Description:Axis: Bold as Love is the second studio album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Under pressure from their record company to follow-up the successful debut of their May 1967 album Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love was released on Track Records in the UK in December 1967. It reached #5 in the UK and later, #3 in the US.
The albumAxis: Bold as Love is the second studio album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Under pressure from their record company to follow-up the successful debut of their May 1967 album Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love was released on Track Records in the UK in December 1967. It reached #5 in the UK and later, #3 in the US.
The album was recorded to fulfill the band's contract, which stated that they must produce two albums in 1967. Even so, it was not released in the USA until 1968 due to fears that it might have disturbed the sales of the first album.Bassist Noel Redding has noted that this was his favourite of the three Experience albums. He plays eight string bass on some tracks.
Just before the album's completion, Hendrix left the master tapes of side 1 in a taxi. They were never found again, and thus the A-side had to be mixed again quickly.
The album was re-released on the week of March 30, 2010. Like the other 2010 re-releases, the sound varies slightly with minor tweaks from Hendrix's sound engineer Eddie Kramer.... (more)(less)
Manufacturer : Track Release date : 1 December 1967 Number of discs : 1 EAN: 0000881116012 UPC: 008811160128
"Jimi Hendrix was a known experimenter with many things. Music, guitar, spirituality, and of course psychedelic drugs. It's hard to not listen to Jimi and think that about how you would be tripping on it if you were doing LSD or something else. I like to say Axis Bold As Love is one of the more positive elements of LSD that shows yes after all it can make you a little more creative than normal.
The High Factor: No one knows really all the things Hendrix was taking, except him, and he's not here "
"Jimi Hendrix - EXPERIENCE HENDRIX REMASTERS
Year - 2010
Company - Sony Music/Legacy/Expierence Hendrix
With the current trends of all these Legacy Edition reissues, I am waiting on them to do one of the Hendrix albums. They probably won't thanks to these recent reissues, least they could have done was not make them super loud.
I don't own any of the 1997 reissues, but from listening to these, I can complain about the loudness. Whoever mixed this turned them up really loud. People argue that "
""If 6 Was 9"
Again, the flow of time keeps me from being able to write this one. But had I lived through the 60s I might have written this one. Or maybe in this time if you drop the line about hippies cutting off their hair at least (not that I'd care about that either)."
joelarocca added this to a list 1 year, 2 months ago
""Some of the studio effects on Hendrix's second album have not aged well, and the mix on Side One was redone in a single night because he left the original masters in a taxi. But Axis is a leisurely, bluesy jewel; Hendrix slowed down on "Little Wing" and "If 6 Was 9" to allow his guitar space to breathe as well as burn. " 'Little Wing' is like one of these beautiful girls that come around sometimes," he said. "They might be spaced, they might be kinda strung out. But everybody has a right to . ."
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