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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.

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kemming wrote:
yesterday evening

excellent cover

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T0Rtur3 wrote:
Wednesday afternoon

hell yes

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MrsRieffers wrote:
Tuesday evening

Yupppsssiiii !!!!

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Mandacarallo200 wrote:
Tuesday morning

Tremendo

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spenceey wrote:
Monday afternoon

No one has ever covered a song so well. This song works on so many levels and is such an easy listener

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Muzic012 wrote:
Saturday evening

When I heard this song I felt really stupid 4 not having Jimi in my library wow..

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blues34388206 wrote:
Saturday evening

hendrix sings dylan-a match made in heaven

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mitsch1 wrote:
last week

do muss isch beipflischte:scheenial!!!!

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flori960 wrote:
last week

genial

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Cdub59 wrote:
last week

One of the best covers ever...of any song! RIP Jimi.

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MamaCoCo wrote:
last week

In a class by himself...an originator....

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MACHINE_HKD wrote:
last week

The Immortal Jimi Hendrix.

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1970scorp wrote:
last week

i miss that era!!!

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buuuff wrote:
13 days ago

there's no other song givin' me this feeling

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far7east8boy wrote:
14 days ago

it would have da shit to jimi live..

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RevCorvette wrote:
14 days ago

Sooooo fine!

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Arun79 wrote:
14 days ago

Reminds of the movie "Withnail and I" Genius track.

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DoomOrBeDoomed wrote:
15 days ago

This is by far the best cover of Dylan's composition, better than Dylan's own performance. And he has admitted that it is so.

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dippelster wrote:
15 days ago

When Jimi plays his solo i All along the Watchtower it sounds so simple. He is a master. It is not only the wind but also hes guitar that begins to howl!

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the_sweetness wrote:
16 days ago

This is so much better that Bob Dylan's version it's not even funny. No disrespect, Mr. Dylan.

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