“Bold As Love” by Jimi Hendrix

"Bold as Love" is the title song and the closing statement of Axis: Bold as Love, the second Jimi Hendrix Experience album, written by Hendrix and produced by the band's manager Chas Chandler, with Eddie Kramer at the board. It took some sweat. The trio started on it at Olympic Sound Studios in London on October 4, 1967, laying down backing tracks, and Hendrix, Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell spent the whole next day on it too, running through more than 20 takes and four different endings before stitching the master together from takes 21 and 27.

They came back to finish it on October 29, in a single marathon session that also wrapped up "Up from the Skies", "Castles Made of Sand", "One Rainy Wish" and "EXP". All that fussing shows: it plays like a slow-burning color wheel that saves its brightest flare for last.

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