All along the watchtower ! favorite version!!
 

Hey DuDEs !! :wave:

one of my favorite songs is "all along the watchtower" :bowdown:

wich version d u prefer ??
Dylan's or hendrix's ??? or mayB another one ??


:) ROCK ON !

Hendrix's by far. It's probably the best cover version ever.

Bob Dylan's because I can't stand Hendrix.

The Dave Matthews Band cover is really ****ing good, the first version of it that I ever heard and I still like it more than Hendrix's and the original.

You need educating! Seriously a lot of artists that you like owe a debt to Hendrix, however circuitious the route. You can't say you hate him. You don't like him,fair enough; but the guy was so far ahead of his time and pwns so much music even now.

It's not that I hate him, I just can't get into his music.

Do you have any albums by him? Are you judging him solely on his most recognised tracks? His songwriting, his recording techniques were just as revolutionary as The Beatles and The Beach Boys.

It amazes me that anyone who listens to such a wide variety of music as Crowquill would not enjoy the hell out of Hendrix, but there you have it. I would hold it against you but it is mind bottling...

little wing is my fave <3

thats what got me into him, not all along the watchtower.

I heard Electric Ladyland and didn't care for it.

Try this:

hxxp://www.mediafire.com/?01doymm9lat

He pretty much only ever used distorted guitar in his work, but his studio based music is revolutionary.

Alright, i'll listen to it and get back to you.

Hendrix For sure, and I agree, maybe the best cover around.

old bobby boy.

there's also another one that's gooooood !!
Richie Havens performed "all along the watchtower" on stage !!
any of u guys seen or heard it ?
its not as good as hendrix but i like it !

This guys has the best version.

YouTube - ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER

hehey !! not bad !

Dave Matthews Band, although I think all of them are very good, I just think Dave's version live is the coolest.

Hendrix's by far, though Dylan's was great too (of course).

As much as i love dylan, it's gotta be Hendrix's version. Just because he could tak any song and make it into an epic. Wild thing, like a rolling stone, hound dog, sunshine of your love,born under a bad sign, hoochie coochie man, and he even does national anthems better than they wre ever intended to be. man had talent....

I like George Lynch's version off his 2004 Furious George album.

Try Jimi Hndrix - Blues (1994)

Try LSD and Electric Ladyland again.

electric ladyland and blues are the best two hendrix albums man! a close third is band of gypsies.

Yea the Blues album is basically a 30 minute long solo.

When I play this song, I am bored to death and I don't mean play it on a stereo. It is really a very boring riff.

Dylan`s version has a bleakness and sounds genuinely enigmatic while Jimi`s version (for all the musical brilliance) doesn`t.

I have a pretty sweet version of All Along.... on a Dylan & The Dead live album it is a truly brilliant version.

Dess great bump, 4 year old thread, with piss poor OP.

I know Eddie Vedder did a cover for the bob dylan biopic soundtrack with some other band. I can't remember what the band was though. I really enjoyed that version

I like both.. maybe Jimmy's slightly better...

I first heard A.A.T.W back in the '80's when U2 covered it on 'Rattle and Hum'.
YouTube - &#x202a;U2 San Francisco 11/11/87 All along the watchtower&#x202c;&rlm;
But I prefer Hendrix. All three "Jimi Hendrix Experience" albums are excellent. Voodoo Chile (slight return) is one of my all time fave's. Watch the following vid. It's Hendrix on the Lulu show in '69. On the very day that Cream split up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE80W5xYbTI

Dave Mason did a good version on Certified Live.



Local legend has it that the witch hat water tower in Minneapolis was Bob Dylan's inspiration for All Along The Watchtower.

http://minneapolisparkhistory.files....a-marumari.jpg

The picture you have of the tower where is it? Its a very nice picture.

I got the picture off the internet, the tower is in Prospect Park in Minneapolis, it's in between The University of Minnesota where Bob spent a short time near the border of Minneapolis and St. Paul.

Eric and Jimi are too good how am i suppose to choose?!?!?

A version that comes across well is the version by Dave Mason off his 1974 self titled lp. A couple years later he does a live version of it off his Certified Live 1976 2 lp set. Both were released by Columbia Records.

A version that is very obscure but is an in demand piece, especially from some of the foreign vinyl collectors is the one by Barbara Keith. She is obscure as you get but a talent. I'm not sure if there is a youtube on this (probably not) but a good version of it nonetheless.

I am going to say Hendrix, I love Bob Dylan, but Jimi's cover is the best.

The majority of the time an artist/band is judged solely on their recognizes tracks. Hell. Sometimes even a whole genera can be.
Anyways. If we're talking about which artist we prefer the song by. My personal preference is Jimi. If we're talking about which album he performs the best, I really like electric ladyland's version, but the original is just as well done.
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Dylans version with The Grateful Dead is probably the best. I've never heard Jerry shred like he does in that song