The Gatewood Gang: Third Time's A Charm

Friday, July 31, 2009

Third Time's A Charm

We took a last minute getaway to Nashville before school starts back on Thursday. We were going to see Jack White's new band, The Dead Weather. Once we got to Nashville, we stopped at Third Man Records, and we had missed meeting Jack by just a couple of minutes. The store was really neat, and we enjoyed looking at all of the stuff.

Matt in front of the Icky Thump Gold Record

T-Shirts on the wall

Cool phone booth

One of the walls in Third Man Records

After we left Third Man Records, we headed to our hotel. We checked in and found out that the weather was really bad in Memphis. Tornados were hitting everywhere. We met the other guys in the Business Center and watched the Weather Channel and Channel 5 via the internet to make sure our families were ok. Matt kept watching out the window because he say the bassist for the band autographing a kid's vinyl from our hotel room.

Once we felt like our families were safe, we headed across the street to where Matt had seen the bassist to find out that we had missed Jack by just a couple of minutea AGAIN. His Mercedes was parked close to the back entrance, so we decided to stick it out to meet him. We hung out talking to the other people around and finally Jack came out. We got our tickets signed by him and got a couple of pictures with him.

Matt walked up to him and asked if he would take a picture. Matt put his arm around Jack and said, "Say CHEESE, Jack." Jack giggled at this, and right when I went to take the picture an old guy jumped in front of me making my camera refocus and NOT take the picture. Then Jack said that he had to go. It was sad to not get the picture, but it was great to finally meet Jack.

We went to the concert later, and it was great! We had hoped for a little more since Nashville is Jack's hometown, but we were a little disappointed.