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Any questions about this Jimi Hendrix Experience set?

I recently acquired this set of really nice clean signatures that look good as gold to me, and Roger. The provenance was a great story from the original acquirer. Let me know what you think.

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Permalink Reply by BallroomDays67 15 hours ago

Wow, congrats! It looks good to me too.

I moved this to the Hendrix forum.

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Permalink Reply by a pug called eva 15 hours ago

If they look good to Roger they probably are good but I wouldn't say they are entirely typical. I've never seen Jimi write "Bro" but that doesn't mean a lot (assuming people even said "Bro" back in the 60s) and the surnames of Hendrix and Redding are not the most typical I've seen (unusually angular in the first case and unusually straight in the second) but I haven't gone back to check the usual exemplar sources. Being somewhat atypical is often a good sign of course.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo 10 hours ago

"Bro" began moving beyond a simple written abbreviation into a colloquial form of address, often associated with African American vernacular English in the 1950's and 60's, and appearing in literature and films like Corner Boy in 1957. In 1957 Hendrix was still in school in Seattle. He saw Elvis on September 1, 1957. Hendrix started with the Velvetones in late 1958 or 1959.

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Permalink Reply by a pug called eva 9 hours ago

Thanks Eric. In Switzerland the term has only just taken off. It is used incredibly often by certain types of youngster. It seems to appear in almost every sentence I hear on the bus and sometimes multiple times in a single sentence. First names have gone out of fashion amongst some youths because of it.