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For my tuppence, ^ this completely. The discretion and judgement of what players take from the original and what they don't is what makes doing covers interesting, imho. And yes, the signature of the song is never normally to do with guitarists or drummers (even if we think it is :-) ), there's always moveable and fixed parts, some are more important than others though - a bassist not doing John Entwhistle's lines in 'Can't Explain' will be noticed in a way that not doing precise guitar solos or drum breaks won't be. Haven't played doing covers for years, but used to do a version of 'Peace Frog' where the only guitar part that I did that was the same as the record was the solo.
But yeah, tailoring your set to play to everyone's strengths, and then throwing in curveballs that might help players break out of old, learned patterns is a good strategy.