What is Manly? JP Lane

"People need to be allowed to be wrong"

 

In this episode

Entertained on the sofa

Cancel culture

Accountability

Asking questions 

Role models

Are we too serious?

Allowed to be wrong

 

About JP Lane

A funny story of humility, personal growth, and redemption, told through the lens of a traveling musician in the 90's.

JP Lane attended high school in Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship. He played bass for Policy, Village Drums, and The Dancing Nancys. He travelled to Moscow and Kazakhstan following the breakup of the USSR, then taught English in Tokyo for four years. He holds a master’s degree from Indiana University and lives in Sacramento, California with his wife, children, and a Basset Hound named Margaret Thatcher. He is the author of the coffee table book, Painting the Grand Homes of California’s Central Valley. The Driftwood Tour is his first novel.

From the back cover of The Driftwood Tour:

Waking up from a coma handcuffed to a Tokyo hospital bed is bad enough. But failing to remember his own songs is the final straw for Wood, stage name Driftwood.

Stuck in Japan until the trial, he thinks of everything that brought him to that point. Wood traverses the rock scene of the late 1990s – the American South, Europe, and the former Soviet Union – with his bandmate, Jesse, their exhausted manager, Rachel, and a Bassett Hound named Margaret. Through hilarious bar brawls, cattle prods, voodoo rituals, and acid trips, the characters explore themes of race, sexuality, family, love, and death.

And in the most frightening moment of his life, hope. Hope to connect with the absent father he so desperately wants to know and fill the terrible emptiness where his songs used to be.

"I really recommend people read the book. When you hear it's about a rock band on tour, you think it's going to be a hedonistic tale of excess - and while that stuff is in there - it's really a story about family."

-John Stone, The Otherside Podcast

“Despite the train wreck that is Wood, he has this charm that you can’t help but be drawn to. Chaotically intoxicating, I could not look away and was completely mesmerized.”

-Christi Flores, Library Thing

Contacts

https://www.facebook.com/ArtofJPLane/

https://www.instagram.com/artofjplane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgLimQY6ZDs&t=1114s

 

 

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