The Dead Weather Tour - The Dead Weather Jack White Live - Lyrics Setlist Coachella

The Dead Weather Live, Rock Coachella and Bonnaroo in their unique Grunge Blues. By all accounts The Dead Weather live rocked Day 2 at the Coachella music festival 2010. The delivered a high powered, if somewhat dark 14-song set The indie super group made up of the White Stripe’s Jack White playing drums, The Kills lead singer Alison Mosshart, Raconteurs bassist Jack Lawrence and the Queens of the Stone Age guitarist and keyboardist Dean Fertita was here to deliver and indeed they did.

White Stripes fans in the crowd were probably taken aback by the opening tune, a cover of “Forever My Queen” by Virginia doom-metal band Pentagram. It did give an indication of Jack White’s wide musical interest though.

The dark angry side fit in perfectly with Mosshart’s energy, this was The Dead Weather live and coming right at you. The Dead Weather finished their concert tour where they left off seducing the crowd at Bonnaroo 2010,

The Dead Weather, not unlike White’s other day job; The Raconteurs has an undercurrent of White’s soaking blues. Throw in the Kills and Queens of the Stone Age’s punk and post-punk influences. The show had an ethereal intensity throughout.

Coachella Set List:

1. Forever My Queen
2. 60 Feet Tall
3. Hang You from the Heavens 
4. You Just Can’t Win
5. So Far from Your Weapon
6. I Cut Like a Buffalo
7. No Horse
8. Blue Blood Blues
9. Jawbreaker
10. Hustle and Cuss
11. Die by the Drop
12. Will There Be Enough Water?
13. New Pony
14. Treat Me Like Your Mother

The crowd really began to get into it three songs in with their debut single “Hang You from the Heavens” from 2009. Mosshart singing The Dead Weather Live does have certain intensity about it!

“I like to grab you by the hair
And drag you to the devil

I never know why I push you
Trash you just to confuse you
I make a hole just to see how
See through clean I can cut you

I like to grab you by the hair
And hang you up from the heavens

I'd like to grab you by the hair
And sell you off to the devil

I never know what mood you be
He might be kind but be cruel to me
I'm walking away now
One step forward and back three”

Jack White switched over the drums to Lawrence to play a duet with Alison Mosshart on Horehound’s closing track, “Will There Be Enough Water?” His Bluesy Gretsch guitar with whispering dueling vocals quietened the crowd before building back up to an intense close. This song was the highlight for many and a great way to bring the emotion levels way up.

They closed out with their second single off Horehound, “Treat me like your mother”. The song was appropriate as it was co-written by every member of the band and a great way to close out.

It brought me back to an interview Mosshart had with Mojo about the song collaboration of the Dead Weather;

"Everybody just did what they wanted. I wrote most of the lyrics because that's my favorite thing, and everybody wrote different parts to the music- someone would lead with something and I'd be writing furiously, and within an hour we'd have something good enough to record or work on. It was super-easy and super-quick."

That was the Dead Weather live “super easy and super quick”, well not really but who’s arguing?

The Dead Weather Tour Dates post Coachella

• 04.18.2010 Pearl Concert Theater, Las Vegas, NV - w/ The Ettes
• 04.20.2010 Sunshine Theater, Albuquerque, NM - w/ The Ettes
• 04.22.2010 Cain's Ballroom, Tulsa, OK - w/ The Ettes
• 04.23.2010 Capital Federal Park @ Sandstone, Bonner Springs, KS - w/ The Flaming Lips
• 04.24.2010 The Pageant, St. Louis, MO - w/ The Ettes
• 04.26.2010 House of Blues, Lake Buena Vista, FL - w/ The Ettes
• 04.27.2010 WorkPlay Soundstage, Birmingham, AL - w/ The Ettes
• 04.28.2010 Minglewood Hall, Memphis, TN - w/ The Ettes
• 04.30.2010 Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheater, Austin, TX - w/ The Ettes
• 05.01.2010 House of Blues, Houston, TX - w/ The Ettes
• 05.02.2010 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, New Orleans, LA
• 06.12.2010 Bonnaroo, Manchester, TN

Catch The Dead Weather live, you will not be disappointed.

The Dead Weather played the Bonnaroo Festival at Manchester, Tennessee on June 12, 2010. The final scheduled date of the current tour. The Dead Weather were intoduced by Conan O’Brien. Once again Alison Mosshart's stage presence seduced and intimidated the crowd through the entire 90 minute set.

The Dead Weather setlist:

1. Forever My Queen (Pentagram cover)
2. 60 Feet Tall
3. Hang You From the Heavens
4. You Just Can't Win (Them cover)
5. So Far From Your Weapon
6. I Cut Like A Buffalo
7. No Horse
8. A Child of a Few Hours Is Burning To Death (West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band cover)
9. The Difference Between Us
10. I'm Mad
11. Hustle & Cuss
12. Die By the Drop
13. New Pony (Bob Dylan cover)
14. Will There Be Enough Water?
15. Blue Blood Blues
16. I Can't Hear You
17. Treat Me Like Your Mother