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Jimi Hendrix's second album doesn't resonate through rock history the way its gatecrashing predecessor,Are You Experienced?, does. In places, it almost seems as if Hendrix is cruising, albeit sublimely. Yet it's a vital album, containing some of rock's molten milestones. There's the fluid psychedelia of "Castles Made of Sand," the viciously funky "Little Miss Lover," and the so-beautiful-it-hurts "Little Wing." Hendrix really hits altitude with "If 6 Was 9," where he waves his "freak flag high" over a tidal wave of guitar and a cacophonous army of Moroccan flutes, and he ends with "Bold As Love," based around Hendrix's typically far-fetched hankering for the axis of the planet to be tilted, thereby transforming life on earth. It works up into a head-melting frenzy of distorted guitar, a precursor to the staggeringly expansive leap forward he would take with 1968'sElectric Ladyland. Hendrix dreamed the impossible and achieved it on his guitar.--David Stubbs

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review by Glennster2008. June 10, 2005

posted in Music Matters

Good Sequel to Are You Experienced

Are You Experienced was a groundbreaking record. It would be very hard for Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding, and Mitch Mitchell to duplicate such an effort. However, there are plenty of strong moments on Axis: Bold As Love. The title track is probably the strongest track. The melody is quite captivating and the tones shift very nicely from loud to soft. A good drum sequence transitions the song to a enjoyable conclusion. Little Wing is probably the most familiar … more

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