Originally Posted by mr dave

in my experience playing 'in the pocket' is doing whatever necessary to get the drummer to stop complaining.

i've heard it as playing on the kick, on the snare, on both, on neither, and on the 1. it's always gone back to the same issue, the drummer had something in his head but no ability to communicate it properly. everyone else was supposed to have inherent knowledge on what his 'pocket' consisted of.