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Take the BEATLES. Paul McCartney isn't a bad guitarplayer at all, but they asked him to play bass.
A lot of guitarplayers would refuse to play bass. My brother and I started a kind of band in the early 70ties. I played on "I DON'T KNOW WHAT" acoustic guitar, with an electric pick-up. Of course thinking and dreaming to be famous.
I left, university, and they changed a few times guitar players besides the 2 "original members" the drummer and my brother.
On a day, a couple of years later, there was a duo joining the band, both pretty good players, so they asked my brother to play BASS an instrument he didn't want to play, so bye bye they found another bass player and they had a few hits in Belgium.
In fact I wanted to ask if:
- is a bass guitar underestimated?
- WOULD YOU change guitar to bass?
- If you play pretty well the electric guitar is it easy to switch from electric guitar to bass?

AGAIN, IF YOU ARE A GOOD ELECTRIC GUITARPLAYER AND YOU SWITCH TO PLAYING BASS EASY or DIFFICULT to play bass?

What will happen if you take a guitar, let's say a GIBSON with
# Neck Pickups: 490R alnico magnet humbucker
# Bridge Pickups: 498T alnico magnet humbucker
AND YOU CHANGE THE PICK-UPS
- Bridge pick-up will be a 490R
- Neckpick-up will be a 498T

Did someone try this already? And what result would this change have on the sound?

What is tapping in fact?
- pushing with your fingers on the strings on your fretboard? I can't create a decent sound doing this. That's the reason of my question.
- Is it easy, is it difficult?
Please give me advice on this

What I want to tell is that there are songs, big hits performed by a band, and who are considered to be written and performed by that band IN OUR COLLECTIVE MEMORY.
SOME EXAMPLES = Q & A here.

1) WILD THING who wrote that song? THE TROGGS? no CHIP TAYLOR (the brother of Jon Voight, and the uncle of Angelina Jolie)
2) WITHOUT YOU by HARRY NILSSON and later by MARIAH CAREY but written by BADFINGER.
3) ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER by JIMI HENDRIX but written by BOB DYLAN.

So these are some examples, can you find more songs where our collective memories are convinced that a song is written by X but in reality written by mr Y

YES yo read it well.
How many different styles in music do we have? Blues, rock, bluegrass, punk, psychedelic, grunge, garage rock jazz.....

1) SEATTLE = THE city who provided us a fistful of great bands.
- NIRVANA
- ALICE IN CHAINS
- SOUNDGARDEN
- PeEARL JAM
I think you can add more bands, even very popular bands in the USA, but not in Europe.

2) SAN FRANSISCO.
End 60ties "the place to be" for long haired peaceful people" the hippies. With people as Jack Kerouac and bands like
- The GRATEFUL DEAD
- JEFFERSON AIRPLANE

3) DETROIT
This city, in fact suburbs 50 miles from Detroit, they say that in these places rock started. If this is true than is Detroit providing us two styles of music: MOTOWN MUSIC AND ROCK.

Detroit blues originated when Delta blues performers migrated north from the MISSISSIPPI Delta and Memphis, Tennessee to work in Detroit.
Typical Detroit blues was very similar to Chicago blues in style. The sound was distinguished from Delta blues by its use of electric amplified instruments and a more eclectic assortment of instruments, including the bass guitar and piano. The Detroit scene was centered on Black Bottom, a Detroit neighborhood.

4) I NEED YOUR HELP ON THIS. We had already discussions about the ORIGIN of blues and rock but we NEVER TALKED WHERE, IN WHICH CITY or AREA music trends originated.

I saw a movie yesterday evening about "gangs" killing each other, and in all such kind of music there is one with a recording studio as cover up. A lot of movies are made, not an A movie but a C or D movie.
FIRST OF ALL: I don't like such movies, on a quiet moment in the movie you can even hear the camera turning, or you see a microphone hanging.
Everytime there is new movie about Afro Americans & gangs I hope it will be a nice movie.
(I didn't see a good movie yet.)
I don't understand what they are saying, or what they are singing. I think a lot of them speak slang in combination with English with misspellings.
Their vocabulary, their English, like is really difficult to understand and even more in songs.
Add their the use of the F-word
-  you IS my b***
- my big bl**d** in your "xxx"
- He been had dat job.
- he be workin'
- do you understand me, used dozens of times.
- she my sister
Also the way they are dressed, their trousers hanging somewhere half way between knees, shirt, shoes and baseball hat. Do radiostations, I mean BIG RADIOSTATIONS play RAP? There is so much profanity in their songs.
So I would be pleased if there are chordians telling me more about this ALMOST NOT SEEN HERE IN EUROPE PHENOMENON.
LANGUAGE + CLOTHS + EXTREMELY BIG GOLDEN CHAINS + PROFANITY.

We are living in the year 2008.
If you read magazines, or find information on your PC, or even look at the BIG SALES in ALBUMS and CONCERTS, there is one (1) item that is quit dominant: the today's moneymakers in music are still the old dinosaurs, like the POLICE, see list.
What happened with their eggs? their successors?
WHICH BAND OR BETTER WHICH "RECENT FORMED" BAND can compete with the old bands?
Rappers? R&B artists or rock bands like
- BEYONCE?
- NICKELBACK?
- THE GORILLAZ?
- USHER (but he started already mid 90ties)

- WHO ARE THE MUSIC PROTAGONISTS of the year?
- IS THERE YOUNG BLOOD these days?

I REALLY DON'T KNOW, BUT WHAT I DO KNOW IS
- THE POLICE
- THE EAGLES
- THE ROLLING STONES
- LED ZEPPELIN (who will make probably a world tour, maybe with the son of BONHAM, Jason)
- VAN HALEN who start a world tour too, with DAVID LEE ROTH

And probably a few forgotten names