It was the winter of 1967–68, and Jimi Hendrix was looking for a recording studio in New York. His second album, Axis: Bold as Love, was an FM-radio favorite and he had a road case full of tapes he had recorded in London that he was ready to rework.
Warner/Reprise had already paid for
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: The House That Hendrix Built: Inside the Birth of the Record Plant