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no disputes here with anything you said except for hendrix being able to play via's (and others) stuff. maybe he could after years and years of practice, but he could not just pick up his guitar and play like via/satch/etc. nor could SRV and he had chops that could run hendrix into the ground.
what i'm really "arguing" here is that these contests of skill are futile. anytime you take a player out of his genre, comparisons are useless - as you pointed out there's no reason to compare hendrix to satch, but there's also no reason to compare bonham to watson, copeland, lombardo, peart, portnoy, etc. take each player in context and appreciate him/her. bonham may no be able to play as fast as X, but he sure as hell was on of the best blues/hard rock drummers of the seventies.
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