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, and Dead Weather makes a lot of overrated guitarist lists for one simple reason: He is the most visibly famous mainstream guitarist on this side of the century divide. So let's examine the reasons why these guitarists are consistently named among the most overrated and whether there are underlying non-musical reasons for earning such a label. We thought so, too - and then realized that not only are these guitarists the most overrated, they also run the risk of being the 10 most maligned overrated guitarists. And out of those 12 string stranglers, you always can find a reason why the deified aren't all that and a bag of picks. After all, there are only a dozen or so guitar gods we can name off the top of our head. The same adoration can be said for people who’ve obsessed over everything he’s ever done that unforgettable riff still sounds outrageous no matter how many times you’ve listened to it.You would think ferreting out the 10 guitarists who have been lauded far beyond their abilities would be an easy task. Maybe it should have won for Best Paranoid Blues Song.”Įven if you’ve never heard of Jack White, you know this song and love it. The third verse could be something from a hundred years ago. To me, the song was a blues at the beginning of the twenty-first century. But I never set out to write an expose on myself. “In the end, it started to become a metaphor for things I was going through.

It came from a frustration of watching my friends do this to each other. “It was about gossip, the spreading of lies and the other person’s reaction to it. “‘Seven Nation Army’ started out about two specific people I knew in Detroit,” White told Rolling Stone. Seeing the track go from his brain to belonging to the masses is of great pride to White, who once said: “Nothing is more beautiful in music than when people embrace a melody and allow it to enter the pantheon of folk music.” While from a technical standpoint, ‘Seven Nation Army’ might not be White’s finest hour, only a true master of a craft could forge a riff that is ingrained so deeply within the universal popular culture.

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