define yourself
Soc carn in pajamas.
Meat in pajamas?
I woke up, next to friends, after a night in bed. I saw them and I saw myself in pajamas and I saw it clearly.
Bodies in...
Pajama, which is civilization, slight patina on the animal that we are. And so I sing it.
How does he sing?
I sing "the morning comes, I'm carne in pajamas and I don't remember my number". It is the central song of my new book-disc.
Biped without feathers, Plato would sing.
Plato would take another drug, I guess.
With?
Psilocybin was mine, at the age of 23: I disconnected from the individual narrative.
For good?
It's good to let go of your ego and feel connected to everything. And there I understood prophets, visionaries and founders of religions.
Did he want to found a religion?
It wasn't my temptation, but I understood it: an alteration of ordinary consciousness can persuade you to be... a chosen one.
And has not founded anything?
Yes, I founded El sentido de la birra, but I thought of another title: La birra es breve.
And what is The sense of beer?
Long video interviews with people who interest me: comedians, musicians, writers, artists, thinkers...
Where can I see them?
On YouTube: they are conversations lasting a couple of hours, with my guest and I leaning on the bar of a bar, with a beer.
A couple of hours!? It's a lot.
Or three hours, sometimes.
But... who watches this long?
Well, I have 400,000 followers in networks.
Tell me what your secret is.
There is none, I ask my guest everything to learn something from him and we talk without any preemption.
A little happy for the beer?
Gradually, yes, that's right.
And what do you intend to learn with this?
As a musician, singer-songwriter and comedian, I started by chatting with them - I wanted to know their tricks and secrets. I continued with other profiles. After four years I have already done 350 interviews!
What did you learn from it?
That laughter and crying are the same.
For sure?
The comedian is the poet who reveals the absurd reality: laughter is mourning, a cry of lucidity for the grotesque side of life.
Where did your interest in comedy come from?
Al Trop: my father's bar.
explain it to me
I was six years old and already serving beers to patrons, in that bar in Burjassot. And he was playing pinball on top of a box, and playing rockers and punks music...
A bar: school of conversation.
And a little later, in a closet at home I found a dusty guitar...
What was he doing there?
The father had tried to touch her when he was young, and stopped. I was obsessed with it and played Himno a la alegría by Miguel Ríos.
And then he wanted to be a musician.
Well, I wanted to be a forensic scientist then.
Forensic!
No one can deceive the coroner: look at death and you know! But the sciences did not go well for me and I enrolled in psychology. And I quit right away.
Because?
I did theater. In Barcelona. I acted And I studied cinema. And he wrote poems. And he drew comics. And he sang in this bar.
So many things, Ricardo.
What I wanted, after all, is to tell stories. That's why I love going on tour with a band and singing songs.
what kind of songs
Soul rocker, funk, grunge, electronica, classic rock, Springsteen... and so, the entire Pantone of rock.
What event of youth marked him the most?
I went to Mexico for the love of a girl. We didn't last long, but I stayed there for three months hitchhiking with a lounger, a razor and a guitar. And everything changed!
what changed
Traveling I connected with humanity. And, moreover, I appreciated the facilities here.
What did he return to the sarró?
With an inspiring certainty: "Everything counts, nothing matters". And with the firm decision to dedicate myself to doing more than having.
And does it work for you?
Only good things happen to me! When will the bad ones come? I often wonder about it.
They will come (and it will be for good).
It will be thanks to humor... I practice it in lyrics, conversations, songs... Humor and love are everything. I love Albert Pla for that, it was a luxury for me to interview him.
Out of everything he does... what does he do best?
My pans are the best!
