When I was 11, decades ago, I discovered this album because my great aunt and uncle who were definitely flower children back when it came out had a big record collection of all the good 60s and early 70s rock, and this cover immediately struck me upon first seeing it. I remember sitting in her room listening to the vinyl on headphones, and this was a pivotal album in me discovering music, rock, and also for making me want to play guitar. Seems like a lifetime ago but I still am captivated by this record and Jimi. Wait until tomorrow and castles in the sand are my favs.
My dad’s mother’s mother’s dad was a full bloodied charokee “Indian” but i always hesitated to use the term “Indian” and just say “Native American”. I heard somewhere years ago that when Columbus discovered America, he first thought he was in India and he named the natives “Indians”. so today…🤷 it’s one of those stories how a mistake turned into tradition. I was never really sure how to feel about that. “Spanish Castle Magic” is among top 5 fav Hendrix songs, almost sounds metal…
Thank you. Axis: Bold As Love was was of the first albums I ever owned. It was my first JHE album, and it is still my favorite. "Up From The Skies" features Hendrix's first use of the Wa-wa pedal, making it one the world's first Wha solos! The title track, "Bold As Love", is my all-time favorite Hendrix. The interplay of Jimi's rhythm/lead guitar, his vocal, and the lyrics on the opening verse is astounding! HINT: The long ending fades very gradually. Turn the volume way up on the last few seconds; the lead guitar is amazing!
I also have the axis bold as love album on vinyl unopened. Threw a little party last week passed out some green gels 🟩 And waited about an hour for it to hit. Then play the album on CD for everybody in the room who had not heard it. It blew their mind. One rainy wish, completely swept the room away… Class dismissed
Hi Abigail, I've just discovered your channel with this video, awesome! I have a bit extra insight about the album cover: there's at least one biography showing that he made a rough sketch of what he wanted, basically he made a Christian Cross made up of faces: his was in the center, and in all four directions were faces of famous historical figures of all ethnicities (one way, the whites, in which there was Hitler and Jesus too, another way the Asians, with Buddha too, and the other two ways I can't remember but I'd guess African Blacks and Asian Indians or Japanese). This should've represented all the influences he had, which of course made him who he is one way or another.
You think stereo production was poor in the 60's?, I'll tell you it has not improved much since, digital has only took the soul out of much reproduction not improved it, there's plenty of us old people left to enlighten you.
For a long time I considered this my favorite album, so much so that my New Year’s tradition included listening to this album right after midnight to start the new year right. It’s waned on my list after some time (still probably in the top 20-ish or so) but I performed my little ritual after some time for the last hour of New Year’s Eve as way to send off a personal great (at times trying) year.
Don't waste your money on "mono" re- presses. They're all cut digitally, not via analogue. Rule of thumb when it comes to vinyl collecting…re-presses post arrival of CD's (roughly post 1988) are not worth it…even if they're in mono. Pre CD re- presses are just fine.
His songwriting was off the charts on this album. Songs like "Little Wing", "Spanish Castle Magic", "Bold As Love", and "Castles Made of Sand". Just legendary track after legendary track.
Abigail' keep up the good work you do on here keep giving Record Collectors the sales they want this ad paid off we saw your Hendrix U.K. cover of Electric Ladyland even if you did not show us the outside cover but every cover this last weekend sold on ebay no matter what the price it was Thank You keep up the good work . 👍👍
You do such a fantastic job with these videos, and your insights and knowledge are wonderful. I've been listening to this album for decades, like so many of the albums in your videos, and yet you always show me something new I'd never heard or thought of before, I learn history about the recording, etc. You're awesome! And your outfits are spectacularly on point.
Stopped about 26 minutes in and played side 1 of a 1970s pressing.of Axis and really listened. Hendrix was progressing so quickly in '67 that his band released this only months after his debut. Stands out as a snapshot of Jimi's efforts that led to EL a year later. I love this lp. The effects and attention to details on these songs are way ahead of AYE. Redding is good, he's just not great like Mitchell. Really a product of its time in the best ways. Highly recommended on vinyl.
Listening to this album, I picture Jimi as a happy psychedelic spaceman with superpowers, and in some respects, I guess he was. A truly unique child of the 60s.
The Sagittarius represents Satan 😈👹🔥bLOL! 😁👑🙏🏽 I AM A SAGITTARIUS MUZIK PRODUCER and I AM WITH ROCK & ROLL ROYALTY IN THE MOST FUN AND DANGEROUS OF WAYS!! US SAGITTARIUS HAVE KEITH RICHARDS, JIMI HENDRIX, JIM MORRISON, TINA TURNER, OZZY OZBOURNE FOR STARTERS ON OUR TEAM!!!!! TEAM SAGITTARIUS 11-23-92! ARE YOU A PISCES?! I BET YOU R 🤩💎🎸🥁🤟🏼 Axis is most definitely my favorite Hendrix Album! I'll tell you my favorite Hendrix song! 💖🎨🎶 LoVe2P∆int$ound
Very difficult to choose a favorite from Jimi! But remembering my first Acid trip early 70s 'Pali Gap' from Rainbow Bridge ,was released posthumously after that tragic day!!..
@abigaildevoe
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
what’s your favorite jimi song? comment below!
@jumpfortyfour9965
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
axis is best LP . WAIT TILL TOMORROW . was the song had me in ,
@rod9050
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
My favourite solo on axis is Spanish castle magic as for songs pretty much dig them all ❤
@tiller000
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
When I was 11, decades ago, I discovered this album because my great aunt and uncle who were definitely flower children back when it came out had a big record collection of all the good 60s and early 70s rock, and this cover immediately struck me upon first seeing it. I remember sitting in her room listening to the vinyl on headphones, and this was a pivotal album in me discovering music, rock, and also for making me want to play guitar. Seems like a lifetime ago but I still am captivated by this record and Jimi. Wait until tomorrow and castles in the sand are my favs.
@Driecnk
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
Freaks not hippies
@derekroberts6654
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
My dad’s mother’s mother’s dad was a full bloodied charokee “Indian” but i always hesitated to use the term “Indian” and just say “Native American”. I heard somewhere years ago that when Columbus discovered America, he first thought he was in India and he named the natives “Indians”. so today…🤷 it’s one of those stories how a mistake turned into tradition. I was never really sure how to feel about that.
“Spanish Castle Magic” is among top 5 fav Hendrix songs, almost sounds metal…
@worksbydandeprez
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
Have you read Noel Redding's memoirs? To me he came across as petty and resentful.
@chrisdelisle3954
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
…and you're right about Elvin Jones!
@kikomarurim
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
This man was maybe the biggest lost im music history, Who would have done so much more for music.
Btw marry me please.
@robertvavra414
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
Thank you. Axis: Bold As Love was was of the first albums I ever owned. It was my first JHE album, and it is still my favorite. "Up From The Skies" features Hendrix's first use of the Wa-wa pedal, making it one the world's first Wha solos! The title track, "Bold As Love", is my all-time favorite Hendrix. The interplay of Jimi's rhythm/lead guitar, his vocal, and the lyrics on the opening verse is astounding! HINT: The long ending fades very gradually. Turn the volume way up on the last few seconds; the lead guitar is amazing!
@markcook3570
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
I also have the axis bold as love album on vinyl unopened. Threw a little party last week passed out some green gels 🟩 And waited about an hour for it to hit. Then play the album on CD for everybody in the room who had not heard it. It blew their mind. One rainy wish, completely swept the room away… Class dismissed
@operatorenabla8398
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
Hi Abigail, I've just discovered your channel with this video, awesome!
I have a bit extra insight about the album cover: there's at least one biography showing that he made a rough sketch of what he wanted, basically he made a Christian Cross made up of faces: his was in the center, and in all four directions were faces of famous historical figures of all ethnicities (one way, the whites, in which there was Hitler and Jesus too, another way the Asians, with Buddha too, and the other two ways I can't remember but I'd guess African Blacks and Asian Indians or Japanese). This should've represented all the influences he had, which of course made him who he is one way or another.
Hope you enjoyed this little fact!
@user-kc6zr2np1m
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
Эбигейл Ты прелесть эбигейл
@PeterTea
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
That taxi driver probably threw out the most valuable thing he ever had in his cab.
@bobsiburton861
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
You think stereo production was poor in the 60's?, I'll tell you it has not improved much since, digital has only took the soul out of much reproduction not improved it, there's plenty of us old people left to enlighten you.
@James-jf1sc
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
Ok groupie…you speak in first person.
Play the album!!
@thirtyyearoldmulberryfield
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
For a long time I considered this my favorite album, so much so that my New Year’s tradition included listening to this album right after midnight to start the new year right. It’s waned on my list after some time (still probably in the top 20-ish or so) but I performed my little ritual after some time for the last hour of New Year’s Eve as way to send off a personal great (at times trying) year.
@patriciaacevedo4429
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
Good stuff
@thepagecollective
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
huh-huh, you said, "Cynthia Plastercaster knew what was up" huh-huh
@Elcolorado87
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
Really loved your take on this album!!
@Dos_Caffeine
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
One of my favorite albums!
@Ogma3bandcamp
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
Gil Evans and Leslie Nielsen – separated at birth?
@jsims149
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
Wonder wonder what happened to the taxi tape 🙂
@mn-wk3ju
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
Awesome channel! Thanks for all the amazing knowledge! 😊
@edwardzizic7218
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
Don't waste your money on "mono" re- presses. They're all cut digitally, not via analogue. Rule of thumb when it comes to vinyl collecting…re-presses post arrival of CD's (roughly post 1988) are not worth it…even if they're in mono. Pre CD re- presses are just fine.
@RebelThoughts82
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
His songwriting was off the charts on this album. Songs like "Little Wing", "Spanish Castle Magic", "Bold As Love", and "Castles Made of Sand". Just legendary track after legendary track.
@3cheaptrick
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
Abigail' keep up the good work you do on here keep giving Record Collectors the sales they want this ad paid off we saw your Hendrix U.K. cover of Electric Ladyland even if you did not show us the outside cover but every cover this last weekend sold on ebay no matter what the price it was Thank You keep up the good work . 👍👍
@chrishh03
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
Where are there more women with your taste in music?
@sledzeppelin
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
You do such a fantastic job with these videos, and your insights and knowledge are wonderful. I've been listening to this album for decades, like so many of the albums in your videos, and yet you always show me something new I'd never heard or thought of before, I learn history about the recording, etc. You're awesome! And your outfits are spectacularly on point.
@richardclark.
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
Do you hear those footsteps running thru the chaos at the end of 6 was 9 towards whatever comes after?
@richardclark.
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
I always assumed 6 was 9 was recorded like that for effect! Could i assume you know what happens when you speed up and slow down Third Stone?
@richardclark.
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
can you imagine no 6 was 9?! that song will play at my funeral, followed by Keef singing Happy.
@richardclark.
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
where were you when i was young enough to chase girls!?
@catherinecodjia1192
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
Such an enthousiastic video ! Thank you Abigail🤗
@astolatpere11
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
Stopped about 26 minutes in and played side 1 of a 1970s pressing.of Axis and really listened. Hendrix was progressing so quickly in '67 that his band released this only months after his debut. Stands out as a snapshot of Jimi's efforts that led to EL a year later. I love this lp. The effects and attention to details on these songs are way ahead of AYE. Redding is good, he's just not great like Mitchell. Really a product of its time in the best ways. Highly recommended on vinyl.
@BlueSky...
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
Listening to this album, I picture Jimi as a happy psychedelic spaceman with superpowers, and in some respects, I guess he was. A truly unique child of the 60s.
@djinnmagik2003
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
I have to raid your wardrobe so I can look freaky for when I perform LIVE. 🤙🏽
@djinnmagik2003
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
The Sagittarius represents Satan 😈👹🔥bLOL! 😁👑🙏🏽 I AM A SAGITTARIUS MUZIK PRODUCER and I AM WITH ROCK & ROLL ROYALTY IN THE MOST FUN AND DANGEROUS OF WAYS!! US SAGITTARIUS HAVE KEITH RICHARDS, JIMI HENDRIX, JIM MORRISON, TINA TURNER, OZZY OZBOURNE FOR STARTERS ON OUR TEAM!!!!! TEAM SAGITTARIUS 11-23-92! ARE YOU A PISCES?! I BET YOU R 🤩💎🎸🥁🤟🏼 Axis is most definitely my favorite Hendrix Album! I'll tell you my favorite Hendrix song!
💖🎨🎶 LoVe2P∆int$ound
@agdgdgwngo
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
This album contains probably the best song of all time in Little Wing. A thing of pure beauty
@AntonyFleck
April 19, 2024 at 2:32 am
Very difficult to choose a favorite from Jimi!
But remembering my first Acid trip early 70s
'Pali Gap' from Rainbow Bridge ,was released posthumously after that tragic day!!..