Last night's White Stripes show at Madison Square Garden rocked:
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Big red stage, Jack running around, playing about six different guitars, singing into about six different mics, Meg beating the drums, she's a little waterbug: I've never seen anyone sit closer to their drums and still look like she was just barely reaching the kicks, loud Loud LOUD, light show involving a couple disco balls and some bright strobes, plenty of verde in the Garden, a long break before the encores, or was it an intermission since they played about ten songs after the break, if you want a set list ask someone more with it than me, the opener was Nick Cave I think, the less said about him the better, maybe he was there to make the Stripes sound better by comparison, anyway, great show; I had another review written up with pictures and sound clips but I lost it on preview so I limited myself to one sentence here, but I could tell the whole story in one predictable, accurate, appropriate four-letter word: rock.