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February 18, 2012
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Axis: Bold As Love (1967) | The Jimi Hendrix Experience Side 1EXPUp From The SkiesSpanish Castle MagicWait Until TomorrowAin’t No TellingLittle WingIf Six Was Nine Side 2You’ve Got Me FloatingCastles Made Of SandShe’s So FineOne Rainy WishLittle Miss LoverBold As Love  This record is such a masterpiece! All songs are amazing, though my personnal favorites are Wait Until Tomorrow, Little Wing, Spanish Castle Magic (I love the rythm on that one, really strong and edgy at the same time), Castles Made Of Sand and Bold As Love. But again all the grooves on that album are so powerful, so right and straight forward! Bassist Noel Redding even said once that it was his favourite of the three Experience albums.So Axis is a musical masterpiece, but don’t forget the cover.. Just look at it while listening to the first track and you’ll get straight to the moon! It’s a copy of a religious poster of the Hindu devotional painting known as Viraat Purushan-Vishnu Roopam. A painting of the group was superimposed on it. But apparently Hendrix himself didn’t like it, he would have preferred an native american reference, like a photograph of the band dressed as Indians.

Axis: Bold As Love (1967) | The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Side 1
EXP
Up From The Skies
Spanish Castle Magic
Wait Until Tomorrow
Ain’t No Telling
Little Wing
If Six Was Nine

Side 2
You’ve Got Me Floating
Castles Made Of Sand
She’s So Fine
One Rainy Wish
Little Miss Lover
Bold As Love 

This record is such a masterpiece! All songs are amazing, though my personnal favorites are Wait Until Tomorrow, Little Wing, Spanish Castle Magic (I love the rythm on that one, really strong and edgy at the same time), Castles Made Of Sand and Bold As Love. But again all the grooves on that album are so powerful, so right and straight forward! Bassist Noel Redding even said once that it was his favourite of the three Experience albums.
So Axis is a musical masterpiece, but don’t forget the cover.. Just look at it while listening to the first track and you’ll get straight to the moon! It’s a copy of a religious poster of the Hindu devotional painting known as Viraat Purushan-Vishnu Roopam. A painting of the group was superimposed on it. But apparently Hendrix himself didn’t like it, he would have preferred an native american reference, like a photograph of the band dressed as Indians.

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