![]() ![]() The most impressive guitar parts from White’s career are well documented: the legendary riff of ‘Seven Nation Army’, the distorted screech of ‘Hello Operator’, the fantastic blues runs of ‘Screwdriver’, the sultry strut of ‘Lazaretto’ and the ear-piercing assault of ‘Sixteen Saltines’. He needed chords, fuzz, and volume to fill in the spaces, aided by his penchant for raw production that took the sound he produced at face value instead of punching it up with multiple overdubs. During his tenure with The White Stripes, the lack of additional instrumentation meant that his playing could rarely venture off into meandering solos or indulgent experimentation. ![]() ![]() Inspired mostly by the bare-bones blues of Son House and the ragged energy of hometown heroes The Stooges, White’s guitar playing is rooted in simplicity. His status as a killer songwriter and singular artist was never in question, but it always seems to come second to the praise he gets for his six string work, even though White is famously averse to flash: he dislikes excessive effects and expensive guitars, often sticking to junky plastic Airline models and cheap DigiTech Whammy pedals to sculpt the gigantic tones of songs like ‘Blue Orchid’ and ‘Seven Nation Army’. Jack White is perhaps the least likely guitar hero of the past twenty years.
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