Jack White “Live at the Masonic Temple, Detroit 7/30/14″ 2021. Third Man Records (Vault Package 46). It’s a good thing I had off work today because this package is over 3 hours long, 38 songs and 4 LPs (white, blue, black and a marbled one of those 3 colors). I saw White perform about a week earlier in 2014 at the Eagles Club in Milwaukee on July 21st, 2014 and though I’m pretty sure he didn’t play for over three hours it certainly felt like it – it was at least 120 degrees in there, I was already hungover because it was my birthday eve and I drank too much, too early. I spent most of the show trying not to pass out and putting ice chunks down my neck that literally melted completely on contact. Anyway! It’s a great compilation, though exhausting, including a mix of White Stripes, Dead Weather, Raconteurs and solo material, plus a few covers (Led Zeppelin’s “Lemon Song” and Beck’s “Devils Haircut” for example). Some of my favorite include “I Cut Like a Buffalo” (Alison Mosshart and Dean Fertita joined him onstage for that one), “Icky Thump,” “Three Women,” “Sugar Never Tasted So Good” and “Hotel Yorba.” Around the two-hour mark it’s pretty obvious that White and his band are getting exhausted. “Steady, As She Goes” (which I usually love) is off-key in both the vocals and the keys. White sounds like he’s at the point of deranged fatigue during “That Black Bat Licorice” and the last three songs (which I assume are the encore) “My Doorbell,” “I Fought Piranhas” and “Seven Nation Army” feel like a race to the finish. That said, the package does a great job in quality materials (of course) and sound for a live show. Also included in the package is a 7″ of White’s Saturday Night Live performance from October 2020 but I’m too tired to listen to it now so will save that for another day.