[3] After diverting attention to other songs set for the album, the band returned to finish work on "Bold as Love" on October 29, completing "Up from the Skies", "Castles Made of Sand", "One Rainy Wish" and "EXP" in the same session.
[6] AllMusic writer Denise Sullivan explains in a similar way that the song "outlines a rainbow in an epic declaration of love in its many colours", proposing that "One interpretation may be that people are one, despite our different shades; another may be that in all persons there resides an array of emotions, each corresponding to a color" and concluding that "In either case, complete integration is Hendrix's ideal".
[8] BBC review writer Chris Jones has noted that "Bold as Love" uses "the first flowerings of phasing to make Jimi's Strat sound more like a whole orchestra on its trick ending".
[9] Shapiro and Glebbeek described the song's use of flanging on the outro: The rather abrupt editing of the coda takes us into Mitch [Mitchell]'s solo/fill, 'flanged' by Eddie Kramer, an effect achieved by manipulating one of two tape decks running simultaneously and mixing the signal.
[6] Writing a five-star review of the album for AllMusic, Cub Koda has cited the title track, along with "Little Wing", "Castles Made of Sand" and "One Rainy Wish", as evidence of Jimi Hendrix's "remarkable growth and depth as a tunesmith, harnessing Curtis Mayfield soul guitar to Dylanesque lyrical imagery and Fuzz Face hyperactivity to produce yet another side to his grand psychedelic musical vision".