I’m a very well-rounded musician nowadays, but it all started when I received my first acoustic guitar at the age of five. I grew up listening to legends like The Beatles, Cream, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, etc. so you can imagine my excitement when I read that the music of Jimi Hendrix was headed to Rock Band. On March 30th for Xbox 360 and Wii owners and April 1st for PlayStation 3 owners, Hendrix’s Axis: Bold As Love will become available for purchase (sans “EXP”) both as an album and as individual tracks.
Other albums such as Are You Experienced? and Electric Ladyland are also on the release slate. So why Axis, his second studio album, first? MTV Games’ Paul DeGooyer explains:
“A lot of people are familiar with the singles [on Axis], but the concept of the album has kind of evaporated from the minds of certain demography over the past decade or so, and so people are cherry-picking songs. Axis may benefit from getting this highlighting and taken together. And it’s tremendously fun to play as well.”
Makes sense. “Castles Made of Sand” was the second song I ever learned after getting my electric guitar, after Clapton’s “Crossroads.”
