TV Live: White Stipes - "Seven Nation Army" (Conan 2003)

[@charlenemack7040]

How on earth can this song be just one guitar and one drum and that’s it and it is 1000% awesome

[@alextrivunovic644]

@elbob17 i'm 45 and i love it.

[@alisonf6478]

@elbob17I’m 53 and absolutely love it.

[@nunyafunyuns]

@elbob17 I'm 54 and I think it's amazing.

[@MyNamesGert91]

Twas the ideal nexus of guitar technology, decent sounding gear and the genius of Jack White.

[@AudioFileZ]

@elbob17 I'm almost 65 and it gets me every time I hear it. It's the $#!+.

[@algr665]

Not just CLASSIC but ICONIC. This song belongs to the world now! And we mortals value their talent.

[@algr665]

And Elvis stole the music from Sister Rosetta Tharpe and from many others before her. @elbob17

[@alisonf6478]

@elbob17you need a new hobby 😂

[@EDDhoot]

@elbob17 How are you here and how did you end up staying long enough to read comments and replying on a video of a song you dispise so much? 🤣 kinda sad Bob, kill this hate in you man, its not healthy and you'll likely just end up bitter and resentful at the end.

[@steppingtotheam281]

@elbob17It’s ok to be wrong

[@ddewittfulton]

Meg singing along as she plays makes me so happy to watch!

[@woodshed_moments]

It'll never ceases to amaze me what hits, such a simple riff and the thing just caught fire

[@williamgullett5911]

Who is the dude standing behind Meg?

[@sofarsogod]

Simplicity is the key.

[@joepres86]

Amazing to see. No one new at the time how massive this song would become

[@dondee5439]

When Jack White was a little boy he mistakenly thought The Salvation Army was called THE SEVEN NATION ARMY. Years later he used that to write this award winning song.

[@sstrykert]

If he only knew....

[@carmencaamano9434]

Who cares?

[@carmencaamano9434]

Listen!

[@rickrose5377]

One of the greatest live performances on television I've ever seen -- and I go back. So perfectly stylized and carefully conceived. The red-and-black-only theme. The bodyguard/bouncer standing stock still with his hands folded in front of him until the very end. Meg, hand on hip, mouthing the lyrics to herself while Jack sings. And it just rocks. A work of art. A friggin' masterpiece.

[@ddewittfulton]

I love this band because they help sort out the douchebags in life. If they have some "opinion" about the quality of Meg's' drumming or Jack's guitar playing, I know right away who to leave off the Christmas list. It saves a lot of time.

[@kellyjostad4900]

Great comment! 👍

[@hedekbass]

The people who criticize her are like Ringo Starr’s: they might know drumming but they don’t understand music.

[@dbruinsm132]

@@hedekbassbro, today is the first time hearing them live and during both times I watched them megs drumming is not something to be talking about, heck she can’t even play a consistent tempo, and Jack was literally playing flat during the majority of the solo solo and even playing a flat note consistently during the chorus. Imagine yea, the easiest riff in existence played flat. A good studio band that does not perform well live, atleast during their earlier days ig

[@trinix27]

​@dbruinsm132 walked straight fuckin into that one 😂

[@yodaTVmedia]

@@trinix27 not a room reader.

[@nunyafunyuns]

I just love watching this performance. It's beyond cool.

[@MTRAdmiralty]

The guy standing behind Meg is awesome.\

[@bostoncityofchampions6581]

I think it's Oddjob from the James Bond movie 'Goldfinger'.

[@vanillathunder3024]

Lol…he’s playing an instrument called the “angry stare”

[@susanhowsden9398]

🎸 JACK IS UNBELIEVEABLY TALENTED 🎸

[@ftm84]

I'm from Minnesota and two weeks before this Conan performance I saw them in Paris - a mind-blowing concert.

[@piteusx8440]

This was the perfect live version.

[@flutetubamorg]

I love the body guard making sure Meg can be Meg.

[@charlenemack7040]

I heard this on the radio just the other day November 2023… I call it the triangle song. If you would like to know why watch the official music video. Thank you DJ Mark for playing this song.😊❤

[@maaarie_sk]

Funny enough jack white has an obsession for the number 3.

[@soniam.p.-li2lj]

This riff is universal. Jack White is a kind of medium, like others big ones and we thank God/ess for this!

[@kyleansbro8581]

I absolutely love when they let artists just perform, raw and all, I hate top of the pops style crap where they make them mime to the studio version, I want to hear THEM play their song

[@RighteousInquisition]

As long as they don't suck.

[@mwfmtnman]

​@@RighteousInquisitioneven if they do. Better to know they suck so you can stop wasting time and money on them lol

[@gachalife-ys8dy]

​@@mwfmtnmanbad comment, the important is that you like the song, independent if the artist can play the song on live or not.

[@mwfmtnman]

@@gachalife-ys8dy bad thought, I refuse to support hacks

[@gachalife-ys8dy]

@@mwfmtnman hacks? Wtf, maybe many artist dont sound like the record, and whats the problem? You can hear THE RECORD. If you think that some artists dont sing well on live, well listen the record. Wtf your way of thinking🤢disgusting, too much disgusting...

[@Redplanetfilms1]

Historical moment in music and sports arenas throughout the world!

[@Reefiemon]

Damn Jack really completes the Caroll/Depp/Burton/Dahl-esque act with those strafe moves during the chorus. Wow!

[@danaanad5373]

I'm gonna fight 'em off A seven nation army couldn't hold me back They're gonna rip it off Takin' their time right behind my back And I'm talkin' to myself at night Because I can't forget Back and forth through my mind Behind a cigarette And the message comin' from my eyes Says, "Leave it alone" Don't wanna hear about it Every single one's got a story to tell Everyone knows about it From the Queen of England to the Hounds of Hell And if I catch it comin' back my way I'm gonna serve it to you And that ain't what you want to hear But that's what I'll do And the feelin' comin' from my bones Says, "Find a home" I'm goin' to Wichita Far from this opera forevermore I'm gonna work the straw Make the sweat drip out of every pore And I'm bleedin', and I'm bleedin', and I'm bleedin' Right before the Lord All the words are gonna bleed from me And I will think no more And the stains comin' from my blood Tell me, "Go back home"

[@FERNANDOGONZALEZ-pb6re]

Love Megs facial expressions when she's drumming.

[@thedetroiters]

Seriously. How does Jack keep that first solo in tune. ridiculous.

[@HoodGoblin]

He rubs corn oil on the strings

[@TwoShedsJackson]

@@HoodGoblinFor real?

[@werby44]

Cause he’s a rock god

[@chraffis]

@@TwoShedsJackson😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@chonesman123]

Uuh, at least in this performance, it was incredibly out of tune.

[@gravydoors]

Saw this on TV back in 2003 at the height of garage rock bands. No one predicted SNA will be a global sports anthem.

[@Mgarguemare]

As a 67 year old woman, I really like it, I think it's awesome. It sort of reminds me of AC/DC's song, "Big Balls". My daughter is a middle school band director and her kids were excited when they learned to play it this year. It is now going to be their main song for pep rallies.

[@Epic-Zany_Is_Shiesty]

omg pure classic imo

[@holdencaulfield4808]

I MISS YOU MEG WHITE! (wherever you are.😢)

[@GPBraaten]

My favorite take.

[@파비아-j5w]

죽여주는 음악❤

[@mauriceortiz8817]

How foes he sing against the rhythm he's playing. He's like a sonic juggler. Brilliant. I hate him. I'm jealous! No I can't hate him. He's my hero!!

[@dtrix102]

Holy crap. That's absolute 🔥 Damn. 😳🤯

[@sarahboller5912]

JACK WHITE IS AWESOME ✌💙☠🔥

[@Normelman]

Jack live is amazing specially in 2007 or 2003

[@delano62]

Some of the best drumming ever. I'll leave now.

[@nachoisarg]

the wonka's musics

[@Owen_plays_music1049]

Top 5 most iconic songs of the 2000s with Numb, The Middle, Hate To Say I Told You So and Last Resort.

[@jackflicker8577]

damn i don't even know Hate to Say I Told You So

[@Owen_plays_music1049]

@@jackflicker8577 Seriously bro ?!

[@jackflicker8577]

@@Owen_plays_music1049 just looked it up lmao. i've heard it hundreds of times, just never knew the name

[@jackflicker8577]

@@Owen_plays_music1049 yessir

[@Owen_plays_music1049]

@@jackflicker8577 😳

[@forgibas]

megs floor tom is THUMPIN

[@cauabeloni1677]

Meg singing ❤

[@LarryMorrison-l9i]

Awesome

[@fabianacabrera2796]

La voz de Jack es muy excitante ❤❤❤❤

[@seejaneread]

I saw them a few times on this tour and it fucking rockkkkked

[@WildlifeUKNatureByGlenO]

Nothing is perfect. So I can only give it 9.9999999 out of 10.

[@matthiasandia9179]

this is the best song

[@drewgarrett9297]

Bad ass

[@tanujSE]

It's amazing song

[@ddewittfulton]

The tracking on the album, like so much with the White Stripes, is so thoughtful and perfect!

[@Wechson]

Imagine never hearing that before

[@coralytinoco__sabot5939]

She is so good ! Is the best everybody know her ❤❤❤

[@Spulontaj]

Canımızın Sağlığı

[@РоманИршенко]

Девушка на ударных зачет❤❤❤

[@rodneyforston6712]

A drum and a guitar 👏🇺🇸😂

[@user-qm7nw7vd5s]

Seen other clips where he has used the same guitar (or same model) spanning across some 20 years. Must just have that right sound…

[@Niki-tu7jz]

Best riff ever 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@wrthrash]

Bad ass!

[@jeffgabba1]

❤❤❤❤

[@savannasmusicdisk]

hell ya

[@geoffreydavis9019]

I was 23 in the Iraq invasion in 2003 living with the blood sweat tears and the burning sun in that hell hole…….. this came across the radio constantly. This was litterley one of our theme songs of our war.

[@RighteousInquisition]

My mom lived through that as a teenager during the occupation. For her, your presence wasn't bad or good. She was able to go to university for software engineering in Meerut and Barcelona, but her home town Erbil was damaged and rebuilt 4 times in ten years. By the US coalition as much as the insurgence, gangs and randomass foreign fighters.

[@bostoncityofchampions6581]

White looks like Johnny Depp playing Willy Wonka.

[@ddewittfulton]

Wow, you must have been up all night working that out. Or did you have your overnight guy come up with it?

[@bostoncityofchampions6581]

@@ddewittfulton - Man, someone got up on the wrong side of his sister. Sorry to p*ss in your corn flakes. Take your meds and go to back to bed, Mr. Anger Management.

[@stevetrivago]

Citizens Bank Park October 12 2023 - Only some will understand 💪🏼

[@barbrag7380]

The song for the Roll Tide.

[@shawnhuff3920]

More than one amplifier and effects and timing of the groove from meg on drums 🥁 😅

[@Openlyginger]

Bill Bellamy has no idea what musical genius would perform next to him

[@Cerebro515]

Something bout that big bodyguard hanging behind Meg is creeping me out

[@bobruff7049]

@elbob is one of the rebels who has to find hate with anything that might possibly be popular. He's comic book guy

[@jim6025]

How do they do that with only two people ??????

[@DepisTV]

what guitar is jack playing?? the sound is so fucking beefy

[@vincenzoiannone4736]

I can't see the mark: a kind of semiacoustic that sounds good anyway

[@den6679]

Класс с любовью из России❤

[@meliprincexx_peach]

How is doing this with that guitar

[@Gmork-The-Nothing]

In the intro and verse he's using a modulation fx pedal to make the guitar sound like a bass. Which he then turns off for the chorus and solos where he also uses a steel/glass slide on his finger to get that distinct blues slide guitar sound, but he's got a major fuzz effect applied to the sound as well.

[@LexxiGore]

I hope he use some looper on adlib part

[@pstone8832]

2:40 what the actual fuck

[@Sheic407]

Ты думаешь так просто играть на электрической гитаре?

[@pstone8832]

@@Sheic407 no dumb ass that’s why my comment is clearly me being in shock as to what I saw. While your at it tell your country to get their shit together

[@thescaryscream5963]

He nailed it tough. It also sounds like this on the studio version

[@stoots1000]

You dont see many live bands?

[@claygilchrist632]

@@stoots1000 I see live bands all the time. This is wayyy off tho.

[@ericaking6299]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🙃🧛‍♀️

[@grandegrande6018]

Alguien me podra decir que pedales (efectos) esta usando en esa canción?

[@TheRealBGregz]

An octave pedal for one.

[@thescaryscream5963]

Probably fuzz pedal but not sure

[@WorthlessDeadEnd]

Why was the dude in the back just standing there, holding a hat, when he could have been on bass? 🤨

[@tommygunreleased]

coz the song was done on the one guitar by jack

[@HowtoTableTop]

Anyone know the story behind the bodyguard? Dude is in nearly every shot. Seems... odd?

[@WorthlessDeadEnd]

I was just wondering about him, too. Who was he? What was his deal? Was that an example of performance art? 🤔

[@zippie33]

@HowtoTableTop during this time there were attempts at Meg’s life because people didn’t like her. The bodyguard was there for protection from possible assassins in the audience

[@elyvenkus7485]

@@zippie33damn that’s juicy

[@mikemccool7575]

@zippie33 I remember it well

[@drewgarrett9297]

She has severe anxiety disorder and he’s a support

[@williamgullett5911]

Who is the dude standing behind Meg? It seems odd he is standing there

[@MrMarvelous1973]

Am I the only one that is intranced by Meg's drumming skills

[@josh1674]

Are there bass strings on that guitar?

[@thescaryscream5963]

Why does megan have a bodyguard tough, i thought they where close friends with conan

[@emerpus01]

He’s a henchman. The White Stripes are actually Batman villains. Conan says it later in the show.

[@localwear1]

@@emerpus01 wait, was that “bodyguard “ actually serious with Conan?

[@Jedi-Biggs]

​@@localwear1no. Of course not.

[@pedrovianna6892]

Jack White is the only guitar player that can suck and be badass at the same time

[@johnfowler7289]

Sir I would like to introduce you to Keith Richards lol

[@t_a_m_a_g_o_c_h_i]

Literally the same for Cobain

[@truthseeker6532]

This Song is a Drug!!!

[@ethanhorace2253]

It really is

[@Tripltt-j2f]

YES

[@fausti10]

What guitar is he playing? Which model?

[@thescaryscream5963]

It's a Kay semi-hollowbody something something Edit: 1950s Kay Archtop It was originally sunburst, but it is covered in craft paper Hope it helps

[@talpajam]

a Kay model K6533 [Value Leader], specifically. listen to sister do u know my name , to get the real deep version of what this guitar is able to sound like =\

[@danielscissorhands]

Ya know, this could possibly make for a good sports anthem 🤔

[@kevink7609]

They got the wrong Jack for #halftime

[@sweet1cloud]

White Stipes 😂

[@edwardwilliams8238]

I have an odd fascination with Meg White.

[@josephmashburn4451]

Great music. Just poor video quality. Someone must have recorded this from TV, with their phone

[@cybereb06]

How can a drummer can get such a good sounding beat with such an average looking performance (visualy speaking, I mean) ? Still a mystery.

[@manawetydequilmes8845]

Que grande willy wonka 😂

[@jeffj2495]

A seven year old can play the drums, she was dragging him down. What an amazing song.

[@sarge-T.O.]

Great tune. Performance-wise, the drummer is a passenger on the bus.

[@swedishchefhands9037]

A lot of times when they pull a riff from a song to be played at sports events, it's super cool but the rest of the song is shit. This isn't one of those songs.

[@theplague8047]

Sounds like my cousing missing notes in guitar hero

[@YodatheHobbit]

Your cousin is an underrated genius.

[@TheDieselndust]

Simpsons did it better

[@vincenzoiannone4736]

0:59 The only value of this song is POOO, PO PO PO PO PO POOOO...😅 when Italy National Football team won World Cup in 2006😅😅😅!!!

[@JCB424]

@Epic-Zany_Is_Shiesty 5 months ago omg pure classic imo