I wish that Jimi Hendrix was still alive and well, and that I was 18 again. But ...
Everything changes, and must change, and the worst thing we can do is to try to keep anything exactly as it was at any point. A community of artists, musicians or whatever moves on through change - otherwise, it stagnates.
Of course, out there on the record shop shelves, there's little sense of history or the passage of time. CDs of all eras sit there side by side, and we're free to choose. It's the process of
creation that changes, not the availability of the product.
If TG had existed before the era of recorded music, we'd have gone to "concerts" and heard the latest work, but perhaps we'd rarely have had the opportunity to listen to the older material - that would have been locked in our memories, not our CD players.
My little quip about Hendrix is meant in a kindly way. I used to worship the guy, but now I rarely ever play his music. Everything's moved on so much. And yet without him, who knows how far, or in what direction, rock music would have developed?
Meanwhile, I like the album very much, but I too get crazy about guitars from time to time. So, this is an album to play when you're not feeling quite so guitar-crazy, or when you're in a more sensitive mood. In fact, the more sensitive you're feeling, the better it gets.