(opening track on the album “elephant” by american alternative rock band ‘the white stripes”)
(it was released as a ‘single’ in ‘2003’)
(we were ~18 years old)
(‘7 nation army’ reached #1 on the ‘modern rock tracks’ for 3 weeks and won 2004’s ‘grammy award’ for ‘best rock song’)
(the song is known for its underlying riff, which plays throughout most of the song)
(although it sounds like a ‘bass guitar’ (an instrument the group had famously never previously used), the sound is actually created by running jack white’s ‘semi-acoustic guitar’ (a 1950s style ‘kay hollowbody’) through a ‘digitech whammy pedal’ set down an ‘octave’)
(the riff was composed at a ‘soundcheck’ before a show at the ‘corner hotel’ in (‘melbourne’ / ‘australia’), according to the set notes in the booklet which accompanied the under blackpool lights DVD)
(this riff was inspired by the main theme of anton bruckner’s ‘fifth symphony’)
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