290. Fell In Love With A Girl by White Stripes 2002

The White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl - YouTube

At the start of the 21st century there suddenly seemed to be this new wave of guitar bands. You had the Strokes, The Hives and then along came The White Stripes. It felt like we hadn't had great rock and roll bands for ages. We probably did have except this stuff was so good you forgot what was happening before. Music seemed to get all exciting again for the first time since maybe the Stone Roses. Not saying Britpop was bad just that in the end it wasn't really that exciting except for maybe the bands involved. 

White Stripes stood out. The colour red that figured so prominently. The stage costumes. No bass guitar. Rudimentary drumming meets astonishing guitar work. A real rock and roll voice that harked back to the sound of Led Zeppelin.

One night we were playing the Duke of Windsor in Prahran. Talking to one of the promoters he was excitedly telling me about his new group . Just guitar and drums. I can think of half dozen bands that now have that lineup.

Incidently I still have the ad for that gig. We headlined Saturday night and Jet, who within a year would be global superstars, were the support act to Large Number 12s on the Sunday night.