After a US political reporter questioned the impact of the drummer’s style on the White Stripe’s legacy, White, Questlove and Karen Elson rushed to her defence
Following the band’s nomination to the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the US political reporter Lachlan Markay tweeted: “The tragedy of the White Stripes is how great they would’ve been with a half decent drummer. Yeah yeah I’ve heard all the ‘but it’s a carefully crafted sound mannnn!’ takes. I’m sorry Meg White was terrible.”Jack White told reporter Jim DeRogatis
: “She’s perfect; she’s the best part of the band, really. Her style is just so simplistic that I can work around it and work with it. We have this kind of telepathy onstage where we can just read each other’s minds. If we had anybody else onstage it would just get ruined, I think. It feels really good to perform like that.”: “I try to leave ‘troll views’ alone but this right here is out of line af.
White – who was born Jack Gillis, but took Meg’s name when they married – contributed to the conversation with a poem of sorts, captioning an image of her drumming in the band’s traditional red and white regalia:some other distant, different, time.one with the positive inspiration to foster what is good.where we could lay all day, every day, on the warm and subtle ground,and be one with the others all around us,and pass it on again once more.
Meg White did not respond to a request for comment from Rolling Stone. Since the band ended in 2011, she has been an elusive public presence, never giving interviews or commenting on the band’s legacy. From 2009 to 2013, she was married to Jackson Smith, son of Patti Smith. The ceremony took place in Jack White’s garden in Nashville, Tennessee.
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