If you're going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.
You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
Catch Harry Belafonte. He's got a helluva rhythm section.And so have the Pointer Sisters. And that little guy with Sammy Clayton. He plays the whole show with 40 members.
When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.
If you're trying to be hip, be hip.
I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that's even - I can write something.