The Dead Weather: Music Hall of Williamsburg

A child of a few hours/is burning to death/her eyes are full of smoke/her mouth is full of fire”. 

The Dead Weather’s cover of The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band has Jack White and Alison Mosshart exchange these gruesome lyrics with giddy glee, but tonight it was the stretched out “fire” in the jamming of this tune that summed up the whole shebang.  Stretched out with raucous yet tight low end, a mean aura of keys and feedback with Rock and Roll showmanship combined to form pure, raw power. 

The Music Hall of Williamsburg was crammed with diehards ready to watch the leather clad rockers spew there sleazy hard rock and The Dead Weather did not let them down.  Running through their songs off Horehound, they played smoking versions of “Hang You From The Heavens”, “Far From Your Weapon” and “60 Feet Tall”.  This foursome really get off on their covers and besides the all ready discussed “A Child of A Few Hours Is Burning To Death” the set opening version of Pentagram’s “Forever My Queen” and the Van Morrison penned “You Just Can’t Win” were cryptically explosive.

The show was also highlighted by three new tunes the band flushed out, “No Horse” which on this night had an Egyptian Dark Pop vibe, “Jawbreaker” and a drum machine infused “I Can’t Hear You”.  The last found White playing the 6-string and was slapped in the encore between “I Cut Like a Buffalo and “Treat Me Like Your Mother”.  

Throughout the set Dean Fertita exerted himself on keys and guitar adding tone and layers to the heaviness as Jack Lawrence was content to support the rhythm and move the tracks along.  White and Mosshart may get the attention and play up the love/kill angle on stage with their school kid’s boy/girl antics but there is nothing processed regarding the complete experience of the The Dead Weather live; bad ass, eyes full of smoke and mouths full of fire.      

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