It’s not that I can’t enjoy Frank’s guitar. “Watermelon In Easter Hay” comes to mind. But people love WIEH whereas I’ve never heard a kind word about the guitar solo albums.

Absolutely Free must have blown the living minds of the few people who bought it in 1967–someone here, Matt I think pointed out that it’s actually quite a lot more “sophisticated” than Sgt. Pepper’s–if only the songs were as good! Such a sarcastic takedown of plastic society and set to such ahead of its time music, but now it just sounds horribly stuck in its time! Ahead of its time and now badly dated. What a horrible fate for an album

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