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  1. I know it's blasphemy to say anything remotely bad about Hendrix, but I would disagree. Clapton is a singer/songwriter as well, he's from the same era, and he hasn't written anything of substance in years. He has continued to recycle his past hits with whatever flavor of the month phenom is hot at the moment. The only singer/songwriter/guitarist I can think of from that era that has even remotely remained relevant (writing new material that people want to hear) has been Neil Young, and that may be a stretch. It's hard for any performer to continue to be relevant for very long. I don't think a living breathing Hendrix in 2012 would be any different. Hendrix and Clapton are often put forward as being comparable artists, basically due to being from the same era and both being guitarist/singer/songwriters. It's easy to look at what Clapton did and say that Hendrix would have been the same, but I don't think that's the way it would have went. Hendrix was much more of an innovator - a musical pioneer - than Clapton. Hendrix pushed at boundaries whilst Clapton did his musical exploits within set parameters - parameters that he never chose to go beyond. A lot has been written about why that happened. Duane Allman's death, drug addiction ... whatever the reason is - it defined Clapton as a person, and in doing so it defined his musical exploration and limited it. I think Hendrix had no limitations and would have set the tone for the rock music scene in the early 70's and carried on from there.
  2. Clearly a fake, but it looks like ebay will ignore the reports - as usual. They make money regardless of the authenticity
  3. The modern gibson logo has an open style "o", not sure if it's that open usually and am away from mine at the mo That's correct. I can't comment on the authenticity of that guitar but the logo is right. The modern Gibson logo has the open top on the 'O'.
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