Axis: Bold as Love

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Axis: Bold as Love
Studio album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Publication
(s)

1967

Label (s) Track (UK), Reprise (US),
later: MCA (US, Europe)

Format (s)

LP

Genre (s)

Psychedelic rock

Title (number)

13

running time

38 m 49 s

occupation

production

Chas Chandler

Studio (s)

Olympic Studios , London, England

chronology
Are You Experienced
(1967) 		Axis: Bold as Love Smash Hits
(1968)

Axis: Bold as Love is the second studio album of Jimi Hendrix Experience , which in the UK was published on 1 December 1967th It was released in the USA in January 1968. Compared to the debut album Are You Experienced , the sound is more experimental and the compositions are more sophisticated.

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The recordings took place in May, June and October 1967 following the release of the previous album, as the band was contractually obliged to record two albums in 1967. In the USA, the album was released a little later in order not to hinder sales of the debut album. Axis: Bold as Love eventually reached position 5 on the UK charts and position 3 on the US charts. In Germany, where the album was also released in early 1968, it reached number 21.

The only single was Up from the Skies , which was released in the USA and France. The single only reached position 82 in the US charts. The title on the B-side was One Rainy Wish , which is also featured on the album.

Well-known tracks on the album are Wait Until Tomorrow , Castles Made of Sand and Little Wing , which are featured on numerous compilations. Little Wing , on which drummer Mitch Mitchell can be heard playing a carillon, is one of the most popular compositions by Jimi Hendrix and has been covered by Derek and the Dominos , Sting and Nigel Kennedy , among others . If Six Was Nine was used for the music in the film Easy Rider .

The album contains She's So Fine, Noel Redding 's first track to be released on a Jimi Hendrix Experience album. Redding also sings the lead vocal. Redding also played an eight-string electric bass on some songs .

Axis: Bold as Love was released in both mono (track 612 003) and stereo (track 613 003).

In 2003 the music magazine Rolling Stone placed the album at number 82 of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time .

Album title

Axis: Bold as Love is literally translated as axis: as daring as love . By axis, Hendrix means the earth's axis , which due to its precession allows the vernal equinox to move along the celestial equator through the celestial sectors. In astrology , the transition into a new heavenly sector is associated with the beginning of a new age, which, according to the precession cycle, comprises around 2150 years and is said to have certain characteristics. According to this view, the Piscean Age is currently merging into the Aquarian Age . Hendrix attaches a similar meaning to this phenomenon and compares the supposedly fateful power of the earth's axis with the power of love:

“Well like the axis of the earth, if it changes, well it changes the whole face of the earth, like every few thousand years. And it's like love in a human being, if he really falls in love, it will change him. It might change his whole life so both of them can really go together. "

“Well, like the axis of the earth, when it rotates, the whole face of the earth changes, like every few thousand years. And this is exactly how it is with love in a person, if he really falls in love, then it will transform him. It can change his whole life so that they both come together. "

- Jimi Hendrix

Track list

All songs, unless otherwise noted, were composed and written by Jimi Hendrix.

  1. EXP - 1:55
  2. Up from the Skies - 2:55
  3. Spanish Castle Magic - 3:00
  4. Wait Until Tomorrow - 3:00
  5. Ain't No Telling - 1:46
  6. Little Wing - 2:24
  7. If Six Was Nine - 5:32
  8. You've Got Me Floating - 2:45
  9. Castles Made of Sand - 2:46
  10. She's So Fine (Redding) - 2:37
  11. One Rainy Wish - 3:40
  12. Little Miss Lover - 2:20
  13. Bold as Love - 4:11

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  1. ↑ Jimi Hendrix quoted from MT Kato: From Kung Fu to Hip Hop: Globalization, Revolution, and Popular Culture . State University of New York Press, Albany 2007, ISBN 978-0-7914-6991-0 , pp. 91 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ UK-LP Track Record 613 003, Polydor Records Ltd. 1967

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