Description
Offered for sale is an original stereo U.S. pressing of Axis: Bold as Love by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, on the tri-color Reprise label.
The tri-color label was only used for a few months after the album’s January 1968 release and was replaced by the orange/brown “two-tone” label.
About this copy: This copy of Axis: Bold as Love is a 1968 U.S. stereo pressing on the tri-color Reprise label.
The cover is VG+, with slight general wear, mostly on the front. The inside of the cover has a matte (non-glossy) finish.
The original Reprise inner sleeve is included and has a small split on the bottom edge.
The disc is VG++ and close to M- with a couple of very faint hairlines and a few spindle marks on the labels. We can’t determine the pressing plant, as it doesn’t match any listed at discogs. It’s a clean disc that has only been played a few times. There’s a bit of surface noise in between tracks.
A nice copy of an album that’s hard to find as a clean first pressing.
Background: Axis: Bold as Love, released in December, 1967, was the second album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience. The album reached #2 on the UK charts and #5 in the U.S., where it has since been certified 5 times platinum by the RIAA.
The album was originally released on the three-color Reprise label, but that label was changed to a two-color label not long after the album’s original release date.
Allmusic.com gave Axis: Bold as Love a 5 star review:
Jimi Hendrix’s second album followed up his groundbreaking debut effort with a solid collection of great tunes and great interactive playing between himself, Noel Redding, Mitch Mitchell, and the recording studio itself. Wisely retaining manager Chas Chandler to produce the album and Eddie Kramer as engineer, Hendrix stretched further musically than the first album, but even more so as a songwriter.
It’s our favorite Hendrix album, and it’s also the best-sounding of the three albums he released in his lifetime.
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| Country of origin: | U.S. |
| Size: | 12″ |
| Record Label: | Reprise |
| Catalog Number: |
RS6281 |
| Year of Release: | 1967 |
| Format: | Stereo |
| Share: |       |
