The Jimi Hendrix Experience / Axis: Bold As Love
Artist The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Album Title: Axis: Bold As Love
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Primary Genre Rock
Format Vinyl 180 gm
Released 12/01/1967
Reissue Date 03/09/2010
Label Experience Hendrix
Catalog No 88697 62396 1
Bar Code No 8 8697 62396 1 9
Reissue Yes
Packaging LP Sleeve (Double)
Tracks
A1. EXP (1:55)
A2. Up From The Skies (2:55)
A3. Spanish Castle Magic (3:00)
A4. Wait Until Tomorrow (3:00)
A5. Ain't No Telling (1:46)
A6. Little Wing (2:24)
A7. If 6 Was 9 (5:32)
B1. You Got Me Floating (2:45)
B2. Castles Made Of Sand (2:46)
B3. She's So Fine (2:37)
B4. One Rainy Wish (3:40)
B5. Little Miss Lover (2:20)
B6. Bold As Love (4:09)
Date Acquired 01/09/2013
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Acquired from Music Direct (Musicdirect.Com)
Purchase Price 19.99

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The Authorized Hendrix Family Edition
180 Gram Audiophile LP Pressing
All Analog Remaster From
The Original 2-Track Master Tapes
By Jimi's Original Engineer
Complete Original Artwork,
8 Page LP sized booklet
With Rare Photos and Liner Notes

All lyrics, except "She's So Fine" © 1967 Renewed 1996 Experience Hendrix, L.L.C. (ASCAP). "She's So Fine" © 1967 Renewed 1996 Joint Music Co. (BMI).

℗ © 2010 Experience Hendrix, L.L.C., Under Exclusive License To Sony Music Entertainment / Distributed By Sony Music Entertainment

Reviews
All Music Guide Review by Richie Unterberger
When the Jimi Hendrix Experience recorded their second album, they were in the process of solidifying their international stardom. That meant access to more studio time and more sophisticated technology, but not, alas, a great deal of time to write the material. That may be why Axis isn't quite as much of a tour de force as Are You Experienced?, but it's nevertheless another major effort, showing Hendrix continuing to grow, particularly in his increasing mastery of the studio and more sophisticated lyrics. Soul and R&B influences are more prominent here than on his debut, though psychedelic experimentalism ran rampant (to great effect) on "If 6 Was 9." "Spanish Castle Magic," "Up From the Skies," "You Got Me Floatin'," and "Castles Made of Sand" all had funky grooves that gave the spiraling guitars and crunchy rhythm section a much-needed buoyancy. The best song, though, might have been the mellowest: "Little Wing" was Hendrix at his most delicate, and perhaps his most personal. MVCE-24028

Review by Cub Koda
Jimi Hendrix's second album followed up his groundbreaking debut effort with a solid collection of great tunes and great interactive playing between himself, Noel Redding, Mitch Mitchell, and the recording studio itself. Wisely retaining manager Chas Chandler to produce the album and Eddie Kramer as engineer, Hendrix stretched further musically than the first album, but even more so as a songwriter. He was still quite capable of coming up with spacy rockers like "You Got Me Floating," "Up from the Skies," and "Little Miss Lover," radio-ready to follow on the commercial heels of "Foxey Lady" and "Purple Haze." But the beautiful, wistful ballads "Little Wing," "Castles Made of Sand," "One Rainy Wish," and the title track set closer show remarkable growth and depth as a tunesmith, harnessing Curtis Mayfield soul guitar to Dylanesque lyrical imagery and Fuzz Face hyperactivity to produce yet another side to his grand psychedelic musical vision. These are tempered with Jimi's most avant-garde tracks yet, "EXP" and the proto-fusion jazz blowout of "If 6 Was 9."
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