Jack White has responded to the ongoing obsession with a leaked tour rider which has made a mountain out of a guacamole recipe.
In a world where increasingly the juicy, controversial headline is everything – or as White puts it ‘the age of the short attention span internet article’ – the contents of White’s rider leaked by a student paper caught the attention of all the usual suspects last week, especially as it contained a recipe for guacamole and a ban on bananas.
However, writing on Third Man’s website, White has attempted to put some clarity on his tour demands which helps to show the incident up for the non-story it clearly is.
“This ‘guacamole recipe’ is my hilarious tour manager’s inside joke with the local promoters,” he’s written. “It’s his recipe, not mine. It’s just something to break up the boredom, seeing who can make it best. Though I wouldn’t know because I’ve never had it.”
“Did it occur to anyone someone on the tour might have an allergy to them,” he continued on banana-gate. “No? Hmmm. One day some fantasy journalist out there will call someone in the biz and actually have a rider explained to them.”
Check out Jack White’s full riposte here.