A friend of mine, who is a brilliant pianist, and I for some reason just click. Unlike other friends who, when we jam I always get frustrated at what seems like constant crossed musical wires, with Daniel we can just groove for hours on end and play off each other so well. Part of it is that he is so good that he knows when to play, when not to, how to bring out new directions in the music, etc, but that's waht I spend heaps of time trying to do too, unlike most of my other friends who just seem to like settling in to a song too much for my liking.
A little while ago I came up with this Dorian riff/bass line that he really dug, and all he did was listen for about three bars (enough to build upp tension in the fact that it was just my guitar playing) before coming in with these awesome jazzy chords that jsut worked perfectly. For the next twenty minutes we just played off each other beautifully, somehow anticipating what the other was gooing to do and so spontaneously inverting the riff, changing the key centre, etc in what has to be one of the musical highlights of my life as a guitar player. We recorded it, and a couple of friends turned up as we were playing it back and said something like "gee that CD has **** sound quality" before we let them know it was just us and their jaws dropped. Of course, as soon as they joined in the jam they kept asking things like "when should I change to the next riff?" etc, and it just didn't get there again. Thanks for reminding me of that night, it was wonderful.