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Get an old 70's/80's rat. If you cant find one get a more recent turbo rat.

are you curently working on any songs or just trying to put random chords together?

Any adimin from chordie has my permission to do whatever you want with anything I have posted on chordie, youtube, myspace, ect. check with me first though to insure that it is an origional as I do record covers of songs sometimes.

I first started out playing bass.Blues, rock, punk.

I'm more than happy to help any way I can. I will probly have to be taken by the hand and led through the process at first because the only thing I realy know how to do is write and play music. Sounds like a great project.

heavy

The one you feel the best playing.

I've played way too many shows to remember and I get a little nervous before each one. It's good that you are nervous, it means you still care about your performance and respect your audience. The thing is to make sure that it doesn't overwhelm you.
Before performance day, I practice everyday. I make sure that a mistake will be just that... a mistake. I have messed up on stage because we blew through the sound check, broke a string, drank to much ect... but never because I didn't know the material well enough.
On game day, I play fun stuff, but never anything I will perform that night. I hang out with the guys and watch tv. Have lunch with my mom. Listen to music other than the kind I will play. When I get to the show, I hang out with the other acts there and by the time I hit the stage, I'm calm, ready to play, and ready to meet all the girls that saw me on stage afterwards. Oh and somtimes I sing and play with my eyes closed. People think I'm all deep but really I'm just hiding behind my eyelids.

Who's to say what is hard and easy? Everything is easy if you can do it and hard if you can't. I find most Beatles stuff to be some place in the middle. To play most of it fairly well really just requires you to know a lot of chords. When are you ready? I suppose when you can play the songs. Here are a few simple ones to start out with.
Twist and Shout
Hold Me Tight
Can't Buy Me Love
Tell Me Why
Things We Said Today
No Reply
You're Gonna Lose That Girl
Nowhere Man
Tomorrow Never Knows
Sgt Pepper
Magical Mystery Tour
Strawberry Fields
Don't Pass Me By
Come Together
The Entire Let It Be Album

Hope it helps.Some will be harder for you than others, but they will all be easy once you learn to play them.

When I hit those spots. I start messing with another instrument piano, banjo, harmonica, bass, ect. It makes me a better musician and helps me walk away for a while without walking away from music. It's like leaving the room without running away from home. You'll know when it's time to come back and I'll bet you'll be better than ever.