Jack White Claims Guinness World Record Compilers Are 'An Elitist Organisation'
Thursday, 17 May 2012
Written by Elliott Batte
Musical genius Jack White has launched a scathing attack on an unlikely source – the compilers of the Guinness World Record books.
The ex-White Stripes star has many a trophy in his cabinet and boasts a career more successful than most, but it seems what he really wants to get his hands on is a Guinness World Record. But, after attempting and failing to play the shortest concert of all time, White has hit out at the people behind the book – and claimed that they simply didn’t want him or his ex-wife Meg White in the book.
“We were in Newfoundland and the idea that I came up with at breakfast was, 'Let's play one note today',” White told Interview Magazine. “I told Meg as we were getting out of the car. I said, 'Make sure you grab your cymbal and when you hit the cymbal, grab it so that the note only lasts a millisecond. I was thinking that afterwards we could contact the Guinness World Records people and see if we could get the record for shortest concert of all time. So we did it, but ultimately they turned us down.”
He continued: “The thing is, though, that the Guinness book is a very elitist organisation. There's nothing scientific about what they do. They just have an office full of people who decide what a record is and what isn't. Most of the records in there - who has the biggest collection of salt-and-pepper shakers or whatever - are just whatever they want them to be. So with something like the shortest concert of all time, they didn't think whatever we did was interesting enough to make it a record. I don't know why they get to decide that, but, you know, they own the book.”
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