Introducing Striped Season 1!
Striped: The Story Of The White Stripes
No Smiling & Third Man Records
4.7 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2019
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
In season 1 of Striped, music journalist Sean Cannon takes you through the early years of The White Stripes by talking to the people who witnessed it all firsthand — from a young Jack White practicing loudly in his attic to The White Stripes wowing their tourmates Pavement in late 1999. You'll hear from members of The MC5, Pavement, The Raconteurs, The Detroit Cobras, The Dirtbombs, The Soledad Brothers, filmmaker Lance Bangs, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | 20 years ago, the White Stripes hit the scene in a real way, |
| 0:03.4 | dropping their debut album, blowing minds, touring with pavement, |
| 0:07.7 | and sowing the seeds for worldwide rock and roll domination. |
| 0:11.3 | With some speed bumps along the way. |
| 0:14.2 | And we have that story for you, told by the people who witnessed it firsthand. |
| 0:18.5 | From Third Man Records and Miss Fire, this is Striped, the story of the white stripes. It's just like, fuck, this guy's insane, he's possessed. There's kind of these rumors going around that... I feel happy to be alive to see this. The band is broken up. They're not going to do anything or that. The 13th was going to be their last show. |
| 0:38.0 | It says to me, like, why the hell did you get this band to play with you? |
| 0:40.9 | Lo my arm around him. I said, you watch this band real closely because this band's going to soar |
| 0:45.8 | right over the top of us. It felt like a before and after. |
| 0:49.9 | I told John that I thought they could have the major sort of mainstream appeal. |
| 0:54.4 | Like there was the white stripes before that paycheck show and the white stripes after. |
| 1:12.5 | Subscribe to Striped on Apple Podcasts or They don't want to explode now. |
| 1:16.3 | Subscribe to Striped on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:20.0 | And if you want to get an even deeper look into the early days of the White Stripes, |
| 1:25.1 | head over to third man records.com to check out their White Stripes 20 vault package. |
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