Magical Mystery Tour (film) : 2. Plot.

Magical Mystery Tour (film)

2. Plot.

The film was unscripted and shooting proceeded on the basis of a mostly handwritten collection of ideas, sketches, and situations, which Paul McCartney called the "Scrupt". The situation is that of a group of people on a British charabanc bus (in a Bedford VAL Panorama) tour, focusing mostly on Mr. Richard Starkey (Ringo Starr) and his recently widowed Auntie Jessie (Jessie Robins). Other group members on the bus include the tour director Jolly Jimmy Johnson (Derek Royle), the tour hostess Miss Wendy Winters (Mandy Weet), conductor Buster Bloodvessel (Ivor Cutler), and the other Beatles.

During the course of the tour, "strange things begin to happen" at the whim of "four or five magicians", four of whom are played by The Beatles themselves and the fifth by long-time road manager Mal Evans.

During the journey, Ringo and his Auntie Jessie argue considerably. During the tour, Aunt Jessie begins to have daydreams of falling in love with Buster Bloodvessel, who displays eccentric and disturbing behaviour. The tour involves several strange activities, such as an impromptu race in which each tour group member employs a different mode of transportation (some run, a few jump into cars, a group of people have a long bike they pedal, while Ringo ends up beating them all with the bus). The entire tour group also crawls into a tiny tent in a field, inside which is a projection theatre. There is a strange scene where the group walks through what appears to be a British Army recruitment office. The film culminates with the men of the tour group watching a strip show.

The film is punctuated by musical interludes which include The Beatles performing "I Am the Walrus" wearing animal masks, George Harrison singing "Blue Jay Way" while waiting on Blue Jay Way Road and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band performing Vivian Stanshall and Neil Innes's "Death Cab for Cutie" (sung by Vivian Stanshall himself).

Magical Mystery Tour (film) : 1. Production.

Magical Mystery Tour (film)

1. Production.

Despite being the shortest Beatles film, nearly ten hours of footage was shot over a two week period. The core of the film was shot beginning on 11 September and finishing on 25 September. ^[1] The following eleven weeks were mostly spent on editing the film from ten hours to 52 minutes. Scenes that were filmed but not included in the final cut include:

• A sequence where ice cream, fruit, and lollipops were sold to The Beatles and other coach passengers
• John, Paul, George, and Ringo each looking through a telescope
• Happy Nat The Rubber Man (Nat Jackley) chasing women around the Atlantic Hotel's outdoor swimming pool, a sequence directed by John. ^[2]

Much of the film was shot in and around RAF West Malling, an airfield in Kent that had recently been decommissioned.^[3] Many of the interior scenes, such as the final ballroom sequence for "Your Mother Should Know", were shot in the disused aircraft hangars. The exteriors, such as the "I Am the Walrus" sequence, and the marathon race, were filmed on the runways and taxi aprons. RAF Air Training Corps cadets can be seen marching in some scenes, and during "I Am the Walrus" an RAF Avro Shackleton is seen orbiting the group.

The mystery tour itself was shot throughout the West Country of England, including Devon and Cornwall,^[4] although most of the footage was not used in the finished film. The final striptease sequence was shot at Paul Raymond's Raymond Revuebar in London, and the sequence for "The Fool on the Hill" was shot around Nice, France. The visual sequence for the instrumental "Flying" uses aerial footage on tinted film originally intended for Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey.^[5]

Magical Mystery Tour (film), 26 December, 1967

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Magical Mystery Tour
Directed by	Bernard Knowles The Beatles
Produced by	John Lennon Paul McCartney George Harrison Ringo Starr Gavrik Losey Dennis O'Dell
Written by	John Lennon Paul McCartney George Harrison Ringo Starr
Starring	John Lennon Paul McCartney George Harrison Ringo Starr Jessie Robins Vivian Stanshall Mal Evans Ivor Cutler Derek Royle Victor Spinetti
Music by	The Beatles
Cinematography	Daniel Lacambre
Distributed by	New Line Cinema
Release date(s)	26 December 1967 (UK release)
Running time	55 min.
Language	English
Preceded by	Help!
Followed by	Yellow Submarine

Magical Mystery Tour is an hour-long television film starring The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr) that initially aired on BBC1 on 26 December 1967. Upon its initial showing, the film was poorly received by critics and audiences.

Studio - 9. Magical Mystery Tour : 1.History of the project.

Studio - 9. Magical Mystery Tour

1.History of the project.

1.1. Magical Mystery Tour film.

Main article: Magical Mystery Tour (film)

After Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Paul McCartney wanted to create a film based upon the Beatles and their music. The film was to be unscripted: various "ordinary" people (including John Lennon's uncle Charlie) were to travel on a charabanc bus and have unspecified "magical" adventures, in the manner of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters.

The Magical Mystery Tour movie was made, but the hoped-for "magical" adventures never happened. During the filming, an ever greater number of cars followed the hand-lettered bus, hoping to see what its passengers were up to, until a running traffic jam developed. The spectacle ended after Lennon angrily tore the lettering off the sides of the bus.

Magical Mystery Tour was the first Beatles film project following the death of manager Brian Epstein in August 1967, and there has been much speculation that the absence of Epstein's judgment contributed to its undisciplined production, as seen, for instance, in the absence of a screenplay and professional direction. The film originally appeared twice on BBC-TV over the 1967 Christmas holidays (first in black and white, then in colour on BBC2), but was savaged by critics on its release^[1]; it was, however, noted by Steven Spielberg in film school (according to McCartney in one of the interviews for The Beatles Anthology: "I've read that people like him have sort of said, 'When I was in school that was a film we really took notice of...' like an art film, you know, rather than a proper film.)

1.2. Film soundtrack.

The movie's soundtrack was far more favourably received, and was nominated for a Grammy Award for best album in 1968.^[2] and reached number 1 in the U.S for eight weeks. It was released in the UK in December 1967 as a double EP housed in a 24-page book featuring pictures from the film and a comic strip based on events of the film. The American version was released in late November 1967 as an LP; its cover depicts the EP's artwork in an orange border, with a list of song titles above it, and the album included, until the 1980s, the EP set's 24-page photo/comic booklet blown up to LP-size. Capitol Records released Magical Mystery Tour as full-length album because EPs were not as popular in the US as they were in the UK. The Magical Mystery Tour LP was divided into two halves: The first side was the film soundtrack, and the second side was a collection of A- and B-sides released in 1967, with the songs "Penny Lane", "Baby You're a Rich Man" and "All You Need Is Love" presented in fake "processed" stereo. In addition, all stereo versions, from both the LP and EPs, of "I Am the Walrus", were in true stereo only through the second verse, after which the song "reverts" to fake stereo.^[3]

1.3. Release.

When standardising The Beatles' releases for Compact Disc in the late 1980s, the American LP version (which was imported into the UK, peaked on the British album charts at #31 as an American import, and was issued by Parlophone Records in Britain in 1976) was included with the British album line-up instead of the British EP, with true stereo recordings replacing the earlier processed ones (except for the portion of "I Am the Walrus"). (The true-stereo version of the Magical Mystery Tour LP was first issued in Germany in 1971, but the 1976 Parlophone issue used the Capitol masters with the fake stereo.) Capitol quietly reissued the Magical Mystery Tour LP using the German masters in the US with catalogue number C1-48061 in true stereo. The remaining Beatles non-LP single sides were compiled in the two-volume Past Masters compilation.

Studio - 2. D�j� Vu (album), July - December 1969 at Wally Heider 's Studio C, San Francisco and Wally Heider Studio III, Los Angeles.[Atlantic Records] March 11, 1970

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D�j� Vu
Studio album by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Released	March 11, 1970
Recorded	July - December, 1969 at Wally Heider's Studio C, San Francisco and Wally Heider's Studio III, Los Angeles
Genre	Rock, folk rock
Length	36:24
Label	Atlantic Records
Producer	Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
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Crosby, Stills & Nash (1969) D�j� Vu (1970) Four Way Street (1971)

D�j� Vu is the first album by the rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and the second by the trio configuration of Crosby, Stills, and Nash. It was released in March of 1970 by Atlantic Records, catalogue SD-7200. It topped the pop album chart for one week and generated three Top 40 singles: "Teach Your Children," "Our House," and "Woodstock."

Studio - 2. D�j� Vu (album), July - December 1969 at Wally Heider 's Studio C, San Francisco and Wally Heider Studio III, Los Angeles.[Atlantic Records] March 11, 1970

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D�j� Vu
Studio album by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Released	March 11, 1970
Recorded	July - December, 1969 at Wally Heider's Studio C, San Francisco and Wally Heider's Studio III, Los Angeles
Genre	Rock, folk rock
Length	36:24
Label	Atlantic Records
Producer	Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
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Crosby, Stills & Nash (1969) D�j� Vu (1970) Four Way Street (1971)

D�j� Vu is the first album by the rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and the second by the trio configuration of Crosby, Stills, and Nash. It was released in March of 1970 by Atlantic Records, catalogue SD-7200. It topped the pop album chart for one week and generated three Top 40 singles: "Teach Your Children," "Our House," and "Woodstock."

Studio - 2. D�j� Vu (album)

1. History.

D�j� Vu was the first album Crosby, Stills & Nash released since the addition of Neil Young to the group, and was greatly anticipated after the popularity of the first CSN album. Some noted the influence of Buffalo Springfield^{[citation needed]}, Stills and Young's previous band, notably in the closing song "Everybody I Love You" and the inclusion of a segment of the unreleased Springfield song "Down Down Down" within Young's "Country Girl."

Stills estimates that the album took somewhere in the neighborhood of 800 hours of studio time to record; this figure may be exaggerated, even though the individual tracks display meticulous attention to detail.^[1] The album was done as individual sessions by each of the members when they turned up, apart from the quartet's version of Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock", contributing whatever was needed that could be agreed upon.^[2] Young does not appear on all of the tracks, and drummer Dallas Taylor and bassist Greg Reeves are credited on the cover, given junior-partner status with their names in slightly smaller typeface. Jerry Garcia plays pedal steel on "Teach Your Children" and John Sebastian plays mouth-harp on the title track.

In May 1970, two months after the album was released, the group recorded Neil Young's quickly penned response to the Kent State shootings, "Ohio." That single, backed with Stephen Stills' "Find the Cost of Freedom," was released in late June of the same year, making it to #14 on the Billboard Hot 100, notwithstanding its accusatory sentiment during the years of Nixon's "silent majority."

In 2003, the album was ranked number 147 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The same year, the TV network VH1 named D�j� Vu the 61st greatest album of all time. The album ranked at #14 for the Top 100 Albums of 1970 and #217 overall by Rate Your Music.

The album was reissued for compact disc after being remastered from the original tapes at Ocean View Digital by Joe Gastwirt on September 6, 1994.

"The Road to Woodstock": 6.

"The Road to Woodstock":
The Stories Behind Rock History

Page 6

Hugh Romney: a Star is Born

Between sets, Hugh Romney ended up onstage making announcements, becoming an audience favorite in the process.

HUGH ROMNEY: I was working pretty much full- time with the drug talkdown situation, busy moving from one situation to the next. How I ended up getting onstage was that I had some announcements to give Chip to make, and I was also on his case because he'd made this announcement about avoiding the "blue acid." Chip said, "Come on up and do it yourself." He had no problem letting me talk on the microphone, and the only times I ever went up there were when I had something to say toward the collective consciousness. Later, when the rains came and they were announcing it was a disaster area, I said, "There's a little bit of heaven in every disaster area!"

Hugh calmed people's fears about the "bad acid." "It's not poison," he said from the stage, "it's just poorly manufactured."

From The Road to Woodstock by Michael Lang with Holly George-Warren, Ecco/HarperCollins, � 2009 (used with permission

Studio - 5. Cosmo's Factory, 1969-1970, Wally Heidler 's Studio, San Francisco, California.[Fantasy Records] July 25, 1970.

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Studio - 5. Cosmo's Factory

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Cosmo's Factory
Studio album by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Released	July 25, 1970
Recorded	1969-1970, Wally Heider's Studio, San Francisco, California
Genre	Rock
Length	42:28 (original) 53:19 (40th Anniversary Edition)
Label	Fantasy
Producer	John Fogerty
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Willy and the Poor Boys (1969) Cosmo's Factory (1970) Pendulum (1970)

Cosmo's Factory is the fifth album by American band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released in 1970.

The peak of a prolific streak, Cosmo's Factory was Creedence's fifth album in less than two years. It was a major commercial success, reaching #1 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart, and spawning three top-5 singles; "Lookin' Out My Back Door" (US #2), "Travelin' Band" (US #2), and "Up Around the Bend" (US #4) were all big hits. More amazingly, it also reached #11 on what was then the Billboard Soul Albums chart, a crossover feat nearly unheard of for a white pop/rock band. In Britain it was their only No. 1 album, entering the chart at that position. In 2003, the album was ranked number 262 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

The name of the album comes from the warehouse in Berkeley where the band rehearsed. Bandleader John Fogerty was so insistent on practising (nearly every day) that drummer Doug "Cosmo" Clifford began referring to the place as "the factory".

Early pressings of the album contain a three-second dropout on the left stereo channel during "Before You Accuse Me" and an earlier mix of "Travelin' Band" with John Fogerty's first solo mixed behind the horn section.

1. Popular References.

In the movie The Big Lebowski, Jeffrey Lebowski (The Dude), has the album in his car. In fact, in the scene where the Dude is with Walter in the car you can hear Run Through the Jungle. There's another scene where you can hear Lookin' Out My Back Door, while Jeffrey is smoking Marijuana in his car.

Live - 4. Woodstock: 40 Years on: Back to Yasgur's Farm (6CD, Limited Edition) [BOX SET], August 15 - August 17-18, 1969[Rhino Records] August 18th 2009.

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Live - 4. Woodstock: 40 Years on: Back to Yasgur's Farm (6CD, Limited Edition) [BOX SET]

This is an incredible set! The best Woodstock collection yet! The sound quality is stellar. The packaging? Fantastic! Similar to Rhino's "Love Is The Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970" but with the CD's in plastic DVD length cases, so no worry about scratching your CD's. I would like to give this set four and A HALF stars, just shy of five. Why only four and a half and not five? Well, first off, it can't be helped that Keef Hartley Band, Ten Years After, and The Band backed out of being a part of this collection. I'm sure Rhino tried all they could, but what can you do? What I'm at a loss about is the repeated inclusion of CSN&Y's non-Woodstock performance of "Sea Of Madness." It's been established that this performance was at the Fillmore East a week later from the festival. Why couldn't "Blackbird," "Mr. Soul," or "Helplessly Hoping" been included instead? Anyways, the included booklet is awesome featuring the COMPLETE listing of Woodstock performers and their complete sets for the first time! FINALLY! This set is 6-CDs long so are you ready for this? Here we go.

1.1. DISC ONE:

1. RITCHIE HAVENS: The remix makes his performance sound much more intimate and close.
2. SWEETWATER: Better than expected! "Look Out" ROCKS and "Two Worlds" is faster than the studio version.
3. BERT SOMMER: To have left this guy off for 40 years is criminal! A BEAUTIFUL, inspired sounding acoustic set. What a voice!
4. TIM HARDIN: Tim is all his disheveled glory. "Simple Song Of Freedom" will make you smile and cry at the same time.
5. RAVI SHANKAR: I've heard better from Ravi (Monterey, etc.), but this rather short raga is good.
6. MELANIE: A POWERFUL three songs from the raspy voiced singer/songwriter princess of the early '70s.
7. ARLO GUTHRIE: Well now we know why his Woodstock performance of "Coming Into Los Angeles" was replaced on the soundtrack, Arlo's mic was off for the first verse of the song!

1.2. DISC TWO:

1. JOAN BAEZ: Aside from the inclusion of "Hickory Wind" this is pretty much the same as you've always known from Joan.
2. QUILL: IT'S ABOUT TIME THIS BAND GOT SOME RECOGNITION! A percussion based psychedelic rock band that were REALLY theatrical!
3. COUNTRY JOE MCDONALD: Did you know he came back for another verse of "Fixin' To Die" after his shouted "ALRIGHT!" Me neither.
4. SANTANA: A killer "Persuasion" and an unedited "Soul Sacrifice."
5. JOHN B. SEBASTIAN: Yep, John was stoned. His stage patter is finally in the correct places after all these years.
6. INCREDIBLE STRING BAND: Very hippie, very acoustic, very folk, very good.

1.3. DISC THREE:

1. CANNED HEAT: The Bear has to pee before "Going Up The Country" and "Woodstock Boogie" KILLS...ALL 28 MINUTES OF IT!
2. MOUNTAIN: A better "Blood Of The Sun" than on "Woodstock Two." And a great "For Yasgur's Farm" with Leslie belting it!
3. GRATEFUL DEAD: A 19-minute "Dark Star" that's not all that bad despite being from one of The Dead's worst performances.
4. CCR: Creedence was TIGHT after following The Dead. The inclusion of "Keep On Chooglin" would have been nice though.

1.4. DISC FOUR:

1. JANIS JOPLIN: A better mix than the 25th Anniversary set! Janis wasn't in her best form but she got the point across.
2. SLY & THE FAMILY STONE: The UNEDITED medley that almost brought the stage down early that Sunday morning. 100% PURE FUNK!
3. ABBIE HOFFMAN: "John Sinclair...John Sinclair...blah...blah...blah"
4. THE WHO: INSANE, ghostly feedback from Pete's amp for "Amazing Journey." And Abbie and Pete duet. Ha ha ha.
5. JEFFERSON AIRPLANE: Morning maniac music. The Airplane rocked Sunday morning with the opening "The Other Side Of This Life."

1.5. DISC FIVE:

1. JOE COCKER: No "Something's Coming On" but Joe and the band sound FANTASTIC with this remix. Funny backing vocals as always.
2. THE RAINSTORM: Got everyone's attention after Joe but never got a record deal. Very soothing...for 4 minutes.
3. COUNTRY JOE & THE FISH: A ROCKING set from The Fish! A "reprise" version of "Rock And Soul Music" that lasts 12 minutes.
4. JOHNNY WINTER: The full "Mean Town Blues" which features some KILLER slide work from Johnny.
5. BLOOD, SWEAT, & TEARS: Their last song, "You've Made Me So Very Happy," and they sound really good here. Good horn section!

1.6. DISC SIX:

1/2. CSN&Y: They were alright. "Marrakesh Express" is the best of THIS set, but no "Blackbird" which WAS their best that night.
3. BUTTERFIELD BLUES BAND: "No Amount Of Loving" is plagued by a faulty mic but this thing grooves so good it makes up for it.
4. SHA NA NA: Would have like to have heard "Teen Angel" as well. "Get A Job" was their opener. Face it, these guys ruled.
5. JIMI HENDRIX: The same as you've heard but it doesn't sound remixed for the box set.

Well there you go, all six discs. Not only does the music sound better than it has ever sounded before but the stage announcements included are great as well. I guess they read my review for the 25th Anniversary box set. You're going to hear some pretty funny announcements that were not included on the original soundtrack. Even some advice on taking the green acid tabs from none other than the San Francisco acid team themselves, Jerry Garcia and Country Joe! And most importantly, the full unedited speech from Mr. Max Yasgur. God Bless your memory Max. By opening your heart, you created history.

Saturday, August 16, 1969 : Act 13.

Saturday, August 16

• Jefferson Airplane
  1. "Other Side of This Life"
  2. "Somebody To Love"
  3. "Three-Fifths of a Mile In 10 Seconds"
  4. "Won't You Try/Saturday Afternoon"
  5. "Eskimo Blue Day"
  6. "Plastic Fantastic Lover"
  7. "Wooden Ships"
  8. "Uncle Sam's Blues"
  9. "Volunteers"
  10. "Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil"
  11. "Come Back Baby"
  12. "White Rabbit"
  13. "House At Pooneil Corners"

Saturday, August 16, 1969

Saturday, August 16

• Santana
  1. "Waiting"
  2. "You Just Don't Care"
  3. "Savor"
  4. "Jingo"
  5. "Evil Ways"
  6. "Persuasion"
  7. "Soul Sacrifice"
  8. "Fried Neckbones"

Studio - 2. Axis: Bold as Love : 3. External links, 4. References.

Studio - 2. Axis: Bold as Love

3. External links.

• Information about The Spanish Castle, a legendary Seattle area dance hall where Jimi Hendrix gave some of his earliest performances
• More information about The Spanish Castle and Jimi Hendrix's early days

4. References.

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1. ^ Electric Gypsy by Harry Shapiro & Caesar Glebbe
2. ^ ^{a b c d} Liner notes of the album, Alan Douglas supervised CD issue, released in 1993 (with a different cover)
3. ^ It can be heard, for example, on Isaac Hayes's famous 'Shaft' theme
4. ^ See Jimpress edited by Steve Rodham, #65 1999, cover and page 4

Studio - 2. Axis: Bold as Love : 3. Covers

Studio - 2. Axis: Bold as Love

3. Covers

"Little Wing" has become one of Hendrix's best-known songs. It was covered three years after its initial release by Eric Clapton's short lived band, Derek and the Dominos. The song was also popularized as an instrumental rock song by Stevie Ray Vaughan. Kirk Hammett of Metallica covered the song on live performances, Skid Row (not the original group of that name) released a live version of it on their EP B-Side Ourselves, and Sting included an adult contemporary rendition of the song on his ...Nothing Like the Sun album. Irish band The Corrs also recorded a cover of the song on their album Talk On Corners and on their Unplugged album. It was also covered by young American singer/songwriter John Mayer. It also appeared on the album G3 Live: Rockin' in the Free World, namely by Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and Yngwie Malmsteen.

Another notable musician who has covered a song from Axis: Bold as Love is Brian May who covered "One Rainy Wish" on his Another World album. John Mayer covered "Wait Until Tomorrow" on Try! and "Bold as Love" on Continuum. New York Rock & Roll Ensemble also covered "Wait Until Tomorrow." Joan Osborne, of "What If God Was One of Us" fame also covered "Bold as Love" on How Sweet It Is. The Pretenders also covered "Bold as Love" on the 1993 Hendrix tribute album Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers recorded covers of "Little Miss Lover" and "Castles Made of Sand" for possible inclusion on their album 'Blood Sugar Sex Magik'. They were later released as bonus tracks on the iTunes re-release of the album. They also released a live cover of "Castles Made of Sand" on 'Out in LA' and later the re-release of their album Mother's Milk.

Phish has also covered some of Jimi's songs, including "Bold as Love", on live CDs and concerts.

Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil covered "Wait Until Tomorrow" on their album Tropicalia 25.

"Spanish Castle Magic" has also been covered by Carlos Santana and appears on the album "Power of Soul: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix".

Studio - 2. Axis: Bold as Love : 1. Music, 2. Album cover.

Studio - 2. Axis: Bold as Love

1. Music.

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.^[2] 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 (a revolving speaker which creates a wavering effect, that is typically used with electric organs) for the first time. Hendrix's effects man Roger Mayer then invented the 'Univibe' effects pedal to simulate the Leslie sound for him (the commercially sold Uni-Vibe pedal was made by Fumo Mieda an engineer of Shin-Ei company not Roger Mayer. Hendrix started using the Uni-Vibe in the summer of '69 just shortly after the release of the Uni-Vibe. Jimi Hendrix also used the obscure and elusive Jax Vibra Chorus - basically a Uni-Vibe with the addition of tremolo and full/slow repeat time selector - on various recordings.)

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 Caruso, 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 Jimi'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 fourth track, 'Ain't No Telling', is a rock song with a complex structure despite its short length. 'Little Wing', as. Jimi 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 the A-side, is the album's longest track and arguably the most psychedelic; Gary Leeds (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',as well as the Vietnam 'flashback' film "Apocalypse Now" during the chaotic battle scene at the bridge.

"You Got Me Floatin", a rock song opening with a swirling backwards played guitar (which is absent on the mysterious, differently mixed Polydor version of this LP (only available in stereo), which outside of France & 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 background 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.^[3] The album is included in the book '1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die'. Guitarist magazine named the album number seven on their list of "the most influential guitar albums of all time" [1]. The final song of the album, Bold as Love, opens very abruptly and segues into a mellow groove similar to Little Wing and Castles Made of Sand. With a psychedelic chorus and an extended solo at the end it fades out the album.

2. Album cover.

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 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 cheap, mass produced religious poster of the Hindu devotional painting known as 'Viraat Purushan-Vishnuroopam' showing the different forms of Vishnu with a small, superimposed painting of the group by Roger Law) (from a photo portrait by Karl Ferris) blended in.^[4]

In November a giant B&W blow up of the fantastic day-glo pink, orange & blue offset litho print over gold foil, Haphash/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. Original prints of this poster are probably all in collections and only later copies occasionally come up for sale at huge prices.

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 USA issue had no insert and instead of the group photo inside, had the lyrics. In Europe, the Polydor issue had no lyrics and unfortunately stuck an inch wide white border round the inside portrait, spoiling its effect, while the French dispensed with the original cover entirely and put it in a dull single sleeve with a photo of the group taken from a recent French TV show on the front.

Studio - 2. Axis: Bold as Love, May - June, October 1967, Olympic Studios, London, England.[Polydor Records] Devember 1, 1967.

Studio - 2. Axis: Bold as Love

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Axis: Bold as Love
Studio album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Released	December 1, 1967 (UK) January 15, 1968 (US)
Recorded	May-June, October 1967 Olympic Studios (London, England)
Genre	Blues rock, psychedelic rock acid rock, hard rock
Length	38:49
Label	Track (mono & stereo) Barclay (stereo) Polydor (Europe - different stereo mix only, Overseas - stereo only) Reprise (mono & stereo) MCA (stereo CD & mono LP)
Producer	Chas Chandler
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience chronology
Are You Experienced (1967) Axis: Bold as Love (1967) Smash Hits (1968)

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.^[1]

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 USA until 1968 due to fears that it might have disturbed the sales of the first album.^[2] Bassist Noel Redding has noted that this was his favourite of three Experience albums. He plays eight string bass on some tracks.^[2]

Just before the album's completion, Hendrix left the master tapes of side 1 in a taxi. They were never found again, and thus the A-side had to be mixed again quickly.^[2]

In 2003, the album was ranked number 82 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.