Best version of All Along The Watchtower?

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  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,272
    I prefer Hendrix and DMB's version over Pearl Jam's (sorry). Only version i have is the one from Leeds a few years back.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKXwdfFHaLo
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  • whoanelly15
    whoanelly15 Posts: 742
    JLank11 said:

    I've never seen a better one than DMB in Central Park.

    This. And Hendrix.
  • BF89905
    BF89905 Posts: 1,448
    DMB's is better..... I heard at MSG in 2010..... not a fan of how they play it, even though Pearl Jam is my favourite band without hesitation. Good luck in your search.
  • huntersthompson
    huntersthompson Posts: 1,032
    whoanelly15 said:

    JLank11 said:

    I've never seen a better one than DMB in Central Park.

    This. And Hendrix.
    Agreed....
    Hendrix took the folk song and started that rock and roll train upon which loads of fantastic artists have ridden. There is no band or person who covers it better than DMB...it is the tempo change that they make between the second and third stanzas that just slays it...

    With that said, it is always a good cover to catch at a show. I do have to ask: What in the f was going through Dylan's mind when he wrote it?

    One of my favorite criticism's of the song (and Dylan's writing of the song) is:
    That whole artistic mystique is one of the great traps of this business, because down that road lies unintelligibility. Dylan has a lot to answer for there, because after a while he discovered that he could get away with anything—he was Bob Dylan and people would take whatever he wrote on faith. So he could do something like "All Along the Watchtower," which is simply a mistake from the title on down: a watchtower is not a road or a wall, and you can't go along it.

  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,500
    DMB live at red rocks is a fantastic version!

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