No grand proclamation here, other than to say that for about the last month I have been obsessed with Bold As Love (song, not album).
It’s a beautiful song. The guitar is amazing. The lyrics are close to ridiculous but they still work and layered over the guitar the vocals are awesome.
It’s just a very very good song.
And I should add, I think John Mayer’s version stands on its own two feet and is very good in its own right.
In that vein, the Olympic studios Jimi version is sublime, and is clearly Mayer’s inspiration. Olympic is probably the version that I am listening to the most.
And of course this rabbit hole has led me to working it out for myself on the guitar, which is a frustrating and fulfilling experience.
Just a Bold As Love appreciation thread. We’ll see if it has any legs . . .
[Edited on 3/2/2019 by cmgst34]
Right up there with my favorite Jimi tunes. Jimi painted his palate so beautifully............he was hearing sounds that it seems no one else had heard before him. Let me add that it irks me whenever I hear a guitarist cover one Jimi tune during their club set because about 99% of the time they will do Voodoo Chile. Great tune yes............overplayed, YES!! How about Bold As Love or many others? You'd think that Jimi had never come up with one great tune other than Voodoo Chile.
Yes I agree completely. I haven't seen John Mayer since he switched from a Strat to a Paul Reed Smith. Wonder if his tone is different live. I've been a Mayer fan for sometime.
Yes I agree completely. I haven't seen John Mayer since he switched from a Strat to a Paul Reed Smith. Wonder if his tone is different live. I've been a Mayer fan for sometime.
Wow. Didn’t know he moved to PRS. Davy Knowles made that same move, never to be heard from again . . .
Incredible record. I hate to throw yet another remaster out there but
Analog Planet has recently released Axis Bold As Love, (Are You Experienced out for preorder now), sounds great! Such a killer good record, sounds good in any form, even a thrashed old 8 track thru ragged car speakers, but Hendrix's recording magic seems to open up more and more as the mastering and playback tech evolves, almost like he was recording for the future. Light years ahead of his time.
review of Analog Planet Axis Bold As Love remaster:
[Edited on 3/3/2019 by BrerRabbit]
Great tune, great album
IMO Jimi doesn’t get enough credit for being the great songwriter that he was.
Little Wing, Bold as Love, Castles Made of Sand, if 6 was 9, Manic Depression
The list goes on
What a talent
cmgst34. I did some checking and Mayer announced in 2014 he is no longer playing Fender Stratocaster guitars and has switched to PRS. But what I didn't know is Paul Reed Smith worked with John to come up with a custom model.
I'm not sure what the pickups are and the electronics but the body looks just like a Strat to me and the neck and headstock look like the typical PRS.
I bet PRS approached Mayer. But he could have become dissatisfied with his Strats and approached them.
I remember Dickey became irritated at Gibson for ignoring him in 1994 and approached PRS. They fitted Dickey with two guitars. The reddish one he apparently never played at a show and was a spare. Duane Betts used it on Same thing and Dreams for a few years. But by 1996 Dickey was using a red Gibson ES-335 as his number one then starting in 1997 at the Beacon Dickey played Stratocasters for a few years. Then Gibson came out with the Dickey custom Goldtop Les Paul.
Duane Betts as of the last time I read anything he using the first Dickey Betts custom Goldtop as his number one and Dickey's old 1956 Strat hardtail on a few songs. Devon Allman is using some of Gregg's acoustics and several Les Pauls and Strats which I haven't read anything on what their history is.
Derek as far as I know is now playing a Dickey Betts brother to brother custom shop Gibson SG.
Warren's guitars are listed on his website. Apparently the tobacco burst Les Paul he used for years in the ABB is not listed. I may be mistaken. Of course his Strat with the red headstock the Fender coustom shop made for Warren that he used in the ABB was stolen and I read that after extensive searching at many guitar stores it was never located. Whoever the thief is must not have tried to sell it.
IMO Jimi doesn’t get enough credit for being the great songwriter that he was
True, there was and still is way more going on in the Hendrix phenomenon than just fantastic guitar. Renaissance man. Despite his demons the cat was a pioneer master on many levels:
-Composer
-Poet
-Sound Engineer
-Showman, fashion icon and trendsetter
-Political and Civil Rights shaker-mover
-Visionary Philosopher
-Magician
-Space and TimeTraveller
-Spirit Warrior
Yes I agree completely. I haven't seen John Mayer since he switched from a Strat to a Paul Reed Smith. Wonder if his tone is different live. I've been a Mayer fan for sometime.
Wow. Didn’t know he moved to PRS. Davy Knowles made that same move, never to be heard from again . . .
Saw him in a Chicago club 6 or 7 months ago. Great show. Unless he's retired since then he's still around. He wasn't with Back Door Slam but his band was really good.
Everything in Moderation. Including Moderation.
Eddie Kramer was a studio genius. He & Hendrix were a great match.
Mayer has a real understanding of Jimi. At the Crossroads 2010 concert his trio (with Steve Jordan & Pino Palladino) tore it up with a segue from Mayer's "Who Did You Think I Was?" into "Who Knows" from the Band of Gypsies. One of my personal highlights of that concert.
"Is that a real poncho or is that a Sears poncho?"
Wow. Didn’t know he moved to PRS. Davy Knowles made that same move, never to be heard from again . . .
There's a recent torrent running on Dime:
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=644416
Davy Knowles
Clearwater Sea Blues Festival
Clearwater, FL
February 24, 2019
01 intro
02 I'm A Man
03 Fires
04 talking
05 Every Man for Himself
06 Coming Up For Air
07 Oxford, MS
08 Still Got Work to Do
09 Gotta Leave
10 Tear Down the Walls
11 talking
12 Dear Mr Fantasy
Davy Knowles - Guitar & Vocals
Tod Bowers - Bass
Michael Caskey - Drums
Andrew Toombs - Keyboards
ANGER! He smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor,
Queen Jealousy, Envy waits behind her, her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground.
Blue are the life giving waters taken for granted, they quietly understand.
Once happy turquoise armies lay opposite ready, but wonder why the fight is on?
The man clearly had an incredible lyrical gift along with his ground breaking guitar talent to explain the basic emotions of human life in such a colorful and profound way.
ANGER! He smiles, towering in shiny metallic purple armor,
Queen Jealousy, Envy waits behind her, her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground.
Blue are the life giving waters taken for granted, they quietly understand.
Once happy turquoise armies lay opposite ready, but wonder why the fight is on?
Might as well post the second verse too - pretty neat how he paints the spectrum of emotion with all the colors of the rainbow:
My red is so confident that he flashes trophies of war and
Ribbons of euphoria
Orange is young, full of daring
But very unsteady for the first go round
My yellow in this case is not so mellow
In fact, I'm trying to say it's frightened like me
And all these emotions of mine keep holding me from
Giving my life to a rainbow like you
Got the recent Machine Gun Fillmore East spinning today, another Analog Planet remaster, really good.
[Edited on 3/11/2019 by BrerRabbit]
One of my favourite all time albums. Not enough credit showered on this classic.
