S1 E1: Don't Feed Me Planned Obsolescence
Striped: The Story Of The White Stripes
No Smiling & Third Man Records
4.7 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The music scene that Jack and Meg White were thrust into didn't form in a vacuum. Detroit has a rich heritage informed by a wide variety of musical stylings, as well as the auto industry — in both good and bad ways.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, all right, we're back for another man. |
| 0:04.5 | In the late 1960s, the Detroit Rock scene was so blistering and ahead of its time |
| 0:09.0 | that it took the rest of the country nearly three decades to finally catch up. |
| 0:14.1 | Now, sure, plenty of Detroit Rockers blew up in the 70s, |
| 0:16.9 | but they didn't quite know how to kick out the jams with a real oh mind, if you know what I'm saying. |
| 0:23.3 | And once folks finally got up to speed on that legacy, |
| 0:26.5 | a little band with the same bombast, belief, and vision happened to be banging around the cast corridor, |
| 0:31.6 | waiting to channel the Motor City's greatness and its newfound attention. |
| 0:36.1 | This is the story of that band |
| 0:37.8 | from the people who witnessed it firsthand. |
| 0:40.3 | Well, except for the band. |
| 0:41.8 | You're not going to hear from them |
| 0:42.8 | because they've already said their piece. |
| 0:45.7 | From Third Man Records and Nevermind media, |
| 0:48.7 | this is Striped, the story of the white stripes. |
| 0:51.3 | Hey, everyone's the white stripes from southwest Detroit. |
| 0:54.3 | And this ain't no last show. We're going rock us on the next. It's a very, it's kind of like a bedrock year for the band. I'm like, what's the matter? He's like, oh, he's going to ask you to join the White Stripes. And I was like, that'll never go anywhere. Did that contribute to what happened with Jack? |
| 1:14.1 | I don't know that it did or it did. I'm not exactly sure the politics, but, you know, there was two |
| 1:19.3 | strong personalities that had to happen. Because remember, at that point, it seems kind of up in the air |
| 1:26.6 | what the focus of the band is going to be. |
| 1:31.9 | Okay, so hang on just a second. I feel like we're getting a little ahead of ourselves here, and we probably need to back up. |
| 1:39.3 | My name's Sean Cannon. I'm a music journalist who worships at the altar of the Motor City 5, and I'll be |
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