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41 postsJack White is an award-winning musician and producer born in 1975 in Detroit, Michigan. With his ex-wife Meg White he is one half of the rock duo The White Stripes and has also performed as part of the Raconteurs, the Dead Weather, and as a solo artist. White is also the founder of the Third Man Records label, which has issued releases by the musician’s projects and others.
White forms a band with Muldoon called the Upholsterers. The group releases a solitary single, Makers of High Grade Suites. White hides 100 of the clear plastic 7″ vinyls in furniture:
We made 100 copies of a 7″ on clear vinyl with transparency sleeve so you couldn’t even see it if you x-rayed it. We left those in a hundred pieces of furniture that he upholstered that year… to one day be found, or maybe never be found.
In late 1990, White begins working as an upholsterer’s apprentice for family friend Brian Muldoon. Muldoon introduces him to punk rock. White writes secret messages on the insides of the furniture to communicate with other upholsterers.
I used to believe that upholsterers should leave messages for each other because we’re the only ones that see the inside of furniture. I was always shocked. I worked at a shop with five other guys and I said ‘why don’t we write messages to each other?’
