JIMI HENDRIX Axis: Bold as Love psych Original 1967 GF Top Load Cvr STILL SEALED

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JIMI HENDRIX - Axis: Bold as Love

Reprise Records - 6281

Original 1967 Stereo pressing w/Gatefold Top Load Cover

Still Factory Sealed!!!!

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The title track and finale of the second Experience album, Axis: Bold as Love (1967), features the first recording of stereo phasing. Author Keith Shadwick described the song as "possibly the most ambitious piece on Axis, the extravagant metaphors of the lyrics suggesting a growing confidence" in Hendrix's songwriting. The album's opening track, "EXP", featured innovative use of microphonic and harmonic feedback. It also utilized a stereo panning effect in which sounds emanating from Hendrix's guitar move through the stereo image, revolving around the listener.

The album's scheduled pre-Christmas release date was almost delayed when Hendrix lost the master tape of side one of the LP, leaving it in the back seat of a London taxi. With the deadline looming, Hendrix, Chandler and engineer Eddie Kramer remixed most of side one in a single overnight session, but they could not match the quality of the lost mix of "If 6 Was 9". Bassist Noel Redding had a tape recording of this mix, which had to be smoothed out with an iron as it had gotten wrinkled. During the verses of the song, Hendrix doubled his vocal line with a guitar part, which he played one octave lower than his vocals.

Hendrix voiced his disappointment regarding their having re-mixed the album so quickly, and he felt that it could have been better had they been given more time. He also expressed dismay regarding the album cover art work, which depicts Hendrix and the Experience as various forms of Vishnu, incorporating a painting of them by Roger Law, from a photo-portrait by Karl Ferris. Hendrix stated that the cover would have been more appropriate had it highlighted his American Indian heritage. Track Records released the album in the UK on December 16, 1967, where it peaked at number 5, spending 16 weeks on the charts. In February 1968, Axis: Bold as Love reached number 3 in the US.

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Condition/Grading

Stunning copy of this rare record. No flaws, shrink intact with correct breathe hole! Absolutely MINT sealed copy! The pictures speak for themselves. Don't miss out!

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Packing

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