STUART HAMM MEETS ARIANE CAP
STUART HAMM Ari, you’re my closest musical neighbor in Los Angeles. I’ve really valued your friendship over the years. We go hiking, we go for coffee, I take Logic lessons with your lovely husband. It’s great.
ARIANE CAP Remember how we first met? My husband and I were at a branch of Whole Foods in Los Angeles, and all of a sudden, my husband says, ‘You know that bass player you were talking about? I think that’s him over there’.
SH Later, we met at a Warwick Bass Camp in Germany, and you told me that you’d seen me at Whole Foods, and we figured out that we lived five miles apart in LA.
AC Right! After that you sent me a text saying you were going on a solo tour, and asked me if I would be interested in opening for you. I was like, ‘Wow’! To be addressed like that by Stu Hamm...
SH Oh, that’s very kind of you. Now, you’re always taking very good care of yourself. Are you still being super-healthy?
I definitely try to be. It’s really important to my wellbeing to be as healthy as possible, because if I don’t look after my body and eat right and sleep, I find that I just don’t function very well. I’m extremely active every day with writing books and teaching and so on, so working out keeps me sane. Right now I’m doing this crazy workout twice a week that is very heavy. I find that it really forces you
