Patrick Carney, drummer of The Black Keys had a run in with Jack White at a bar in New York City September 13th. The White Stripes frontman allegedly tried to start a fight with Carney, there has been on-going tension between the two camps with White repeatedly accusing The Black Keys of ripping-off his career.
In 2013 Jack White branded The Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach a ‘copy’ and an ‘asshole’. He subsequently apologised for the comments and publicly stated that he wishes The Black Keys ‘all the success that they can get’.
Carney took to Twitter to make the allegations, stating that he’d never met White before but that he ‘was mad’ and ‘tried to fight me’ when the pair found themselves in the same bar. He went on to call White a ‘bully asshole’ and described him as ‘basically Billy Corgan’s dumb ass zero t-shirt’.
He is why I play music. The bully assholes who made me feel like nothing. Music was a private non competitive thing.
â Patrick Carney (@patrickcarney) September 14, 2015
The pair have apparently defused their clash with a phone call which involved White telling Carney to ‘quit whining to the internet’. Carney later Tweeted that he had spoken to White and ‘he’s cool’.
Speaking with EW in a statement, White denied the allegations and challenged Carney to meet him in person to discuss the issue.
‘Nobody tried to fight you, Patrick,’ he said. ‘Nobody touched you or âbulliedâ you. You were asked a question you couldnât answer so you walked away. So quit whining to the Internet and speak face to face like a human being. End of story.’
