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Jackson Maxwell

“I moved a refrigerator for them and they said, ‘Here, take this guitar for gas money or whatever’”: How Jack White came upon the castaway guitar he'd use to play Seven Nation Army at the Grammys

The White Stripes rehearse for the 2004 Grammy Awards show at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.

Unless you've lived in a cave for the last 22 years, odds are pretty damn good that you've heard the call-to-arms riff that opens the White Stripes' Seven Nation Army at least once.

A study last year revealed that it's the single most Googled guitar riff on the planet, and it ranks 30th on our own list of the greatest guitar riffs of all time.

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