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Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis Bold As Love 1st UK Pressing MONO Cat No 612 003 Track Records LabelsAbsolutely Stunning Clear and Vibrant Mono Audio Quality 1st issue E.JDay Gate Fold Laminated Front Internal Flip back Cover Complete with original Insert Poster Another from my personal collection.
Earliest possible 1st issue 1st UK pressing of The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis Bold As Love Most sought after original Mono I own original copies of both the stereo and mono pressings of this album and in my opinion the Mono audio can not be beaten and certainly much more sought after and collectable being the earliest released.
Please note This album is listed for its collectability rather than for its condition.
This is not mint Having said that, the audio is astoundingly clear and vibrant through out and amaizingly plays without any signs of distortion and with out skips or jumps.
There is hints of isolated static type tick or ticks here and there but no constant loud clicks or pops a truely great playable copy audio graded at least excellent in my opinion.
You can hear this for your self in the player below and make up your own mind.
This is totally original and complete with the original 1st issue laminated front internal flip back gate fold cover printed by E.Day Co.
Ltd.
London, England.
And contains the original very collectable insert poster in superb condition.
Overall condition of this album is at least excellent condition through out.
Highly collectable and sought after 1st UK Pressing.
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 US until 1968 due to fears that it might disturb the sales of the first album.
Noel Redding plays eight string bass on some tracks.Click play above to hear the complete album both sides actual recording from the vinyl.Just before the album s completion, Hendrix left the master tapes of side one in a taxi.
They were never found again, and thus the A-side had to be mixed again quickly.
The album was re-released on the week of March 30, 2010.
Like the other 2010 re-releases, the sound varies slightly with minor tweaks from Hendrix s sound engineer Eddie Kramer.
Many of the album s songs were composed with studio recording techniques in mind and as a result were rarely performed live.
Only Spanish Castle Magic and Little Wing were performed regularly.
The lyrics of Spanish Castle Magic were inspired by The Spanish Castle, a dance hall in what is now Des Moines, Washington near Seattle where Hendrix jammed with local rock groups during his high school years.
On Little Wing Hendrix plays his guitar through a Leslie speaker for the first time a revolving speaker which creates a wavering effect, that is typically used with electric organs .
The intro track, EXP , begins with a few notes from Stone Free although played one-half step down and then features a conversation between Mitchell and Hendrix about UFOs, where Mitchell plays a radio host, and Hendrix plays an outerspace alien in the guise of a human named Mr.
Paul Carusoe, whose voice is gradually slowed down until he eventually takes off in his spaceship, much to the host s consternation But-but-but , he splutters .
Paul Caruso was actually a friend of Hendrix s from his days in Greenwich Village.
Up from the Skies is a jazzy number featuring Mitchell playing with brushes.
The song is about a space alien who has visited the earth thousands of years in the past, and returns to the present to find the stars misplaced, and the smell of a world that has burned.
Wait Until Tomorrow is a pop song with an R B guitar riff with Mitchell and Redding singing backing vocals.
The fifth track, Ain t No Telling , is a rock song with a complex structure despite its short length.
Little Wing , as Hendrix himself said, was his impression of the Monterey Pop Festival put into the form of a girl.
If 6 Was 9 , the last song on side one, is the album s longest track and arguably the most psychedelic Gary Leeds from The Walker Brothers and Graham Nash use their feet during the outro to make some stomping.
The song features prominently on the soundtrack for the 1969 counterculture film, Easy Rider.
You Got Me Floatin , a rock song opening with a swirling backwards guitar solo which is absent on the mysterious, differently mixed Polydor version of this LP only available in stereo , which outside of France and the UK was the only one available in Europe , opens the second side of the album.
Roy Wood and Trevor Burton from The Move, who toured with Hendrix on a package tour through Britain during winter 1967, supplied backing vocals.
The following track, Castles Made of Sand , is a ballad also making use of a backwards guitar solo.
She s so Fine , Redding s contribution to the album as a composer, a very British pop/rock Who-influenced affair features Redding on lead vocals with help from Mitchell.
One Rainy Wish begins as a ballad but develops a rock feel during the chorus that is in a different time signature than the verses.
The song Little Miss Lover was the first to feature a percussive muted wah-wah effect with the fretboard hand killing notes - a technique that was later adopted by many guitarists.
The final song of the album, Bold as Love , opens very abruptly.
With a psychedelic chorus and an extended solo at the end it fades out the album.
Hendrix was a little disappointed with the album s cover art.
Although he appreciated the symbolic design, he mentioned in an interview that it would have been more appropriate if the cover art showcased his Native American Indian heritage.
The British Track records art department had independently chosen to use the current fad for all things Indian to create the cover, and thus the album s cover has a photographed copy of a mass-produced religious poster of the Hindu devotional painting known as Viraat Purushan-Vishnuroopam with a small, superimposed painting of the group by Roger Law from a photo portrait by Karl Ferris blended in.
In November a giant B W blow up of the fantastic day-glo pink, orange blue offset litho print over gold foil, Hapshash/Osiris poster featuring Hendrix dressed as a Native American, wearing a feathered War Bonnet, was used as a background to his appearance on Hoepla, a controversial Dutch TV show.
This poster, although produced later in London, and supposedly commissioned by Hendrix has text along the top to make it appear as if it was an original poster, advertising his post Monterey 1967 Fillmore concerts, this design was possibly what he had in mind.
The original prints of this poster are probably all in collections, and later copies which have surfaced fetch high prices at auction.
The original Track UK issue came in a gatefold sleeve with a large B W portrait photo of the group by Donald Silverstein spread over the inside and an orange sheet insert with overprinted lyrics in red the allegedly high cost of this packaging was a topic of note in the music press.
The US issue had no insert and instead of the group photo inside, had the lyrics.
In Europe, the Polydor issue had no lyrics and stuck a 1-inch-wide 25 mm white border round the inside portrait, while the French dispensed with the original cover entirely and put it in a single sleeve with a photo of the group taken from a recent French TV show on the front.Side one
1.
EXP
2.
Up from the Skies
3.
Spanish Castle Magic
4.
Wait Until Tomorrow
5.
Ain t No Telling
6.
Little Wing
7.
If 6 Was 9 Side two
8.
You Got Me Floating
9.
Castles Made of Sand
10.
She s So Fine Noel Redding
11.
One Rainy Wish
12.
Little Miss Lover
13.
Bold as Love The MatrixSide 1 612003 A 1 Side 2 612003 B 1 The VinylThe vinyl is the original thick heavy slab of vinyl only found like this on the earliest pressings.
The vinyl lays flat on the turntable and is free of any warping.
On initial inspection the vinyl still gleams and looks lovely.
There are some light surface marks scuffs/scratches on the playing surface noticed when looked at in strong light and couple of lines that go with the grooves, fortunately these have very little if no effect on the awesome audio quality apart from the odd isolated static ticks heard in the odd places only.
At least I heard no nasty loud constant clicks or pops and no distortion from being over played and no marks that would cause any skips or jumps.The Audio QualityI have played the vinyl three times throughout at very loud volume on a top system, importantly using a dedicated mono cartridge.
The audio quality was a real eye opener, absolutely superbe clear and vibrant rich bassey feel only heard like this on the earliest mono pressings.
Compared to the stereo version that I have this knocks the spots off.
UK Mono is the best way to hear these early Hendrix albums and the way it was meant to be heard in my personal opinion and can t be found like this on any other format around.
I would conservatively grade the audio at least excellent if not better for the most part in my personal opinion.
I heard light isolated ticks in quieter places during the audio but nothing that detracted from the overall awesome audio experience in my opinion.
There was no loud annoying constant clicks or pops.
You can hear the complete album in the player above.
Please note any interference is highlighted and sounds more enhanced with digital recording so you can hear everything.
Of course when played on an analogue turntable any interference is less obvious.
Please note I always add this disclaimer Please allow for 1solated static tick or ticks that was evident during the play of this vinyl.
Please remember that this is an original vinyl that is 43 years old and would have originally been played on a 43 year old system.
This album has been stored in a case for over 40 years and been laying dormant.
A build up od dirt and dust in the grooves causes static crackle and ticks.
A constant clean before each play is recommended.
This will reduce any static ticks and crackle and enhance the audio quality.The Record Sleeve.
This is the original plain white poly lined record sleeve with no edge slits or tears.
Patented.
There is light creasing and browning with age.
The vinyl is always stored seperately from the cover and sleeve this is how I have always stored my records.The CoverThis is the original 1st issue 1st UK press Laminated front only internal flip back E.J.Day Co Ltd printed gate fold cover.
Super glossy laminate with minor storage wear to mention.
barely creased at the front just very light creases at the edges not noticed unless looked for in my opinion.
one crease at the rear to mention at top again not really notice unless looked for.
The spine is perfect there are no splits or tears.
No names written.
This is strong and straight as it should be.
I would grade this at least excellent if not better in my opinion.The Poster/InsertThis has never been used or put on show.
No splits or tears nice and clean.
Very very light creases with age only.
Original.
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