ive been in a band a year or so ago that we wehre all good friends and the other guitarist was (almost) useless in alot of situations; we played ska, and it was just pointless to have shoddy rythym playing in most situations. it just sounded better with just me playing, and there was nothing we could do about it becasue we werent even considering letting him go, and we just had to work around it. kindof irritating. i had alot of problems wiht that band, and although it was my most succesful bands (we played about 15 shows in vancouver, portland, kalamath, and eugene) it was real hard to deal with having dead weight that we knew someone else could fill better. alot of ego issues with that.