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Jack White Keeps It Intimate, Clamorous and Classic as His ‘No Name’ Tour Pops In to L.A.’s Lodge Room and Mayan: Concert Review
Jack White kept to his "attack with little warning" ethos with small L.A. shows at the Mayan and Lodge Room, both equally clamorous and exciting.
Following virtually every Jack White show, his website posts a selection of concert pictures taken that night by his in-house photographer, David James Swanson, and occasionally they’ll throw in a crowd shot. Neither one was going to compared to his epic, tour-ending show right next door to the Mayan at the Belasco in January 2023, but both of these mid-tour L.A. stops were non-stop, sweat-soaked and proficiently frantic enough to feel more than sufficiently draining for any normal human person. But then, only the Mayan got a couple of semi-bold-face-name guest stars, first in the form of Money Mark (of Beastie Boys fame) coming out as a second keyboard player for “Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground,” then with Carla Azar (formerly of White’s band) taking the stool as guest drummer on the finale to the main set, “I’m Slowly Turning Into You.” The drum set seemed to fall apart as Azar left the stage, without her kicking it, in some kind of spontaneous combustion, as if it were only built to handle one powerhouse percussionist a night.
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