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Stills from a rig tour with Jack White
I played Jack White’s guitar rig – here’s what I learned

By Michael Astley-Brown Published

It’s one of the most idiosyncratic setups on the touring circuit today – and giving it a test-drive was a true seat-of-the-pants experience

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Nene Royal live on the America's Got Talent stage
16-year-old guitarist stuns in America’s Got Talent final by turning the White Stripes’ Seven Nation Army into a metal anthem

By Janelle Borg Published

Wielding her vintage Ibanez, Nene Royal’s AGT run saw her perform Soundgarden, the Cranberries, and Muse classics

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Jack White plays his early-'60s Kay K6533 archtop hollowbody with its single Kay “cheese grater” single-coil pickup onstage in 2024.
How Jack White found his own voice by seeking out a different kind of guitar

By Jonathan Horsley Published

Silvertone, Airline, Kay... Jack White's formative tastes in electric guitars gave him a sound that he wouldn't have found if he'd chosen a more orthodox instrument

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The White Stripes rehearse for the 2004 Grammy Awards show at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California
How Jack White came upon the castaway guitar he'd use to play Seven Nation Army at the Grammys

By Jackson Maxwell Published

The story tracks with someone who has made not one, but two, special cameo appearances on a popular reality TV show about sifting for valuable artifacts in yard sales and antique shops

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Jack White playing acoustic guitar on Jimmy Fallon
Jack White reveals the one guitar he regrets letting go – and why he still hopes he'll reunite with it

By Janelle Borg Published

White reminisces on the one that got away...

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Left-American rock duo the White Stripes, February 2002. They are Jack White and his ex-wife Meg White; Center-Carol Kaye plays bass guitar in a Los Angeles recording studio in the mid 1960's; Right-Matt Cameron, Chris Cornell, Kim Thayil and Ben Shepherd of Soundgarden
One of the most iconic session players of all time has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

By Janelle Borg Published

Oasis and Phish were notably snubbed from the Class of 2025

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Kurt Coban Jack White James Hetfield
New research reveals the world’s most Googled guitar riffs and chord progressions

By Phil Weller Published

A total of 271 songs and 2,314,336 Google searches were analyzed, with a riff many believe to be played on bass claiming the top spot

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Third Man Records Garage Sale – featuring Jack White's Framus Sorella Archtop and Ernie Ball Music Man St Vincent guitars
Jack White is selling off his White Blood Cells guitar, his customized Ernie Ball St. Vincent and, er... a potentially “irradiated and possibly haunted” autopsy table

By Matt Parker Published

The new Third Man Garage Sale is clearing out stage-played gear, alongside a host of curiosities and oddities from the TM HQ in Nashville

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(from left) Adrian Smith, Tom Morello, Chris Cornell and Jack White perform onstage
Iron Maiden, Rage Against the Machine, Soundgarden, The White Stripes lead 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominations

By Jackson Maxwell Published

This year's nomination class also includes Joy Division and New Order, Missy Elliott, The Spinners, Willie Nelson and Warren Zevon

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(from left) Meg White, Jeff Beck and Jack White perform onstage at London's Royal Festival Hall on September 13, 2002
Watch Jeff Beck play a ferocious set of Yardbirds classics with the White Stripes in 2002

By Jackson Maxwell Published

Sharing a clip of the high-volume jam on social media, Jack White tipped his cap to the late "guitar innovator extraordinaire"

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