Miles and i just had a weird experience with a bass player.
He was a complete jackoff. Dumber than a box of rocks, hell he even had to call the studio for directions on his second night of tracking. He said rude things without knowing it, was unresponsive, crass, a total blowhard and the band treated him like a crash test dummy.
All night i kept thinking how his bass parts were so freaking "wrong" that I had no idea what i was gonna do.
Then he left.
All of a sudden his bass parts were grooving like crazy (well pretty groovy) and I awoke to something cool that I almost crushed because of the messenger.
It amazed me how both Miles and i felt the same thing, the bassists persona influenced our experience of his music.
Very weird.