Axis: Bold As Love
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Album Information
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Genre: Psychedelic, Blues, Acid, and Hard Rock
Length: 39:21
Label: Track Record
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
UK Release Date: December 1, 1967
○ Label: Track Records
● US Release Date: January 15, 1968
○ Label: Reprise Records
Jimi Hendrix Experience
● Jimi Hendrix - vocals, electric guitar, piano, recorder,
voice of “Mr. Paul Caruso” on “EXP”
● Mitch Mitchell - drums, glockenspiel on “Little Wing”,
backing vocals, and “interviewer” on “EXP”
● Noel Redding - bass guitars (4 & 8-string), backing
vocals, foot stomping on “If 6 Was 9”, lead vocals on
“She’s So Fine”
Additional Musicians
● Gary Leeds, Graham Nash, Michael Jeffrey,
& Chas Chandler - foot stomping on “If 6
Was 9”
● Trevor Burton & Troy Wood - backing vocals
on “You Got Me Floatin’”
Production Personnel
● Chas Chandler - producer and manager
● Eddie Kramer - Chief engineer
● Additional Engineers - George Chkiantz,
Andy Johns, and Terry Brown
● Roger May - Audio Technician
Reception & Legacy
● #5 - UK charts for 16 weeks
● # 3 - US charts for 53 weeks
● #82 - Rolling Stone magazine’s list of 500
greatest albums
● #7 - Guitarist magazine’s most influential
albums of all time
● 2006 - Awarded Grammy Hall of Fame (Reprise, 1968)
Tracks Side A
1. EXP
2. Up From the Skies
3. Spanish Castle Magic
4. Wait Until Tomorrow
5. Ain’t No Tellin’
6. Little Wing
7. If 6 Was 9
Tracks Side B
1. You Got Me Floatin
2. Castles Made of Sand
3. She’s So Fine
4. One Rainy Wish
5. Little Miss Lover
6. Bold As Love
EXP
● Interview between Jimi & Noel
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Hand-cranked VSO
Release is mixed in stereo
● Replicates a UFO takes off
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Panning effect makes the sound bounce around
Jimi Uses 2 Guitars
 Fuzz Face Guitar Pedal
 Wah-wah pedal plugged in backwards
Up From The Skies
● Wah-wah rhythm guitar
● Mitchell uses brushes
Spanish Castle Magic
● Inspired by Eddie’s Jazz Style Piano
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Kramer isolates the chord, changes the EQs, and
compresses the chord
● Jimi - guitar, bass, and piano
● Features Hagstrom 8-string bass
Wait Until Tomorrow
● Pop song with an R&B guitar riff
● Mitchell and Redding - backing vocals
● Mitchell uses side stick technique
Ain’t No Tellin’
● Lead guitar licks panned hard to the right
channel
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Supposed to follow the vocal melody line
● Ends with heavy reverb, distortion, and
tremolo bar
Little Wing
● Monterey Pop Festival put into form of a girl
● Utilizes a Leslie Speaker
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Revolving speaker used with electric organi
Earliest example of stereo phasing
● Easy Rider
● Jimi on the flute/recorded
If 6 Was 9
● Longest track on the Album
● Stomping during outro
● Easy Rider
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popular counter culture movie
● Originally recorded as an instrumental
● Jimi decided to play lockenspil