I am more of a solo bass player and he needed somebody who would keep the role.
I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.
So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.
So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is even more, if you noticed on the new album, I am not playing all the time anymore.
So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.