noticing that wasn't what I meant. In general, I find the root to be the most important note of the chord. But when you play with a band, the bass gets that, like I said. So in terms of guitar chords (of guitarists that play with basses, or some other bass section), the root is ONE OF the least important notes for the GUITAR to cover, not the chord in general.

I may have also sounded a little biased towards that I idea, because I play in a big jazz band - and between piano, bass guitar, tuba, trombone and bari sax - the root note is not needed to be repeated by me.