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Live review: The Dead Weather
Jay Janner AMERICAN-STATESMAN
Jack White is no stranger to ACL, but the Dead Weather, his latest band with Alison Mosshart of the Kills, Dean Fertita of Queens of the Stoneage and Jack Lawrence, also of the Raconteurs, is much harder and darker than the Raconteurs. Their pre-Pearl Jam set on Sunday evening was loud, gritty and in-your-face, perfect muddy festival music. The band stretched out the songs from their somewhat under-the-radar release from earlier this year, “Horehound,” with White on drums for most of the set.
Mosshart smoked, screamed and hyperventilated on stage as Fertita and Lawrence ripped through the material. White’s drumming is forceful and competent, but he really is more entertaining on the guitar, which he didn’t pick up until the end of the set for “Will There Be Enough Water,” a duet with Mosshart that also happened to be one of the high points. That isn’t to say the rest of the set wasn’t up to snuff. Fertita held it down on guitar and on the organ, especially on the choppy groove “I Cut Like a Buffalo.” Mosshart was great on just about everything, whether standing on the monitors and falling on the ground as she sang, her energy made the Dead Weather’s performance one of the best of the festival.
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By Lauren B.
October 4, 2009 11:51 PM | Link to this
LOVE IT!!!
By AmandaG
October 6, 2009 12:49 PM | Link to this
This was probably one of my favorite performances of the entire festival. They rocked!
By AmandaG
October 9, 2009 12:25 PM | Link to this
Probably one of my favorite performances of the whole festival. They rocked!