10 Rock Supergroups You Had No Idea Existed
9. The Dead Weather
Aside from being a great musician and all-round weird dude, Jack White of The White Stripes also co-founded a record label in 2001.
Third Man Records have gone from strength-to-strength in the years since, including opening a headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee in 2009.
Why is this important? Because, at said opening, the world was introduced to White's new band The Dead Weather.
Jack ditched his sister/wife/huh? Meg to join up with some other big names from the rock scene. Alison Mosshart of The Kills was on vocals, Dean Fertita of Queens of the Stone Age played lead guitar, and on bass was The Raconteurs' Jack Lawrence.
What was White doing in all of this? He was playing the drums. Sure, he was good and had rediscovered his passion for the instrument on the James Bond song Another Way To Die, but that's like hiring a Michelin starred chef to paint your living room.
The band have released three studio albums, all of which got to the top ten in the US, although they have been silent since 2015. Will The Dead Weather ever rise again? Or are they as deceased as their name suggests?