Guitarist joined old friend on the Raconteurs’ “Broken Boy Soldier” and the live premiere of White’s “Bless Yourself”<\/p>\n
\n\tJack White<\/a> welcomed an old friend, the Strokes<\/a>\u2018 Nick Valensi<\/a>, at his L.A. show Monday night for a couple of songs: the Raconteurs\u2019 \u201cBroken Boy Soldier\u201d and White\u2019s \u201cBless Yourself.\u201d The latter performance, a song off White\u2019s 2024 album, No Name, was the first time White played it live.<\/p>\n \n\tVideo that White posted from the concert, which took place at the Hollywood Palladium, showed Valensi and him in a classic-rock guitar showdown trading pentatonic lead riffs like the Allman Brothers. (White posted more video from the concert on his website<\/a>, accessible if you click, \u201cDownload Live Video.\u201d)<\/p>\n \n\tWhite and Valensi have crossed paths several times in the past three decades as their respective bands ushered in a rock revival around the turn of the millennium. White joined the Strokes onstage twice in August 2002: first at Radio City Music Hall with White playing the Strokes\u2019 \u201cNew York City Cops\u201d with the band before repeating the performance later in the month at Reading.<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\tValensi was able to make the gig ostensibly because he\u2019s on a \u201ctemporary break\u201d<\/a> from the Strokes. The group announced his hiatus from the group in May, about a month after he played his last gig with them at Coachella. Steve Schiltz took Valensi\u2019s place, playing rhythm guitar on the group\u2019s Reality Awaits Tour<\/a>, which wrapped earlier in September.<\/p>\n \n\tWhite will play the same venue Tuesday night, so Valensi will have the opportunity to join him again. And if the Strokes have the temerity to complain about him joining White for the gig when he returns he at least can rely on the precedent set by Ross on Friends: \u201cWe were on a (temporary) break!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guitarist joined old friend on the Raconteurs’ “Broken Boy Soldier” and the live premiere of White’s “Bless Yourself”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[113053,48,52,51,47,50,49,188069,112912],"class_list":["post-479477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-jack-white","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-nick-valensi","tag-the-strokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}