Hendrix plays Clapton:
Hendrix and Clapton were great friends; on the day before Jimi passed away, Clapton had found and bought a prize left-handed guitar and planned to give it to Hendrix the next night at a gig; Clapton has said he wasn't aware Hendrix had passed until he arrived at the gig and mutual friends informed him...
Hendrix often worked in Sunshine Of Your Love into his set list as a tribute to Cream. In the clip above, Hendrix is not playing his trademark Stratocaster guitar, instead using a Gibson SG, a guitar associated with Clapton during his Cream years. The clip is also notable as one of the very, very few clips where bassist Noel Redding is shown doing a bass solo. Hendrix started playing Sunshine the day he heard Cream was breaking up; there is footage of The Experience on singer Lulu's live TV show where the band starts out playing one of their own songs only to have Hendrix stop the song and announce that instead The Experience was gong to play a tribute to Cream, whereupon they blazed into a roaring version of Cream's song; the footage shows how the move caught Lulu and the show runners by surprise and also shows how flustered Lulu was when the band kept playing right over the closing credits and a bit beyond, pushing back the start of the BBC's nightly news, a big no-no on the network...
I caught this clip of a very impressive female guitarist when I was browsing today and looked up her info; her name is Ayla Tesler-Mabe and she is 19 years old and she started playing when she was 12 years old:
The guitar she is playing was gifted to her by Fender, along with several other guitars and other equipment; she has been covered in several guitar publications and has several performance clips as well as instructional clips on YT. This is her first clip, at age 14, where she does a remarkably good version of Hideaway:
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