New Jimi Hendrix Stamp Misses the Beat

With great anticipation, I bought a sheet of new Jimi Hendrix stamps at the post office today.  Must admit disappointment.  The artist rendering just doesn't do it for me.  Artistic license maybe, but the resemblance isn't quite there, and the color palette doesn't seem authentic to psychedelic art of that era. 

 And what are those bizarre lines around his face?

If I were in charge....it would look more like this:

IMO, for the music icon series, the USPS should stick with photographs.  They did a much nicer job on the Ray Charles stamp:

Hope they do a better treatment with the upcoming John Lennon stamp.  Here's one of my favorites:

 And if they need an idea for the Jim Morrison stamp, how about this?

At the rate it's going, postage will be up to 69 cents before we know it.