There are reports of a perilously close call involving Detroit music fans and their hometown darlings, The White Stripes. According to similar stories on both New Music Express and Pitchfork, the crowd attending the Raconteurs show at the Fillmore in Detroit Sunday night chanted “more, more,” trying to coax the band back up onstage for an encore. What they got instead was Meg and Jack White taking up their familiar positions in what at first appeared to be a shocking reunion of the two-piece band who have not played out since Ms. White recused herself from their fall 2007 tour in order to seek treatment for acute anxiety.
With Jack on guitar and Meg seated at the drum kit the crowd trembled in fixated anticipation as Meg lifted her sticks to hit the drums that could have set off a Beatles-level fan frenzy circa-Shea Stadium. But, alas, ‘twas but a cruel tease, as the coquettish skin pounder was apparently taking it a step at a time on her road to recovery and this was but one tiny segment in what might be a long journey back to full blown world-domination touring. Ms. White apparently only “tapped” at a couple of drum heads and then moved aside as the Raconteurs re-took the stage to perform encores.
No word yet as to whether she will be available for extended drum solos on selected Ozzfest dates later this summer.
and TWS have never been anything important to me. meh