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About This Track
This track is a cover of the Bob Dylan song “All Along The Watchtower”. However many do not realise this due to the popularity of Hendrix’s version.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience began to record their cover version of Dylan’s “All Along The Watchtower” on January 21, 1968, at Olympic Studios in London. According to engineer Andy Johns, Jimi Hendrix had been given a tape of Dylan’s recording by publicist Michael Goldstein, who worked for Dylan’s manager Albert Grossman. “(Hendrix) came in with these Dylan tapes and we all heard them for the first time in the studio”, recalled Johns. According to Hendrix’s regular engineer Eddie Kramer, the guitarist cut a large number of takes on the first day, shouting chord changes at Dave Mason who had appeared at the session and played guitar. Halfway through the session, bass player Noel Redding became dissatisfied with the proceedings and left. Mason then took over on bass. According to Kramer, the final bass part was played by Hendrix himself.[10] Kramer and Chas Chandler mixed the first version of “All Along The Watchtower” on January 26th, but Hendrix was quickly dissatisfied with the result and went on re-recording and overdubbing guitar parts during June, July, and August at the Record Plant studio in New York. Engineer Tony Bongiovi has described Hendrix becoming increasingly dissatisfied as the song progressed, overdubbing more and more guitar parts, moving the master tape from a four-track to a twelve-track to a sixteen-track machine.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience began to record their cover version of Dylan’s “All Along The Watchtower” on January 21, 1968, at Olympic Studios in London. According to engineer Andy Johns, Jimi Hendrix had been given a tape of Dylan’s recording by publicist Michael Goldstein, who worked for Dylan’s manager Albert Grossman. “(Hendrix) came in with these Dylan tapes and we all heard them for the first time in the studio”, recalled Johns. According to Hendrix’s regular engineer Eddie Kramer, the guitarist cut a large number of takes on the first day, shouting chord changes at Dave Mason who had appeared at the session and played guitar. Halfway through the session, bass player Noel Redding became dissatisfied with the proceedings and left. Mason then took over on bass. According to Kramer, the final bass part was played by Hendrix himself.[10] Kramer and Chas Chandler mixed the first version of “All Along The Watchtower” on January 26th, but Hendrix was quickly dissatisfied with the result and went on re-recording and overdubbing guitar parts during June, July, and August at the Record Plant studio in New York. Engineer Tony Bongiovi has described Hendrix becoming increasingly dissatisfied as the song progressed, overdubbing more and more guitar parts, moving the master tape from a four-track to a twelve-track to a sixteen-track machine.
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Shouts
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calebragsdale24 wrote:
im thinking that, if dylan was never born, this man would not be a legend. he carried around a book of dylans lyrics for gods sake, they ARE gods
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videodoc50 wrote:
Love Dylan's Live at Budokan version.
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Elecfro wrote:
one of my favorite songs!
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chee006 wrote:
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA!!!
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Javi450 wrote:
THE HOURS GETTING LATE, HEY!!
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Mr_Pooter wrote:
I can play this over and over again. Never gets old. I understand why it's still popular (to non-mainstream music listeners) all these years later.
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jpeiper wrote:
My favorite Hendrix track.
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SP1984 wrote:
epic !
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power2themusic wrote:
Bob i think wore this song best. but this is pretty sweet.
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rocknurse1 wrote:
I saw him LIVE twice. I'll never know how his musical head worked.
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MrPhew wrote:
the tune that made me fall in love with Jimi!
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Semichronic wrote:
Amazing guitar work! Especially here.
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naynay1129 wrote:
greatest cover of all time
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mediomuerto wrote:
so say we all
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hsxeric wrote:
So much better than Dylan. Sorry hipsters.
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klpra wrote:
WOOOOOOO! What a RUSH!
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TommyMonoTone wrote:
Electric LadyLand.....One of the greatest albums of all time
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kwokwokwo wrote:
старичок жжёт
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basedBiTCH- wrote:
< 3
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andymadden wrote:
go Jonny go!
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