Hmm... I "grok" it...
Although I was born after their heyday, for some reason I can really get into their music.
And hearing of George's passing made me sad. My wife and I sat down, hauled out some CDs, and listened to a bunch of their music, and then we felt somewhat better - for all die someday, but to achieve what they did is to not waste the gift that we are given, this brief passage through the stream of time...
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche