Von Bondies News You Can Use

Real Detroit Weekly’s Thomas Matich’s recent Von Bondies article has Jason Stollsteimer’s side of many headlines that have happened on and off the stage in Detroit over the past decade. I found this section to be the most reveling:

“What happened was I stood up for Jim Diamond [of Ghetto Recorders], he produced Lack of Communication,” Stollsteimer explains. “I didn’t own a computer that had Photoshop. When the artwork got done for the album, Marcy was dating Jack, and did it on his computer. He took it upon himself, from what I heard, to put himself as producer. I’m not an egomaniac looking at the back of my record all night jerking off, I never noticed it until I did an interview in 2001 and they said, ‘What was it like having Jack White producing the record?’ And I was like, ‘What?’ Jack introduced us to Jim Diamond, he was there, but he didn’t help write or change anything on the production. The next day, I got a death threat on my door from him and I gave that to the cops. The next time he saw me, he beat the crap out of me. I heard directly from his two ex-best friends’ mouths that were with him that night that he always said he wanted to beat me up because I’m the one black mark on his record, I’m the only one that said he lied. He was never brother and sister with Meg, he lies about a lot of things, his real name’s not Jack White, it’s Jack Gillis … he’s very about mystery. That’s why I didn’t wanna tour anymore; I thought it would go away, hopefully The White Stripes would break up, people would stop caring. They kinda self- imploded. I understand Meg having a nervous breakdown, I was on tour with them for two weeks and I had acute anxiety from the stress they had. Honestly, fucking amazing guitar player, amazing songwriter. I never said one mean thing about him, all I said was he didn’t produce our record. Raconteurs are a fucking great band, White Stripes are better. I have no problem giving people credit, but that doesn’t mean he’s a nice person.” (full story)

The Metro Tims has a Q&A with Jason Stollsteimer as well, if you read both pieces I feel you get everything you need to know about the last four years.

Also, this week’s Real Detroit is great article on Rock City performers the Terrible Twos and a review of SikSik Nation new self release.