crash landing by jimi hendrix (released 1975)

crash landing
side a
1 - message to love
2 - somewhere over the rainbow (not a cover)
3 - crash landing
4 - come down hard on me

side b
1 - peace in mississippi
2 - with the power
3 - stone free again
4 - captain coconut

whenever i listen to jimi, i miss him terribly. i often wish i was alive in the 60s/70s so i could have had the experience of hearing about, seeking out, attending concerts, and enjoying in myriad ways bands like the jimi hendrix experience and parliament/funkadelic. but when i listen i feel such intense emotions, like the swirling airs of the moment the music was recorded infect me and i feel such hope and pleasure for the future, even for the present moment. i think if i had heard those records the year they were made, and then i grew older, i grew up and i realized that things definitely changed but not so much for the better...i think i'd be crushed and i might not even be able to feel the same way about the music. whereas, listening today, having a historical hindsight although not a memory of jimi's era, i can feel how i feel and even make up my own little imaginings about living a 60s/70s life without truly having to deal with his death. or, in the case of parliament, i can listen to a song about the vietnam war but i can, and of course i very much am, separated from it. still, i wish i could experience the music in it's specific historical moment. but i wish that about so many different things.