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Jimi Hendrix – All Along the Watchtower (4:01)

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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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  • albanyamontrose

    NICE DYLON SONG

    Saturday evening

  • LastMnemosyne

    This song is so epic that it gets its own chapter in Watchmen... 'nuff said.

    Saturday morning

  • oldiesfanjohn

    Colossal,meteoric...Mindgasm,eargasm.any gasm will do!!!

    Saturday morning

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    Saturday morning

  • Schizm88

    Jimi didn't cover Dylan's song, he made it his own. Love them both.

    Wednesday morning

  • TheChrisPearson

    Eargasam

    9 days ago

  • charliekilo22

    hahahaha, surrendertoalex.

    10 days ago

  • Prizonsex

    No reason to get excited but Jimi version > Dylan version.

    10 days ago

  • RevCorvette

    which Dylan version? the most recent time i saw Bob Dylan in concert they did a respectable cover of Hendrix'!

    16 days ago

  • HathInTheRam

    The Dylan version is amazing. Very medieval.

    18 days ago

  • RussellJones

    instant classic. love jimmi ;3

    25 days ago

  • helljaeger

    There are many here among us... Who feel that life is but a joke... But you and I we've been through that... And this is not our fate... So let us not talk falsely now... The hour's getting late. [2]

    last month

  • tarheeltaz70

    dose me

    last month

  • tarheeltaz70

    are ya kidding

    last month

  • JoshBailey1989

    Great cover! Yes Hendrix, Yes Dylan!!!

    last month

  • surrendertoalex

    Jimi died as so many young men of his generation; before his time. And in your wisdom, Lord, you took him. Just as you took so many bright, flowering young men at Khe San, and Lan Doc, and Hill 364.

    last month

  • Apehanger

    "There aren't any events near you for this artist." :( [2] No shit, Sherlock?

    last month

  • rikrijean

    OH YES PETE.....SO GREAT~~~~~

    last month

  • RomeoAlpha52

    Yesssssssss!!!!!

    last month

  • Pedroesquimo

    "There aren't any events near you for this artist." :(

    last month
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