{"id":366560,"date":"2025-11-09T09:26:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T09:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/366560\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T09:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T09:26:14","slug":"jack-white-passes-on-meg-whites-regards-as-white-stripes-enter-rock-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/366560\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack White Passes on Meg White’s Regards as White Stripes Enter Rock Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducting the White Stripes<\/a> did not result in the reunion of the long-dissolved duo, as many had hoped, with Meg White remaining out of the spotlight, as she has been since they announced their split nearly 15 years ago. But if she was absent from the Hall of Fame proceedings at Los Angeles\u2019 Peacock Theatre, her presence was very much felt in remarks from Iggy Pop, who formally inducted the pair, and especially from Jack White<\/a>, who accepted on both their behalfs and even read a fable he wrote down this week about their origin story. <\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing the speeches, here were also salutes offered by two twosomes: Olivia Rodrigo<\/a> and Feist, who sang \u201cWe Are Going to Be Friends\u201d as a tender duet, and Twenty One Pilots, one of the few other true duo acts in the recent history of rock, recreating \u201cSeven Nation Army\u201d as a bass-and-drums-only rocker.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking to his former drummer\u2019s absence, White said: \u201cI spoke with Meg White the other day, and she said that she\u2019s very sorry she couldn\u2019t make it here tonight, but she wanted me to tell you that she\u2019s very grateful. And to all of the folks who supported her in all the years, it really means a lot to her. She also helped me write all this\u2026 I sent these things to her. She checked it for me for a lot of punctuation and corrections. She\u2019s pretty good at that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe continued by sharing a random thought of Meg\u2019s: \u201cShe said, \u2018Do you remember, Jack? We used to walk around and animals, for some reason, would stare at us. They would stop and stare at us for some reason. Even at the Detroit Zoo, an elephant did the exact same thing one time.\u2019 She just wanted me to tell you that,\u201d he explained, to crowd laughter.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhite gave props to some other iconic duos \u2014 representing non-musical disciplines \u2014 that preceded the White Stripes onto the national artistic stage.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere was a duo of songwriters important around the time of the birth of rock \u2018n\u2019 roll called Leiber and Stoller, and they wrote a lot of songs that a lot of people probably never heard of, but they also wrote a couple that really connected with folks, like \u2018Jailhouse Rock\u2019 and \u2018Stand By Me,\u2019 and you for sure heard those songs,\u201d White said. \u201cThere was once a duo called Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and they were a comic-book-hero writing team who came up with all kinds of heroes you\u2019d never heard of \u2014 Slam Bradley and Dr. Occult and so forth \u2014 but they also came up with this character that really connected with people: Superman, I\u2019m sure you heard of. And there was once a comedy duo called Abbott and Costello that I remember hearing from my father as a child that had thousands of jokes kept on white cards in a file cabinet, jokes and routines that nobody had ever heard before and they never got to perform, but they also developed a joke that for some reason really connected with people, and the routine was called \u2018Who\u2019s On First?\u2019 I know you\u2019ve heard that one.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMaking the connection, White added: \u201cI myself have been in a lot of bands that you probably never heard of, but for some reason people especially connected with this one two-piece duo project that I was in called the White Stripes. We don\u2019t know why these things connect with people, but when they do, it\u2019s the most beautiful thing you can have.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhite read off a litany of musicians he wanted to thank as influences, including such varied names as Loretta Lynn, Fugazi, the Misfits, Jethro Tull, the Troggs, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Arthur Lee and Love, the Flat Duo Jets, Dick Dale, Ritchie Blackmore\u2019s Rainbow, the Sonics, Pavement, Black Flag, Sleater-Kinney, the Breeders, the Cramps, Merle Haggard, the Hives, Them, the Damned, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Minor Threat and Captain Beefheart.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere were other thanks to give. \u201cTo the factories and tools and electricity and vacuum tubes, we say thank you. To the Coney Islands of Detroit and the honky-tonks of Nashville and the corner pubs of London, we say thank you. To the homeless and the powerless and the forgotten, we always say thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs advice, he offered, \u201cTo the young artists, I want to say: get your hands dirty and drop the screens and get out of your little room and get obsessed. Get obsessed with something\u2026 We all want to share in what you might create.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tJack White at 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at Peacock Theater on November 8, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGilbert Flores\/Variety<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd then, a parable, which he said Meg White would be hearing for the first time along with the audience. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was gonna send this to Meg, but I didn\u2019t get around to it, so I thought I\u2019d read it to you all tonight,\u201d White began. \u201cOne time a girl climbed a tree and in that tree was a boy \u2014 her brother, she thought \u2014 and the tree looked so glorious and beautiful, but it was just an oak tree. And these two so loved the world that they brought forth a parade float, one they built in their garage behind the oak tree with their own bare hands. And the boy looked at this giant peppermint on the wheels and felt pride. Pride that it was produced in the Motor City, just like in the big factories, but it was just in their garage. He looked at the girl \u2014 his sister, he thought \u2014 and like the Little Rascals, they said, \u2018Let\u2019s put on a show.\u2019 And they paraded this float through the Cass corridor, standing atop the peppermint pulled by white horses, or maybe it was a RedVanLines van. And many of the blocks they traveled were empty, but some had people. And some of those people cheered, and some laughed, and some even threw stones.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAnd with their bare hands,\u201d White continued, \u201cthe two started to clap and sing and make up songs. And some people kept watching and swaying and moving. And then one person even smiled. And the boy and the girl looked at each other and they also smiled and they both felt the sin of pride, but they kept on smiling. Smiling from a new freedom, knowing that they had shared and made another person feel something. And they felt the person smiling at them was a stranger. So they didn\u2019t even know. But it wasn\u2019t just a stranger, it was God.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKeeping up the sibling theme to the end, he concluded: \u201cMy sister thanks you and I thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his intro, fellow Detroit native Iggy Pop said, \u201cThe first time I saw them was in a photograph\u2026 grinning like they had some kind of fun secret, like they stole some cookies from a cookie jar. Basically I was looking at a 20th century Adam and Eve who had started a rock \u2018n\u2019 roll band\u2026 Cute ckids, they\u2019ll probably go places,\u201d he remembered thinking.<\/p>\n

\n\tPop saluted \u201cMeg White, who is a timeless beauty. Meg White, who gave her name to the group, was a charismatic, naturally likable person. I met her once and she had the most genuine and charming smile. She gave the drum kit a good whack like Fred Below did for Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry. I think it was Meg\u2019s support that helped launch the rocket of racket that was Jack White.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cJack could screech like an owl. He could twang like a hillbilly\u2026 I hear echoes of the Who, the Small faces, the Beatles, art-rock and country-blues in his playing. He could do it all. And the writing he is capable of was something that was not typical of the great Detroit bands of the \u201860s and \u201870s \u2014 \u00a0this was more melodic, more hooky. After all, it was a new century, and the White Stripes\u2019 music was coming from a foundation of love instead of revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the video tribute that the Rock Hall put together for the duo, Rodrigo offered a younger generation\u2019s appreciation of the pair \u2014 and the highest possible veneration for \u201cSeven Nation Army\u201d in particular: \u201cDo you hear those seven notes? There\u2019s no question what it is. \u2018Seven Nation Army\u2019 is the most iconic song of all time \u2014 it\u2019s just so ingrained into who we are as humans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducting the White Stripes did not result in the reunion of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":366561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[171,109956,975,22854,3718,53746,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-366560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-jack-white","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-olivia-rodrigo","12":"tag-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame","13":"tag-the-white-stripes","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115519028478353693","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}