I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time.
If we do discover more than one type of life on Earth, we can be fairly certain that the universe is teeming with it, for it would be inconceivable that life started twice here but never on all the other earth-like planets.
I've figured out what to do with my hands... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as I can.

