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And now I just want solos to be an octave higher and piercing… Also, I like to manipulate my DigiTech Whammy pedal starting with the low octave. The Whammy enabled me to get an octave higher than everybody else, so I could break through for a few seconds and do a lick and then come back to the song. The pedal plays a big role in argueably The White Stripes’ most iconic song, ‘Seven Nation Army’. “I got a Whammy Pedal and I thought, Okay, you don’t have to do solos, but it would be nice if once in a while the guitar broke out and had a moment for itself and then went back to the band. This is White’s got to pedal in The White Stripes. She plays the rectangular Bo Diddley model, and I play the Jupiter Thunderbird-which is also called the “Billy Bo” because Billy Gibbons brought that idea back to Gretsch.” But when I got hurt and I couldn’t do the dates, Alison (Mosshart) ended up taking on that idea. He explians, “We would both use those guitars on tour to support the James Bond theme. White has a factory model of the Gretsch Bo Diddley in his arsenal, however he painted it white so that he could be like Bo Diddley and the Duchess with Alicia Keys. Gretsch G6199 Billy-Bo Jupiter Thunderbird Electric Guitar When I lifted my wrist, the Theremin would be added to the sound.” I also had a light-activated Theremin installed that I could control with my wrist while I was playing. When you pull a lever, the mute comes up and dampens the strings. I had a Bigsby installed, and I put in an old mute, too. I made it a double cutaway instead of a single. Talking about the guitar, White states, “I started with a Gretsch Anniversary Jr., which was the only small hollowbody guitar I could find.
Gretsch Anniversary Jr “The Green Machine” They only made 12 of them, and I found one in Texas …around about 2007 I got a ’57 Gretsch White Penguin, which is really rare.” He states, “I (sometimes) play a special-edition Gretsch White Penguin Jupiter Thunderbird. Jack White most notably uses this guitar in The Dead Weather.
Gretsch G6134 White Penguin Electric Guitar In the documentary It Might Get Loud, Jack White says “This is my main guitar, that I played for like 10 years in the White Stripes.” In reference to his red 1964 Montgomery Ward Airline model Res-O-Glass guitar, he also stated “I play really old guitars plastic guitars.” Let us take a look at the gear he used to make such rambunctious sounds.ġ964 “JB Hutto” Res-O-Glass Airline Guitar After The White Stripes came to an end, White went on to play for The Dead Weather with The Kills’ Alison Mosshart and also released two solo albums. While blues music played a major role in his influences, the impact The White Stripes had on the garage rock revival is massive, reinvigorating a style of music that had become stale.