Axis: Bold As Love

I needed to replace my original worn album. The quality of this recording is awesome. Also, the pressing and high quality rice paper sleeve with no paper dust is better than most albums I’ve received from Amazon on big name labels. The Hendrix family did a great job on this, and cost way less than the others I already mentioned. Nice picture book with stories too!

This is a good mastering and clean vinyl recording of this album, but is it better than the original? My original Is still clean and playable. It has always sounded great. This re-mastered was available at a discounted price so I bought it out of curiosity. It is still a great album. My ears tell me that they boosted the bass and mids, almost like pushing the loud button on our old receivers. It is definitely a different sound than the original. My ears are adjusting to the deeper bass and a little muddier mids and I enjoy it. Just not sure it is a better sound than the original. BUT..a wonderful album.

Great quality 180 grain vinyl and cover

The mix is awesome. Sounds amazing

This album right here is the most overlooked out Jimi's three studio albums, but it is just as good as both "Are You Experienced" and "Electric Ladyland" despite what you may commonly hear. Once the first note is played on "Up from the Skies", not a minute is wasted on this intense and concise album. I think that both "Are You Experienced" and "Electric Ladyland" are nearly twice as long as this album. This album is so thoroughly good though that you're left wanting for nothing after listening to it (except perhaps another listen). This album is also the most fun album that The Experience ever recorded. The second song, "Spanish Castle Magic" is just high powered, high octane rock & roll with extremely crafty, thoughtful and creative lyrics. This is one of my favorite Jimi Hendrix songs of all time. The next song, "Wait Until Tomorrow" just has a really fun and energetic feel to it. The high energy continues with the next song, "Ain't No Telling". Listen out for the drummer on this song because he absolutely kills it. The drummer for The Experience doesn't get nearly enough credit but he is absolutely amazing in his own right. "Little Wing" is just a beautiful slice of dreamy guitar bliss with some of the most personal and intimate lyrics that Jimi has ever written. "If 6 was 9" is almost like a thematic continuation of "Stone Free" off of their first album. Jimi declares his independence and says that he is going to be himself no matter what people may think. "You Got Me Floatin" comes back full force with the fun, high octane, rock & roll. "Castles Made of Sand" is a mid-tempo song with visionary lyrics that are chocked full of practical wisdom. "She's So Fine" was penned by Noel Redding and it's actually one of the best songs on the album. It's fairly simple, but it's overflowing with fun energy. "One Rainy Wish" is absolutely the most lyrically impressive song on this album. The words and the music are just absolutely beautiful--a romantic, starry-eyed masterpiece. "Little Miss Lover" is just wickedly funky. The title track is in a similar vein as the magnificent "Little Wing". He takes us below the surface again on this one. I encourage you all to overlook the fact that this album often gets overlooked because you will be rewarded with a truly magnificent piece of music if you give it a chance.

Thank you everyone who preserved and enhanced Jimi’s recordings. Have new sacd hybrid playing on oppo and homemade Jbl driver speakers. History: saw him and experience twice as teenager. I have bought into the sacd technology hoping and praying that great music would still be converted. Axis produced in 2019 sacd hybrid is proof I was not disappointed. Will immediately buy first and third albums when available. Big big fan - always had first three albums on vinyl. I prefer sacd sound even over vinyl. Still have vinyl. Straight cd music has always grounded on my nerves and made me feel like I had to torn it off to avoid headache. Super audio compact disc playing a DSD signal through a modern quality dac system is for me and my taste! Golden rose just started on replay of album. I’ve already played it at least ten times in a month of owning it. I can’t say it’s like never the music before but it is a STUNNING difference. Long live Jimi and the Experience memories! What’s man- how blessed to have him bare his soul to the world. Addendum: over fifty years I’ve been enjoying this album first on vinyl with Sherwood tube receiver and Witchita 12” 3 way speakers / migrated to dynaco 120 watt transistor amp and finally way too late Jbl L100 century speakers. The most amazing thing is sacd is the best sound ever overall. For one things unlike vinyl there is perfect stereo separation - jimis early specialty. Plus drums are free to move unlike vinyl where drums are trapped in center channel to keep needle from jumping out. Finally each individual instrument and wonderful nuances of Hendrix’s amazing voice stand alone. Young people could not understand what it meant to be an early Hendrix fan - if 6 was 9 is his life theme. It branded us all hippies which I am proud to claim today still. Thank you Jimi Hendrix you great great great great born in the USA Superman!

Hendrix' second release is in some ways a step beneath Are You Experienced; a mere stepping stone to his masterpiece Electric Ladyland, in my opinion, because of his inclusion of some filler tracks, and his yet to be perfected experimentation with crafting distortion and feedback into a musical idea. However, there are some tracks that show Hendrix' intricate command of the guitar, his artistic use of the studio, and his emotion-drenched passion in all of its love and glory. For me, Spanish Castle Magic, Little Wing, Castles Made of Sand, One Rainy Wish, and Bold As Love are his best tracks of the set. Spanish... rocks with Mitch Mitchell's tight drumming and Noel Redding's dead on bass. Little Wing, the achingly tender/sweet love song with a guitar accompaniment that guides you surely along with its enchantingly bold & beautiful melodic lead, yet carresses with delicate supplemental chords and notes dancing intricately into and around the lead, gives the feeling that lyrics are almost unnecessary. Castles... is another example of how Hendrix uses his guitar to dress his vocals in an intertwinement of melodic chords and riffs that emphasize the song's theme. One Rainy Wish's dreamy, idealic theme is interupted in the middle by a potent injection of a tunefully rockin' mix of a maxed-out guitar vertuoso and explosive lyrics, before it settles back into its dream-like reverie. Bold As Love- Forget it! This piece bespeaks Hendrix' ambitious attempt to encapsulate the human dilemma in the raging drama and passion that captures Hendrix, the genius, at his artistic best. There's no way to describe the band's onslaught into the song's final crescendo; the pagentry, the majestic expanse, the ever straining spiraling ascension to new heights... You've got to hear it to believe it! The album flips the bird to establishment in the typical 60's fashion (If 6 Was 9), and pokes jazzy fun at humanity (Up From the Skies). In conclusion, Axis paved the way for his stunning masterpiece, Electric Ladyland, and gives glimpses into his later work on the album entitled Cry Of Love. Definitely worth the investment for those who wish to understand The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Mono pretty cool

Comme tout les albums de Jimi, Mythique !!

very good pressing

La musica de Hendrix siempre es muy buena, pero sobre la calidad del vinyl en si, no pude esperar mejor. El sonido es fiel y bueno, impreso por Quality Record Pressings, muy buena compañia, nunca decepcionan, estoy muy feliz con el disco. Aparte de que el precio fue muy bueno, llego antes.

Fantástica edición de vinilo de un gran álbum. Muy buen sonido y un disco en perfecto estado.

Edizione mono ma decisamente di qualità. remastered analogico - analogico. Supporto 140 g estremamente calibrato. Nella mancata stereofonia si perde molto nel brano di apertura EXP dove Hendrix imita suoni come moto auto, astronavi, sirene della polizia con il suono che esce apparentemente circolare per il perfetto missaggio stereo. A parte questo il risultato è grandioso. Naturalmente Little Wing è il gioiello più prezioso e in mono forse migliora l' intro donando corporeità e dinamica mai sentita prima.