Rhythm help for drummer, band

[Merc Montclair]

I don't mean for this question to be snarky. But if your drummer uses a click and keeps good time, why on Earth do you need a tom and high hat sound in your monitor?

That being said, I have filled in with a few up-and-coming Nashville artists. Every one of their drummers had a little personal mixer for their IEMs. One channel had the click track in it and the other had their monitor mix.

Again, if the drummer has a click track and is keeping good time as a result, why does anyone else need it?

I couldn't agree with you more that that is how it should be but it assumes a level of skill & professionalism that isn't always at hand. In my main band we don't use tracks but the drummer uses a click in some songs, or at least tries to. The guitar player insists his sense of time is better & refuses to believe that the drummer is actually playing properly to the click. His attitude is, and I'm quoting almost verbatim, "This is where I'm gonna play it. If anybody wants to join me, great. If not I don't really don't give a ****." This leads to the drummer abandoning the click which in turn leads to the singer or myself flaming him for dragging. Everyone having the click in their own mix could probably be helpful in this case. Maybe...