Axis: Bold As Love

Luke Riley (July 5, 2004)

There has to be a beginning....this is it.....
Oh sure guys like Curtis Knight and Little Richard said this was not the first but this is the first explosion.

When I was a kid, I heard Foxy Lady and that was it....I got maudlin for "May this be Love....." but now I just play "Are you Experienced"...it is and was all there....feedback...acid lyrics, backwards guitar (achieved by turning the tape over and playing the left hand reel as the right hand reel to record the guitar part and then putting it back the original way....except Hendrix played one of the rhythm guitar parts backwards on top of the drums as well as the solo...which by he way is simple solo when played the right way bu comes from another universe when you hear it played backwards).

Third Stone from the Sun - Earth.....
What did they make of it in 1967?...imagine the studio engineers face when this big black guy turns up ans starts getting all these sounds from a guitar.....

May this be love again...with the "plinks" like pizzicato strings....amped up ilke supernatural spikes and then the beautiful lines of the solo no plectrum strokes just a sinuous melody I can imagine him caresing a girls naked inner thigh with that melody....

There is only a couple of heavy tracks but god what did this album do to all the would be kings....they all tried to pull the sword out of the stone....clapton, beck, page, buchanan, but whilst they weer tugging, Mr Hendrix casually lifted the sword out and displays it as if it is as light as a feather and the rock is made of butter.....