From: MartinGillby@wbr.com
To: greatwhitenorthernteam@wbr.com
Subject: Re: Status of Jack White's Proposed Liner Notes
As you all know, we're still about two months away from our production deadline with regard to the packaging of this latest White Stripes album. My communications with Jack had been going well enough, but we have hit a worrisome snag. I received an email earlier today containing Jack's completed liner notes for the record (included below).
I have to say that I'm more than a little perplexed. Jack has always made it perfectly clear that he wants nothing more than to continue working with Meg after she has dealt with her issues. We certainly can't begrudge Jack his side projects as we have only to gain by keeping our stable of artists fresh. In Jack's case, this creative priming tilts the odds in our favor for future White Stripes product.
Please read the enclosed materials. I will schedule a meeting near week's end. We have to determine the best course of action. Obviously, we don't want to anger Jack and endanger a reliable revenue stream. Given the notes' content, that may very well be out of our hands anyway. Can we just run with these notes? That seems risky as well. WalMart will also be an issue.
Icky Thump was a turning point for us. We were very happy with that collection of songs. It made us stretch a little. Always a good thing. Yeah sure, I like makin' a blasphemous noise with the guitar and Meg loves adding to the bluster, but it was cool to take on songs like "Conquest." Yep, we have Son House in our blood, but that ain't all. People sometimes have a hard time believing that. Hell, even after we did "Jolene." C'mon, that's not a damned novelty tune, it's a great song!
The tour really started out to be something special. Canada feels like a second home to me. When I was a kid we went on a few vacations over in Toronto. I was always amazed when that station wagon made it the whole distance. I'm not sure what attracted my parents to that place. Hell, they had to drag all of us kids with them. I didn't care. It got me out of altar boy duty for two Sundays.
Anyway, one of the best ideas we ever had was to play these secret shows at each town. Bowling alleys, metro transit buses, bars. The fans went crazy. We loved doing it for them.
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Article comments
1 - mrthompson
Your attempt at humour failed miserably.
2 - Stefan
what the hell is this shit.
don't ever try to be funny again.
3 - Debra
Not funny, not interesting, and not even semi-intelligent.
For what it's worth, Meg White and her husband Jackson Smith were happily wedded in Jack White's back yard.
The reason why Jack and Meg are "brother and sister" is so that people would not get distracted by dumb nonsense like this piece. I guess you missed the point.
4 - Yaledo
How utterly lame.
5 - Mlsku
Meh, this is horrificly uninteresting.
What the hell is he trying to say?
And he was't being funny guys, nor was he trying.
6 - Josh Hathaway
I got my copy but haven't had much time to sit down with it- of course, I don't expect to be able to listen to it sitting down or sitting still. I can't wait to crank this one up hard and fast.
7 - Mat Brewster
Wow Mark, you've been called a twat, unfunny and unintelligent, now all that's left is for Christopher Rose to show up and call the White Stripes boring.
Nice job!
8 - Tom Johnson
I think you upset the children, Mark.
9 - JC Mosquito
Ummmm..... I picked up the DVD and CD last night. Both are great. Don't know about Mr. Saleski's humour (or, as some obviously see it, lack thereof), but if his point is that this as far as the White Stripes can take it or should take it, he might be right. This really would be a good place to reach the end of the great red and White rock and roll road trip.
10 - Jordan Richardson
And now we know the truth.
Great stuff, Mark. :)
11 - Mark Saleski
i think mommy & daddy accidentally left on the gas jets.
12 - PIco
so says Debra, "I guess you missed the point"
now that's irony
13 - Mark Saleski
now that's irony
and cheap entertainment!
14 - Mary K. Williams
Well, things never change. The passionate comments usually seem to be written by those who did not have the benefit of actually reading the article.
15 - doug m
Well, I read it and it started off interesting and then the thing went right off the rails towards the end. If that means I can't join your club, so be it.
16 - JC Mosquito
I think going right off the rails is part of the hazing ritual for this club, Phi Gabba Gabba.
17 - Pay Czar
What may be worse than this article, is the fact that the author may have gotten paid for it.