Who says you have to have a new album to go on tour? Not Jack White. He and his boys know they can bring the sold-out body heat to the Tabernacle mid-November, even after a bummer of a Falcons game. They busted on stage with probably my personal favorite "Consoler of the Lonely" and didn't let up for a second. The modestly dressed crew, containing a skinnier Brendan Benson with longer, curled locks; a less stoic than usual Jack Lawrence; and a heat wave emitting Patrick Keeler on drums know how to bring it upside your head without a lot of flash and theatrics. Its all about the RAWK with them, people. They can do a brass-less "Switch and the Spur" and a banjo-less "Top Yourself" and still kick you in the teeth. But at the same time, they also know they can't do "Old Enough" without a bad-ass fiddler violently sawing the strings and stabbing the air with his bow. "Blue Veins" ended the main set with JW attacking his guitar with hurricane veracity and evoked an instinctual mid-solo applause from a crowd so unified with his energy that I believe we all forgot where we were, but it didn't matter. We didn't need or want to be anywhere else. There wasn't anywhere else. The rest of the world disappeared and I, for one, have never been more elated to be lost in the cosmos with a building full of fans. That's the effect a band should strive for every show. Leave a pint of blood on that stage or don't even bother. Being in charming company instead of going it alone, like I had originally planned, probably didn't hurt either. At the end of the song, he tried to give away his guitar to a lucky fan in the front row but a roadie wrestled it away from the many hands holding on to the axe (check video link below). Had it been me, wild horses couldn't have dragged it out of my death grip. The encore consisted of "Salute Your Solution," the hooky first single by the boys "Steady, As She Goes," and the powerfully melancholy "Carolina Drama" respectively. Bring on the next album and tour, fellas. I'm already ready.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W89IVbBwmi4&feature=feedu
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