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Notes:
Jack White: vocals, guitar
Meg White: drums
Engineered and recorded by Liam Watson at Toe-Rag Studios
Mixed to quarter inch reel to reel by Jack White and Liam Watson
Mastered by Noel at Transfermation
Produced by Jack White
"There's No Home For You Here", "I Fought Piranhas" and "Let's Build A Home" written
by Jack White, Peppermint Stripe Music, BMI/EMI music
"I Fought Piranhas" and "Let's Build A Home" recorded live at Electric Lady Studios
November 16, 2003
Jack White:
"But we were going to do a video for 'There's No Home For You Here' with [Jim
Jarmusch],
based on Tesla and Edison. I was gonna play Tesla, and maybe get Philip Seymour
Hoffman to play Edison. Edison, in real life, electrocuted an elephant to try and
show that Tesla's alternating current theories were dangerous - which they
weren't. It's the alternating current that we use today. But Edison electrocuted
an elephant to prove it, and there's footage of that, you can see that footage. We
were gonna re-enact that, and pretend to electrocute an elephant, and Meg was
gonna be dragged away for the elephant. I was gonna play Tesla, and in response to
him killing an elephant, we were gonna have him write AC on the elephant in red
paint. I was gonna have this big death ray that I'd invented, and have a big fight
in the laboratory and kill Edison and turn his head into a light bulb with this
invention, and paint DC on his body. ...Jim came back and said, Jack, it's gonna
cost about half a million dollars!
And they couldn't get the budget down, so [Coffee and Cigarettes] was the thing we
did afterwards, that's what our Tesla thing became."
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