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channel this is one of the more recent
feuds in the rock and roll world
between the genre's most popular artists
i'm talking about the jack white and
black keys feud but did they ever make
amends
stay tuned to find out
formed in 2001 the black keys broke
through nationally with 2003's
thick freakness which saw them garner
rave reviews
and open for beck the same year jack
white span the white stripes had their
own mammoth album
called elephant which featured the huge
song seven nation army
both bands were stripped down bluesy
duos so comparisons were inevitable
what's funny is that at this point in
time the black keys claimed to have not
heard of the white stripes when they
first started as a band several years
prior
following the dissolution of the white
stripes in 2009
the black keys would become a dominant
band taking over the rock charts
and the feud dated back to 2010 when
jack white sat down with rolling stone
magazine
and the exchange went as follows with
the interviewer asking there was a time
this past decade when the idea of garage
rock included bands that sounded nothing
like the white stripes
do you feel like you have peers out
there now that aren't necessarily doing
the same kind of music but work on the
same level
white would respond it's difficult to
say i feel like i'm a lot more to do
with jay-z than i do with the black
keys and i don't know what that is it's
just a feeling he'd say
and he wouldn't elaborate any further on
the black keys in that interview
two years after that stamen by white the
black keys were interviewed by rolling
stone magazine
and an incident from 2012 was revealed
where white had allegedly barred black
keys frontman and guitarist dan
arbach from entering white's nashville
recording studio
the black keys frontman didn't want to
add fuel to the fire but when the
magazine reached out to jack white for
comment
he had an odd response saying anything
you've ever heard anyone say about me is
100
accurate in the following years where
things really took a bizarre turn
as white was involved in a nasty divorce
with his ex-wife
model karen nelson ellison filed a
restraining order against white
following allegations of harassment
and soon enough leaked emails that
ellison used in court to file her
restraining order against white
made numerous references to the black
keys those emails would show how
infuriated white was
when he learned his children were
attending the same school as the
children of kiesfront and dan arbach
one of the messages would read that's a
possible 12 effing years that i'm going
to be sitting in kids chairs next to
that a-hole
with other people trying to lump us in
together he gets yet another free reign
to follow me around and copy me and push
himself into my world the email would
read
the black keys would take the high road
in 2014 when the band's drummer patrick
carney
struck a more sympathetic tone telling
rolling stone magazine
as left up as that is that was a private
conversation
we've all said some real messed up stuff
in private you know how horrifying would
be if all our private stuff was aired
divorce is hard it should be kept
private and people go sniffing around
looking for this stuff
and ultimately it's no one's business he
obviously sounds like an a-hole
and i actually feel embarrassed for him
but no i don't hold grudges man
i really don't our bach meanwhile would
add i don't know him so it's extra
unexpected he'd say
the same year in may of 2014 during a
cover story for rolling stone magazine
white once again slammed the black keys
revealing there are kids at school who
dress like everybody else because they
don't know what to do
and there's musicians like that too i'll
hear tv commercials where music's
ripping off sounds of mine to the point
that i think it's me
half the time it's the black keys the
other half it's a sound alike song
because they couldn't license one of
mine
there's a whole world that's totally
fine with watered-down versions of the
original he'd say
in the same interview he'd add some
people will hear that and say oh
jack white thinks he's the first person
to play the blues but certain acts open
up a market for certain style
amy winehouse did she invent white soul
wearing a beehive
no but she did something brand new and
fresh all together as a package
and you see who's in her wake from the
duffy's to lana del rey's
adele selling 20 million records that
wouldn't have happened if amy winehouse
was alive
the white stripes did the same thing and
in our absence you're going to find
someone to fill that
and you get a band like the black keys
who said they've never heard of the
white stripes
sure in that same interview white would
also take some digs at his former white
stripes band mate
meg white and he would quickly issue an
apology letter where he apologized to
the black keys revealing the following
i wish the band the black keys all the
success they can get i hope the best for
the record label
none such who has such a proud history
in music and in their efforts to bring
the black key songs to the world
i hope for massive success also for
their producer and songwriter danger
mouse and for the musicians their band
employees
now things would remain calm for about a
year until drummer patrick carney opened
his mouth in 2015
claiming that he had an altercation with
jack white now details around the
incident are still unclear
but the drummer would claim he was at
the lower east side bar called the cabin
down below
performing at a neil young tribute show
at the bowery ballroom
also in attendance was jack white and
carney would delete his initial tweets
but here's what he tweeted originally
saying
i've never met jack white until last
night he came into the bar in nyc
i go to with a lot of few friends and
tried to fight me i don't fight and
don't get fighting but he was mad
he is why i play music the bully a-hole
who made me feel like nothing
music was a private non-competitive
thing not sure what he's unhappy with
because i just like led zeppelin a lot
and wanted to play guitar
cut my pinky off and ended up being a
drummer not the best drummer but a
passionate one
but anyways jack white a 40 year old
bully tried to fight the 35 year old
nerd
it might get loud but it might also get
really really sad and pathetic
jack white is basically billy corgan's
dumbass zero t-shirt in human form he'd
say
the tweets of course would go viral and
white released his own response within
the hour on social media saying
nobody tried to fight you patrick nobody
touched you or bullied you you were
asked a question you couldn't answer so
you walked away
so quit whining to the internet and
speak face to face like a human being
end of story the tweet would read
and carney erased most of his original
tweets and tweeted out talk to jack for
an hour he's
cool all good while jack white would
return the favor
via his third man record twitter account
saying from one musician to another
you have my respect patrick harney and
things would stay silent until 2019 when
the black keys revealed their new single
low high
and white's label third man records sang
their praises on social media saying
more evidence than nashville rock and
roll is alive and well
congrats on the new music at the black
keys the same year the members of the
black keys would sing jack white's
praises as well as his label
saying i think it was really cool dan
and i have known the label co-owners for
almost 20 years now
they've actually got to know jack white
the last six months a little bit
this is a big month for rock and roll in
nashville with iraqi tours record and
our record and jack white would claim it
was lawyers who really escalated the
feud
he would say i respect all rock and
rollers i think the beef was with some
lawyers trying to screw me over and
trying to take something out of context
patrick carney stopped by for while we
were recording this racket tours album
and let me borrow a microphone
that was cool of him that does it for
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