Few artists are as adept at writing their own mythology as Jack White, and the Detroit-bred rocker added to his tome of epics with a whirlwind trip through Austin on Thursday that immediately became the stuff of legend.

I saw a flaming blue comet fall out of the sky over Austin two days ago, and seeing Jack White’s performance last night rivaled that. The White Stripes’ former frontman kicked off his No Name World Tour with a series of surprise pop-up shows,

A “Seven Nation Army” couldn’t keep Jack White down. The former White Stripes/Raconteurs/Dead Weather/Them Crooked Vultures frontman just announced his nationwide ‘No Name Tour’ in support of his recently-released Grammy-nominated album with the same name.