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October 12, 2020

One to remember: Jack White plays Eddie van Halen guitar on SNL

Jack White performed on Saturday Night Live, accompanied by drummer Daru Jones and bassist Dominic John Davis. They played a bit of White's Beyoncé collaboration, 'Don’t Hurt Yourself', before transitioning into 'Ball and Biscuit' reworked to feature lyrics from 'Jesus is Coming Soon', a traditional gospel song about the 1918 Spanish Flu that was famously performed by Blind Willie Johnson. They finished with 'Lazaretto', for which White played Eddie van Halen model guitar, and in a further nod to Van Halen, White briefly played a finger-tapping solo on the guitar.