White Stripes

entire UK tour cancelled.

entire world tour cancelled, morelike. ;((((

Canceled two big Austin appearances this week at the last minute. "Unnamed health reasons" wtf?

Meg's gone missing.

I made that up.

She's pregnant.

Jack's developed a heroin addiction.

Arthritis.

DETROIT (AP) -- The White Stripes have canceled all remaining tour dates through the end of the year, including fall dates in Britain.

''They thank you for your understanding and well wishes,'' said a posting on the duo's Web site.

Singer-guitarist Jack White and drummer Meg White had previously canceled their September shows, saying ''Meg White is suffering from acute anxiety and is unable to travel at this time.''

Spokeswoman Chloe Walsh, in an e-mail Tuesday to The Associated Press, said she had no further comment on the tour cancellation and White's illness.

Ticket holders can get refunds at the point of purchase, the Web site said, except for the Austin City Limits Festival, which is nonrefundable because it is a festival.

i thought this said white strippers.

I also have acute anxiety. Can I cancel my job for the rest of the year?

how cute is it?

A panic attack is the most severe form of acute anxiety and what happens in your body is in response to, not the cause of, a sudden, excessive amount of adrenaline and other hormones in your bloodstream. The trigger is usually psychological (your belief that a situation is threatening) but may be physical (intake of a substance that disturbs your body’s equilibrium in some way) or a combination of the two. If you wait the symptoms of panic subside and you will return to normal. As this can take between 5 and 20 minutes most people find it extremely difficult to just wait. Your own fear of what is happening sets off further panic and more adrenaline is produced. This fear of fear means you are hypersensitive to your own body sensations and as soon as you feel anything that reminds you of a previous panic you tense up, thus making a further panic attack more likely. Remember that feeling very hot or a bit dizzy can be because of other things, such as sitting in an overheated, stuffy room, being hungry or dehydrated.

One of the most common causes of a panic attack is hyperventilation, or overbreathing. We do this to meet extra demand from our muscles for oxygen (the fight or flight response). As the body tries to take in more oxygen our breathing rate increases as it would if we were running. However when anxious we tend to tense up, making our breathing shallower and faster. Our lungs can’t fully inflate with each breath when our chest muscles are tight. Shallow, rapid breathing and overbreathing disturb the balance of carbon dioxide in our bodies and can bring on symptoms of panic. The same physiological reactions can happen after taking certain drugs.

Ativan

Klonipin

Xanax

I also have acute anxiety. Can I cancel my job for the rest of the year?

if you can afford it, i guess.

Ativan withdrawal has caused a panic attack or two in me.

I remember my mum breathing into a paper bag all the time when she had a panic attack coming on. I guess it runs in the family.

But "acute anxiety" might be code for something else here, nay?

I also have acute anxiety. Can I cancel my job for the rest of the year?

if you can afford it, i guess.

No I can't and this is why I hate. I have lost jobs previously for anxiety and the issues which accompany them.

Ativan did not do much for me but Klonpin has been a blessing. I take it before meetings, social events, anytime I'm around my boss b/c there is much friction there. (before anyone accuses me of pill-popping I also work on non-med ways to deal with this in therapy)

I suppose in the end it's better not to be rich and instead be forced to deal with these issues and work through them.

But "acute anxiety" might be code for something else here, nay?

Quite possibly. I still say pregnant.

does your job require incessant air travel?

But "acute anxiety" might be code for something else here, nay?

Yep.

As in, possibly the tape that's doing the rounds? Possibly not though.

does your job require incessant air travel?

Is this something she's been documented having issues with before? It's not like this is their first tour. Any anxiety related to touring would certainly seem strange to manifest itself at this point.

hmm, pretty judgemental attitude for someone with same difficulties.

What tape?

As in, possibly the tape that's doing the rounds? Possibly not though. What's this?

...what happens in your body is in response to, not the cause of, a sudden, excessive amount of adrenaline and other hormones in your bloodstream.

You'd think excessive adrenaline would make her a better drummer OH SNAP YA BURNT.

j/k Meg I love you and wish you a speedy rehab recovery.

Wait, what tape? Is this some kind of sexy sex scandal? Of course it would be total White Stripes style to use an obsolete format for something like that.

acute anxiety brought on by taking too many anti-anxiety medications and drinking

hmm, pretty judgemental attitude for someone with same difficulties.

I am drinking haterade.

Yeah, sex tape. Sort of hard to tell if it's really her.

:o

you be the judge

^^^^FORUM W/LINK TO VID

It's not her, this girl can keep a rhythm.

Didn't it take Andy Partridge like 5-7 years before his anxiety freakouts & the end of XTC's touring? Seems resonable enough hers would jump out now, or at any time really.

I don't think it's as much a question as to whether anxiety is a legitimate reason for discontinuing a tour, but whether media regurgitations are trustworthy.

Just saw preview of "Under Great White Northern Lights", pretty awesome! Some really nice cinematography in here, some great performances, particularly Jolene and White Moon. I had forgotten how big a part the White Stripes played in my youth, particularly my late teens/early 20s. So it was almost a little nostalgic. Saw it with a friend who had never heard them and she really liked it. The end even made her tear up a little.

So overrated

Pffffft

why are they now in the rock and roll hall of fame? is it their influence? so, more influential than Sonic Youth and Pavement? is it their popularity? why isn't Grand Funk Railroad in there?

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(that's all I got)

They're in before Sonic Youth and Pavement because they sold a lot more records. (Even Kim Gordon said she doesn't think Sonic Youth will ever get in because they were big sellers.) Pretty shitty reason, but not surprising given the direction their inductions have taken over the past 20 years, specially after iHeart and its voting employees have exerted greater and greater influence. (I actually love the White Stripes and I'm happy they're in, but even Jack White strongly hinted in his speech that there's a long list of people who have been overlooked.)

*because they weren't big sellers

so how come no grand funk railroad? they sold like 3 times more records than the White Stripes.

probably because grand funk railroad sucked?

i mean really, of all the bands/artists snubbed by the r&rhof you chose to step up for fucking grand funk?

'green grass and high tides' is incomparably better than anything grand funk ever did, but no one is demanding that the outlaws be inducted

(unless there's a 'florida guitar army' subdivision)

sure, why not? they sold a lot of records. they sold out Shea faster than the Beatles. I agree they suck. but so do the White Stripes!

why are they now in the rock and roll hall of fame? is it their influence? so, more influential than Sonic Youth and Pavement? is it their popularity? why isn't Grand Funk Railroad in there?

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you'd prefer the strokes/hives/vines/etc....

they're a lighthouse for the time, right or wrong.

A white lighthouse for the white times

I didn't know the Foo Fighters have been in there for years now. Whatever, I don't know why I cared in the first place.

the foo fighters and white stripes are in for the same reason. because dave grohl and jack white have kept the flame of rock and roll alive and upheld its legacy. i don't just mean that both were in popular rock bands (though that certainly helps), but that they actively revered and paid tribute to their forebears and positioned themselves to be seen as their inheritors. feel like white stripes were guaranteed induction when jack white appeared in the 2008 documentary it might get loud, about three guitarists: white, the edge, and jimmy page. and then a couple years later he produced a wanda jackson album.

i had no idea sonic youth weren't in there

why would sonic youth be in there

they really should be in there, but it's not terribly surprising that they aren't since they didn't sell any records and to the extent that they have a mainstream reputation it's as a band that's weird and noisy and self-indulgently arty. but i could see the veterans committee or whatever it's called eventually inducting them in 10 years.

(though maybe not before joy division/new order, the smiths, and the pixies.)

It's not the Indie Rock Hall of Fame. IMO the inductees are always going to be reflective of mainstream taste, and that's fine. The idea of a group like SY or Pavement being in there seems questionable. Most people have no idea who these artists are. I think we indie-heads have a tendency to overestimate the cultural impact of our favorites. Joy Division is more of an edge case...still fairly niche but the scope of their influence is hard to deny. I could see them sneaking in.

joy division isn't in the rock and roll hall of fame? what kind of hall of fame is this?

i will say that i have been pleasantly surprised to see the cure and depeche mode get inducted in recent years. there was a while when it seemed like the hall had zero interest in any british bands of that era.

Joy Division (or Sonic Youth) would be the inductee with the fewest records sold, probably?

Stooges, probably, or the MC5.

It shouldn't matter if it's indie or major label work - you kind of see the same thing whenever lists are compiled with films, but whereas critics and scholars don't really favor one over the other, people in the industry or with some strong connection to it (like the AFI) will have a pretty blatant bias towards anything that was done by a major studio, or in this case bands whose best-known work were originally put out by a major label. It's more egregious when you look at bands who've never been NOMINATED, never mind inducted, and those include Sonic Youth and Pavement.

Should be an “underground rock” hall of fame, moving between exhibits requires carefully threading your way between overflowing toilets.

xp (tbf Sonic Youth was signed by Geffen after Daydream Nation)

Venerating Iggy’s jar of peanut butter like a splinter of the True Cross.

the funny thing is if you actually go to the museum in cleveland, they have lots of displays related to artists who aren't enshrined in the hall of fame. like liz phair's guitar or biz markie's afro pick or whatever.

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the funny thing is if you actually go to the museum in cleveland, they have lots of displays related to artists who aren't enshrined in the hall of fame. like liz phair's guitar or biz markie's afro pick or whatever.

Yup. Awhile back I remember reading a post somewhere by a former music writer who had a friend who worked for the museum - those guys running the collections and the exhibits really know their stuff and really do care about getting the history of the music right, so they frequently reach out to acts who have otherwise been completely overlooked by the Hall of Fame committee. That's how Bob Stinson's organ gets donated to their collection and how Dave Thomas of Pere Ubu donated a lot of unorthodox instruments and tools he used with the band (which was all displayed in an exhibit that included local Cleveland bands) - the museum reached out to them and made those requests.

(probably should be David Thomas)

Venerating Iggy’s jar of peanut butter like a splinter of the True Cross

Pretty sure Long Gone John from Sympathy owns the cheetah leather jacket

the actual museum is a good time for just about anyone and thankfully has little to do with who gets inducted etc.

sonic youth should absolutely be in there. I mean the Velvets are in there, and they definitely sold less than SY.