Well, this is one of those posts designed to attract females to the guitar world, at least at first. Rask, just yesterday I was listening to Ani Difranco's "Living in CLip" live album again, very cool bass lines were filling the car. As for why we rarely see females playing lead guitar like Satch or Vai, or metal players, ask yourself this: "how many females are in the audience?" You see the audiences of shred concerts being made up almost entirely of guys, and maybe you come to realise that it's a style of music that appeals mainly to a particular gender. Traditional Bulgarian folk singing has a small audience too, but I rarely wonder why it is that no guys I know can sing like that.