Jack White never wanted to be like all the other guitar players he knew or saw on the TV, players who gravitated to Fender or Gibson. Maybe it was a sense of teenaged orneriness, a non-conformist zeal that took hold in adolescence, but in the here and now it looks very much like vision.
His circumspection might have denied him the player-friendly features of the Stratocaster but it gave him something more important, a very particular sound – and a very particular look. Imagine the White Stripes but with White playing a Les Paul instead of a red bizarro red Airline with a white pickguard.
