{"id":3228,"date":"2022-07-06T14:31:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T14:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/?p=3228"},"modified":"2026-05-12T19:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:42:15","slug":"eric-bolivar-lunch-of-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/?p=3228","title":{"rendered":"Eric Bolivar: Lunch of champions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>March, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>[<\/em><strong><em>HKB: <\/em><\/strong><em>So when did you first play on Frenchmen, or hear about Frenchmen?]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Eric Bolivar: <\/strong>Probably was 2002; that was the first year I played on Frenchmen. I didn\u2019t live here though. I was still in California. And even though I\u2019d toured through here for a couple of years prior, I didn\u2019t know about Frenchmen yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I knew about about Rampart; Donald\u2019s was still there, Funky Butt was still there&#8211;or, the Maple Leaf. And we were playing at Tip\u2019s\u2014when I first came down here, I played at Tipitina\u2019s and at UNO, the amphitheater, with Karl Denson\u2019s Tiny Universe. And if we had a night off or something like that we wound up on Rampart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I didn\u2019t actually find out about Frenchmen til I was with another band called Global Funk Council. It was during Jazz Fest. It was at Blue Nile, [and we were playing] one of those, like, a million bands in a night, multiple promoter things. And we were supposed to do the late night, at 1:00 or 2:00 or something like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They were running so far behind that I don\u2019t think we got on until 7:00. 6:30 or 7:00\u2014something like that. To the point where I had friends have a full night\u2019s sleep come and see us when they got up. People were jogging by during our second set; the morning jog. It was ridiculous. Like, when we stopped we went to lunch. We went to Fiorella\u2019s after our gig, for lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was so stupid, we were breaking at like, 8:30. I\u2019m like, \u201cIt\u2019s 8:30, should we really be taking a break now?!\u201d And of course there were people that were still up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March, 2021 [HKB: So when did you first play on Frenchmen, or hear about Frenchmen?] Eric Bolivar: Probably was 2002; that was the first year I played on Frenchmen. I didn\u2019t live here though. I was still in California. And even though I\u2019d toured through here for a couple of years prior, I didn\u2019t know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-interviews","category-interviews","category-quick-reads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3755,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions\/3755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchmennotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}