Jack White published an open letter complaining about all the media coverage of his leaked tour rider from when he played Oklahoma University a couple of weeks ago. The student newspaper at OU published his contract and tour rider, claiming the documents were public domain and that students deserved to know. He was paid $80k for his date plus up to 90% of all ticket sales, meaning he makes a shitload of money per date he plays. The rider in particular included a specific recipe for guacamole, which has earned everything from praise to my favorite, "Jack White takes plenty of music from other cultures and makes it more white. I feel like that's what he's doing here." He also banned bananas. He was pissy about it at the show, and then his booking company blacklisted the university from future events.
Apparently this has blown up and Jack White is pissed and felt the need to write an open letter addressing it.
JW's main points:
- the guac recipe isn't his, and he can't even make kool-aid. it's an inside joke with his tour manager
- someone has a banana allergy
- he's not a diva
- these million articles is why he's never published a rider but is ok with the public knowing where public funds are allocated
- he is in fact returning to OK because he loves Oklahoma
- young journalists have hopefully learned their lesson and he's not pissed at them, but rather at the media blowing up his guac recipe and whatever
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Read the letter in full here
ONTD, how do you like your guacamole?