Thanx for askin' Abby! HouseBurningDown, likely cuz I first heard it in a little hippie home during a flaming helLA sunset while trippin' on mescaline... I could see&feel, as well as hear that house burning down! And THAT experience is still felt viscerally every time I listen to the tune.
@@abigaildevoe Totally agree! To think those first 3 albums were done in such a short period of time! Genius is a word used to much in my opinion; but with Jimi Hendrix it fits perfectly!☺️
Jimi's greatest album. It's a masterpiece. The greatest guitarist of ALL TIME was much more than that. He could do it all...and he did...in 4 short years
My favorite Jimi Hendrix album. Jimi's songwriting reached new poetic heights and his guitar sounds like it comes from another spiritual realm. "If Six Was Nine", "Castles Made of Sand", "Spanish Castle Magic" & "Little Wing" are beautiful and will blow your mind. Axis: Bold as Love is truly a psychedelic masterpiece!
I watched an interview with Nick Mason of Pink Floyd and Stewart Copeland of the Police. They both agreed that Mitch Mitchell was their favourite drummer.
Semi-obsessed with rain? Think about it. Where did Jimi grow up? Seattle. And also Vancouver British Columbia. Rain? Lots of it. And as a native Portlander, I know rain. We all have webbed feet here. My personal favorite will always be the US Are You Experienced, but Axis will always be high on the list too. I grabbed them both at the Portland State Bookstore in 75 outta their bargain bin when I should’ve been in class. Oh well, college. Cue eye roll.
This is from the liner notes to the Hendrix Blues collection put out by MCA in the mid-90s. Jimi's part-Cherokee/Irish grandmother, Nora Rose Moore, lived to one hundred years. She claimed to have seen everything in her lifetime. "I've seen slavery and I've seen Jimi Hendrix perform," said Nora Rose, "that about covers it."
Hi Abigail, I've just discovered your channel with this video, awesome! I have a bit extra insight about the album cover: there's at least one biography showing that he made a rough sketch of what he wanted, basically he made a Christian Cross made up of faces: his was in the center, and in all four directions were faces of famous historical figures of all ethnicities (one way, the whites, in which there was Hitler and Jesus too, another way the Asians, with Buddha too, and the other two ways I can't remember but I'd guess African Blacks and Asian Indians or Japanese). This should've represented all the influences he had, which of course made him who he is one way or another. Hope you enjoyed this little fact!
The more I listen to the Jimi Hendrix Experience the more I think Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell are super underrated. Yes, Hendrix is a guitar god, but his mates are perfect aswell. Jimi would'nt shine so bright if he didn't have Noel and Mitch by his side giving it their all
and he did with billy cox in band of gypsys. but with mitch and jimi in the experience together you need a ground wire - 3 guys soloing at once doesn't always land.
@@dailyflashYou're missing some truth. Despite noel frowning on Jimi suggested bass lines for riffs. Noel and Mitch were Jimi's tightest musicians (with Jimi) When 'band of gypsies' became Jimi's new band, Jimi's immediate people from begining noticed loose formula. The band of gypsies wasn't tight like 'the experience'. Jimi Hendrix would pull tricks on noel and Mitch live, but Mitch and Noel put effort into keeping it together tight. Everything Jimi did on film with noel and Mitch either sucks or mediocre. Some of band of gypsies film is better. But most people don't know 'the experience. There is some live recordings with noel and Mitch captures how unexpected tight, brilliant The experience is. I don't even like 'Hey joe' but theres a recording guitar player magazine released on compilation called (60s guitarist who ruled the world?) I forget title but live version of hey Joe is best I've heard Hendrix play hey Joe, Hendrix starts with bass line and changes up on rhythm dynamics, noel and Mitch almost miss it actually land on their feet. Incredible finesse, intricacy. Jimis tone is leathery hide mammoth thick heavy. Hendrix makes good use triad E maj at begining ahead of the game. The thing with billy cox is isle of wight. Somewhere during last two songs isle of wight. Hendrix gives billy 'heads up' it's very clear on film, once you find it. Hendrix is tired and wants to sit back next to Mitch on drums. (Hendrix is gives eye contact to billy cox to take over front stage for minute. (Hey billy, come up front and show you're stuff) Billy standard next to Mitch is looking at Hendrix (playing bass chewing gum 100 miles hr) doesn't want to leave his spot next to Mitch. Billys uncomfortable playing up front. Hendrix looks down sad for moment and continues, then ends the show. There were occasions when noel and Mitch on stage playing without Jimi. Noel has NO problem taking over for moment. Hendrix wasnt delinquent about performing. When band of gypsies started playing, their were complaints from females in audiance. Women were asking where are the two cute white boys? Ha LMAO!
Well here in the UK where I live the Winter solstice is at 03:27 on Friday the 22nd of December! Ahh Sagittarians are lively, passionate, smart and more philosophical than their clown-y energy may hint at. They love to feel free and resist rules, regulations, constraints and schedules. They just like doing what they do, when they wanna do it. They're born travellers, adventurers, explorers and free spirits. I'm a virgo ♍ 😆 Looking forward to the Stones review next week! Sympathy for the Devil? Looking forward to the Stones next week! Sympathy for the Devil? Me!
The amount of musical output Jimi created in his, basically, 4 short years as a mainstream musician is truly incredible. The stuff that has come out (outakes and live) since his death is mind-boggling. Such a gifted musician who also had greatness around him. Oh, what would have been if he'd only been able to make it out of his 20s. On another note, very much looking forward to next week's album. Gonna get interesting, for sure.
there's some alternate universe where jimi got to make that album with miles davis. it would've changed music history forever! he had sessions booked with paul mccartney too, who knows what that would've sounded like
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An old high school friend of mine gave me a copy of this album one morning before English class started, and I've been a fan ever since. Btw, there's a great cover of "You've Got Me Floating" by a 1970s Peruvian rock band called Traffic Sound; they work a saxophone solo into it, which you think wouldn't work, but somehow it does! Great video, as always Abby!
I owned this album in 1969. I have read counless stories and watched many interviews about the production, but, as always; Abigail somehow comes up with tidbits of information that no one else seems to know. Keep up the good work!
Mitch, would agree wit y'all. He wuz a massive Elvin Jonez fan & wuz 1 of a small few, 2 witness him live, n a small venue, n New York. I myself, got 2 witness da massive bomb-like fillz, n an ntimate setting of fanz, n Los Angeles, just b4 he passed. THE BEST ELIVIN JONES & MITCH MITCHELL!
@@Hartlor_Tayley I wish u could have gotten 2 c him 2. Da venue, wuz a small restaraunt.... same typo nvironment, Mitch woulda gotten 2 c him n sum 25 ta 30 yearz earlier. During my concert, Jones ntertained about 50 of us & u could definitely hear stuff, Mitch Mitchell mite play, ( Especially during ELECTRIC LADYLAND. ) being effortlessly rolled-out b4 ur very eyez. Da guy wuz amazing & a totally different Drummer/beat, 2 march 2!
I was never a big Jimi fan, but your enthusiasm for his work is turning the tide for me. But on to the important part, chocolate chips in banana bread sounds fantastic!!
Little Wing is a gem....and the Derek and the Dominos version is heart-breaking. If memory serves, the DATD version was recorded about two weeks before Jimi died, and I don't think he ever got a chance to hear it. Great video once again!
I really like the JHE version of Little Wing....but DATD (Eric and Duane's guitars....and the Eric-Bobby vocal duet makes your hair stand on end.@@abigaildevoe
There's also a fantastic version from the Dominoes' Fillmore East performances in October 1970, a month after Jimi died, and you can hear how much that had affected Eric, and he literally plays out of his skin on that. Mind you, if you're working with material like that you have to put everything into it, and you can hear how he felt about Jimi's passing; "I felt like the loneliest person on Earth".
When I'm sad, she comes to me With a thousand smiles she gives to me free Effing sublime... I remember procuring this magnificent record for the first time in a sketchy secondhand store on East Lake Street in Minneapolis ...in the winter of 1983 ??.....
I had an epiphany when I re-bought this album on cd recently. The guitar tones on "if six were nine" were stunning; the epitome of a big amp in a big room tone.
this is my favourite hendrix album. ‘spanish castle magic,’ ‘little wing,’ ‘if 6 was 9,’ and ‘bold as love’ are my favourite songs from this album. also, please do an episode on the move or the electric light orchestra please please please p
it's a shame none of them are around. i would've loved to have had a chat with mitch or noel, and jimi would've been the coolest old man on the planet :( but the music lives on
@@abigaildevoe Exactly, it would've been incredible to see and experience (no pun intended 😋), live in concert, I would be a happy man plus I watch your video about your funny type you like of guys who are Capricorn.... you're talking to one. 😁
When I was 11, decades ago, I discovered this album because my great aunt and uncle who were definitely flower children back when it came out had a big record collection of all the good 60s and early 70s rock, and this cover immediately struck me upon first seeing it. I remember sitting in her room listening to the vinyl on headphones, and this was a pivotal album in me discovering music, rock, and also for making me want to play guitar. Seems like a lifetime ago but I still am captivated by this record and Jimi. Wait until tomorrow and castles in the sand are my favs.
My intro to Jimi was Smash Hits and Band Of Gypsys simultaneously. Then I got Axis, then AYE and then finally, Electric Ladyland. Axis is a gem. There's a cohesiveness.
Love all of the colors in the song lyrics and on the album cover, which gets freakier every time I look at it. "Little Miss Lover" is my favorite track. Such a groove.
Thanks for covering this one Abby! My favourite tracks are Castles made of sand, little wing, and Spanish castle magic, but I love the entire album and have listened to it so many times! My favourite Hendrix album along with band of gypsies live
I cannot thank you enough .... watching your show makes me so nostalgic and relights the flame behind so many of my favorite albums... i relive the same joy these albums gave me though YOUR joy! ..
My grandparents were good friends with Noel Redding in the 80s, they lived next door to him. They said he was a great guy, super friendly! I love having that connection to the Experience. Great video dude. Edit: I always thought it was Brian Jones who got Jimi on the bill
aww that's awesome! i've heard noel was a quiet, nice guy. shy even. paulie saw the experience at the bag o nails club, and only agreed to serve as a monterey director if the experience got to play
Great work Abby!!! Jimi Hendrix album on his 81 anniversary of his birth... This is too cool... I love all the songs, they are some electric songs and some melodic.. A perfect masterpiece.... ❤❤❤❤❤
I think Axis: Bold As Love in mono sounds more like a rock album than the stereo mix. I feel the same about Sgt. Pepper's. By the way, there are two stereo mixes of the album. One was only released in Europe as far as I know, and I've never understood how that happened. It makes me wonder if the "lost" stereo mix is this alternate version.
When did Jimi ever bite the heads off bats? That was Ozzy's gig! Stereo was invented at least back in the `50's. I seem to recall that they were actually dicking around with it back in the `40's or possibly even the late `30's. Most psych albums were intended for mono play, stereo was just kind of a last minute remix type thing for a good many of them. I can never keep straight (between flanging and phase shifting) which is which, at least not without hearing examples of both but, one of them was discovered by accident back in the late `50's, possibly the very early `60's. There was a record by Toni Fisher called, "The Big Hurt" that was the first to ever use it but, it was completely accidental and unintentional but, once she and her husband (the owner of their label, Signet records) heard it, they thought it was pretty cool and kept it. He was just trying to double or boost her vocals a bit by running two tracks of her vocals side by side but ever so slightly off (it's now called, ADT (automatic double tracking)) and, because the two tape recorders ran at a very slightly different speed, they ended up with that phase shifting sound every so often. Sorry but, Bill Bruford's the best drummer that's ever been. Well, no, "If 6 Was 9" is Jimi saying, let me be who I am and stop trying to tell me I HAVE to look, act and sound like you just to fit in. The hippy movement is still here, it didn't die the first time until the late `70's when disco took over and then it came back to life in the early `80's for at least a short time but has never actually died off since then. There's still LOTS of modern bands (as well as older ones from the late `60's) making new psych albums and LOTS of people still collecting loads of psych from the `60's! You'd be amazed how many records from that era are now worth a small fortune!!
I've been listening the last two weeks to both the mono and stereo versions, and unlike AYE, I love both of them. Spanish Castle Magic is my favorite track together with Little Wing. During an acid trip, I swear to the Gods, I could hear Jimi talking to me from deep beneath the layers of the mix of Spanish Castle Magic
Thank you. Axis: Bold As Love was was of the first albums I ever owned. It was my first JHE album, and it is still my favorite. "Up From The Skies" features Hendrix's first use of the Wa-wa pedal, making it one the world's first Wha solos! The title track, "Bold As Love", is my all-time favorite Hendrix. The interplay of Jimi's rhythm/lead guitar, his vocal, and the lyrics on the opening verse is astounding! HINT: The long ending fades very gradually. Turn the volume way up on the last few seconds; the lead guitar is amazing!
Loved this so much! I think that Little Wing was written about Monterey Pop? Idea being to personify the event as a beautiful, kind woman. Really excellent job with your videos thanks for giving jimi his due ❤ and you're so right, ppl don't talk about Bold As Love enough!
I am so happy to see this video. Not only is your knowledge of the music and its history impressive, but your love of this music comes gushing through. I'm old, I mean old enough to have seen Jimi Hendrix twice, once in 1968 and once in 1970, about a month before he died. There will never be another Jimi Hendrix. Thanks, Abigail for bringing back the memories, as bitter-sweet as they may be.
A friend found a box of late-‘60s records in the basement of an apartment building in San Francisco. He let me take a third because I had come out there to help him move back to Austin. ‘Axis: Bold As Love’ was one I got. And Dylan’s ‘John Wesley Harding’, ‘Music From Big Pink’, ‘Disraeli Gears’, ….. I love this record. The stereo swings back and forth, all left to all right on “EXP” and “Bold As Love” especially, but it’s fun. My favorite Jimi song is still “Little Wing”. I know that’s not very original, but what’s better? It’s perfect.
Musical Greetings Ms Devoe 🎶🎵 Great review of This Masterpiece of The Jimi Hendrix experience. Love your podcast. Well researched and comments are truly your own. Continued succuss. I'll be watching 🎥💜 Nine to The Universe. Love or Confusion Pali Gap, Manic Depression, Spanish Castle 🏰 Magic, Axis Bold as Love, 💜 Purple Haze, Machine Gun, Are You Experienced 🎸🎼🎶
I love this album, as much as the other 2, 3 great studio albums like Nick Drake. I wish you could review Gene Clark "no other", one of my favourite album ever!
To follow up the mega hit are you experienced with this stunning follow up the same year is just amazing and just how powerful and influential Jimi Hendrix and the experience would be on future musicians in just 2 albums in the same year is brilliant
Thanks for covering some of my favorite albums. Especially this one.. You're right, Noel was an amazing unsung bass beast. Axis was burned into my brain many years ago.
Crazy news about the cover design confusion! We always learn something new on Vinyl Monday! Hendrix is my hardest memory trip because the first time I saw him play was under fireworks on the 4th of July, 1970 at the Atlanta International Pop Festival (see 'Electric Church' documentary) and the second time was a few weeks later at a free stage near Tampa Bay where he just showed up and plugged in with a local band and it stormed at sunset and the sky went red and yellow and silver with lightning behind and above the covered stage, and they played on for a hundred or so lucky souls trippin' in the rain, then it was like lightning struck twice when he was gone only a few weeks later...
i don't know man - shes so fine has always been one of my favs on the album - some i feel think its a bit of a misfit - but i think it balances the sum of the total here - and mitch smashing those drums like a maniac on this one makes it stand out like a champ - oh and those mono tonal vocals by noel, pure genius
Thank you, Abi, for the best 60s album reviews on the internet. I always learn so much from your videos! Also, I like that you also have an appreciation of jazz, as well as rock. (I just listened to Gil Evans Orchestra playing Jimi Hendrix, and it's terrific!) Also, I have to vote for "Little Wing" as my favorite Jimi Hendrix song. I once learned how to play it on guitar....
I came to Hendrix decades later than I should have. The name was celebrated over my shoulder as a kid and teen and I only associated it with messy, scratchy guitar playing. At the end of the '90s I used Napster to inform me of stuff I'd missed out on. If I liked it I'd buy it properly. When it came to Hendrix I thought Experienced was fine but I was frustrated by the early fade outs which made it sound like a hasty cash grab compilation. Next, I heard Ladyland which impressed me with the strength of the composition that took the name from expert noodler to writer. For some reason I heard the second one last and for some other reason it became my favourite. The overall confidence of the playing and arrangements (plus some cheeky production ideas) might have been enough but Castles and Little Wing just won me over. It's still my favourite Hendrix. Thanks for this celebration and some startling background anecdotes. I'll be listening to it, today.
Fun fact. Roger Mayer still makes FX pedals and musical devices that can be purchased. The effects I hear on Axis are fuzz, Octavia, wah-wah, tape echo, backwards tape and flanging as you mentioned. And brilliant playing.
You have become my favorite muse! Your insight challenges and confirms my opinions with a lovely balance..... I cannot help but be impressed by the love and care with which you handle these great artists who have lived in my head for so long...... Frank Zappa was right --- music is the best!
You should check out Soft Machine (if you haven't already), whose careers were boosted when they toured with Jimi and gave him a shout out on their second album.
His songwriting was off the charts on this album. Songs like "Little Wing", "Spanish Castle Magic", "Bold As Love", and "Castles Made of Sand". Just legendary track after legendary track.
Thanks for reawakening my Hendrix interest. Bought the 2010 reissue on vinyl. Hadn't really deep listened until this review. Getting stoned just listening on my earphones. Saw him at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto '68. Was high for a week. Really enjoy your postings. Joe Jakovac.
I've got the lost side. I climbed into the cab and found it on the floor. Had no idea what it was. Almost threw it out. Sounds pretty good. It's in a bomb-proof vault now, waiting for the highest bidder.
Sadly, I wasn't old enough for Rock concerts before Jimi died, but I did get into his music not long after and he remains a favorite artist in my collection of many thousands of albums. ABaL is probably his strongest single album beside the 80 minute CDR I made myself. I love the research you do on these videos. Excellent work Abby!
I think Axis is my favorite Jimi album. I had no idea that the cover was not liked by Jimi. It's too bad his vision for the cover didn't happen. The story about the masters is crazy too. I always thought they just re-recorded it. Its pretty hilarious to me that Jimi is taking the master out to play for friends at parties. If 6 Was 9 is probably my favorite on the album and lyrically has similar vibes as Five To One by The Door, which I also love though Five To One is more confrontational. The themes of rebellion and anti-establishment that were a big part of the 60's.
You do such a fantastic job with these videos, and your insights and knowledge are wonderful. I've been listening to this album for decades, like so many of the albums in your videos, and yet you always show me something new I'd never heard or thought of before, I learn history about the recording, etc. You're awesome! And your outfits are spectacularly on point.
Love your knowledge and style. Sincerely, Sagittarius Man. ✌️...I swear...i'll prove it! 🍺 I have mad vinyl...randomly found this channel. Very cool..very cool
Great review of a classic album. b ought the album in its first week over 50 years ago , with my first weeks wages a student studying for my exams prior ro going to art college. It's great to see Abi digging this album all these years later.
The best "short but sweet" music career of all time alongside Joy Division, what Hendrix did in just 4 years is an achievement in itself, but the fact that he's still highly regarded 55 years later is probably even more remarkable. Fans knew it was gonna be a good time when Jimi had a guitar in his hands...
Abigail' keep up the good work you do on here keep giving Record Collectors the sales they want this ad paid off we saw your Hendrix U.K. cover of Electric Ladyland even if you did not show us the outside cover but every cover this last weekend sold on ebay no matter what the price it was Thank You keep up the good work . 👍👍
what’s your favorite jimi song? comment below!
From this album…If Six Was Nine. All time: Dolly Dagger.
Hear My Train A Comin'
Stone Free
Thanx for askin' Abby!
HouseBurningDown, likely cuz I first heard it in a little hippie home during a flaming helLA sunset while trippin' on mescaline... I could see&feel, as well as hear that house burning down! And THAT experience is still felt viscerally every time I listen to the tune.
Message To Love.
can you imagine no 6 was 9?! that song will play at my funeral, followed by Keef singing Happy.
This album is just as important as the first one in my opinion! Jimi songwriting is incredible on this!
he was getting better and better. his best material here is on par with ladyland
@@abigaildevoe Totally agree! To think those first 3 albums were done in such a short period of time! Genius is a word used to much in my opinion; but with Jimi Hendrix it fits perfectly!☺️
"If 6 was 9 " has always been my favorite psychedelic song.
Jimi's greatest album. It's a masterpiece. The greatest guitarist of ALL TIME was much more than that. He could do it all...and he did...in 4 short years
YES !
This is the music I hear in my dreams, and those guitar tones are what I imagine angels sound like.
My favorite Jimi Hendrix album. Jimi's songwriting reached new poetic heights and his guitar sounds like it comes from another spiritual realm. "If Six Was Nine", "Castles Made of Sand", "Spanish Castle Magic" & "Little Wing" are beautiful and will blow your mind. Axis: Bold as Love is truly a psychedelic masterpiece!
I watched an interview with Nick Mason of Pink Floyd and Stewart Copeland of the Police. They both agreed that Mitch Mitchell was their favourite drummer.
Semi-obsessed with rain? Think about it. Where did Jimi grow up? Seattle. And also Vancouver British Columbia. Rain? Lots of it. And as a native Portlander, I know rain. We all have webbed feet here. My personal favorite will always be the US Are You Experienced, but Axis will always be high on the list too. I grabbed them both at the Portland State Bookstore in 75 outta their bargain bin when I should’ve been in class. Oh well, college. Cue eye roll.
This is from the liner notes to the Hendrix Blues collection put out by MCA in the mid-90s.
Jimi's part-Cherokee/Irish grandmother, Nora Rose Moore, lived to one hundred years. She claimed to have seen everything in her lifetime. "I've seen slavery and I've seen Jimi Hendrix perform," said Nora Rose, "that about covers it."
Hi Abigail, I've just discovered your channel with this video, awesome!
I have a bit extra insight about the album cover: there's at least one biography showing that he made a rough sketch of what he wanted, basically he made a Christian Cross made up of faces: his was in the center, and in all four directions were faces of famous historical figures of all ethnicities (one way, the whites, in which there was Hitler and Jesus too, another way the Asians, with Buddha too, and the other two ways I can't remember but I'd guess African Blacks and Asian Indians or Japanese). This should've represented all the influences he had, which of course made him who he is one way or another.
Hope you enjoyed this little fact!
Always been my favorite JHE album. Saw the Experience open their night with Spanish Castle Magic in 69. Wow.
The more I listen to the Jimi Hendrix Experience the more I think Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell are super underrated. Yes, Hendrix is a guitar god, but his mates are perfect aswell. Jimi would'nt shine so bright if he didn't have Noel and Mitch by his side giving it their all
Mitch was terrific, but Jimi could have done much better than Noel Redding.
@@dailyflashAbsolutely. Mitch is top tier, but Noel is merely competent, nothing special.
and he did with billy cox in band of gypsys. but with mitch and jimi in the experience together you need a ground wire - 3 guys soloing at once doesn't always land.
Jimi also played bass on more of his songs that you would think.
@@dailyflashYou're missing some truth. Despite noel frowning on Jimi suggested bass lines for riffs. Noel and Mitch were Jimi's tightest musicians (with Jimi) When 'band of gypsies' became Jimi's new band, Jimi's immediate people from begining noticed loose formula. The band of gypsies wasn't tight like 'the experience'. Jimi Hendrix would pull tricks on noel and Mitch live, but Mitch and Noel put effort into keeping it together tight. Everything Jimi did on film with noel and Mitch either sucks or mediocre. Some of band of gypsies film is better. But most people don't know 'the experience. There is some live recordings with noel and Mitch captures how unexpected tight, brilliant The experience is. I don't even like 'Hey joe' but theres a recording guitar player magazine released on compilation called (60s guitarist who ruled the world?) I forget title but live version of hey Joe is best I've heard Hendrix play hey Joe, Hendrix starts with bass line and changes up on rhythm dynamics, noel and Mitch almost miss it actually land on their feet. Incredible finesse, intricacy. Jimis tone is leathery hide mammoth thick heavy. Hendrix makes good use triad E maj at begining ahead of the game. The thing with billy cox is isle of wight. Somewhere during last two songs isle of wight. Hendrix gives billy 'heads up' it's very clear on film, once you find it. Hendrix is tired and wants to sit back next to Mitch on drums. (Hendrix is gives eye contact to billy cox to take over front stage for minute. (Hey billy, come up front and show you're stuff) Billy standard next to Mitch is looking at Hendrix (playing bass chewing gum 100 miles hr) doesn't want to leave his spot next to Mitch. Billys uncomfortable playing up front. Hendrix looks down sad for moment and continues, then ends the show. There were occasions when noel and Mitch on stage playing without Jimi. Noel has NO problem taking over for moment. Hendrix wasnt delinquent about performing. When band of gypsies started playing, their were complaints from females in audiance. Women were asking where are the two cute white boys? Ha LMAO!
"Axis: Bold As Love" is my favorite album. Hendrix's writing had seriously evolved, the growth was startling.
Well here in the UK where I live the Winter solstice is at 03:27 on Friday the 22nd of December!
Ahh Sagittarians are lively, passionate, smart and more philosophical than their clown-y energy may hint at. They love to feel free and resist rules, regulations, constraints and schedules. They just like doing what they do, when they wanna do it. They're born travellers, adventurers, explorers and free spirits.
I'm a virgo ♍ 😆
Looking forward to the Stones review next week! Sympathy for the Devil?
Looking forward to the Stones next week! Sympathy for the Devil? Me!
Jimmy would be proud of your deep dive into his bands evolution and growth. I’m sure he’s smiling down from whatever psychedelic heaven he occupies.
Jimi
This album contains probably the best song of all time in Little Wing. A thing of pure beauty
The amount of musical output Jimi created in his, basically, 4 short years as a mainstream musician is truly incredible. The stuff that has come out (outakes and live) since his death is mind-boggling. Such a gifted musician who also had greatness around him. Oh, what would have been if he'd only been able to make it out of his 20s.
On another note, very much looking forward to next week's album. Gonna get interesting, for sure.
there's some alternate universe where jimi got to make that album with miles davis. it would've changed music history forever! he had sessions booked with paul mccartney too, who knows what that would've sounded like
Mainstream
Creation-stasis-destruction. Wow! You really did a great job of summing it up, pure genius. Love your videos. Thank you for being you! ❤
Probably the best sophomore album of all time
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Both the JHE and the Doors released 2 LPs in 1967 and both bands released fantastic sophomore albums.
my bands second album was MONUMENTAL AS WELL! @@rupertpupkin5265
An old high school friend of mine gave me a copy of this album one morning before English class started, and I've been a fan ever since. Btw, there's a great cover of "You've Got Me Floating" by a 1970s Peruvian rock band called Traffic Sound; they work a saxophone solo into it, which you think wouldn't work, but somehow it does! Great video, as always Abby!
Cobalt feathers and Abby's vinyl get-togethers - a marvelous Monday!
haha yes it's a vinyl get-down!
I love Axis. My favorite Experience album.❤
Brilliant review
I owned this album in 1969. I have read counless stories and watched many interviews about the production, but, as always; Abigail somehow comes up with tidbits of information that no one else seems to know. Keep up the good work!
“Nobody’s better than Elvin Jones”. Don’t ever change Abigail :)
Elvin Jones is such an amazing drummer. The only drum solos I can hear more than a couple minutes of is by Elvin.
@@leerogers9949 that’s the truth.
Mitch, would agree wit y'all. He wuz a massive Elvin Jonez fan & wuz 1 of a small few, 2 witness him live, n a small venue, n New York.
I myself, got 2 witness da massive bomb-like fillz, n an ntimate setting of fanz, n Los Angeles, just b4 he passed.
THE BEST
ELIVIN JONES & MITCH MITCHELL!
@@Einnor084 wow great info and I wish I saw Elvin play. Glad you did.
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I wish u could have gotten 2 c him 2. Da venue, wuz a small restaraunt.... same typo nvironment, Mitch woulda gotten 2 c him n sum 25 ta 30 yearz earlier. During my concert, Jones ntertained about 50 of us & u could definitely hear stuff, Mitch Mitchell mite play, ( Especially during ELECTRIC LADYLAND. ) being effortlessly rolled-out b4 ur very eyez. Da guy wuz amazing & a totally different Drummer/beat, 2 march 2!
I was never a big Jimi fan, but your enthusiasm for his work is turning the tide for me. But on to the important part, chocolate chips in banana bread sounds fantastic!!
Dear, when the rhythm section fades out at the end in Little Miss Lover, we can hear Jimi playing the most incredible rhythm riffs/licks.
Little Wing is a gem....and the Derek and the Dominos version is heart-breaking. If memory serves, the DATD version was recorded about two weeks before Jimi died, and I don't think he ever got a chance to hear it. Great video once again!
you're right, jimi never got to hear eric's homage to him. i think he would've liked it, maybe even been an early champion of that album
I really like the JHE version of Little Wing....but DATD (Eric and Duane's guitars....and the Eric-Bobby vocal duet makes your hair stand on end.@@abigaildevoe
There's also a fantastic version from the Dominoes' Fillmore East performances in October 1970, a month after Jimi died, and you can hear how much that had affected Eric, and he literally plays out of his skin on that. Mind you, if you're working with material like that you have to put everything into it, and you can hear how he felt about Jimi's passing; "I felt like the loneliest person on Earth".
When I'm sad, she comes to me
With a thousand smiles she gives to me free
Effing sublime... I remember procuring this magnificent record for the first time in a sketchy secondhand store on East Lake Street in Minneapolis ...in the winter of 1983 ??.....
a merman you should be...
I had an epiphany when I re-bought this album on cd recently. The guitar tones on "if six were nine" were stunning; the epitome of a big amp in a big room tone.
"Axis: Bold of Love" by Jimi Hendrix Experience is a great masterpiece and one of the greatest album of all tlme.Period.
WOW! Jimi is the greatest! I have a signed copy myself......
no way!! signed by all the guys or just jimi??
@@abigaildevoe all 3…..
@@EvanWeber1234 you're so lucky!!
my favorite Hendrix album
this is my favourite hendrix album. ‘spanish castle magic,’ ‘little wing,’ ‘if 6 was 9,’ and ‘bold as love’ are my favourite songs from this album. also, please do an episode on the move or the electric light orchestra please please please p
"Up From the Skies" deserves a little more love. Terrific covers by Sting, Joan Jett, Rickie Lee Jones and Ellen McIlwaine.
Still unfortunate Jimi Hendrix and the rest of the Experience are no longer here physically but the music we got are still here til and after
it's a shame none of them are around. i would've loved to have had a chat with mitch or noel, and jimi would've been the coolest old man on the planet :( but the music lives on
@@abigaildevoe Exactly, it would've been incredible to see and experience (no pun intended 😋), live in concert, I would be a happy man plus I watch your video about your funny type you like of guys who are Capricorn.... you're talking to one. 😁
When I was 11, decades ago, I discovered this album because my great aunt and uncle who were definitely flower children back when it came out had a big record collection of all the good 60s and early 70s rock, and this cover immediately struck me upon first seeing it. I remember sitting in her room listening to the vinyl on headphones, and this was a pivotal album in me discovering music, rock, and also for making me want to play guitar. Seems like a lifetime ago but I still am captivated by this record and Jimi. Wait until tomorrow and castles in the sand are my favs.
My intro to Jimi was Smash Hits and Band Of Gypsys simultaneously. Then I got Axis, then AYE and then finally, Electric Ladyland. Axis is a gem. There's a cohesiveness.
Love all of the colors in the song lyrics and on the album cover, which gets freakier every time I look at it.
"Little Miss Lover" is my favorite track. Such a groove.
Thanks for covering this one Abby! My favourite tracks are Castles made of sand, little wing, and Spanish castle magic, but I love the entire album and have listened to it so many times! My favourite Hendrix album along with band of gypsies live
My fave Hendrix album!
That taxi driver probably threw out the most valuable thing he ever had in his cab.
I cannot thank you enough .... watching your show makes me so nostalgic and relights the flame behind so many of my favorite albums... i relive the same joy these albums gave me though YOUR joy! ..
My grandparents were good friends with Noel Redding in the 80s, they lived next door to him. They said he was a great guy, super friendly! I love having that connection to the Experience. Great video dude.
Edit: I always thought it was Brian Jones who got Jimi on the bill
aww that's awesome! i've heard noel was a quiet, nice guy. shy even.
paulie saw the experience at the bag o nails club, and only agreed to serve as a monterey director if the experience got to play
@@abigaildevoe thanks for the info! Not sure where I got Brian jones from.
Great work Abby!!! Jimi Hendrix album on his 81 anniversary of his birth... This is too cool... I love all the songs, they are some electric songs and some melodic.. A perfect masterpiece.... ❤❤❤❤❤
Whoever found those original masters, they’re probably worth a lot of money.
It’s as if you were actually there that’s how good you are in these videos.
As a Sagittarian, let me just say, thanks for the support and encouragement. 😄
I think Axis: Bold As Love in mono sounds more like a rock album than the stereo mix. I feel the same about Sgt. Pepper's. By the way, there are two stereo mixes of the album. One was only released in Europe as far as I know, and I've never understood how that happened. It makes me wonder if the "lost" stereo mix is this alternate version.
When did Jimi ever bite the heads off bats? That was Ozzy's gig!
Stereo was invented at least back in the `50's. I seem to recall that they were actually dicking around with it back in the `40's or possibly even the late `30's.
Most psych albums were intended for mono play, stereo was just kind of a last minute remix type thing for a good many of them.
I can never keep straight (between flanging and phase shifting) which is which, at least not without hearing examples of both but, one of them was discovered by accident back in the late `50's, possibly the very early `60's. There was a record by Toni Fisher called, "The Big Hurt" that was the first to ever use it but, it was completely accidental and unintentional but, once she and her husband (the owner of their label, Signet records) heard it, they thought it was pretty cool and kept it. He was just trying to double or boost her vocals a bit by running two tracks of her vocals side by side but ever so slightly off (it's now called, ADT (automatic double tracking)) and, because the two tape recorders ran at a very slightly different speed, they ended up with that phase shifting sound every so often.
Sorry but, Bill Bruford's the best drummer that's ever been.
Well, no, "If 6 Was 9" is Jimi saying, let me be who I am and stop trying to tell me I HAVE to look, act and sound like you just to fit in.
The hippy movement is still here, it didn't die the first time until the late `70's when disco took over and then it came back to life in the early `80's for at least a short time but has never actually died off since then. There's still LOTS of modern bands (as well as older ones from the late `60's) making new psych albums and LOTS of people still collecting loads of psych from the `60's! You'd be amazed how many records from that era are now worth a small fortune!!
I've been listening the last two weeks to both the mono and stereo versions, and unlike AYE, I love both of them. Spanish Castle Magic is my favorite track together with Little Wing. During an acid trip, I swear to the Gods, I could hear Jimi talking to me from deep beneath the layers of the mix of Spanish Castle Magic
Thank you. Axis: Bold As Love was was of the first albums I ever owned. It was my first JHE album, and it is still my favorite. "Up From The Skies" features Hendrix's first use of the Wa-wa pedal, making it one the world's first Wha solos! The title track, "Bold As Love", is my all-time favorite Hendrix. The interplay of Jimi's rhythm/lead guitar, his vocal, and the lyrics on the opening verse is astounding! HINT: The long ending fades very gradually. Turn the volume way up on the last few seconds; the lead guitar is amazing!
I wish Jimi Hendrix hadn't died, I think that he was only gonna get better.
Loved this so much! I think that Little Wing was written about Monterey Pop? Idea being to personify the event as a beautiful, kind woman. Really excellent job with your videos thanks for giving jimi his due ❤ and you're so right, ppl don't talk about Bold As Love enough!
I agree with you that Noel is a hell of bassist. Little Wing is so short it hurts. Beautiful damn album.
"Little Wing" should have been at least 5 to 10 minutes longer and it would have been the greatest song of all time (for me anyway)!!
I am so happy to see this video. Not only is your knowledge of the music and its history impressive, but your love of this music comes gushing through. I'm old, I mean old enough to have seen Jimi Hendrix twice, once in 1968 and once in 1970, about a month before he died. There will never be another Jimi Hendrix. Thanks, Abigail for bringing back the memories, as bitter-sweet as they may be.
every monday, i keep forgetting this happens and i get so excited when i open youtube!!!
A friend found a box of late-‘60s records in the basement of an apartment building in San Francisco. He let me take a third because I had come out there to help him move back to Austin. ‘Axis: Bold As Love’ was one I got. And Dylan’s ‘John Wesley Harding’, ‘Music From Big Pink’, ‘Disraeli Gears’, ….. I love this record. The stereo swings back and forth, all left to all right on “EXP” and “Bold As Love” especially, but it’s fun. My favorite Jimi song is still “Little Wing”. I know that’s not very original, but what’s better? It’s perfect.
Musical Greetings Ms Devoe 🎶🎵
Great review of This Masterpiece of The Jimi Hendrix experience.
Love your podcast.
Well researched and comments are truly your own.
Continued succuss.
I'll be watching 🎥💜
Nine to The Universe. Love or Confusion
Pali Gap, Manic Depression, Spanish Castle 🏰 Magic, Axis Bold as Love, 💜 Purple Haze, Machine Gun, Are You Experienced 🎸🎼🎶
I'm with you all the way on Pali Gap. Great instrumental.
Imagine Jimi's "what me worry" shrug when he realized that side one was in the cab. You know he did.
Axis is on my weekly playlist
Abi... You also have alot of records 😆
I love this album, as much as the other 2, 3 great studio albums like Nick Drake. I wish you could review Gene Clark "no other", one of my favourite album ever!
To follow up the mega hit are you experienced with this stunning follow up the same year is just amazing and just how powerful and influential Jimi Hendrix and the experience would be on future musicians in just 2 albums in the same year is brilliant
Thanks for covering some of my favorite albums. Especially this one.. You're right, Noel was an amazing unsung bass beast. Axis was burned into my brain many years ago.
Crazy news about the cover design confusion! We always learn something new on Vinyl Monday! Hendrix is my hardest memory trip because the first time I saw him play was under fireworks on the 4th of July, 1970 at the Atlanta International Pop Festival (see 'Electric Church' documentary) and the second time was a few weeks later at a free stage near Tampa Bay where he just showed up and plugged in with a local band and it stormed at sunset and the sky went red and yellow and silver with lightning behind and above the covered stage, and they played on for a hundred or so lucky souls trippin' in the rain, then it was like lightning struck twice when he was gone only a few weeks later...
i don't know man - shes so fine has always been one of my favs on the album - some i feel think its a bit of a misfit - but i think it balances the sum of the total here - and mitch smashing those drums like a maniac on this one makes it stand out like a champ - oh and those mono tonal vocals by noel, pure genius
Thank you, Abi, for the best 60s album reviews on the internet. I always learn so much from your videos! Also, I like that you also have an appreciation of jazz, as well as rock. (I just listened to Gil Evans Orchestra playing Jimi Hendrix, and it's terrific!)
Also, I have to vote for "Little Wing" as my favorite Jimi Hendrix song. I once learned how to play it on guitar....
thank you. all the best musicians are hip to jazz in some form, i assumed that should extend to writers about music too
I came to Hendrix decades later than I should have. The name was celebrated over my shoulder as a kid and teen and I only associated it with messy, scratchy guitar playing. At the end of the '90s I used Napster to inform me of stuff I'd missed out on. If I liked it I'd buy it properly. When it came to Hendrix I thought Experienced was fine but I was frustrated by the early fade outs which made it sound like a hasty cash grab compilation. Next, I heard Ladyland which impressed me with the strength of the composition that took the name from expert noodler to writer. For some reason I heard the second one last and for some other reason it became my favourite. The overall confidence of the playing and arrangements (plus some cheeky production ideas) might have been enough but Castles and Little Wing just won me over. It's still my favourite Hendrix. Thanks for this celebration and some startling background anecdotes. I'll be listening to it, today.
Fun fact. Roger Mayer still makes FX pedals and musical devices that can be purchased. The effects I hear on Axis are fuzz, Octavia, wah-wah, tape echo, backwards tape and flanging as you mentioned. And brilliant playing.
Wonder wonder what happened to the taxi tape :-)
Well Studied, Abigail!
You have become my favorite muse!
Your insight challenges and confirms my opinions with a lovely balance..... I cannot help but be impressed by the love and care with which you handle these great artists who have lived in my head for so long......
Frank Zappa was right --- music is the best!
You should check out Soft Machine (if you haven't already), whose careers were boosted when they toured with Jimi and gave him a shout out on their second album.
Awesome! I love your video presentation, and the details are great, not to mention the fun.
His songwriting was off the charts on this album. Songs like "Little Wing", "Spanish Castle Magic", "Bold As Love", and "Castles Made of Sand". Just legendary track after legendary track.
Thanks for reawakening my Hendrix interest. Bought the 2010 reissue on vinyl. Hadn't really deep listened until this review. Getting stoned just listening on my earphones. Saw him at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto '68. Was high for a week. Really enjoy your postings. Joe Jakovac.
Abigail, the more revered the artist, the more instructive your videos. No wonder your career is taking off. 🏆
I've got the lost side. I climbed into the cab and found it on the floor. Had no idea what it was. Almost threw it out. Sounds pretty good. It's in a bomb-proof vault now, waiting for the highest bidder.
admired the use of the little wing audio over the transition images yesterday A. a really super piece of work.
Sadly, I wasn't old enough for Rock concerts before Jimi died, but I did get into his music not long after and he remains a favorite artist in my collection of many thousands of albums. ABaL is probably his strongest single album beside the 80 minute CDR I made myself. I love the research you do on these videos. Excellent work Abby!
I think Axis is my favorite Jimi album. I had no idea that the cover was not liked by Jimi. It's too bad his vision for the cover didn't happen. The story about the masters is crazy too. I always thought they just re-recorded it. Its pretty hilarious to me that Jimi is taking the master out to play for friends at parties. If 6 Was 9 is probably my favorite on the album and lyrically has similar vibes as Five To One by The Door, which I also love though Five To One is more confrontational. The themes of rebellion and anti-establishment that were a big part of the 60's.
You do such a fantastic job with these videos, and your insights and knowledge are wonderful. I've been listening to this album for decades, like so many of the albums in your videos, and yet you always show me something new I'd never heard or thought of before, I learn history about the recording, etc. You're awesome! And your outfits are spectacularly on point.
I knew about the masters being misplaced. Had no idea how they were misplaced. You, Abigail made this review so cool to watch!
Love your knowledge and style. Sincerely, Sagittarius Man. ✌️...I swear...i'll prove it! 🍺 I have mad vinyl...randomly found this channel. Very cool..very cool
"Deranged euphoria" is perfect!
Love comnentary and agree about this album's greatness.I have been told that Little Wing was about his mother, not sure if that's right now.
100 percent agree on “Spanish Castle Magic”, probably my favorite Jimi tune next to “May this be Love”. Great review, I’m going to spin it tonight!
Great review of a classic album. b ought the album in its first week over 50 years ago , with my first weeks wages a student studying for my exams prior ro going to art college. It's great to see Abi digging this album all these years later.
Pease out at the pub is the best plan ever!!!
This is my favorite Axis review. Nailed it, Abby! Fantastic!
Hippie didn't die, but left the TV and went following the Dead.
Awesome channel! Thanks for all the amazing knowledge! 😊
The best "short but sweet" music career of all time alongside Joy Division, what Hendrix did in just 4 years is an achievement in itself, but the fact that he's still highly regarded 55 years later is probably even more remarkable. Fans knew it was gonna be a good time when Jimi had a guitar in his hands...
i'd also add nirvana to that too.
Good choice! Jimi would have been 81 yrs. old today.
he would've been the coolest old guy ever. fly on
I didn’t realize today is Jimi’s birthday 🙏🏻
Abigail' keep up the good work you do on here keep giving Record Collectors the sales they want this ad paid off we saw your Hendrix U.K. cover of Electric Ladyland even if you did not show us the outside cover but every cover this last weekend sold on ebay no matter what the price it was Thank You keep up the good work . 👍👍
"I'm the one who's got to die when it's my time to die." Truth.
Love your version of Ain’t No Telling 😁