The show was incredible, but how come no one is talking about how badly the White Stripes sucked ass? Meg’s guitar was WAY out of tune (don’t know how that one slipped by them) and Jack’s performance was just plain ugly and unappealing. I guess they were trying to do a Bob Dylan thing and totally change up the song’s style, but the cold hard truth is that it sounded like crap and they should have just played it straight.

even as a fan of the Stripes. . that performance was a bit painfull to watch. Meg put down the guitar and step away.

KOL is right. The performance was bad. Not as embarrassing or pathetic as Kanye West on SNL, but bad.

Part of the band’s magic is Meg behind the drums. THAT would have been a true White Stripes performance.

My wife and I watched. She kept asking me “this is a joke…this isn’t a real band, is it?” I told her it was, but yeah, the performance was a joke. SO out of tune (and Meg can’t play guitar either) it was a real letdown. I was looking forward to a high energy, rockin’ tune

“stripped-down version of the White Blood Cells standout “We’re Going to Be Friends.””

…How is it “stripped down” if they ADDED Meg White’s vocals and a guitar?

i do not understand what is so special about this band. oh well…opinions…….

Glad im not the only one who thought the White Stripes sucked Friday night. I love Conan, but was really excited about this performance. Complete let down.

Thank… God… I’m not the only one who noticed… that the White Stripes sucked…

It should have been awesome. Given Conan’s history with the White Stripes. And they were a meaningful choice for a last musical guest.

But I feel like the White Stripes felt like they were so LEGENDARY that they had the license to go and do something both bizarre (which isn’t automatically a bad thing) and HORRIBLY executed (which is automatically a bad thing).

I’m normally more eloquent than this, but the White Stripes’ suckiness drained me of my ability to write well.

When the White Stripes are ‘on’, it’s amazing…

When they are having a rough night, it’s painful.

When I watched them on Conan, I thought to myself, ‘I bet this is the last time the White Stripes ever play together.

Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but there seemed to be a lot of tension between Jack and Meg.

Somebody get Meg some bongos!

Conan playing an 1860’s baseball player…..Unbelievably funny.

It’s a shame because it really is a great song. No idea why they didn’t just do the album version.

Holy geez… i like the striped, but maybe they should’ve rehearsed a little before ending the show with a sour performance. Damn.

it seemed like jack was crying at times, his voice kept cracking and sounded awful. one of my favorite bands of all time, but i expected a show stopping, guitar shredding, drum pounding performance from the stripes. Not this.

while watching friday night’s performance, i threw up in my mouth a little bit. It would have been great if it had been in tune and/or in time.

I think the Bond theme killed his mojo.

Okay guys I’ll admit that the performance was def a bit rough and that meg really has no business playing the guitar but for all of you critics out there, that song was arranged in the tune of Conan’s Lullaby Song which appeared on the show several times. It was a fitting song choice, an emotional performance and a sweet tribute to conan.

Finally, the Jack White mystique is over. I feel sorry for Meg, hope she invested wisely, although in this economy what does that mean? And Conan is so unfunny. Carson is spinning etc etc.

Love the band, but what a night to have the worst performance of your career. But I’ll let this one slide a hope they get back on track, soon

it wasn’t that bad, Liked it. It was heartfelt and Conan seemed to appreciate it, as it’s his favorite and it was really all about him anyway. Jack still in much pain with a slipped disc, but made the effort, as Meg is getting back into it as well. Liked her percussive guitar with the delay to keep time.(*it was in tune by the way) They were like two kids playing for the grownups, they did fine.

I liked it, but all that really matters is that Conan liked it. It was thier tribute to him, arranging his favorite WS song in the tune of his lullaby and giving Meg something to do on the song since the normal version leaves her out. Didn’t anyone hear him him say, “that meant the world to me” when he shook Jack’s hand afterwards?

Odd: “How come no one is talking about how badly the white stripes suck ass?”

really? did you read any of the other entries or did you assume that everyone was showering them with praise? can you read?

Have any of you ever seen the band live? This is their thing….they like sloppy. Electric…they always speed up the songs. What did you expect of them? Do you think that Jack should fire Meg and hire Neil Peart? Maybe he could get Flea to play bass. They can play 15 minute long “math rock” songs with everybody trading solos until our head explode.

Stop judging artists for what they aren’t….try appreciating them for what they are.

Oh so they played something that sounded different from the studio version. You can’t be that surprised. This band always comes out with something we don’t expect which I think is a good thing. I appreciated it.

I from Russia and I don’t understand you… USA is ugly) sorry boy’s ))
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I from Russia and I don’t understand you… USA is ugly) sorry boy’s ))
In Russia :

All of you saying you liked it need to shut the hell up and be honest with yourself….IT SUCKED….IT SUCKED HARD

No, it didn’t. Maybe YOU do, but oh well.

,,,,,the Stripes are freaking awesome, go listen to Kanye or Taylor Swift if you cant handle rock and roll, baby.

,,,,,and hey you, Idiot from Russia, go f#ck yourself, you commie bastard. What the hell is with the ugly American comment? Take a look at your fat hairy women, then tell me who is ugly!

The played “friends” to Conan’s “lullaby” song. Jack planned it that way to honor Conan. If that was unfamiliar to you – of course you will be surprised at the result – it was unrecognizable except for the lyrics. Did you hear Conan walk up to them and say how much it meant to him?

Awful performance on Conan. I hope the next White Stripes CD isn’t as bad as the last two. It has been a while since some real good music from this group.

You thought Icky Thump was bad? Wow.

This was not good, but I do like the arrangement. I plan to steal it and play it that way this week. The actual performance was off, they were nervous, or unrehearsed, or had bad sound (or all three)but it’s a great song and could have been a cool performance

As a former fan, I have to say they should have thrown in the towel long ago. This performance proves they SUCK. I wish they would just go away peacefully.

Wow I think that was a little to stripped down, might be my little speaker on my Power Mac but I remember the album version sounding much better.

On a side note look how funny the Russians text looks hehe
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omg, it was so touching to see Jack near tears,he’s so much more than just a rock star. They are geniuses!

omg, it was so touching to see Jack near tears,he’s so much more than just a rock star. They are geniuses!

PHIIIISH

If this performance was for a local talent show they would have lost.
And possibly gotten the hook the
whole performance was horrible.
Was that suppose to be singing
in harmony ? And this whole thing
about artist expression is bull.

That sucked bad

I didn’t think the performance was good at all. Though Jack is so charming and has a great voice, it made up for the bad parts. As a fan I found it sad and almost in tears to see them live for the first time in so long and to see how rusty they were. It was still a very touching moment to send Conan off, and I saw in Rolling Stone that they gave him a guitar.

Stripes were top notch fallon so far is a sad replacement for conan