“Thank you so much Mr. Reid, hope you get the same inspiration from that Triplecaster”: Jack White and Vernon Reid swap signature guitars after chance meeting at the airport

Vernon Reid and Jack White: on the left, Reid, guitarist of Living Colour, plays his signature guitar by Reverend; on the right, Jack White takes a solo on his signature Fender Triplecaster.

If you follow Vernon Reid on Instagram you will be aware that life as a travelling musician has its own rhythm, a procession of weird venues, strange hotels, and the occasional disaster, like in 2023, when the TSA dismantled the Living Colour guitarist’s touring pedalboard, a post so disturbing it should have been behind a graphic content warning.

But it also has a magic of its own. Just as travel enriches the mind it can stir the soul, especially when you get the chance to run into a fan at the airport, who just happens to be an electric guitar pioneer in his own right, Mr Jack White, Raconteur, former frontman of the White Stripes, and music publishing/gear entrepreneur extraordinaire.