Stripes Punk Out Their Fans; Fans Love It

I thought about writing about this last night but I wanted to sit on it and let all the details come out. Sure enough, it was full-on punk-out. The Stripes, via their lackey Blackwell,
sent the word out to the St. John's fans that they will be playing one note. Exactly one note. And all the while, a rather large number of fans were running up and down the streets of the city on a wild goose chase looking for the site of the one note concert. A radio station was sending out different locations and had the kids running. And the Stripes' roadies (roadies is a poor description, more like Praetorian Guard) were filming the kids on their wild goose chase. Stereogum relays the full details and the clip. (Here is a better clip).

Blackwell relishes in telling the crowd the Stripes will only play one-note.
(Photo by Colin Ryan)

In this follow clip, I think you can hear some boos but not the "one more note" chants. Kudos to the one Guard who stops the surging photographer:


Gotta give it to the fans, they are that sycophantic and devoted ("grateful" as Jack or Ben would put it). Me, I'd have been bitching about the wild goose chase. Exploited for a DVD to show off how much power a band has over its fans. If Jack said to commit suicide would they do it?