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Hendrix was a very important part of my life,I saw him more than once first time at age 13. But I must say speculation about what he would ,and would not have used if he were alive seems kinda silly to me. Some think he used whatever was cutting edge,perhaps so but his use of chords and knowledge of theory don't seem to reflect that at all,his harmony knowlegde was pretty basic,nowhere near the cutting edge.Of course he went beyond edges all together with pure soud explorations.Hard to put in a neat box. Miles is known to have been on various cutting edges alll his life,but did his actual playing do that? I would say not,his compsotion,arragement presentation did,though often by drawing on what was happening elsewhere ( notably imitating Hendrix,and SLy)and adding it to 'serious' jazz .His chops and articulation didn't really stay on the cutting edge after his pioneering use of electronics. Hendrix when he died was already getting bypassed in terms of technique by fusionoid stuff that was a response to his trailblazing. Maybe he would've woodshedded his modes and started dropping in extreme substitutions- who knows. Thye laptop doesn;'t seem kinetic enough a performace tool though,eve i the studion he was more iterested in live expressio than elaborate intellectual architecture. Hendrix got really extreme at putting on a show as a way to get some where in the music biz, and it worked but after he made it he felt trapped in that freakshow role.He said in interveiws he wished people could just close their eye and let the music take them. _________________________________________________________________ PC Magazine’s 2007 editors’ choice for best Web mail—award-winning Windows Live Hotmail. http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration_HM_mini_pcmag_0507