Artist: THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE
Album: AXIS BOLD AS LOVE REMASTERED (CD)

Release date: 1967/ 2010
Media type: CD

Axis: Bold as Love is the second studio album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Under pressure from their record company to follow-up the successful debut of their May 1967 album Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love was released on Track Records in the UK in December 1967. It reached #5 in the UK and later, #3 in the US.

The album was recorded to fulfill the band's contract, which stated that they must produce two albums in 1967. Even so, it was not released in the USA until 1968 due to fears that it might have disturbed the sales of the first album.[2] Bassist Noel Redding has noted that this was his favourite of three Experience albums. He plays eight string bass on some tracks.

Just before the album's completion, Hendrix left the master tapes of side 1 in a taxi. They were never found again, and thus the A-side had to be mixed again quickly.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 82 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. All songs written and composed by Jimi Hendrix, except where noted.

TRACKLIST:

1. "EXP" 1:55
2. "Up from the Skies" 2:55
3. "Spanish Castle Magic" 3:00
4. "Wait Until Tomorrow" 3:00
5. "Ain't No Telling" 1:46
6. "Little Wing" 2:24
7. "If 6 Was 9" 5:32

8. "You Got Me Floating" 2:45
9. "Castles Made of Sand" 2:46
10. "She's So Fine (Noel Redding)" 2:37
11. "One Rainy Wish" 3:40
12. "Little Miss Lover" 2:20
13. "Bold as Love" 4:09

LINE-UP:

Jimi Hendrix – guitar, vocals, bass, piano, flute, voice of 'Mr. Paul Caruso' on 'EXP'
Mitch Mitchell – drums, glockenspiel on 'Little Wing', backing vocals, "interviewer" on 'EXP'
Noel Redding – bass, backing vocals, foot stamping on 'If 6 Was 9', lead vocals on 'She's So Fine'.
(An eight string bass is used on several tracks.)

Gary Leeds – foot stamping on 'If 6 Was 9'
Graham Nash – foot stamping on 'If 6 Was 9'
Michael Jeffery – foot stamping on 'If 6 Was 9'
Trevor Burton – back-up vocals on 'You've Got Me Floatin
Roy Wood – back-up vocals on 'You've Got Me Floatin
Chas Chandler – producer and foot stamping on 'If 6 Was 9'