Bass Musician Magazine - SPECIAL August 2013 Latin Issue | Page 73

able to extract and rescue all

The result of that ‘Coffee test’

that information and add it to our

was that I fell absolutely in love

essential identity, that will give us with coffee. When I arrived in
the sufficient dose of distinction

Santiago I immediately bought an

and uniqueness that will prevent

espresso machine. Two months

us from being that stereotypical,

later I designed and built a whole

foreign musician that plays

coffee bar for my living room.

music from his native region that

Next I bought a second coffee

you have seen 1000’s of times.

machine (Nespresso), then a

That’s too easy... Instead embody French press coffee maker, then
creativeness and hard work, as

an Italian boiling style coffee

this will help you to achieve much maker, a grinder, tons of different
more.

cups and all the coffee gadgets

From traveling, I have tons

you can imagine.

of stories stored in my soul and

From day one I started to

would like to share a short one

study about coffee like crazy and

that happened in 2011, while

bring home the finest, whole-

touring in South America with

grain coffee from every country

the great US keyboardist David

I’ve visited during the last two

Garfield. We were in Buenos

years, and continue doing so. I

Aires and he invited me for an

have coffee bags from almost 30

espresso coffee. I said, “No

different countries and places.

thanks, I don’t drink coffee, I’ve

After emptying these bags I fill

never done it.” He commented,

them very nicely with cotton and

“This will be your first time, make

place them on a cool rack on my

me the honor, I don’t want to

coffee bar as if they were some

drink coffee alone.” To which I

kind of trophies (laughing). When

replied, “Well, let’s try it, why

I look back I say, “Well boy I’m

not.”

certainly an OCD being, no doubt
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