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when I play a Hendrix tune on the guitar vs. SRV tune vs. Page tune, I'm blown away by all of them.

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THAT'S the intangible for me, not being American, black, or dead which is pure rubbish and completely unfounded.

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So if you didn't know what either looked like, where they were from, or if they were dead or alive, and you heard each guitarists body of work for the first time, would that change how you felt about each? Maybe not for you, but I'm under the impression that, if taken out of context, people would gravitate more towards Page than Hendrix.

I think a lot of people are blinded by the fact that he was a black dude from America wailing away like that, and dying young added to his mystique. Hell, aside from guitar playing Page and Clapton (and Beck) are very similar people..typical white Brits, I think that's why they get lumped together moreso than they deserve to.

Maybe if Page was Asian, from like Brazil, and he played the way he did, and died young, he'd be more revered.