alt Hacker NewsFamous studio and touring bassist Lee Sklar has a great youtube channel [1] where he tells war stories and plays along to a few of the thousands of songs he has recorded on over the past 50 years.
In one (which I can't find) he mentions a Japanese musician coming to LA to record with the top LA studio guys. It is very common to play to a click track, and one song just wasn't gelling. The studio guys said, "Let's try it one time without the click track." The Japanese musician said, "We're allowed to do that?" Anyway, they went ahead and the song came to life. The musician literally cried after because it felt so good to not be focused on tracking the click instead of being in the moment making music with a bunch of other humans.