Got enough time for a fun story? It will only take a minute. We come to this studio to make the first album, and we sit down and we had no dividers between any of the band.  Basie did not like to record that way. Therefore he set the band up almost like real life, you know? Almost the same as you would on a stage, almost. And we start running the first tune down and play it. Kind of a medium tempo tune, nothing real hot. And I'm playing and filling and doing the stuff that I normally would do. And he says, I mean we stop, and the engineer says over the thing "well, the producer wants to talk to you, Count. " So Count says "well talk on the thing. " He says "well do you want to talk over the mikes? " Count says "yeah, what is it? Come on, let's get going. " So the producer leans over the mike he says "we think the drums should probably be about half as loud as they are and we think that that would be a lot better for this recording. " And Basie, who very seldom does this, went [screams] "rahhhhhh, and hit his fist on the piano. " And all the band went like [screams] "rahhhhh" I swear to God, including me. It scared the crap out of us. He's sitting there with this yachting cap, [screams] and he roared like a lion.