After 3 hours of sleep and a 450 mile drive we made it to Claremont CA to meet with our new friend and owner of Everloving JP Plunier. JP is a Lonesome Hero of sorts running like 9 businesses at once while keeping a very positive attitude. We met at his warehouse from which he runs a record label, clothing company, designs clothes, has about a million bicycles/skateboards/amp parts, and is managing some of our favorite bands.
JP worked with both Ben Harper and Jack Johnston to get there careers started, and I remember very clearly the first time I ever saw a lap steel at my first Ben Harper show in the late 1900s. He currently works with Herman Dune, The Entrance Band, Akron Family, The Growlers, and our new friends Leslie & The Badgers.
You should check them all out here:
http://www.everloving.com/site/index.php
It’s a really awesome collection of eclectic sounds and all these bands make the sort of music we respect
We got our picture with JP in our new van; he seemed equally impressed with our DIY van conversion as our music. It seems everyone we meet is always amazed by our ability to drive around like modern day hunter-gatherers hocking CDs, T-shirts and Art from our collection of vintage suitcases. We even convinced JP to buy a T Shirt for his wife.
I have never been to Music Business school so I am not sure if selling t shirts to people you would like to work with in the future is a good idea or not, but our business is generally conducted out of the back of a van and if they had a masters program in van living both Landry and I would be teaching at Harvard by now.
We drove on into Los Angeles in a soft afternoon glow feeling happy that we met with JP and had picked up a few great insights into what he has done and what we need to do in the future. We arrived four hours early to our gig at the Echo Curio so stopped in Chinatown for a bite to eat and a nap in the Van.
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