Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney says rival rock star Jack White tried to fight him at a New York City bar on Sunday night.
“I’ve never met Jack White. Until last night,” Carney said in a series of deleted tweets Monday morning captured by Entertainment Weekly. “He came to a bar in Nyc I go to a lot with a few friends and tried to fight me.”
It appears the confrontation didn’t actually turn violent, as Carney added, “I don’t fight and don’t get fighting but he was mad!!!”
The beef between the musicians goes back to 2013 when White accused the rock band behind hits “Tighten Up” and “Lonely Boy” of riding his coattails to the top in a series of leaked emails to ex-wife Karen Elson.
In response, Carney noted that the former White Stripes frontman “sounds like an asshole,” but gave White the benefit of the doubt by saying, “We’ve all said f–ked-up shit in private, and divorce is hard.”
Last year, White suggested in a interview with Rolling Stone that Black Keys’ songs are often a “watered-down version” of similar White Stripes’ songs.
“There are kids at school who dress like everybody else, because they don’t know what to do, and there are musicians like that, too. I’ll hear TV commercials where the music’s ripping off sounds of mine, to the point I think it’s me. Half the time, it’s the Black Keys,” White said. “The other half, it’s a sound-alike song because they couldn’t license one of mine. There’s a whole world that’s totally fine with the watered-down version of the original.”
White quickly apologized for the diss, and wished the band “all the success they can get.”
Here is all that is left of Carney’s tweets. Most recently, he told his followers he spoke to White about the confrontation, and everything is “all good.”
He is why I play music. The bully assholes who made me feel like nothing. Music was a private non competitive thing.
– Patrick Carney (@patrickcarney) September 14, 2015
Talked to jack for an hour he’s cool. All good. – Patrick Carney (@patrickcarney) September 14, 2015