White Stripes Secret Show - Edmonton 1

[Admiralex91]

Ahh I love this song. So Jack has some alternative lyrics in this performance.. Im can not really hear what he says - could someone tell me what the lyrics are please?!

[imbeatles]

one of the worst audience ever...

[XxStonedKillerxX]

I will never ever forgive myself for not seeing them. never.

[mrzachattackf]

I don't care wear this was im jus jealous this could be in hell with a bunch of Brendan frasher and nicalous cages an I'd still go

[Voy0]

What the fuck is your problem? What did you expect those people to do, mosh around to Ball and fucking Biscuit? Alright, they seem a _bit_ too quiet, and true, it's mighty fun to shove people around, but if I got the unique opportunity to see Jack fucking White grinding his guitar an arms lenght away from me, I'd just fucking PERCEIVE and try to capture every moment of it. And if any fucking crowdsurfer (fuck them) kicked me in the back of my head at that very moment, I'd fucking kill him.

[MileswillDo]

@Voy0 Yeah, and I live in Edmonton. I know a lot of people outside my Arts school that love good music like The White Stripes. And yeah, every town has fucking hipsters. At least they were there listening paying attention to the good music. And also, I got kicked in the back of the head by a crowdsurfer once xD

[CarmineXC]

This is amazing

[xexora]

@ billythekidnote, dude your opinions are much like your dick, fuckin useless and limp

[AskMoi]

This is at a homeless shelter. These people are probably withheld. Homeless people who are not used to such things. Probably taking in the atmosphere and observing.

[ZapfSzmata]

What the Hell is wrong with this people. WHITE STRIPES play and they sleep? WtF!!!

[mortcasinomort]

wicked cool

[dougefresh85]

Has anyone used this footage to make it look like TWS are playing in front of random places/events yet? Someone do it! I have the idea but I don't have the skill set needed :(

[putdownan8dude]

if the white stripes were playing at my teen center, i would probably be numb as these people. how awesome is this? that green wall is absolutely insane-looking.

[metrosic]

Let's be honest, Edmonton sucks fat ****, and so does everyone who lives there.

[SavantSvant]

HAHA he's playing the best version of this song that've ever heard him play! xD

EPic!

[ovonijemojeime]

brilliant.

[mlsku]

Listen to him go!!!

Listen to the crowd dick out like shitfaces!

[bc191]

this is typical audience reaction to a band these days...if it isn't karaoke their confused. oh how i miss the 70's when live bands were appreciated.

[1950marystini]

non mi piace.,....per niente....

[skyblue2567]

well ppl arent screaming cause there normal lol and its a small room and they would probably get kicked out or told to

stfu ROFL

[Imafreakypeep]

a least thers a couple of people that actually seem to be enjoying themselves.

[LillyCandyCane]

Maybe it's cos there's not like a huge stage gap and security seperating them from the White Stripes that they feel they cant show how much they're freaking out? I guess it must be sort of awkward.

[XxStonedKillerxX]

if i was there i would be screming at the top of my lungs, but Deadmonton is just too.....dead D: its sad cuz i live in Edmonton

[billytheskidnote]

WAKE the FUCK UP DEADMONTON!!! PATHETIC. Your crowd was among the only DEAD useless bunch of hipster TWATS that were COMPLETELY ASLEEP during their tour. You're putting ALBERTA to SHAME by being so lame. It's the FUCKING WHITE STRIPES MAN!!! You should be freaking out!!! AAAAAAHHHH! What the hell is the matter with all of you?!?!?

[DAKMAIN]

@billytheskidnote HAHA! Jack white makes one comment about hipsters, not we gotta deal with your douche bag bullshit. Go spit out someone elses words onto homeless people or GET A JOB. By the way: Good job with the deadmonton thing, great fucking play on words.

[LaynesAddiction]

@billytheskidnote i know, edmonton is pathetic, they're such hipsters most of them think music like this is gay

[thebighishere]

stop saying that youd freak out if you were right in front of them... these guys probably are freaking out.. just dazed at how amazing they are

[magic0superstition]

lame crowd i'd freak out if i saw them!

[Renindoor]

bouncy bouncy

[salamigeist]

-> Meg´s White Balls!

[FrancisIIIBibeau]

Everybody is freakin rigid XD lol if i had jack playing in front of me id go nuts .

[thecupdidit]

their all too stunned he is playing in fronta em. their trying notto black out :p

[ytnbsa]

is he playing the guitar with a microphone!?

JACK IS THE GREATEST

[calcifer0102]

AWW sad face i would have liked to seen them :'(

[LillyCandyCane]

wow amazing.

jack is so hot and meg's so cute.

the microphone's not high enough for him though lol

i do get that there was no room but still the kids coulda been a bit more interactive than standing there watching. makes em look kind of gormless

[LaterJayHipHop]

i was in front row bitchs hahahahaha

an its tegler youth center

its not a shelter

an for all the people saying shit about the audience

there was no room to do shit like that

it was packed like people outside where standin there watching

there where people in the skate park watchin there was obiously no room!

[bongsesh]

let me rephrase that i skaeboard there ...im not gay i dont ice skate

[bongsesh]

i skate there!

[3Storm]

there might as well be chairs there. No one is even tapping a foot...ha ha.

[tacStar253]

what a cool band for doing this. they are the best

[BodomAllBodom]

dude...i would be flipping THE FUCK OUT...what the hell is wrong with those kids?

[deatheater459]

yweah really id be dancing around and singing and shit id be like GET THE FUCK UP ITS THE WHITE STRIPES BITCHESZ!

[albinoblaksheep]

WORST AUDIENCE EVER WTF

[132gibson]

@albinoblaksheep i would have been the person with beer in my hand and screaming at the top of my lungs

headbangin

[v6b7n]

Best drummer & Guitar Player in the world!!!!!!!!!!

HEE-HA!!!!

(Horse Sh*t)

[Forbizzi]

wow look at that rockstar move using the microphone on the strings.

[bobfet1]

is it just me or is the audience totally not into it?

[frostbytesca]

The audience WAS into it -- just not in the way that you would hope for or expect. I think most people were more in awe than anything.

[cottonkrown]

@frostbytesca small free shows are always like that. it's not really a big deal to see a band in a small place, especially in the middle of the day. i mean, it's nice and fun, but it's not a trasher party type thing. anyone who was "going crazy" pushing people around would just be an idiot. it's art, watch it, have fun.

[BenTheNinja2121]

@bobfet1 Yeah, I would be like HOLY SHI* THE FUC*ING WHITE STRIPES!

[KATE24211]

i love the song

[imafoolhahaha]

i mean do you also have the rest of ball and biscuit

[llorencaguiar]

green screen

[imafoolhahaha]

aw shit you cut it off please tell me you have more of that

[frostbytesca]

I do have more recordings from that show. I haven't released them.  (Yet.)

[wearehymn]

You should.

[avedic]

@frostbytesca um...2 years later. anything yet? please.......... =)

[Euph0ricacid]

@frostbytesca what the heck were u guys doing at the back?

[greendagger5]

That would be kind of funny if the truck crashed in there to get a good view.

[Mijntroep]

Hooray for the White Stripes for playing these gigs!

[captainhowdy181]

i think meg white should add more to the songs they play, she is not a good drummer in my opinion. it would add alot more depth to their music if meg white played some good stuff. jack is amazing and she isnt

[iluvjackwhitemost]

DAMN THATS NOT FAIR...SINCE WHEN r 10 year olds worthy of JACK & MEG WHITES FACES, EVEN NAMES!

[Expected333]

this must have been major deja vu for them. same instruments and crowd as 10 years ago.

[xbridgette]

lifeless people listening to music you cant help but dance to. i just dont get it.

[badkookie]

i knw ther bringin me dwn yo

[chickenman722722]

meg doesnt even need to play all crazy great music is ussually super sympal. and i love jacks combo of blues and rock and alternative i have not idea wut u would call it i guess just magic

[CanucksSuck]

canadians are bigger fans then all you fat sweaty americans, we hate the french as much as you do, these kids arent going crazy cause theyre all homeless and sad, hes playing at some shitty youth shelter

[brennanw]

false

its a youth center..the guy who uploaded said it was a shelter

and 99% of those fans heard about it on the radio so no they arent homeless and sad..just enjoying some good music

[Polomarco12321]

@CanucksSuck i dont care if this comment is from 2 years ago, the ignorancy is insane. Nice going idiot want to tell me what continent ya live on? north america? holy crap your an american too!!!

[JonSchoen]

That's gotta be depressing to play for a crowd like that. Do they realize who is before them? Somehow I doubt it.

The White Stripes = power, and lots of it. Jack White = Hero of Music

Meg White = Goddess of the Drums

[lchBinGott]

She can keep simple beats. Nothing more. The only reason she is praised is because of Jack White.

[Breeze187]

If you haven't realized it, their music is based on minimalistic principles. They've said countless times before how they've created a box for themselves and how their music isn't necessarily about evolving. Meg used to wear pig tails even as to show that her approach to drumming is like a child. What I don't get is why you even bother watching this video clip if you don't like their music but I guess you have freedom of speech. Congratulations. I hope it was worth it.

[lchBinGott]

I hope it was worth typing all of that, only to make a fool of yourself. I like The White Stripes and I never have said I don't. I typed 'She is only praised because of Jack White'. Which is true. If Jack White was not vocals and a good guitar player nobody would notice her. You doubt that?

[Breeze187]

I don't think Meg White is particularly praised just because of Jack White. If anything she's praised because of how she fits into the theme of The White Stripes and because she's not afraid to play the way she does. I wasn't criticizing your comment so much as defending what many have said about Meg White's drumming in the past. Much love to any White Stripes fan!

[lorenatorres]

whats up with these fans its WHITE F&CKI$G STRIPES!

i would have been going ape $hit!

[embalm]

they are canadian, Or worse, french!

[rokintrix96]

Hey they must be emo.  lol

[queendb1]

fricking hipsters lol

[upinthemgutz27]

right!!!!! when that guitar comes in how could you not freak the fuck out

[lorenatorres]

@upinthemgutz27 dude thats so awesome. i left that comment 2 years ago! and i think my brother left it. but either way I totally agree. I would have freaked the fuck out right after I went ape shit hahaha.

[queendb1]

yeah if n when they come to NJ again we'll show em how we ROCK........they'll never wanna leave. Hope they tour again!!

[picklesandmilk4u]

dude the crowd sucks

[snowhead2160]

they were preforming at a center for kids that a mentally ill...

[picklesandmilk4u]

o wow id dint know that sry

[UndaThaRug]

Ohhh man, ahah bet you feel like shit eh?

ahaha

[Jenisonc]

hahaha that is so funny. I bet he does. I would. hahaha

[picklesandmilk4u]

o and im a girl by the way

[picklesandmilk4u]

pretty much... maybe i will use my brain next time before i comment...

[UndaThaRug]

LoL dont worry man, ahaha funny shit tho ahahahha

[alex61396]

interesting.....they are using the "B" gear...Jack never uses the Harmony Rocket for B&B, and Meg is using an old drum kit....wonder if they were playing a regular show that night and the crew were setting up the regular "A" gig equipment?

[goncack]

I'm sure I read somewhere that they dusted off the old equipment that had been 'in the garage'. Their 'A' gear would have been at the gig that night. Each secret show preceeded a gig later that day.

[ILIVEONPENNYLANE]

no, they used their older equipment because they tried to make their secret shows like the ones 10 years ago.

[pissedagain]

you guys are boring as fuck... when i saw the stripes i was rocking harder than ever!!!

[o0whitestripes0o]

I can't believe that crowd...

[scosgrove68]

i lived in 'dead'monton and can say with first-hand knowledge that they are fucking zombies there. btw, who is the big cunt up front?? blocking the view and stiff as a fucking board.

[GordonBrasnett]

You guys realize that there were like a dozen preschool age kids right up in front of the stage.

I say good on people for not moshing and hurting a 4 year old and instead just enjoying & respecting the genius going on in front of them.

[harrison58]

A rockin show like that and look at these fucking tools watching it w/ their hands in their fucking pockets................

[rellsta]

i didnt know they invited a bunch of zombies. no wonder why they ditched the canadian tour

[nakedlunch123456789]

They finished the Canadian tour, it was the US tour they ditched.

[rellsta]

well shit, good on them. Canada eh!?

[nakedlunch123456789]

????

[rellsta]

!!!!

[littlelambdude]

Why is Jack White so effing sexy?

[nakedlunch123456789]

Because he is a god!

[wsvlk]

Verry true...

[popatire23]

afrikenmen!

[Donmrn]

everyone that believes mr.jack white isn't good enough guitar player

must see this video

[anonrms]

this is my fav stripes video

[megstubetops]

they cancelled the rest of their tour on 9-11-o7

[theoKT]

Actually its a Crestwood Astral...from the 70s.

[Inxtc1]

yeah theoKT is right

[insomniac93]

ahahah around 2:30 into it, it looks like the mafias standin by the door

[yu0004ng]

is that a es-335 with a strat neck?

[yu0004ng]

wow, i mean....wow

[Mijntroep]

No, it's some kind of cheap japanese guitar. Can't remember the name

[yu0004ng]

imagine how he would sound with a es-335,not that he'd play one lol

[rollinstonez1]

no its like a gretsch or sumthin

[zagnash]

no its a harmony rocket isnt it?

[theturdreich12]

harmony rocket

[manonfireisburning]

god, they're so fucking amazing for doing shows like this

[noremac91]

They did he same in ottawa for the sick kids hospital

[favianhello]

man what the hell, what was the point of pointing the cameara away from the stage

[yokoisdead]

what...are the people doing??? standing there....don't move..HELLO?????? aaahhh. omg

[bwysocki29]

they have no idea how lucky they are i would kill to be there!!!!

[refusedchad]

edmonton's local music is better than lame corporate bullshit anyways

ive seen that venue go off like crazy before, keep in mind this was completely unannounced

[Dina9000]

Well, maybe the crowd was a little scared of Jacks enery he's a little high strung sometimes maybe they thought the Devil came to town that day.

[goneblogging87]

that crowd is fuckin embarrasing

[thewhitestripess]

what a fukin crowd

[megstubetops]

i look good

[Astrotoy7]

spammer!

[Telekaster17]

the place they play at is for poor indians, thats why they were acting so blam, theyve never heard any music but chamillionaire and the game. fuck

[worldwriter1]

People checking out the tour on youtube spend a lot of time critiquing the crowds on either being too loud or too quiet... why? From my experience in trying to catch the free show in Charlottetown and then being front row at the big show later that night... we were lucky just to be there, who cares how we acted?

[DMac604]

Edmonton is a dump

[gosttigerrise]

No way I would just stand there,like how TheFloaty described.I wouldnt wast any time moshing or how you like to say it going insane

[Megastros]

those kids in the front dont even know what tehre seeing if i was there i would have been going insane

[parasu108]

I agree, I think I would also be rooted to the ground as pale as a little ghost in awe! just hopin it wouldnt end!

[smides1]

muevanse JILES...CANTEN SALTEN....esta frente a ustedes THE WHITE STRIPES.....

[TheFloaty]

why does everyone say the audiance sucks...

now I feel like I have failed.

What would you have done if the white stipes were preforming a 25 minute set for you out of no where. You wouldnt waste your time bashing and bopping around would you? No, you would stand there, drooling a bit, in awe, taking in every sweet moment.

So we did all we could really.

[moloko89]

i agree

[tonycash650]

ok, i can't say I disagree with you because i've done that at much bigger and longer white stripes shows.

[ronaldinhothebest12]

how can u sumone likt this kind of music ew

[AppleGlue]

Sorry what are you trying to say

[MitchelMcCormick]

that was amazing when he grabbed megs mic

[sawred94]

PLEEAASE jack and meg for the love of god come play at your new hometown of music city

[bruce1368]

Great performance by the band. Why the F*#K do the tallest, widest jackass's ALWAYS stand up front ?

Nice work, Jerk.

[brennanw]

Ya they kinda were, but it was so packed

[WhiteStripe99]

the audience sucks

[geek519]

i was in londons sercert show

[SephirohsReunion]

audience sucks -_-

[cranesgonewild]

I agree, the audience is lame. We went to the Toronto show and sat near the back and we were more excited then this bunch.

[colemckelvie]

does anyone know how long this show was? the edmonton journal didnt mention...

[jkm287]

wow i used to go to the skatepark there in the winter

[bjirvine03]

And Jack says... Yeah lets play some 'Alberta, Alberta' right in the middle of 'Ball and Biscuit'... and we say 'Wow'.

[brennanw]

Hey sweet job putting this up. I work at there its actually not the Youth Shelter, its the RW Tegler Youth Centre.

Thanks.

[Lugak14]

Jack White has just affirmed his status as a legend among us.

[kaajax]

well il be the son of a mother less goat...

[robbtheknob]

WoW...do these people even know how lucky they are...!!!

[FernandoDANTE]

When he played with the mic, it was just...

Man, Jack White is so fucking great.

[yerfucked]

great stuff!

[frostbytesca]

I just added two links to newspaper articles about the free concert to the video description.

[albuquerque98]

Great! Thanks for putting this up.