Jack White Performs 'Ice Station Zebra'

[@lazylion420]

progressive-jazz-rock-funk-fusion is now officially a genre

[@yrmthr]

cmz8706 someone's never heard of Return To Forever and Mahavishnu Orchestra

[@lazylion420]

you're half wrong: I've seen RTF live with my parents @ the Fox theater in St Louis but I've never heard of Mahavishnu. While RTF are incredible fusion, I would argue that this song is completely different sounding than RTF, but I couldn't speak to the other one you mentioned.

[@iain2080]

Zappa?

[@mrflipperinvader7922]

Rap

[@ili626]

Yeah it began many decades ago. Jack White is by no means bad, but holy shit, he’s overrated

[@suburbanoctopus4517]

I love how the song is about jack white wanting to be his own thing and not be compared to anyone else, but the title of the song is the name of a movie

[@scarypoolparty]

this is soooo tight

[@JP_517]

compared to the early live performances from this record just two months ago, you can really tell that this band is starting to click. they have found a way to capture the essence of the record live

[@johankiwii]

Just gotta love the new experimental route Jack has taken with his new album.

[@tranthony1768]

Martin Same here and BHR is my favorite record he has done out of the three solo albums.

[@matthewhackett3429]

This kind of songwriting just feels effortless at this point. It’s more dependent on top studio musicians doing things that take them out of comfort zone. It’s worth a listen but I wish jack would revert back to a more traditional style songwriting instead of this improv fusion stuff.

[@jayt7178]

Matthew Hackett why? He’s done that for like 2 decades. And his writing on his last two solo albums was sounding stale. Too detached. Which isn’t to say that I didn’t like them. I did. This is just hella more interesting than his usual country/blues/blue eyed soul Schtick.

[@matthewhackett3429]

Jay T I don’t think he’ll continue in this direction. This album was his first done on pro tools and exceeds his usual 8 tracks. It’s fun. Definitely written on the spot so it’s possible he has songs on the back burner that he’s slowly crafting for another John Mayer style Columbia release which is what I’m looking forward to him spending loads of budget on studio musicians

[@yeahh8402]

Tranthony 17 same

[@ursaltydog]

Now that is funky.. had body and depth.. classical sounds..

[@tristanconrod6414]

This is the weirdest shit. I love it.

[@Pedalnerds]

Same

[@miyavlayankaplan3107]

I listen to everything this man makes.

[@Kasino80]

At first I was like "this is weird ass shit" then I found myself being...hypnotized. It's a mix of blues, funk and jazz. Man this was so cool!

[@alvarockerdz]

This live version sounds so much better than the studio one. I looove it.

[@rolanddeschain6089]

Indeed, Alvaro.

[@fireadept007]

I how heavy his guitar is live when he plays the big chords.

[@acdcfan15290]

The whole album is better live

[@peterberg8417]

All music is better live and if it isn't then the artist isn't talented. Music is meant to be heard live where artists can't hide behind studio trickery

[@supertotoro]

Was expecting over and over and got ice station zebra, amazing!! Love how they choose to play maybe the most experimental song from the new album. I think Corporation, over and over and ice station zebra are my favourite tracks from this awesome album. Thank you Jack!

[@jetsamperes5762]

This album fits my commute perfectly and sounds great in the car - the louder the better. Took a few listens to love but I'm sold. Will always have and love the old stuff but a rolling stripe gathers no moss.

[@fakeItRight]

Kinda ballsy to do this not-radio-friendly 4+ minute opus of orchestral layered white hop meets Yes on a live tv broadcast. This song will sound very different on the studio-recorded album.

[@thedinkmaster69]

Actually... it sounds quite similar

[@jefflitchfield4950]

Anyone else notice that Jack's been getting into Zappa? I'm more than cool with it.

[@joshuaft1]

This is the best song he's done imo, a great blend between catchy and sophisticated, great bass, aggression, great guitar, great vocals

[@joshuaft1]

Excluding white stripes, but this would still be up there. White stripes are fantastic albums but often it's the combination of great songs, not the fact that there are a few great songs

[@gemmabadia6115]

He's a genius. He is still brilliant.

[@marcelhinss3848]

Such an awesome mash-up​ of genres!

[@awake1251]

Damn those are some cool vocal effects at 2:12

[@smitty7326]

Yeah, that was wild. They changed it mid song too, was there some sort of dial he adjusted with his hand or something?

[@gasolineandwine]

@@smitty7326 2:41 Notice Jack looking down and the voice effect changing after that. He's most likely affecting his voice by running that specific mic into a harmonizing pedal or something.

[@JRibs]

He's soaring over everyone's heads.

[@cherylbaker2667]

Hi I'm falling in love with Jack's courageous decision to go beyond the " norm"and push his musical talents to the max! And find out just how far he can go on Maslow's Hiearchy of Needs! Jack White!! You're "self-actualization" is at the top and I LOVE that you're exploring , breaking boundaries!!! I LOVE ALL OF YOUR NEW MUSIC! I listened to Love Interruption w/ Ruby Amanfu, Entitlement, I'm Shakin to this!!!! OH, loved the St Vincent's guitar u used for SNL Connected by Love!!!💞💞💞💞

[@AmranSidek]

Masterfully mix 70's n 80's rock era..loveddd it

[@tarcrystalline]

It's remarkable how he pulls this off live. Fantastic performance.

[@Trex100]

It rocked

[@danielday713]

No one comes close to this guy. Simply amazing composition!

[@Shines-On]

Love, love, love everything about it and I'm not just saying that because I adore this man. So funky and as usual love his guitar skills. You rock Jack!

[@YiannisS01]

The drums are the money. They make an ordinary song sound really special

[@Admiralex91]

i like this song. it's really something fun when you perform this piece live. it's a more progressive song than usual. also the drummer is awesome

[@samsonian]

Pretty interesting song, I heard so many different influences; Jazz, Zappa, Primus, Rage Against the Machine, some of his vocals also maybe had some AdRock (earlier, License to Ill, Check Your Head) and I liked the different timing the drummer played with. The only part that kinda hit me weird was the drop down to light piano, but I'm not saying I didn't like it, just the first time I heard the song. It's def. songs like this where a good drummer really shows their stuff. Cool.

[@Admiralex91]

I agree with your references. Definitely the beastie boys and zappa. I liked the dry piano break. sounds like a school piano or something nostalgic.

[@santorogus]

It sounds a lot like Zappa! Really nice!

[@daghostds]

Nope, not even close.. Don't insult Frank..

[@VangeliRock]

I thought of Zappa as well.

[@santorogus]

DaGhostDS, I don't agree with you, but i respect your opinion!

[@a1rondog1a]

LoL, yeah, I also thought of Frank Zappa. Loved the mans introspect. This song, tho? I think Franky-boy would be flattered :)

[@TheNohcim]

DaGhostDS Thank you

[@shinu_u]

This is honestly the best song in the album, next one to me is weirdly enough hypermisophoniac

[@william5159]

Totally in love with the drummer. Massively cool.

[@TessieClune]

One of my favorite arrangements on the album! 💗👽🎵🎶

[@c.folger5918]

I finally saw him after 10 years of trying on this tour best concert ever and ive been to about 20

[@julietmarlowe5661]

This is what acid feels like.

[@yeahh8402]

Juliet Marlowe then I love acid

[@lawrencesaavedra758]

0:49-0:52 , basically what an acid trip feels like

[@ili626]

Nope

[@tomwhittaker12]

What a performance of a difficult live song!

[@thehotel5758]

Favorite track on the album.

[@brooksguitarlessons2341]

I have a new favorite song. I love the jazzy part in the middle! Music is fun again.

[@noopybear6062]

I can't not love him, even if i dont....😚 if i dont love it immediately i will after a few listening sessions, he is amazing!

[@sweetie1027]

That song is funky as hell. 💗🎸🎧

[@safealaswas2001]

best Rock album at the Grammy's 2019, mark my words

[@JimBob-sc1nj]

Saif Alaswad sadly not

[@LiLi-or2gm]

Dayam- this is everything I love about Jack White- and the band is amazing, too!!

[@DrShawneeLazoreDOHHDPhDML]

SIMPLY AWESOME! Jack white is a gifted artist. Great Album 'Boarding House Reach'

[@zachdaguitarguy4789]

I'm currently in a Jack White phase and it's all cause of this video. 😄

[@jimsvideos7201]

Nothing wrong with four-chord nonsense, nothing wrong with a break - like this - from it.

[@paulomendes1193]

Jim's videos totally agree, same with the new AM album

[@Johnnynbk]

rock n roll isn't nonsense, jim.

[@whitem00n333]

Paulo Mendes was gonna comment the same thing. i'm disappointed to say the least, but i understand what they're doing

[@alcondragon]

THis stooge even rips off the solo part of Led Zepps Stairway to Heaven. Well given that he and the Edge, blew their way into the video with Jimmy Page, he had to walk away with something.

[@alcondragon]

I,m sorry, are you calling this rock and roll? If so, you are clearly intoxicated to the point of misunderstanding, deafness and totally brain dead.

[@bodysurf100]

Always pushing the limits of music.....taking us forward to the new. thx Jack

[@Pinup-witch]

Jack White + Jack black = Jack Grey the side project of the century.

[@yeahh8402]

It's actually happening

[@jasonholt1776]

Title is Howard Hughes favorite movie. He'd have TV stations play it all night in Vegas.

[@Ron_the_Skeptic]

Novel from 1963 by Alistair MacLean.

[@jetsamperes5762]

Ice Station Zebra is also the name of a shell company that laundered money on Breaking Bad.

[@armandduarte4193]

Thank you for clarifying, I only knew from breaking bad

[@SerpenteMacaco]

That drummer kicks ass, and so does the keyboard player!

[@JuanMoreGame]

Songs kicks some serious arse, good job

[@RetroBailey]

so hyped for when i see him live :D

[@Cheap_propaganda]

This song never gets old.

[@oaktowndimond668]

You know you're a bad ass when eddie van halen builds you an EVH wolfgang just for you!

[@jameshinchcliffe4788]

This performance kicks the shit out of the snl performances, they were hard to watch but this is phenomenal

[@MagusMirificus]

Oh, hi mid-ninties Beck. Didn't expect to see you back around here again.

[@underscoreophelia]

MagusMirificus finally, someone said it.

[@billhicks7034]

Sounds nothing like mid nineties Beck to me... But then again... I think of horns and other mish mash like midnite vultures. Both psychedelic, other than that...

[@frogpillow8880]

I've seen a lot of people comparing Beck and this, and to be honest chief, they aren't similar. They're just both kind of odd lyrically and that's it.

[@umnoveoitoquatro]

Maravilhoso! Eu amei o disco novo do Jack White e só tenho elogios para sua profissional e espetacular apresentação ao vivo!

[@ruthjohnson4380]

I discovered Jack White a couple of years ago. My daughter turned me on to the Raconteurs. I really like this album. It’s as complex as jazz, yet with a garage band feel. Yeah, different than We’re Going to Be Friends or Seven Nation Army, but I like it.

[@charlesnelthorpe9252]

Its like Funky Rockabilly Jazz, good stuff, not sure its driving music but super cool none the less

[@therealrobstark2916]

Got that Beck flow

[@AndreideLosSantos]

I'm in love with the drummer. By the way, this song is fucking insane.

[@sunsp.t]

Wait, Neal Evans is in Jack White's band now? Awesome.

[@NemohHoes]

So happy to see him going in full gear

[@claytonis1]

Given time, I might get into it. But I like the old stuff better. I'm biased, its nostalgic for me... but even taking that into account, I like the old stuff better. Having said that, I'm just grateful that Jack White exists and is willing and able to share his talent with the rest of us. So, even though I didn't love this song.... I love that it exists. If that makes any sense at all.

[@jetsamperes5762]

Will always have and love the old stuff but a rolling stripe gathers no moss. The more he creates the better we all are.

[@waffle911]

"The man sounds lost." -My brother, in the music business. I can't help but agree. I can hear some stuff I like, but it's too mixed in with a lot of things that just aren't working for me like they should. Blunderbuss and Lazeretto, and the recent acoustic compilation album were all gold. The duet with Alicia Keys in "Another Way to Die" was the best part of Quantum of Solace. Loved both Raconteurs albums enough to go see them in concert when they were touring for the second album with The Kills as their opener. The White Stripes have forever left more than a few marks on society. But this… What happened to the all-about-the-basics man we met in "It Might Get Loud"? I mean, Boarding House Reach isn't the travesty that was Neil Young's "Trans," but it still feels like it missed the mark.

[@mort8568]

it makes total sense.

[@baloony6648]

Thats too bad cause im huge fan of this new album

[@a1rondog1a]

I can dig on some of what you are saying but when you do something for long enough, and you're proven to have this much talent, well, you just can't help but evolve. Sure, wasn't Neil Youngs best work (trans) but warrant that with his other styled albums and you can see that growing is part of the talent. Having said that, this song in particular was a story wanting to be told, as I read things. Grabbed you from the first note, gave some character detail, so you'd get to know and understand them better and ended with a climax that only sheer providence could pull off. Now, THAT'S entertainment, folks :D

[@owRekssjfjxjxuurrpqpqss]

The video effects are so cool.

[@dianasarg4868]

They rocked our stinkin faces off in Dallas omg y'all don't even KNOW!! Ugh! Still on cloud 9,000

[@Addy_Scim]

I know these aren't the actual lyrics but in this live version it totally sounds like he said "You hit like DiMaggio"

[@youthecat]

That was FABULOUS!

[@Arrakiz666]

The lesser known brother and arch-nemesis of Jack Black.

[@atlas8714]

Holy shit, what a brilliant performance!

[@muellertrumpsbane9375]

This reminds me of beastie boys Paul's boutique

[@pamelacox967]

🌾🌻🌾GREAT PERFORMANCE JACK; BRAVO, ENCORE!🌾🌻🌾 🌾🌻🌾THE DRUMMER IS JACK WHITES EX-WIFE! FANTASTICO🌾🌻🎂

[@DuffyLONER64]

Love the two keyboard players!! They're awesome!!! \m/

[@tyrred]

Damn, son... The first Jack White song that I like!

[@joshualessore7652]

He has loaaaads of amazing songs. It's just 7 times out of 10 he's not good live. But Consoler of the Lonely, Carolina Drama, Little Cream Soda, Icky Thump, Solute Your Solution, Girl you don't believe in medicine and Take, Take, Take are all spectucular songs and worth checking out. Problem is they've all at one time been performed really badly live.

[@ethanhill9738]

This races through many genres of American popular music. I'd buy a ticket. And I prefer the first album.

[@matthewsnyder674]

Don't know if it was intentional, but digging the '90s music video effects on the edges of the frame

[@lumpyfishgravy]

Unlike the new AM album - I love JW's new stuff, which doesn't sound much different than the old stuff to my ears. Like AM's loony album it's experimental but so satisfying!

[@bilhelm000]

That ending blew me away.

[@LAVISHING]

Greatness! Thanks for everything bud! On my first tour where should I go to in Detroit? I’m trying to figure it out now so that I can plan it! Because after July 19th, 2023 I’ll only be playing music for the rest of life!

[@Diax1324]

That was probably so fucking loud on stage. 6x10 Cabinet with 100 watt silvertone, and an 85 watt Fender I believe? Dimed.

[@havoth]

Every little thing Jack White lays his hand to... just rocks. That being a given - there was something about the experimental sound and lyrics that reminded me of Prince. hmmmm....

[@OobleeDooblee]

Whatever man, this song is great and this is Jack's best work in years, maybe ever.

[@obriech]

Drummer is killing it!

[@israelalpizar]

DAT DRUMMER DOUGH!!!

[@cozbaldwin937]

GOTT! DAMM!! Love it!

[@juliannaemilypickens5338]

whatever happened to the distortion mic that he could pull out of one of his guitars? that thing sounded fantastic!

[@miguelsoria8243]

julianna pickens that guitar was solely made for The Raconteurs. He only used it for their first tour I believe

[@amylynn5778]

Harmonica mic rigged to the guitar.

[@nedkuczmynda3782]

i think he just used it for raconteurs

[@Soprano_661]

Green hornet microphone or something I think wired into the guitar

[@stevenooms1366]

Fuuunky!

[@zuzu27]

It's just so bad ass!

[@craigbaily4865]

That was a stone groove!

[@alo6638]

The drummer’s stick is bigger than yours! 😂

[@jimspace]

The frontier. This is 2118. Amazing

[@Rya_N33]

Use to hate the white stripes then one day that’s all I listened to for a year jack white is a straight up genuine bad ass so talented

[@Gonko100]

It feels like midstage-evolving - he is looking for a sound he hasnt quite found yet. Its by far not weird enough for Zappa territory to excite music nerds and is probably too alienating for the mainstream crowd.

[@hen3vz]

Gonkosan Roberto jip you nailed it

[@GuadalupePicasso]

While his current album could be construed as a misstep by many, and understandably so, I prefer this to something “safe”. For me, I don’t dislike the album, but so much of it to me feels like sketches, rather than fully fleshed out songs. Despite that quibble from me, it makes me 1,000,000% excited and confident for his next album, as I suspect that this will come to be seen as a transition between Lazaretto and whatever strangeness he next brews up.

[@midnight5324]

This shit fucking jams!!...Carla Azar on drums!!..She's a beast!!...5 more days and i will be seeing this live in Cleveland Ohio...Yeah baby!!

[@514questionmarks]

*HELL FUCKING YEAH*

[@EvWuzhere]

This album is great

[@paulbegovatz3042]

Only two people who know karate, the Japanese, and the King

[@gurthod]

One hell of drummer.

[@stevewoods4686]

From one Steven to another Ste[ph]en, you must keep offering this level of musical art to your faithful audience. #amazing #allegedly

[@FLACreviews]

Great performance!

[@alexanderrolfs6539]

So good. They drummer absolutely killz it!

[@Erickchicas]

Loved it!