axlskAmpf Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 (edited) Before we got to it, here's some cool background I didn't know. One night in the late 1990s, Conan O’Brien was hanging out in a Detroit bowling alley after shooting a remote segment with Ted Nugent (”I rode around in the woods with him, we had a guitar duel and then fired guns,” he recalls). “I have this vague memory of these really cool kids coming over and hanging out with us,” he says. “I knew nothing about them or what they did.”A few years later, O’Brien learned he had met Jack and Meg White that day when he popped into a Saturday Night Live rehearsal to check out the White Stripes as a fan. He reconnected with the duo and kicked off a relationship that would become one of the most fruitful in late-night TV. The White Stripes will cap a big chapter of that history tonight when they appear on the last-ever episode of Late Night With Conan O’Brien before the host relocates to Los Angeles to take over The Tonight Show.The Late Night gig will be the White Stripes’ first live performance since the duo canceled a tour in September 2007.Read the whole article hereSee it here, in chapter 5, with whole last NY show.http://www.nbc.com/Late_Night_with_Conan_O...es/#vid=1032001or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijh3sUu7kEc...lose+Things+OutGreat stuff, Jack seemed to even be getting choked up a bit. Edited February 21, 2009 by axlskAmpf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lithium Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 Man, I love The White Stripes. One of the best big bands of the 21st century. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gods Favourite Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 Nice to see them back together for this perfomance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dann Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 I'm sure I'm going to catch hell for this, but did anyone else think the White Stripes performance was one of the most horrible performances done by anyone, ever?My wifes a huge stripes fan, so I've seen them play a million times, so I know they're capable, but last night, they just ate it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lithium Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 Really? How so? I thought they altered that song pretty well, and the obvious emotional factor gave it a nice touch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dann Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 It was just unbearably sloppy. Perhaps Meg doesn't know how to play the guitar and he taught her the progression a week earlier or something. But the weren't in time with each other and it sounded like they were playing 2 entirely different songs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lithium Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 Yeah, it was sloppy, but I think that was intentional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axlskAmpf Posted February 21, 2009 Author Share Posted February 21, 2009 No I think it was really good, actually. The single echo on Megs guitar might be what throws you a bit, but she basically kept time with it. A great send off from NY for an old friend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SofaKingWhat Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 That was god awful. I'm gonna be biased as I can't stand the White Stripes but if they were a bunch of nobodies and gave a performance like that they'd be booed right off stage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpUd_Jr Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 Watched this last night.It was cool seeing Jack and Meg doing this for Conan, but they really were off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swlabr Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 it might've been better if jack played it solo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PappyTron Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 Nice dress.To be honest, they sounded crap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bt88 Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 I didnt think it was that good either. They might be one of the more overrated groups of our time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr. orangestone Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 i thought they sounded like crap too. i was looking forward to the performance. it was sooo sloppy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
there is no dana only zool Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 loved the performance. love white stripes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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