Meg White
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Megan Martha White is the drummer and backing (sometimes lead) vocalist of the Detroit minimalist garage blues duo The White Stripes.
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History
Meg was born Megan Martha White on December 10, 1974 in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. Before she was the drummer for The White Stripes, she was a bartender at Memphis Smoke, a barbeque restaurant in the Detroit, Michigan suburb of Royal Oak. It has been said that bourbon is her favorite beverage. Despite various claims by the band, Meg and Jack White are not brother and sister, but are in fact ex-husband and wife. Meg met John Gillis in 1994, and they were married on September 21, 1996. Jack later took Meg's surname, but they later divorced in 2000.
Personal Life
Meg is very shy in public, and will often usually never speak at all in interviews. Because of this, little is known about her personal life. But when she says something, Jack takes it 'into serious consideration'.
She either used to date, or is currently dating, Oliver from The Soledad Brothers. She was also spotted with Twiggy Ramirez (Jeordie White), bassist for Nine Inch Nails and former member of Marilyn Manson's band.
Meg is partially deaf in her right ear, and she usually wears a hearing aid.
Costumes/Looks
During concerts, she wears red trousers, or black as seen in Under Blackpool Lights, with a white shirt or red top. There are occasions when she dresses up, usually when the band is asked to appear in awards shows, i.e the Grammy's in which she wore a cream colored gown with a black leaf design. She wears little or no makeup. During the self-titled/De Stijl years, Meg was known for her long pigtails, and after White Blood Cells began to wear her hair down. In Get Behind Me Satan, she appears with her hair short and curled, contrasting her long straight hair in Elephant. During the Get Behind Me Satan era, when Jack started wearing a Jack the Ripper costume, Meg started wearing large cabaret dresses. She is known for drumming barefoot or wearing socks and only recently began to wear shoes, notably Pumas. When asked about it, she said that the years of drumming barefoot have torn up her skin. Overall, Meg has a modest yet glamorous sense of style.
Equipment
- Drum kits:
- Pearl
- Ludwig-Musser
- Signature peppermint bass drum head
- Drum sticks:
- Vater XD-Rock Wood
- Cymbals:
- Paiste 14" Signature Medium Hi-hats
- Paiste 19" Signature Power Crash
- Paiste 22" 2002 Ride
Facts
- Meg White plays percussion on the Soledad Brother's "I'm So Glad" off of their album, "Voice Of Treason".
- A GeoCities website, The White Stripes Conspiracy Reader, suggests that Meg is actually a robot, a theory that some fans claim to accept as fact. Presented in a tongue-in-cheek fashion, the website alleges the real Meg died in a car wreck and was replaced by the Megbot, a lifelike robot created by Jack; he purportedly decided to cover up the truth and carried on with the band as usual. The site supports its claims with "evidence" from photos, lyrics, videos, and other media. Its popularity in the White Stripes fan community has become an in-joke among them and also with the band, who have alluded to it in interviews (Jack will offer to "reveal a secret," then state that Meg is actually an anroid; in return, she will usually reply in an annoyed voice, "Dammit, Jack!").
- Animals are something of a motif in photography of Meg. Among those photographed alongside her are a snake,<ref>http://s17.photobucket.com/albums/b84/juliwhite/Meg%20White/?action=view¤t=MegBrazil.jpg&refPage=80&imgAnch=imgAnch94</ref> rats (the video for Hotel Yorba and the back cover of Elephant), rabbits,<ref>
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- Like Jack, Meg has claimed to be a taxidermy hobbyist, but says she owns just a few subjects (including a white mouse), while Jack owns many.
- Meg usually plays the organ on live performances of the song "Cold, Cold Night," though it was Jack who provided the accompaniment for the Elephant version.
