tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32685968.post5308163913937563534..comments2024-03-25T10:47:42.656-07:00Comments on Can't Explain: "All Along the Watchtower" (1968)Jeff Pikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17148737647138431543noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32685968.post-81127216901999943832011-01-10T08:11:45.060-08:002011-01-10T08:11:45.060-08:00Uff da, not sure I wanted to know that about Ferry...Uff da, not sure I wanted to know that about Ferry -- another hero with clay feet, it appears. Thanks for stopping by to comment, and for your link.Jeff Pikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17148737647138431543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32685968.post-72209425295214641332011-01-10T07:35:01.694-08:002011-01-10T07:35:01.694-08:00I have persued a few more versions and think it...I have persued a few more versions and think it's amazing that mine are still different to yours [the brilliance of this music and its range!]. I've just made reference to this on my blog as well as referencing your site, which I hope you won't mind. I have refused to listen to the Ferry because of his politics [!] but perhaps I shouldn't be so picky [I've colledted RM on vinyl after all]. I look forward to checking out the covers you mention, thanks.Some Awehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18111690374702625116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32685968.post-33098732810729735272011-01-10T06:45:46.938-08:002011-01-10T06:45:46.938-08:00Yes, I think you're on to something there, cer...Yes, I think you're on to something there, certainly for many of the various '60s/'70s versions (and of course all within a post-Beatles context when songwriters and performers had become more fused) -- Hendrix didn't just put his stamp on this but made it almost entirely his own. That said, some of the covers I'm sifting through on my hard drive are decidedly strange creatures that could derive from either -- by Lisa Gerrard, Bryan Ferry (from an album specifically honoring Dylan), Tony Mentzer (a lounge novelty), Dream Syndicate (almost surely from the Hendrix, all things considered), T.S.O.L. (a hardcore band, I believe, and sounding more like the Dylan), Michael de Jong, Jenn Adams, and Cary August (a techno version).Jeff Pikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17148737647138431543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32685968.post-33826039009040016272011-01-10T01:50:20.094-08:002011-01-10T01:50:20.094-08:00I remember loving Electric Ladyland, as a young &#...I remember loving Electric Ladyland, as a young 'un too [!] for its psychedelia, but the memorable track was 'All Along....' which with the guitar is psychedelic too but it's also a 'pop' song with its sustained melody. I don't believe I was aware of the Dylan either at the time, and couldn't today hear it in my head if I tried. In recently playing around with other covers of this song it occured to me - hardly an apocalypse - that all versions are covers of Hendrix not Dylan and surely that is unique?Some Awehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18111690374702625116noreply@blogger.com