Jack White doesn’t care about formalities.Around 9:15 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 12, the former White Stripes/Raconteurs/Dead Weather/Them Crooked Vultures frontman turned solo artist swaggered onstage at the regal Brooklyn Paramount and immediately jumped into a blistering rendition of “Old Scratch Blues.” The crowd whistled and cheered but the 49-year-old axeman couldn’t have cared less about the generous fanfare.
All he wanted to do was shred.For the next hour, White put his pedal to the metal, never took his foot off the gas and delivered a breathless set devoid of breaks and heavy on flawless segues.
After starting with a pair of groovy tunes from his down and dirty 2024 album “No Name,” he launched into the fuzzy, reverb-heavy “Fear Of The Dawn,” which straddles the line between rock and metal.
The audience thrashed. Not to get all high and mighty, but his distorted sound broke through some kind of soul barrier creating feedback into our collective beating heart.
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