All Along the Watchtower

All Along the Watchtower is a song of Bob Dylan being reproduced on its album John Wesley Harding published in 1968. It was taken again per many of other artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, U2, Dave Matthews Band and Grateful Dead.

The resumption of Jimi Hendrix

Its version is reproduced on the album Electric Ladyland , left in 1968. It gained much more in popularity that of Dylan, reaching Top40 in the United States and being classified sometimes in the English charts. Compared with the version of original, that of Hendrix is much faster.

Hendrix would have said:

" All those people who don' T like Bob Dylan' S songs should read his lyrics. They are filled with the joys and sadness off life. I amndt ace Dylan, nun off custom edge sing normally. Sometimes, I play Dylan' S songs and they are so much like me that it seems to me that I wrote them. I cuts the feeling that Watchtower has song I could cuts like up with, goal I' m sour I would never cuts finished it. Thinking butt Dylan, I often consider that I' D never Be whitebait to Write the words He manage to like up with, goal I' D like him to help me, because I cuts loads off songs I can' T finish. I just lay has few words one the paper, and I just can' T go forward. Goal now things are getting better, I' m has bit more coil-confident."

(" People who do not like the songs of Bob Dylan should read its texts. They are made joys and sorrows of the Life. I am like Dylan, none us two cannot sing normally. Sometimes, I play of the songs of Dylan and they resemble to me so much that I have the impression to have written them. I perceive " watchtower" as a song that I could have written, but I am sure that I would never have completed it. When I think of Dylan, I often think that I could never have written the texts which he manages to produce, but I would like that he helps me, because I have many songs which I do not manage to finish. I pose just some words on paper, and I cannot go further. But maintaining the things improve, I am a little surer of moi")

Musicians

  • Jimi Hendrix - electric guitar, low guitar
  • Mitch Mitchell - battery
  • Dave Mason - guitar with 12 cords

Other versions

  • the album South Saturn Delta presents the same catch with a different mixing;
  • One finds versions Live on the video of Atlanta, the albums and vidéos devoted to the island of Wight (like Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live At The Isle Off Wight ).

Around the song

  • One can hear All Along the Watchtower in the episode of the Simpsons where the mother of Homer tells him a history explaining why it left it, in the Sixties.
  • One can also hear at the end of episode 20 Crossroads, Part 2 of the series Battlestar Galactica (televised series), a version very different from this title written by McCreary. Source of information
  • One can also hear All Along the Watchtower in episode 11 of season 1 of the series the hell of the duty entitled One moment of weakness.

  • One can also hear All Along the Watchtower in the credits of the play Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, sung by Everlast this version is rather hard rock

the song is also present in the film " forest gump".

Extracts

  • Wikimedia.org: Bob Dylan - All Along The Watchtower (118KB, 00:15)
  • Wikimedia.org: Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower (188KB, 00:24)

See too

External bonds

  • words
  • official site of Bob Dylan (in English)
  • official site of Jimi Hendrix (in English)
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