Just Made A Record With Jack White

Recently I won a trip to Nashville to hang with the master of new age marketing & music mogul; Jack White. I have been to a few meet & greets with different musical artists and most of the time its wham bam, say hi, and move on not knowing what hit you. Usually I left feeling a bit robbed of what you felt was your right (undeserved) to befriend someone based on how much you like their music and how much you think they would like you. So going into this my lesson has been learned, have fun & don't expect anything too special.

They put my wife & I up in a beautiful hotel and we made the most of our night out on the town in Nashville. I have never seen so much country music and karaoke within a 2 mile radius. Meghan laid down a great rendition of Man In The Box along with a few others.

Our tour of Third Man Records (Jack White's Record Label & Store) started at 12pm in the front room. To give a little background on the record store, it is a fairly large space when looking at it from the outside but when you walk in to the store it is a tiny little room that barley fits 10 people. So where did all the space go? The back has never been open to any public and we knew we would be some of the 1st to servery whats behind the curtain.

Like a scene out of Charley and the Chocolate Factory JW comes out of the back bull horn bumpin in one hand and clove a blazin in the other. With a brief introduction he asked us to follow him back into his home. His workers included females and males dressed in uniform reminiscent of the umpa lumpas. Our umpa hosts were very accommodating. Unfortunately we were not allowed to take pictures of this space and its too bad because words could not do it justice. Full kitchen, living room, working stop light, photo booth, offices, jukebox, stage, photo shoot area, underground tunnels, dressing room and Jack Lawrence playing the stand up bass in the closet! All of the highest quality, saturated with bright colors and finished in master woodworking. Jack invited us to have a coke from the fridge and take a look around. He explained where the influences came from in each room. There was an unreleased White Stripes record playing in the background and all in all a pretty laid back environment.

Recently TMR released a series of records called the blue series where each different recording artist had their picture taken behind the blue staging area. Jack explained that we would each be making a record with our picture on it with him. How fuckin sweet is that. Here it is...its always and after thought but I wish I would have posed cool but instead I have a big shit eating grin on my face but at least it shows we were having fun.

 

 

After taking our pictures Meghan gave Jack some fresh tomatoes from our garden. Not sure if he would give us the freak card for that Meg followed through. He was very grateful and said this is great these will definitely get eaten.

Next we toured United Record Pressing where all TMR releases are printed. They are one of the biggest plants in the world and have been doing a great job for many decades. If you want to make a record this is where you go.

On our way out we were given a bag of goodies along with our finished record. All in all a great, one of a lifetime trip, that will always be fun to look back on.

Thanks Jack