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alone.
I enjoyed the tour with the Sordello's
mostly because my trombone had always made me
feel free, and also because of Rambone. Myself
and Rambone did in fact became quite friendly
and we even decided that just me and him would
stay in Italy, Rome for a while, playing in a club
where he knew the owner, one Fabrice. It was our
last stop for the Sordello's (the band) and the rest
of the bandmates went home. The time spent
touring was really my education; I learnt about
people, I learnt about myself and I learnt about
life. I did think about Claire from time to time;
taking on a firm dislike of course for KFC
Chicken, but otherwise I tried to move on and I
somewhat did.
I would sometimes talk to Rambone about
this eternal quest, in a sense, and he would say
such things as: "I am agnostic when it comes to
happiness. It's like Kafka's 'The Castle'," he said,
"You should read that too." A very cultured
person Rambone, at the time, half the things he
said were a blur.
I soon met a guy named Rafaele Xavi in
Rome maybe two weeks after me and Rambone
both moved into this flat rented by this bohemian
Artistan guy (Rumi), that would just let us all
sleep there as he didn’t care whom he lived with.
It was crowded with lots of Artists and so it was
not really ideal in my eyes, but somewhere
nonetheless. Though, myself and Rafaele Xavi
had met at this small Bar called Mexico City in a
corner off of a place called Via Della Pace, that
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