Poll: I have to ask it: What is your pick for the COOLEST Cover of all time?

@Ganja-jh6iy

7 ай бұрын

Born To Be Wild The Cult

@Code.Name.V

7 ай бұрын

Joan Jett - I Love Rock And Roll CCR - Good Golly Miss Molly Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The World KISS - God Gave Rock And Roll To You

@Lam_3-22-23

7 ай бұрын

I've always loved what UB40 did with Red, Red Wine. I also prefer Crazy Little Thing Called Love by Dwight Yoakum

@DC8091

7 ай бұрын

Daddy Sang Bass - Cash, Carter, Statlers It Ain’t Me Babe - Johnny & June San Francisco Mabel Joy - Waylon Rehab - Ministry (The Amy Whinehouse song done Ministry style!! Bad Ass!!)

@petercena9497

7 ай бұрын

Woodstock - Matthews Southern Comfort

Hendrix's version is the original mic drop. I miss him. He was an original. Young people don't realize how influential he was. You can tell listening to rock songs before and after he hit town. The twirpy guitars suddenly turned into what we expect nowadays. It was ALL due to Hendrix. Rock on Jimi.

@claudemayers

7 ай бұрын

All Hail Jimi!!

Both versions stand on their own

I have to tell you, I grew up, loving music. Three of my brothers can play guitar. I just didn’t seem to have the aptitude. But it didn’t diminish my love of music. Yes, I read liner notes, back covers, and had copies of cream magazine all over the place. Your videos are giving me new insights to music that I love. And I am all over the place with it, one just has to look at my playlist on KZread or Pandora. Thank you for bringing new insights to the music that I love in particular, the 70s. But I’ve also gotten a new appreciation for the songs of the 80s and 90s into the 2000s. Thanks again.

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Dylan loving Jimmy's version just shows that he was all about the progression of the art of music and not upset like other artist because they were topped by another. Love this story!

@marcusd1796

7 ай бұрын

Conversely, the speculation regarding Don McClain considering Dylan as "The Jester" (My first time hearing this, thanks Adam) and Bob responding to it.

Wow, when you see documentaries of the 60's, this song is so often played. Still gives you chills

@SarahBarnes-cr8nr

7 ай бұрын

Yes Yes Yes. Too and true Classic.❤

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

7 ай бұрын

I know! I love those.

@thetitleisours1

7 ай бұрын

@@SarahBarnes-cr8nr Brings up memories :)

@thetitleisours1

7 ай бұрын

@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Lyrics were often much deeper back then :)

Wow. Great show! I caught Jimi Hendrix live three times - yes I’m old - he did lots of Dylan covers. I did not know that Brian Jones and Dave Mason were on there. So cool. Love your show. Thanks

Bob does love good covers of his songs. Stevie Nicks covered Just Like A Woman but wouldn’t release it until it got the Bob approval. He loved it and asked to be on it.

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

Bob is a genius. Have you ever read his books? Such a great writer too!

@je23508

7 ай бұрын

​Thanks for writing FYI regarding Dylan's literary work. I plan to check it out!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

7 ай бұрын

That was nice of him.

Let's not forget the seriously ethereal version done by Bear McCreary for the Battlestar Galactica Season 3 finale. That actually got me more interested in both the original Dylan recording, and the cover by Hendrix. In my opinion it's the best cover of the song (since Hendrix). McCreary was able to weave it into the story line AND make it a song that very well could have been written 150,000 years ago on another world. All the other covers since Hendrix are poor imitations to my ear. I love it when someone can come up with a completely different 'interpretation' and make it a high quality listening experience. It's a rare thing when a band or singer can make a cover song as good or better than the original.

@Destin65

7 ай бұрын

Agree that Bear McCreary's version was great in its own right and breathed some new life in the song. And the way it was presented in BSG, absolutely epic.

Imagine being Bob Dylan, covering the cover of your own song! Amazing stuff!

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

I know! Isn't it wonderful?

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

7 ай бұрын

I would imagine it’d be pretty difficult to replicate Jimi’s version.

@claudemayers

7 ай бұрын

Realize when you see Dylan over the years, he's kinda like Van Morrison (but not quite!) wanting not to do the song the same every time. He went through the torture of forerunning the folk guitar songiness transmuted into electric versions of old and new songs and got hated for it, especially in England. But emotional as it made him, he forged ahead and moved the needle deeper and wider, Dylan did. Viva Bob! But what price did he have to pay? Lots of hidden info around the intrigue. Remember, he was supposed to write three autobiographical books. To my knowledge he only put out one. What say you on that Professor? Chronicles part 1 I think was the title. And he definitely held back on what he told. Expecially no mention of smoking pot or drug use, or enlightenment or inspired from thereof. I saw him with the Band from Ronnie Hawkins days, around 1966, he kept singing off key or out of synch and laughing when he did so. That wasn't a sober Bob. I think it was Rick Danko who offered us in the audience at Cornell that night that Bob had had a rough plane trip to get there and it had affected his hearing. Which launched Bob into even more laughter.

@davelindstrom6005

6 ай бұрын

@@claudemayers - There is no "X" in the word "especially," in either its spelling OR its pronunciation.

I was introduced to Hendrix around the 6th grade ('87) by my uncle. He had the "Are You Experienced" album for me to listen to. I eventually bought Hendrix's greatest hits tape to enjoy on my Sony Walkman while doing my paper route. I used to listen to Dio doing the paper route as well!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

7 ай бұрын

Cool!

I can’t help myself here! I’m a huge Dylan fan too. Blonde on Blonde changed my life! At the start of this episode you mentioned memorizing lyrics. I memorized every word of all four sides of Blonde on Blonde. Quite a labor of love. Happy New Year

@patrickf.4440

7 ай бұрын

Yup: screwing up in my first year of college, facing the draft, just broke up with girlfriend, and then I walked into my school's lounge and heard "Memphis Blues Again," for the first time. Obscure as the meaning may be, it talked to me immediately, and I found myself singing it to myself quite happily for days. It took me out of a low time. And, yes, the other songs were quite good too (several which had already gotten much radio time when they came out). And I still have my original LP.

Jimi made "All Along The Watchtower" all his. I've never been a Dylan fan, but I will give him props for writing Jimi's version. 😊

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

Ha ha! Love it.

@ScottBrown-ec4sf

7 ай бұрын

He has a Nobel Prize for literature and it is well earned.

@jorgeacevedo7874

7 ай бұрын

Dylan is and always been an awful singer. Great writer though.😊

@kathycuster1714

7 ай бұрын

Went to a Dave Matthews show and he did a pretty darn good cover of it too!

@paradoxworkshop4659

7 ай бұрын

I think this falls into the category that Prince falls into as well. Not into his music, or his genre, but the stuff he wrote for other people is still amazing.

So many artists have Bob Dylan to thank for their careers: Peter, Paul and Mary; Gunz n Roses - although they had their own songs Knock Knock Knockin' lingers in my memory; the Byrds (-ish). He was/is absolutely brilliant and definitely a character. His legend will live on and his eccentricity never wavers. Watchtower-wise, Hendrix tore the roof off the mutha as per usual.

For the longest time, I believed this was the greatest cover of all time.... Until I heard Johnny Cash's version of Hurt. Now I put All Along the Watchtower at #2. Thanks, ProRo, happy Solstice!

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

7 ай бұрын

Same.

Hendrix hit a grand slam twice with his versions of "Watchtower" and "Like a Rolling Stone." Amazing covers.

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

Agreed. Love them both!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

7 ай бұрын

Yes indeed.

900k Professor, well deserved one of the BEST KZread channels hands down!

@ViciousAlienKlown

7 ай бұрын

Not easy to have success on KZread.

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

Why thank you!

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@ViciousAlienKlown

7 ай бұрын

@@ProfessorofRock I have a small channel here at KZread and have had a few videos do okay. Not in music but music is always important in editing a video. I can appreciate hard earned success.

@michaelopry3456

7 ай бұрын

We need to share more, Prof needs to get over 1million subs, he basically covers the soundtrack to my youth on his channel.

That's a great song. I'm old enough to have listened to both of those guys. Frankly Hendrix still gives me chills. Greatest cover? Manfred Mann's cover of the Boss' Blinded By The Light is still on my playlist but for me it's still Johnny Cash's version of Trent Reznor's Hurt.

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

I agree. Both are great! Greatest cover ever... that's tough...

@black64ford

7 ай бұрын

Wow! What Jonny Cash did with Hurt is legendary!

@ViciousAlienKlown

7 ай бұрын

Manfred Mann's cover of "Blinded by the light" takes the tune to a better place sonically. When I heard Springsteen's version it did nothing for me. The cover had that hook.

@debbie4503

7 ай бұрын

Agreed 100%!

@fivestring65ify

7 ай бұрын

All of those are great covers.

This has become a standard by which all rock artists measure themselves. How can they interpret and play this song. But, the guitar work here is absolutely mesmorizing!

This is definitely one of, if not THE greatest cover version of any song ever recorded. Jimi Hendrix was incredible.🖖🏼

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

Agreed!

@DG-uh8uv

7 ай бұрын

I totally agree!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

7 ай бұрын

Hats off to Jimi for this one 😊

@dennisscott6501

7 ай бұрын

Great cover. Janis joplins cover of me and Bobby McGee ranks up there as well.

This is hands down my favorite Professor Of Rock video so far! Watchtower is one of my favorite songs. This video is so well researched, and the Professor's delivery is better than perfect and keeps you engaged. I appreciate this song even more than I did before, after hearing the backstory. Well done, and thank you.

People talk about Jimi's guitar playing but his vocal on Watchtower is so strong in contrast to Dylan

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

7 ай бұрын

It’s powerful.

I knew immediately that this was about Dylan's song and Jimmy's amazing cover of it. Adele also did quite well with a Dylan cover of the song "Make You Feel My Love".

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

7 ай бұрын

That’s a good cover.

@Chapps1941

7 ай бұрын

Dylan's was way better.

Along the watchtower,master of lyrics narrator of our culture and the master of strings tip of the hat ...🎉

One of the most iconic 12 string acoustic opening riffs ever performed by ...Jimi...er uh...Dave Mason!!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

7 ай бұрын

That’s right!

I really appreciate this episode of your show, Professor.

This is definitely the upper tier of covers, and very few can make it to this level.

There’s a version of this on KZread played by arguably the greatest guitar player ever born, named Shawn Lane. It’s well worth a listen, as is everything the guy ever played…

I was introduced to the Experience when I bought a $5 cd of "Smash Hits" at the local pawn shop. It featured two bonus tracks you never hear anymore, including my fave, "Highway Chile". Plus I was a 14 yr old budding guitarist, Jimi helped me find my voice! 🎸

@Starsk25

7 ай бұрын

Kmart had $5 cassette tapes in the 80s.

This is a masterful analysis, Professor! Amazing. Thank you!

Not going to a hospital after a get off is just kind of what we motorcycle enthusiasts do. If I can get back up, not gushing blood and nothing's broken? I'm going home. Bones heal and chicks dig scars. That's always been my motto.

Two brilliant geniuses of music. I just wish Jimi had as long a career as Dylan has had.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

7 ай бұрын

He went too soon.

I discovered Hendrix when a friend put on "Third Stone From the Sun" on his turntable. After that, Hendrix was blasted on my Opel GT stereo, consisting of Jensen Coaxes, everyday. A funny story, I was skipping school and as I was racing out of the school parking lot I had Jimi at full volume. The principle called me into the office the next day and said, "I know you left at 11:00 yesterday, I could hear your Hendrix as you left". Busted!

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

7 ай бұрын

Did the principal like Hendrix too? Did you ask her?

@pinballinc1752

7 ай бұрын

@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 I don't recall asking. I know my Opel GT was not very liked by the school staff. ;-)

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

7 ай бұрын

@@pinballinc1752 Oh, I’m sorry. How much longer will it take for them to start dancing to the music on your stereo?

Great story here POF.Thanks I am inspired!

You can thank U2 for introducing me to this classic tune and then all the oldies/classic rock stations in the 80's/90's playing the original.

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

Very cool!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

7 ай бұрын

They have a great version.

One of the greatest pieces of music ever

thanks Professor...keep them coming!

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

Will do!

Definitely one of the most iconic covers of all time, and just as epic as the original, in my opinion.

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

Agreed! Thanks Trina!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

7 ай бұрын

That’s pretty rare!

I have loved this song for so long I cannot remember where it started. But it took on a whole new meaning when Alan Moore used the lyrics as part of the story in his Watchmen comic. Now I cannot hear it without seeing those panels drawn by Dave Gibbons.

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

YES!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

7 ай бұрын

I haven’t seen that in a long time.

This is just a great Chanel. Love the story’s and music.

I'm more of a Dylan song fan than a Dylan fan. But he's an artist that I respect a hell of a lot. AATW is one of my favorites along with Wagon Wheel. It's like Bob drops a seed in the ground and others come along to marvel and re-interpret or help it to grow.

Thanks Professor👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 🌟🎄🎁👼🏻🎶📯

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

You are very welcome

Love these videos. ❤❤

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

Two legendary people, there will never be another Jimi. No one can write like Dylan. It took me a long time to really appreciate Bob's work. I love both versions of this song. Props to Bob for the way he respected Jimi and the tribute in the best way he can. I am a late comer to rock. 87-88 was when I got into it, but I love a lot of things from long before then. 50's-90's rock have no equal.

Another great vid👍Dylans the greatest songwriter.

Bob Dylan…. An enigma wrapped in a riddle… wrapped in a simple, down to earth regular guy.❤😂🎉

For years,I never realized it was a cover! It's such a great cover, far more ominous than the original. It was my favorite Hendrix tune until I heard "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)", which has such an epic, haunting intro. PoR, you "need" to do a vid on this song!

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

7 ай бұрын

Voodoo Child blows your mind.

I was just arguing with someone online that didn't like Jimi's version. We're all entitled to our own opinion, but how could anyone not like it??

Greetings Profesor Rock 🎸🥁🎵🎼👍 Merry Christmas 🎉🍀🎼👍

Thank you for this, I absolutely love when an artist takes a great song and reinterprets it. A few I love and would love to hear others favorites. Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah Johnny Cash - Hurt Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane Disturbed - Sounds of Silence The Dead South - You are my sunshine The Sundays - Wild Horses Honey Ryder - Annie’s song Tori Amos - Strange little girl and Real Men Soft Cell - Tainted Love The Animals - House of the rising sun Sinead O’Connor - Nothing compares 2 U Thin Lizzy - Whiskey in the jar The Clash - I fought the law

Brilliant ❤

When I read the title of this video, I immediately thought of "All Along the Watchtower" by Bob Dylan and masterfully covered by Jimi Hendrix. I love both versions, but Hendrix's version is just so spectacular! ❤😻

@c.e.anderson558

7 ай бұрын

I did too. Couldn't see the phone but I knew it could be only one song.

I love version, and listen to each depending on the mood.

Thank you, Adam, for your scholarship and presentation. I have three pairs of Zennis, by the way. I'm usually impervious to sponsorship spiels... You're an amazing person and very cool in your own special way. Wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. ❤

I love the history of facts or opinions on the music.. keep Rocking 🤘🤘🤘🤘.. P.O.R

Dylan is just so damn awesome!! I listened to him constantly from about high school til my early 30s, & really need to go on major Dylan binge soon!!!

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

Do it! What's your favorite album by him?

@DC8091

7 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠@@ProfessorofRock Highway 61! (Desolation Row), Time Out Of Mind ( Cold Irons Bound), Blonde on Blonde (Visions Of Johanna), etc etc

@Chapps1941

7 ай бұрын

​@@DC8091naming just 3 is hard. I agree with those 3 but l could have another 3 in there another time.

@DC8091

7 ай бұрын

@@Chapps1941 your damn right! Had leave off Pat Garret, Bringing it All Back Home, Nashville, Free Wheeling etc,etc, etc

@Chapps1941

7 ай бұрын

@@DC8091 even listening to _Street Legal,_ an album not received well at the time has two timeless classics on it such as "Changing of the Guard" & "Where are You Tonight?". And is now being thought of as slow burn album.

Your dad and I had the best of the best of music. What a time for entertainment !!

Coolest cover: MY BACK PAGES Dylan's 30th Anniversary Concert. Covered along with Bob was George Harrison, Tom Petty, Eric Clapton, Roger McGuinn, and Neil Young.

@Chapps1941

7 ай бұрын

And Neil did the best on thst song even if George didn't understand

The greatest cover song ever and one of the greatest songs ever from the greatest guitarist ever

You ride that fine line between hype and over-hype . very well .. excellent job!

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

I try! ha ha

@johndutchman

7 ай бұрын

@@ProfessorofRock I really like trying to guess who/what the subject will be .. your intros are well-crafted and fun!

Hey Professor, you Rock! I can't believe this only has 801 likes for 1700 views. It should be at 1700 👍!!! Come on people, this episode was Great!

Professor, in high school many long years ago, the word was that the lyrics were meant to be so obscure that you could sing the stanzas backwards (or in any order) and it would make the same amount of sense!

You ought to do a segment on covers. Jimi did a great version of this. Molly Hatchet did a great cover of an Allman Brothers song called Dreams I’ll Never See. Gives me goosebumps every time.

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

Good call. What's your top 5?

@RunningWithScissors765

7 ай бұрын

1. All along the watchtower-jimi 2. Blinded by the light Manfredd man 3. Gimme shelter- stone sour 4. Bring it on home-zeppelin 5. Hurt- Johnny cash

@generay6807

7 ай бұрын

Dreams I’ll Never See - Molly Hatchet It’s all too much- Journey (a Beatles cover) Blinded By the Light- Manfred Mann No You Don’t- Pat Benatar (Sweet cover) Green Manalishi- Judas Priest (Fleeteood Mac) Diamonds and Rust- Judas Priest (Joan Baez)

@pistolpeteOH

7 ай бұрын

You Really Got Me, Van Halen; All Along the Watchtower, Dave Mason; Gregg Allman, These Days; Crossroads, Skynyrd; Bonnie Raitt, Angel from Montgomery

@andrewft31

7 ай бұрын

It is just called Dreams, not Dreams I’ll Never See

Finding out that the Hendrix version was a cover changed my opinion on covers when I was a cynical teenager in the 90s. I didn't think covers were legitimate. This song changed my mind completely.

This is my favorite song by Hendrix, and Dylan is the greatest songwriter of all time.

@OffRampTourist

7 ай бұрын

My top 3 are Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Leonard Cohen. Honorable mention: Gordon Lightfoot.

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

Good ones!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

7 ай бұрын

Of course!

@dms8504

7 ай бұрын

Dylans overrated big time.

For me it is a song written by Dylan for Hendrix. I never hear Dylan’s version in my head. It’s always Jimi’s voice and guitar riffs I hear. A great song regardless!!

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

Agreed!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

7 ай бұрын

Hendrix is the definitive version.

SRV covers of Voodoo Chile and Little Wing carry on the legacy of artists paying homage.

I love both versions but Jimi's is the one I play at festivals. Bob's "John Wesley Harding" & "Highway 61" are my favourite Dylan albums. Thanks for your in depth review, I learned a lot.

I saw Dylan walk out center stage holding a Fender Strat and say... "This Is My Tribute To Jimi".... then he finished the song with a damn good version of Jimi on the Start.... It was Epic.

The original Bob Dylan recording is by far the best. All the window dreesing jimmy put on was a negative

Best cover ever. Just ahead of Benny Goodman's live at Carnagie Hall cover of Louie Prima's "Sing. Sing, Sing". I corrected this to Benny Goodman.

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

Yes! Good one!

@Dave-lq2le

7 ай бұрын

Glenn Miller? Dag, I thought I was old!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

7 ай бұрын

That’s an oldie!

@lowellmccormick6991

7 ай бұрын

@Dave-lq2le ​I grew up on the Beatles but have gotten an appreciation for the music that led to the British Invasion. I'm from New Orleans and so is Louie Prima. My uncle was a musician and knew Louie and my mom grew up with Al Hirt and Pete Fountain. I especially like early jazz & swing, like Cab Calloway & Louis Jordan. Asleep at the Wheel and the movie "The Cotton Club" led me to those guys.

@Dave-lq2le

7 ай бұрын

@lowellmccormick6991 Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller is what my parents listened to in the 30's and 40's. Never got into their stuff and they never got into mine. Too big a generation gap. I am grateful to my older brothers and sisters. There was always music in our house when I was real young. So my history goes back to the late 50's. Everyone has a ten year stretch that influenced them the most, usually junior high school to their early 20's. Mine would be 63' to 73'. Great music in those days. Thanks for letting me bend your ear! 😎👍

I'm probably the only one alive whose favorite version is the Dave Mason cover ❤ (Maybe Dave lol)

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

Will you link to it?

Hendrix was my 1st concert in Atlanta 1968.

I don't think there is a version of it I don't like. Dylan wrote one hell of a song. It was my dad's favorite song. It has become mine. Never fails to give me chills. The Jimi Hendrix, version though is my favorite. He put so much emotion into it and energy that can be felt in his version today and will be felt for however many years it is played and listened to.

My older brother is where I found my love for all things rock and roll

Professor, I love the Jackson Browne shirt!

Hendrix was as big an influence on rock music as anyone, including The Beatles. His guitar work is unparalleled. I was never a Dylan fan, but there's no denying his influence. I wonder where rock would have gone had Hendrix lived. I still like Band of Gypsys the best of all his albums. Thanks, Professor! Youda best!! 😎👍

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

SO true. HE's a genius. Thanks for watching!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

7 ай бұрын

It would have gone in more interesting directions, that’s for sure.

@Dave-lq2le

7 ай бұрын

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 I think so too!!

@johnnyxmusic

7 ай бұрын

Imagine Jiimi covering Eruption… You know, like the day after the album comes out that would be a Jimi move. 🎸🎸🎸

I discovered both versions of the song from listening to the radio. In the past radio listening was a way to discover music. Bob Dylan is an artist who prefers to play smaller venues. He is a legend who could fill an arena. Intead, his concert is at the county fair.

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

Catherine, Have you seen him live?

@catherine6653

7 ай бұрын

​@@ProfessorofRockNo.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

7 ай бұрын

I prefer smaller venues too so I might go to one of his shows in the future.

Would love someone to do a modern cover of "The Times They are a Changin" it's as timely now as it ever was

Back in the Saddle Again Naturally

My aunt is a lifetime Dylan follower and lover and even she thinks that Hendrix made "All Along The Watchtower" what it is. I am a great Neil Diamond fan and I would never call "I'm a Believer," which he wrote and performed first, his song.

Dylan doesn't write songs. He writes moods. He creates auras around the listener. He draws them to a place and time, a scene that they become a part of.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

7 ай бұрын

His songwriting is prophetic.

@Chapps1941

7 ай бұрын

He writes panoramic visions with ethereal characters capturing the zeitgeist of the times they're set in and even ones they aren't

Dylan is amazing and for jimi to take this song and create something that is truly beautiful is incredible. Sadly people don't have this kind of feelings anymore.

Dylan wrote so many songs that became a hit for other artists. Knockin' On Heaven's Door has been covered successfully numerous times, G N' R's being my favorite. I always interpreted the joker saying to the thief "There must be some kind of way outta here" as a comment on the times. The turmoil spawned by the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement left the joker feeling there was no way to escape the chaos often caused by social change. The thief replies, "Chill we have been through this before. If honest people stick together everything will be okay". But the ending inferred that maybe the thief didn't have much faith in the offered reassurance.

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

He's a genius.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

7 ай бұрын

Good analysis.

This is perhaps the best cover of the rock era, yes. Certainly in the top five.

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

For sure. What's your top 5?

@eggsngritstn

7 ай бұрын

@@ProfessorofRock Watchtower -- Jimi Hendrix Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix Tainted Love - Soft Cell Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash Take Me To the River - Talking Heads Not really in the "rock era" - Crazy by Patsy Cline I'm a huge fan of Hüsker Dü's version of "Eight Miles High", but that's because I'm a Bob Mould fanboy. Not sure it should be on a pedestal for the rest of the world.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

7 ай бұрын

What is at #1 for you?

Great episode. It made me finally decide to go on Discogs and pick up a 1968 single vinyl copy. Thats all your fault Professor 😉🤣🤣🙏

The Bangles did a great job with Hazy Shade of Winter. I'd be curious to know what Simon & Garfunkel thought of the cover.

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

I love their version!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

7 ай бұрын

They actually loved it just as much as we did. They said it was full of energy.

@Chapps1941

7 ай бұрын

The Bangles do Mike Nesmith's _Different Drum_ and Neil Young's _Cinnamon Girl_ Susanna is my Cinnamon Girl (My hubba bubba Capricorn)

I can't help but think of Spaghetti Westerns when I hear this track.

Jimi has many similarities to Prince, but magnificent guitarist, creative, demanding, and iconic. Can’t watch Gump without the tension of Watchtower looming. I think it is the best cover. When the Nobel Laureate creator imitates the improvement. Thanks Adam!

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

Couldn't agree more!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

7 ай бұрын

I loved its use in Forrest Gump as well.

Adam.......the cousin of the drummer in my band in the early 70s was the head of the Detroit-area band Savage Grace. They did a very good version of All Along the Watchtower with some interesting harpsichord and lead guitar portions. It is on KZread.

I didn't even hear this song until I heard Hendrix's version of it , after his death. I was strongly discouraged from listening to Rock and Roll until the 70's. So it was Hendrix's version I heard first. I originally thought the lyrics were "the smoker and the Bee" instead of Joker and the theath. I do prefer Hendrix's take on this for sure. Thanks Professor for doing a segment on this classic.

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching William!

Jimi was the man, period. Electric Ladyland is a powerful experience, punctuated by Watchtower and then a little more Voodoo Child. It makes a statement. The more you get to know him, through interviews, concert footage, his musical output, the more you can see the kind of person that he was - soft spoken, intelligent, well-read. I would have liked to know him, but I was just a kid. RIP Jimi.

Bob Dylan no matter if you like his music or not he has a song for you whether it's his political protest songs, his biting commentary on modern life or his gentle and heartwarming ballads one of these songs will definitely move you and inspire you

@ProfessorofRock

7 ай бұрын

Agreed! Thanks George!

@jeffreywebb7932

7 ай бұрын

Yes sir👍

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

7 ай бұрын

Subterranean Homesick Blues is one of my favorites!

@georgemathie8123

7 ай бұрын

@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 mine would be the slow train coming album which has his funniest song in God gave names to all the animals it's pretty hilarious and infidels would be a close second and of course cannot forget his awesome contributions as a traveling wilbury

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980

7 ай бұрын

@@georgemathie8123 That is a hilarious song.

I remember back in the mid 90's when my mother didn't know who Jimi Hendrix was until I played "All Along the Watchtower" and some of his other well-known hits.

Def Leppard, Heart, Steve Miller Band , Cheap Trick and Journey are having concert tours starting next June ! You attending any of them next summer Professor?

If I was stuck on an island with only 10 songs to listen to, Hendrix's version one be one of them.

‘When Bob Dylan approaches it in concert’… Lol, a Bob Dylan concert is like a baseball game, the only thing you can count on Is you never know.

Jimi killed "Hey Joe" as well.

I discovered Dylan and Hendrix through U2's version on Rattle and Hum. I am surprised that you did not focus more on that version as it Bono sings "three chords and the truth".

I like the Jimi Hendrix's version. Hands down!!! ✌️🍄🕊️🎸 🎵💕