I get emails from the Salt Shed about their upcoming shows. In their most recent email, they described Jack White as a "living legend." At first blush, that seemed odd. A living legend should be Mick Jagger or Bob Dylan. But, we're 25 years into the 21st Century. By 21st Century standards, I suppose the shoe fits.

Thoughts?

I think his legacy is sort of as a curator of other people's legacies, of re-elevating vinyl pressings and the Record Store Day promotion, of being The Last True Rock & Roll Star or whatever. It's all very recursive and music-adjacent. In terms of the work itself, well, much like AC/DC, he wrote a song that people like to hear at sporting events. Bono and David Byrne are living legends. Jack White? Ehh I dunno.

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you dare question the validity of the salt shed press release?

Bob Mould's a living legend

Jack White's kind of a d-bag. tries too hard. i can't think of any songs or lyrics i really connected to. Nevertheless, the music with the White Stripes was really good.

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Correct. You can keep everything else. I'm waiting for him to do a Clapton and try to sell an acoustic version of "Ball and Biscuit."

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You don't think Benson Boone and his backflips make a Rock Star?
Interesting topic, though....who actually is the last / most recent Rock Star? Jack White makes the discussion, but i'd throw Bruno Mars into the discussion. More of a Pop Star, I guess, but he does have that cocaine bust.

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Bono and Byrne certainly qualify, but both of those guys made their bones last century. For guys who made their bones this century, White is in the team photo.

In terms of curating other people's legacies, that's really all that's left of rock in 2025. Everything is a copy of a copy or a nod to something that has happened in the past.