I know I dont have bad rhythm.Every time we play together it sounds great...I think the dissagreement is in the way I prefer the rhythm to go(I dont experiment in the middle of songs and mess up the whole band or anything).My friend has a strumming technique that he universally applys to everything he/we play.I find it makes all our stuff sound way too similar so sometimes I present different rhythm options to the band...I usually hear "the lyrics wont fit with that rhythm" which is total bull.My friend/s are so scared to do somthing slightly different from the stagnant formula that theres no room for creative expansion(not the crappy kind with sampled trippy beats or anything).He said something very contradictory though...I said to him "What genre is this band going to fit" and he replied "break the genre".Theres no genre breaking going on in our music,I can tell you that much.Hes way to "hook" crazy and it somehow crosses over into the verses we make."3 chords,same rhythm,different song" is his musical drive.If your wondering "he" is my best friend and other main voice in the band.All in all...I'm sober now and realize its not so much my actual rhythm,but my ideas that dont stick with them.Its like a chemist that wants to try a different formula or see what happens with different ingredients and being told "why would you want do that?Stick to the formula!"...alright,that was a bad analogy.

Later! \m/