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TheBigGuy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 06:52 PM
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Poll question: All Along the Watchtower ...yr favorite verision.
Written and oringally peformed by Bob Dylan. Excellent folk/rock tune w. evocative albeit somewhat cryptic lyrics.

Covered by Jimi Hendrix in his ur-metal style.

then again covered by the Indigo Girls (great version on their concert video "Live at the Uptown Lounge.

Maybe there are others, too..

So whats yr fav???
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greatauntoftriplets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 06:53 PM
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1. Leonard Cohen.
That gravelly voice.
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TheBigGuy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 07:22 PM
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5. Really? what album....????
im intereested..where can i hear this?
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 06:56 PM
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2. I voted for the Hendrix cover BUT
I have to be a cheeser and give honorable mention to the Dave Matthews version. It is quite good, and one hell of a set-closer.
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 06:59 PM
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4. I love the Hendrix cover but
My heart said "Dylan"
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 06:58 PM
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3. Other not cover.
The live version I heard/watched him sing a couple of weeks ago, when my son turned to me and said in astonishment, "That's his song, too???"
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ilpostino Donating Member (238 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 07:54 PM
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6. Watchtower in context
The Hendrix version is definitely more explosive--even Dylan prefers it. But when it comes along in place on John Wesley Harding, it achieves an eerieness that goes beyond pop. It's like taking the Ode to Joy out of Beethoven's Ninth--yeah, it's great as a standalone piece. But in context it's transcendant.
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TheBigGuy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-03 07:55 PM
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7. Thank U very much....
im going to look out for that one...!
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