Thursday 12 November 2015

Timeline

November 1967: Bob Dylan records All Along the Watchtower, one of many classic tracks on his great(est?) album, John Wesley Harding.

January-August 1968 (it was a tough session): Jimi Hendrix records his towering, epic cover version of All Along the Watchtower.

November 2015: Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower is used as the music track on a TV commercial for Blue de Chanel, an aftershave.

Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl...

4 comments:

  1. Sorry Nige, Dylan's best album is Blond on Blonde. You can't beat Visions of Johanna.

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  2. And I'm sure you've come across Blood on the Tracks.

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  3. Yep they're probably the top three - all of them 'great(est?)'. But if I had to save just one, I think for me it wld be JWH, if only because I absorbed Blonde on Blonde so deeply in my youth I feel I hardly need to listen to it any more...

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