Tonight at 11PM, Conan O’Brien will re-enter the late-night talk show fray with his former studio, stage, and TV collaborator Jack White in tow as the first musical guest on TBS’ Conan. White’s many memorable appearances on Coco’s Late Night, not to mention drumming with the Dead Weather on the short-lived Tonight Show run, are reason enough to be on the edge of your seat tonight, but it’s the pair’s post-Tonight Show bromance that will more likely inform/ensure the awesomeness of their basic cable premiere, I’d say.
Video of the next Coco-White affair will be promptly posted here once available, but until then, let’s re-watch 6 clips spanning Jack’s past Conan gigs over the last decade for some context.
**Update: Jack and Conan covered Eddie Cochran’s “Twenty Flight Rock,” which they recorded in Nashville for Conan’s LP earlier this year. Video is hereor below…
Conan O’Brien & Jack White – “Twenty Flight Rock” (Eddie Cochran Cover)
The White Stripes – Late Night – “Let’s Build A Home” (2003)
The White Stripes – Late Night – “Jolene” (2003)
The White Stripes – Late Night – “Red Rain” + Interview (2007)
The Raconteurs – Late Night – “Old Enough” (2008)
The Dead Weather – The Tonight Show – “Hang You From the Heavens” (2009)
The White Stripes – Late Night (Final Episode) – “We’re Going to be Friends” (2009)