Jimi Hendrix, 1967

Jimi Hendrix backstage, San Francisco 1968⁣.

Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower 1968

"All Along the Watchtower" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan from his eighth studio album, John Wesley Harding (1967). The song's lyrics feature a conversation between a joker and a thief.

Covered by numerous artists, "All Along the Watchtower" is strongly identified with the interpretation Jimi Hendrix recorded with the Jimi Hendrix Experience for their third studio album, Electric Ladyland (1968). The Hendrix version, released six months after Dylan's original recording, became a Top 20 single in 1968, and received a Grammy Hall of Fame award in 2001. Bob Dylan's live performances have been influenced by Hendrix's cover, to the extent that they have been called covers of a cover.

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Jimi Hendrix photographed by David Magnus in London, 1967.

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"And they can have little neighborhood committees that sign petitions for problems and then send someone up to the government to try to get things done, and if it doesn't happen, try again; have patience. Do it about three or four times, and if it doesn't happen then get your Black Panthers and your little army groups, not to kill anybody, but to scare them. It's hard to say... I know it sounds like war but that's what's gonna have to happen, it has to be war if nobody is going to do it peacefully. Like quite naturally you say, make love not war and all these other things, but then you come back to reality and there are some evil folks around and they want you to be passive and weak and peaceful so that they can just overtake you like jelly on bread."

"It's good to be passive and all this, but there are these people on the other side, like I said before, who want you to do these things and you're gonna get screwed in the end, you and me, regardless. So you have to have something to back it up. Some people have to be scared into it."

- Jimi Hendrix, Teenset. 1969

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