Jack White‘s guitar prowess is well known in the alt-rock scene, so an endorsement from the former White Stripe is a big deal. That being said, Jack White recently gifted one of his signature guitars to a musician he called his “new favorite guitar player,” and she’s a member of the Japanese punk band Otoboke Beaver.
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The all-female band, which formed in 2009, is comprised of Accorinrin on vocals, Hirochan on bass, Kahokiss on drums, and Yoyoyoshie on guitar. Yoyoyoshie got the Jack White seal of approval recently when she received White’s new Triplecaster. He designed the new signature guitar with Fender, creating a heavily modded three-pronged model based on the popular Telecaster design. The new guitar released last year, and Jack White’s official Instagram posted about the gift.
“At Fender Guitars in Tokyo, Jack White gives a gift of a brand new Triplecaster guitar that he designed to his new favorite guitar player [Yoyoyoshie] from Otoboke Beaver!” the caption reads. Eddie Vedder was also on hand to help Yoyoyoshie break in the new guitar strap, “which every guitar player knows requires power tools to break the leather in the first time!”
Jack White’s Endorsement of Yoyoyoshie, Guitarist of Japanese All-Girl Punk Band Otoboke Beaver
Last year, Jack White endorsed Yoyoyoshie with an Instagram post. “Yoyoyoshie is my new favorite guitar player,” he stated at the time. “If you’re coming up against an ambush, you want her in your battalion.” White paired the caption with a photo of himself posing with Yoyoyoshie and vocalist Accorinrin at his label Third Man Records’ headquarters in Nashville.
Jack White’s fans in the caption of the post were excited to see their favorites together in one place. “This band is super rad! Their drummer is insane!” one Otoboke Beaver fan wrote, sharing love for other members of Otoboke Beaver.
Overall, Otoboke Beaver is loud, brash, and, as Rolling Stone described them in 2023, possess an “idiosyncratic wrath and sarcasm” in their sets. According to the interview, Yoyoyoshie’s insane crowd surfing videos have gotten the group banned from Instagram multiple times, but isn’t that all part of being punk rock? These women have been in the scene for more than 15 years, and they’re making space in a notoriously male-dominated genre. That space just happens to be painted in bright colors, which, arguably, makes it even more punk.
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