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>The bands I mentioned were all from the 1960's, unfortunately, mediocrity
>seems to be the rule of the day today. The best songs (guitar bands etc) we
>hear on British radio at the moment mostly seem to come from the US.

Another American that made it in Britain, like Hendrix was Suzi Quattro. 
However, she never made it big in the US. She made an interesting 
comment. That there is something more organic, authentic, and gritty 
about American music. I forgot her exact words. I got the impression that 
the Brits are high brow intellectuals or soccer hooligan punks (with all 
due respect to our British members of course), while the US music somehow 
more soulful. Its not just Chicago blues, or New Orleans Jazz. Even Kurt 
Cobain/Nirvana, Hendrix, the whole original Woodstock thing, the summer 
of love, NIN, Aretha Franklin, etc have some very real about them in a 
different way. Maybe its non-pretensiousness.

However, almost all of my favorites are British - Beatles, Soft Cell, 
Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, Oasis, etc - none of which has much sincerity 
to it. So I don't know what that means.