| Product Summary | | Label: Uni/mca | | UPC: 00008811160128 | | Release Date: 4/22/1997 | | Buy.com Sku: 60350598 | | Item#: MGDHY7 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 3047 | Format:  CD |
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(P) 1967 Experience Hendrix L.L.C. under exclusive license to Geffen Records
(C) 1997 Experience Hendrix L.L.C.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | This 1997 reissue of AXIS: BOLD AS LOVE is a newly remastered version that restores the original album artwork. It includes a 24-page booklet with previously-unpublished photos and song lyrics. It is among the first batch of albums on Experience Hendrix, a new label controlled by Hendrix's family. | | The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Jimi Hendrix (vocals, electic guitar); Noel Redding (vocals, bass); Mitch Mitchell (drums, background vocals). | | Recorded at Olympic Studios, London, England. | | Originally released on Reprise. | | Includes liner notes by Jym Fahey. | | Personnel: Jimi Hendrix (vocals, guitar); Trevor Burton, Roy Wood (vocals); Mitch Mitchell (drums). | | Audio Remasterers: Eddie Kramer; George Marino; Joe Gastwirt. | | Liner Note Author: Michael Fairchild. | | Photographers: Gered Mankowitz; Eddie Kramer; Leni Sinclair; Ron Rafaelli; Baron Wolman; David Sygall; Ed Thrasher; Bruce Fleming; Linda McCartney. | | Unknown Contributor Roles: Gary Leeds; Graham Nash. | | AXIS: BOLD AS LOVE was the follow-up to ARE YOU EXPERIENCED?, and represented a much more conscious use of the recording studio's possibilities. Where his live shows continued to showcase the raw rocking power of the Experience, the recording studio gave Hendrix the composer/arranger a broader palette. | | There are still plenty of powerful blues/rock-inflected songs, such as the menacing "If 6 Was 9," the rolling "Spanish Castle Magic" and the spatial title tune. But "Up From The Skies" is a jazzy trio romp, featuring Hendrix's bluesy, vocalized wah-wah pedal. And on the ballads "Little Wing" and "Castles Made Of Sand," Hendrix shifts the focus from the band to the silvery chord/melody accompaniments he often employed to complement his vocals. They are an orchestral effect unto themselves. |
Producer: Chas Chandler |
Engineer: Eddie Kramer; Terry Brown |
| | Artist Overview | | Of all the artists to emerge in the late 1960s, none inspired greater awe than Jimi Hendrix. After touring with numerous R&B bands, the guitarist moved to London in 1966 and assembled the Jimi Hendrix Experience. His U.S. return at the Monterey Pop Festival, an intense star-making performance, began a rollercoaster of fame, drugs, and musical triumph that ended with his death at 27. In his short lifetime, Hendrix completed three remarkable studio albums and brought a fire and emotion to rock music that no one had heard before, leaving the world to wonder what he might have done had he had a little more time. |
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| | Associated Artists and Works | | Artists, Various | | Stone Free: Tribute To Jimi Hendrix ~ Artists, Various | | Artists, Various | | Artists, Various | | Artists, Various | | The String Quartet Tribute To R.E.M. ~ Artists, Various | | Voodoo Crossing: A Tribute To Jimi Hendrix ~ Artists, Various | | Bourelly, Jean-Paul | | Bourelly, Jean-Paul | | Bourelly, Jean-Paul | | Brown, Phil (Violin) | | The Band Of Gypsys Return ~ Cox, Billy | | Play The Music Of Jimi Hendrix ~ Doran, Christy | | Play the Music of Jimi Hendrix ~ Doran, Studer, Minton, Bates, A | | Little Richard | | Miles, Buddy | | Miles, Buddy | | Miles, Buddy | | Miles, Buddy (Drums) | | Miles, Buddy (Drums) | | Miles, Buddy (Drums) | | On, Pickin' | | Original Soundtrack | | Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix ~ Original Soundtrack | | Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix [Box] ~ Original Soundtrack | | Original Soundtrack | | Original Soundtrack | | Original Soundtrack | | Original Soundtrack | | Original Soundtrack | | Original Soundtrack | | Original Soundtrack | | Original Soundtrack | | Original Soundtrack | | Original Soundtrack | | Pickin' On | | Richard, Little | | Smith, Lonnie | | Smith, Lonnie | | Smith, Lonnie (Organ) | | Smith, Lonnie (Organ) | | Various Artists | | Various Artists | | Various Artists | | Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix ~ Various Artists | | Various Artists | | Various Artists | | Various Artists | | Voodoo Crossing: A Tribute To Jimi Hendrix ~ Various Artists | | The String Quartet Tribute To Jimi Hendrix ~ Various Artists | | Various Artists | | The Spirit Lives On: Music Of Jimi Hendrix Revisit ~ Various Artists | | Gypsy Blood: A Tribute To Jimi Hendrix, Vol. 2 ~ Various Artists | | Various Artists | | Various Artists | | Various Artists | | Various Artists | | Various Artists | | Various Artists | | Experience ~ World Saxophone Quartet |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 04/22/1997 | | Original Release Date : 1967 | | Catalog ID : 11601 | | Label : MCA Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 38m : 49s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00008811160128 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.116)
- Ranked #82 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "...Like Hendrix, AXIS was cryptic and bewitching..."Q (12/93, p.136)
- 4 Stars (out of 5)
- "...AXIS dazzles as the Experience creates a genre probably short-lived because nobody else could play it: jazz metal might be the appropiate tag..." Down Beat (8/97, p.61)
- 4 1/2 stars (out of 5)
- "...pales only slightly in comparison [to ARE YOU EXPERIENCED?]..." Vibe (2/94, p.103)
- "...for folks who've never heard Jimi on vinyl, the rainbow fantasia world of Hendrix awaits you in all its polyphonic peacock glory...." Mojo (Publisher)
(p.52)
- Ranked #7 in Mojo's "The 50 Most Out There Albums Of All Time" - "Far out indeed." |
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