{"id":23130,"date":"2016-06-05T22:11:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T02:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=23130"},"modified":"2016-06-05T22:11:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T02:11:46","slug":"is-axis-bold-as-love-the-best-album-by-jimi-hendrix-or-is-it-just-because-it-was-my-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/is-axis-bold-as-love-the-best-album-by-jimi-hendrix-or-is-it-just-because-it-was-my-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Is <em>Axis: Bold As Love<\/em> the Best Album by Jimi Hendrix, Or Is It Just Because It Was My First?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Om8dFQMY8lE\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Axis<\/em> came out in early 1968, and I probably got it within a few months of that. I&#8217;m not sure how familiar I was with Hendrix at the time but I remember the album being pretty cheap at Korvette&#8217;s and so picked\u00a0it up. It was on Track Records and so was an import of some kind; why it was at Korvette&#8217;s or cheap I don&#8217;t know. I loved it immediately and still do. No other Hendrix album has replaced it for me. There&#8217;s that period bit &#8220;EXP&#8221; opener, the jazzy &#8220;Up From The Skies,&#8221; the heavy psych of &#8220;Spanish Castle Magic,&#8221; the funky pop of &#8220;Wait Until Tomorrow&#8221; (with the great opening line &#8220;Well, I&#8217;m standing here freezing, inside your golden garden&#8221;), the classic rock of &#8220;Little Wing,&#8221; the &#8217;60s philosophy of &#8220;If 6 Was 9,&#8221; and on and on. I even love Noel Redding&#8217;s contribution, &#8220;She&#8217;s So Fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an album that&#8217;s a perfect hyphenate: pop-rock-jazz-funk-blues. Deep &amp; frothy. Heavy &amp; light.<\/p>\n<p>And so it&#8217;s always been my favorite Hendrix album but I can&#8217;t help thinking: &#8220;How much of that is because it was the first?&#8221; I don&#8217;t feel like I hear this opinion too often. <em>Are You Experienced?<\/em> or more often <em>Electric Ladyland<\/em> are what you hear about, but I&#8217;ll take <em>Axis<\/em> over either of those.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Am I right or wrong? And do you have analogous &#8220;first&#8221; albums by other artists where you feel the blush of first love may be coloring your rock-crit bona fides?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axis came out in early 1968, and I probably got it within a few months of that. I&#8217;m not sure how familiar I was with Hendrix at the time but I remember the album being pretty cheap at Korvette&#8217;s and so picked\u00a0it up. It was on Track Records and so was an import of some <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/is-axis-bold-as-love-the-best-album-by-jimi-hendrix-or-is-it-just-because-it-was-my-first\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}