The White Stripes early days

[classicbritpop]

meg is fat 

[palutubevideos]

wow. can you say patriotic?

[Ksimp9]

hey this is really cool

[markblackout]

who gives a shit when he quit smoking

[thommytaranto]

@markblackout Anyway, he's back on it :P

[dukowski1965]

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[CubeableGame]

From which film is this extract? Anoyne knows, please share! I NEED to find this film!

[freqazoidiac]

Is this a White Stripes cover band or something? I know the title says rare footage, the shots are odd and mannerisms, ect seem forced. anyways, interesting film.

[Hacker506]

That studio seems expensive as fuck, if thats the "home" studio for Be Stijl, they got the big bucket... Wish I could.

[Chamillo87]

Sounds a lot like Daniel Johnston

[jcgamer107]

ehhhhhh....yeah a little I guess.

[s1ygirl]

Where on earth did you find this footage!?!?!?!

[JakeHazlewood]

The live show is actually, from the looks of it, the Metro Times Blowout of 1999. That's fuckin sweet. That same show is still around every year in Detroit. anyone recognize the venue?

[Gorlon1111]

what does "back before they weren't big"? Does that even make sense? Someone tell me.Should it just be "back before they were big"?

[brentonwhite3]

yeh its a spelling mistake that i can't be bothered changing

[fearbeforefearbefore]

Good thing someone had the common sense to record this shit. Jack playing Stop Breaking Down while sitting on his bed, epic.

[msfreak8]

i hear their chihuahua

[liampdc]

wow, that was awesome. First time 'big three' has sent shivers down my spine since the first time i heard it.

[violentcandy]

It's odd cause this performance sounds a lot like the album version, unusual for them.

[derparty]

why are you guys starting a discussion about smoking? is it such a big deal in the usa or what? in europe no one really cares whether you smoke or not. and by the way: the white stripes can do what they want!!!

[LillyCandyCane]

ive noticed that!! in the uk where i am nobody gives a damn but american people seem really bothered by it

its up to you if you smoke

anyway

what does this have to do with smoking?

the white stripes are awesome :D

[TwilightSimplicity]

Dosen't he know that every cigarette you take,your taking a day in your life...

[BigNoseMusic]

don´t you know that smoking is a CHOICE that everyone can make?

[BigNoseMusic]

don´t you know being an asshole takes 1 year in your life...

[Yekex]

i heard its only 5 minutes

[alohastewie]

7 minutes

[fearbeforefearbefore]

Did you know that every day you live, your taking a day off your life?

Non smokers die too.

[imafoolhahaha]

nah im pretty sure jack starting smoking again, its too damn visible in his voice. hell his vocal cords are shot because of it.

[bozomatt]

lol at jack whites room

[Tim010987]

No topping this!

[tremeloblues]

they still rock as gods!!

and smoking is soooo kool!!

i love smoke

i love rock

i love white stripes

[edmedmoped]

What?

[Kovacs138]

what does smoking have to do with it lol

[tremeloblues]

smoking is awesome

period

[northvalley]

do you love smoking rocks?

[tremeloblues]

no just marlboro lol..

i dont do drugs

[MaximumMartin]

Billy Childish is a national treasure.

[zeikoru]

Those were the good days

[mesut123451]

they sure were :(

[gothprincess666911]

lol nice leipo AND WHERED U HEAR THAT? DOES MEG STIL SMOKE? O O O AND WOW....NICE VID

[bluesparky88]

He was a bada** as a kid and still is to this day and who cares if he smokes he can go through a whole concert without hacking up a lung

[tanzark]

かっけぇよう・・・

[edmedmoped]

plus one

[xpostspikex]

Did he call it childish music as in Billy Childish?

[Th3Whit3Stripes]

yeah! i love it the early days of them are very rare...White Stripes!!!!!!

[deeppurplerox]

niceeeeeeeee

start breaking down B)

i ve got the CD B)

[jackwhite3redwhite]

jack quit smoking in 2004 i heard

[4894037]

please don't smoke!!!!!!!

i want to see them play for many years and not to be dead for a cancer or something...

goes to jack and meg both

[gta387]

i guess nobody IS perfect . . . Except Jaclie and that Meg lol

[leiposuctie]

i saw this tegan and sarah video(stripes covered their wlaking with a ghost)and sarah said meg tegan and she went bowling en meg was constantly chain smoking and kicking their ass at bowling!!!

[airline3]

who cares if he smokes or not hes a legend.

[so812]

Wow this is so old, I think they were still married!

[ickythumpIII]

but the actual voice also sounds much better than this one..and bob dylan has a great voice through smoking..

but sure, actually smoking is silly

[Apolloswan]

noooo... Jack please don't smoke... your beautiful voice... no....

[colemckelvie]

he quit like a year ago, don't worry

[Apolloswan]

Really? Are you sure?

[colemckelvie]

i remember hearing it in an interview, he said he had to quit smoking, he didn't want to, but it was wrecking his voice

[Apolloswan]

Well I like sound of that... but I'm very sure that his voice is different now then it was when this was made because of that. Smoking is awful... take Robert Plant for example.

[colemckelvie]

lol yeah i know man, bob dylan too

[wsvlk]

I think that he said he didnt smoke as much, but i think he still smokes.

[colemckelvie]

well i saw some interview where he said he couldn't smoke anymore because it was affecting his singing. He said he didn't want to quit, but he had to. Maybe he still does, who knows.

[wsvlk]

dthank you for clearing that up for me. (and im not being sarcastic or anything.) also, meg white's teeeth are bad cause she chain smokes, right?

[colemckelvie]

yeah i do believe she still smokes (if she's quit I don't know about it)

[wsvlk]

oh, yea i no that she smokes, in intervews she's always cahain smoking. But her teeth are really bad, and i have a feeling that thats why.

[colemckelvie]

oh yeah for sure man, did u ever see bob dylan's teeth in the 60's? He's got them fixed now, but back then they were BAD.

[wsvlk]

oh,yea, i no. meg never smiles an open-mouthed smile, and thats why.

[colemckelvie]

lol, tobacco must be quite addictive

[wsvlk]

um-hm i no.

[gta387]

If you think about it we're pretty prejedice about the white stripes without realizing it.

[ylime947]

i love their earlier image better than now, even though i still love them now they were coolier in their early days

[colemckelvie]

jack white, rockin the robert johnson song, love it

[benjaminmiguel]

Weird. I made this video in 1999 with 1 camera and 2 vcr's. Strange and a little emberassing that it keeps resurfacing. The studio footage is actually a radio interview on local npr station WDET FM. If you listen well you can hear a chihuahua barking in the background of the footage at the beginning of the clip.

[ichigodomo]

there playing an electric version of "Sugar Never Tasted So Good" i've never heard it elctric before. o_O

[imnoobto]

what is the song they are playing in the recording studio before the big three killed my baby

[roknrol9]

Sugar Never Tasted So Good

[Marlowe21]

this video is amazing!! i'm SO glad i stumbled across it! Icky Thump is gonna rock!

[colemckelvie]

lol "childish type of music" right on jack

[SnowWhite0nCrack]

yeah that sounds great :D i like this kinda voice <3

[colide88]

This is amazing!!!! thanx for posting! Oooh, how i'd like to line in TN and see them live once more! :-(

[rodrigoyue]

poor meg, so nervous

always cute : )

[georgiacass]

I love all the tracks from their first album and this has it all. I love that scene of them recording. Meg can drum no matter what people say! I'm also getting a T-Shirt printed with 'The Big Tree Killed My Baby' I want to make him laugh again like i did at the last gig lol

[Benhibberd]

I love raw the talent is in these videos, you can see right from day one that its real rock music that is bourne from desire to play.

[aliminum]

i love them... i love their early years. they're amazing!!!

[wordgirldlw]

Sweet! Where did you get this?

Wow. Say what you will about Meg, but she has come a long way!!

[jackwhite3redwhite]

its from the detroit rock movie. and yeh meg has got heaps better than what she was back then.

[chompy44]

well lets just say the production has gotten better

[jackwhite3redwhite]

yeh his voice is really high

[SephirohsReunion]

i love the beginning with "stop breaking down"