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"Bold as Love" is a song by Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter whose guitar playing continues to be a considerable influence on rock music....
, the final song and title track
Title track

A title track is a song which shares its name with the music album on which it appears. Examples include Michael Jackson's song "Thriller " and AC/DC's "Back in Black "....
 of the Jimi Hendrix Experience's 1967 album Axis: Bold As Love
Axis: Bold as Love

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....
.

Hendrix, a self-taught musician, was unable to read music, and as such often experienced musical and emotional ideas in terms of color
Color

Color or colour is the visual perception property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, yellow, blue and others....
 (similar to the condition of synesthesia
Synesthesia

Synesthesia ?from the Ancient Greek , "together," and , "sensation" ? is a neurologically based phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway....
). The lyrics reflect this (Hendrix stated, in explanation of his color-emotion interpretations, "Jealousy is purple; I'm purple with rage...", paralleling the lyrical reference to the "purple armor" of a personified anger).






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"Bold as Love" is a song by Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter whose guitar playing continues to be a considerable influence on rock music....
, the final song and title track
Title track

A title track is a song which shares its name with the music album on which it appears. Examples include Michael Jackson's song "Thriller " and AC/DC's "Back in Black "....
 of the Jimi Hendrix Experience's 1967 album Axis: Bold As Love
Axis: Bold as Love

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....
.

Themes and lyrics

Jimi Hendrix, a self-taught musician, was unable to read music, and as such often experienced musical and emotional ideas in terms of color
Color

Color or colour is the visual perception property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, yellow, blue and others....
 (similar to the condition of synesthesia
Synesthesia

Synesthesia ?from the Ancient Greek , "together," and , "sensation" ? is a neurologically based phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway....
). The lyrics reflect this (Hendrix stated, in explanation of his color-emotion interpretations, "Jealousy is purple; I'm purple with rage...", paralleling the lyrical reference to the "purple armor" of a personified anger). The piece also has elements of a love song
Love song

A love song is about falling in love and the happiness it brings. By contrast, a heartbreak song is about a relationship breaking down, or the sadness of a love that has died....
, as Hendrix explained that his usage of color is how "... you explain your different emotions in colors toward this certain girl
Girl

A girl is any female human from birth through childhood and adolescence to attainment of adulthood. The term may also be used to mean a young woman....
 who has all the colors in the world...".

Recording

The song was recorded on a four-track machine. After the initial recording was completed, Hendrix overdubbed harpsichord and additional bass parts. Recording engineers Eddie Kramer and George Chkiantz introduced phased stereo sound, which Hendrix called the sound he had been "hearing in [his] dreams".

Personnel

  • Jimi Hendrix: vocals
    Singing

    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the human voice, which is often contrasted with regular speech. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist....
    , guitar
    Guitar

    The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
    s, bass guitar
    Bass guitar

    The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum.The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and Scale length, and usually four strings tuned to the same pitches as those of the double bass, whic...
    , harpsichord
    Harpsichord

    A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a musical keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when each Key is pressed....
  • Mitch Mitchell
    Mitch Mitchell

    John "Mitch" Mitchell was an England drummer, best known for his work in The Jimi Hendrix Experience....
    : drums
    Drum kit

    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbell s, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer....
  • Noel Redding
    Noel Redding

    David "Noel" Redding was an England rock and roll guitarist best known as the bass guitarist for The Jimi Hendrix Experience....
    : bass guitar


See also

  • 1967 in music
    1967 in music

    The summer of 1967 was "The Summer of Love" in San Francisco. It also became an important year for psychedelic rock, with releases from The Beatles Small Faces, "Itchycoo Park", Eric Burdon & The Animals , The Doors , Jefferson Airplane , Pink Floyd's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Love 's Forever Changes, Cream 's Disraeli Gears, Th...