Are You Experienced?

Iconoclast (April 12, 2006)

I hate to say it but I find that Jimi Hendrix is the most overrated musicians around. I think that while he is an excellent guitarist, his influence on pop culture is way out of proportion to what he did. While not his fault, it is really kind of remarkable and sad to see the endless supply of greatest hits or compilations which now number nearly 20 that are churned out. With only 4 or so real albums the industry has milked every drop they can out of his work. That being said I find his work average at best. I know I am supposed to like him, I want to like him, my musical heroes like him, and I really have tried to like him; but its like eating turnip for me, makes me queasy and leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Luke Riley (July 5, 2004)

This is the review of Axis Bold as Love...I seem to have entered Are You Experienced on that review....sorry!

Axis Bold as Love....too much drugs as the fame starts to bite...the rawness has gone and now Jimi's musical roots are all over the album.....Has anything written been as beautiful as little Wing.....Castles Made of Sand....god this guy is sad....and angry as in Axis itself and If six were Nine...I bet the Hippy world was p*****g him off ....with its fakeness and phoniness....not apparent early in 67 but becoming clearer by the end.....everybdy wanted a piece of him......even Noel Redding who Jimi let contribute a poor song and vocals to the album......
The album starts with Paul Carusoe (one of the leading hippy idealists of the time) but Hendrix is desperate to be from another planet....where they can do amazing things with sound...landing spaceships and soaring between the stereo speakers....when very few peple had stereo speakers....how did Jimi know trhat we would al ahve walkmans thirty years later........

Spanish Castle Magic....that fuzz box is full up...

He also discovered the wah wah pedal on this album but used it in a soft jazz context.....clearly he had not got it to scream yet....may be the words cry baby reminded him of a lullaby not a woman in the thres of orgasm as he would later discover.....